Most expensive camp chair!
A friend sent this link for a ridiculously over priced folding camp chair from the same folks that brought you over priced coolers YETI $300 folding camp chair Maybe worth this price if the fram...
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A1ARealtorRick wrote:Durb wrote:
My monogrammed Yeti Mug was a Christmas present and I love it; unfortunately it is too wide to fit many cup holders. I wonder if it fits the chair's cup holder.
Yeti is marketing genius. Their products are always displayed front and center and are seldom discounted. I would pay a lot for a supremely comfortable camp chair; probably not $300. The Yeti looks to be well made but I can't see it being super comfortable. I will give it a test drive when I see one displayed somewhere.
Yes, their products ARE "always displayed front and center" -- genius marketing on the part of YETI. The less expensive coolers have a minimal profit margin for the retailer. Along comes YETI offering a huge profit margin to the retailer, so, as the retailer, where would I display these high-profit products? Certainly "front and center" ;)
That’s not exactly true. I can’t comment on the profit margins YETI used to offer, but nowadays, since it’s become an everyday name brand, the profit margins aren’t substantial. I walked into Lowe’s the other day and observed that they had one of the largest selection of YETI products I’d ever seen. And it was tucked away on a side-aisle, very much like how Bass Pro does it. YETI used to be something you cold really only find at the specialty shops, and they made the store purchase pre-determined products as decided by YETI. You basically got onto a subscription-type program, where they sent you “X” number of certain selected products. The store had little say in what they got. For reasons such as this, many of the specialty shops have gone away of YETI and started offering some of the competitor brands.
While I have gotten (and continue to get) tremendous use from my YETI coolers, I’ll probably be looking elsewhere for any future cooler purchases. There other manufacturers of roto-molded coolers that are made in the USA and comparably priced. I will say, though, that my experience with RTIC coolers is that they are nowhere close in quality to many of the other YETI alternatives.
