RTIC Coolers
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Christophe Noel
Expedition Leader
I have SUCH a problem with this company. Yeti designed a great cooler, RTIC makes a knock-off. Yeti makes a soft cooler and RTIC copies it. Yeti, the first cooler company to make stainless steel mugs and tumblers, gets imitated immediately by RTIC.
It's such a shame. This crowd is really quick to cry foul when a Chinese company knocks off an American company, but when other American companies do it, it's a "better value."
It's such a shame. This crowd is really quick to cry foul when a Chinese company knocks off an American company, but when other American companies do it, it's a "better value."
perterra
Adventurer
Actually their soft cooler is a huge improvement over the Yeti soft cooler. Good enough that now Yeti with the flip 12 is copying the soft cooler RTIC imports. As far as rip offs, I'm sure Oreo had no problem ripping of Hydrox, and Colt wasnt too happy when hundreds of companies started producing 1911's that were clones of theirs.
I think maybe Esky started the whole premium cooler thing, them or Icey Tek, but Yeti did a great job of marketing. I mean all the cool kids have one. If Yetis lawsuit goes anywhere, then problem solved, if it doesnt get traction, oh well, this is the American way of doing business.
Ducky's Dad
Explorer
It's a commodity item, just like toilet paper on rolls.
malibubts
Adventurer
Tan 45 just went on sale. Was browsing Facebook and saw the ad for the cooler at $139.99 all in. Saving $35 from the $175 list price isn't a bad deal at all. I was waiting for the same deal myself and just pulled the trigger. They must be having trouble moving the tan color with the sales they've had going on.
Edit: I went back and took a look at the ad, it's all tan and soft coolers that are on sale now, up to 20% off. Also I received a shipping notification with a tracking number 3 minutes after I ordered, talk about fast.
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Honu
lost on the mainland
just ordered a 65 with dividers and 2 baskets and with the shipping
$194.96 total
pretty hard to pass that up
the warranty stinks compared to yeti
but the same with yeti would be over $500 ?
like white but the tan on sale ? will look better a while longer sits in shade anyway and will have a shiny insulated cover over it
now the divider figured could be handy kinda wanted one at times so figured order it and see how it does
and just noticed got my shipping tracking numbers
kinda hard to pass up the sale on the tans and softs right now
$194.96 total
pretty hard to pass that up
the warranty stinks compared to yeti but the same with yeti would be over $500 ?
like white but the tan on sale ? will look better a while longer sits in shade anyway and will have a shiny insulated cover over it
now the divider
figured could be handy kinda wanted one at times so figured order it and see how it does and just noticed got my shipping tracking numbers
kinda hard to pass up the sale on the tans and softs right now
Would you like some cheese with that whine?
perterra
Adventurer
:clapping:
My order was placed tonight, 4 minutes later I got a shipping confirmation, 5 minutes after that I got a tracking number.
Curious when it will actually ship. I ordered Sunday and got the shipping notification later that night. They are clearly just automatically generated as the tracking shows that it's just been generated but still waiting to receive the package. Hopefully it goes out today so I can use it on my camping trip this weekend.