Blue Force Gear and OSTS

Farmboy

Farmboy

CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Location
Quebec
Well it's been a amazing 10yr run but going forward we will no longer be carrying Blue Force Gear.

We built the brand in Canada and established BFG as the issued sling for the RCMP, worked on getting a Canadian Forces NSN for the Vickers Slings, established BFG as the issued sling for many CF units, LE Tactical Teams, LE Agencies and Nuclear Security Teams as well as provided it to a huge number of individuals.

We sold over 25,000 slings in the 10yrs which is almost 7 slings a day.

We brought our good friend Larry Vickers up numerous times to help promote the brand and work with Canadian Forces.

We set up a number of dealers over the years in Canada and Europe.

Over the last couple years though there have been changes at BFG that directly affected how we do business and serve our clients and some more changes came this last week.

Unfortunately for us it doesn't make sense for us to continue to bring in Blue Force Gear.

I have some amazing friends down there and will continue to talk to them and see them, however at this point in time our business relationship will be ending.
 
That sucks... I bought both my bfg slings from ost and they are both still going strong
 
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Very sorry that things didn't work out.

Thanks for providing BFG gear to our market for as long as you did.

Any plans on replacing it with another manufacturer?
 
Any plans on replacing it with another manufacturer?
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We will look at increasing our inventory of HSGI, High Ground and possible a couple others that we've talked to and dealt with before.


Is the brand being picked up by another dealer?
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BFG pulled our exclusive last year and opened other dealers to increase brand awareness and sales. They can be found on the BFG dealer page.
 
Farmboy said:
We will look at increasing our inventory of HSGI, High Ground and possible a couple others that we've talked to and dealt with before.



BFG pulled our exclusive last year and opened other dealers to increase brand awareness and sales. They can be found on the BFG dealer page.
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So your way of "showing them" is to drop them ?
Even though you sell high volumes of their gear?!
Doesn't seem like a well thought out business plan
 
So your way of "showing them" is to drop them ?
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Doesn't seem like a well thought out business plan
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Over the last couple years though there have been changes at BFG that directly affected how we do business and serve our clients and some more changes came this last week.
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Even though you sell high volumes of their gear?!
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Our sales volume of BFG has been spread out between other dealers over the last year.
 
That's a shame. Sucks to hear that news.

BFG really makes an awesome product, I hope you can carry them again because I enjoyed buying BFG items from you guys.

-Steve
 
Very sad to see this day come.
Darren as done more for bfg then anyone i know in th biz.
one day bfg will look back at pulling your exclusive as a mistake.
you are still the only shop that has a real amount of bfg on hand.
again very sad day... but could see it coming.
 
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