grainhog
FNG
- Joined
- Dec 8, 2022
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The MSR Advance Pro 2 is my favorite tent. Not just my favorite 4 season, not just my favorite single wall, not just my favorite 2p. My favorite tent. I use it for everything from summer scouting to multinight skimo missions. Guess it works in my favor that I don't care about condensation at all.
When I bought the current generation two years ago, MSRP was $550, which stung. It's now $800. In fewer than two years, it's list price increased by $250, or over 45%. Forgive my ignorance of the latest breaking rokslide economical analyses, but I don't believe this can be attributed in substantive proportion to supply chain and inflation. I guess they just couldn't keep the things in stock, and figured, why not see how high we can go? Maybe it's 'simple supply and demand', but maybe it's also greedy outdoor conglomerate price gouging.
I wrote a 1 star review of the tent on their website yesterday entitled 'Awesome tent, absurd price' accusing them of price gouging, and they removed it. Maybe I just have my panties in a bunch.
If their customer service hadn't sucked badly on the past two warranty claims I filed on faulty Reactor stoves (one of which failed me on day 1 of a real deal 4-day opening week storm hunt at 9k' in the interior west last year--a failure for which, despite his valiant efforts, their genius employee was not able to find me at fault), maybe I wouldn't have written this novel of a post. But it all just kinda pisses me off.
But I'm just a hardo who needs rad tents so I'll just pay up and shut up after this.
When I bought the current generation two years ago, MSRP was $550, which stung. It's now $800. In fewer than two years, it's list price increased by $250, or over 45%. Forgive my ignorance of the latest breaking rokslide economical analyses, but I don't believe this can be attributed in substantive proportion to supply chain and inflation. I guess they just couldn't keep the things in stock, and figured, why not see how high we can go? Maybe it's 'simple supply and demand', but maybe it's also greedy outdoor conglomerate price gouging.
I wrote a 1 star review of the tent on their website yesterday entitled 'Awesome tent, absurd price' accusing them of price gouging, and they removed it. Maybe I just have my panties in a bunch.
If their customer service hadn't sucked badly on the past two warranty claims I filed on faulty Reactor stoves (one of which failed me on day 1 of a real deal 4-day opening week storm hunt at 9k' in the interior west last year--a failure for which, despite his valiant efforts, their genius employee was not able to find me at fault), maybe I wouldn't have written this novel of a post. But it all just kinda pisses me off.
But I'm just a hardo who needs rad tents so I'll just pay up and shut up after this.