Just Purchased My Last API Treestand!!!!
09-22-2003, 02:46 PM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Rock WV USA
Posts: 361
Just Purchased My Last API Treestand!!!!
I just purchased 2 API Baby-Grand treestands to add to my other 2 API treestands. The treestands were in excellent quality just like my first 2 except for the made in Tawain tag. This simply made me furious. I couldn' t help but think of the several hundred people who lost there American jobs so that Outland Sports could send the jobs overseas and make probably another $2 profit on each stand. Sorry API or Outland Sports or who ever now owns this company you have lost my business. If we as American consumers stand by and watch our jobs go overseas and continue to support companies that do this, our jobs very well may be next!!!! So I am going to return the 2 API treestands and purchase 2 Summit stands. My 2 cents!!
09-22-2003, 03:02 PM
#3
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Southeast Central Illinois USA
Posts: 6,969
RE: Just Purchased My Last API Treestand!!!!
Yep, I knew this. If you notice in the major hunting catalogs now........API is an " imported" stand. I won' t trust my life to any overseas made stands.
09-22-2003, 06:34 PM
#6
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: PA
Posts: 1,149
RE: Just Purchased My Last API Treestand!!!!
Good topic here.For the record I buy summit stands.
We as americans and or hunters should boycott more products because of corporate greed.When I heard rocky moved overseas,I e-mailed them and told them what I thought.I also told them I heard the quality has gone down since the move.They e-mailed back and gave me a bunch of bs but at least they know how I felt.
We as americans and or hunters should boycott more products because of corporate greed.When I heard rocky moved overseas,I e-mailed them and told them what I thought.I also told them I heard the quality has gone down since the move.They e-mailed back and gave me a bunch of bs but at least they know how I felt.
09-22-2003, 06:35 PM
#8
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Durham, NC
Posts: 449
RE: Just Purchased My Last API Treestand!!!!
Check out the Big Shot made by Buck Shot Stands. They are made here in Wilmington NC. I had one and someone liked it better then me and stole it out of my work van. They are very good stands. The safest I have ever been in.
09-22-2003, 06:37 PM
#9
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Fort Hood Texas USA
Posts: 529
RE: Just Purchased My Last API Treestand!!!!
Looks like last years API stand was my last too, and for those rocky boots I have been looking at for the last two turkey seasons....well not now!
Thanks for the notice guys.
Thanks for the notice guys.
09-22-2003, 07:18 PM
#10
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 187
RE: Just Purchased My Last API Treestand!!!!
just can' t trust a foreign made stand that I' m trusting with my life Like was said before -corporate greed is really playing hardball on our own workforce. Another thing--should there be an accident with one of these foreign products how hard would the liability issues be being as made out of country. Just a thought.