maple_leaf_eh
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Where is the eyewash station - please? Deer embroidery on brown lederhosen.
https://www.lederhosenstore.com/product/mens-lederhosen-brown-green-deer-motifs-led26/
Trying to raise the style standard
- Thread starter Londonshooter
- Start date
Where is the eyewash station - please? Deer embroidery on brown lederhosen.
https://www.lederhosenstore.com/product/mens-lederhosen-brown-green-deer-motifs-led26/
So it just dawned on me that the full name of the 'Gaston' company at the first 2 links is 'Gaston J. Glock.' Is this the handgun developer I wonder, or is the 'J' there to show it isn't? If it is THE Glock, I had no idea he was into selling such things as hunting clothing.
39% off! Some loden wear would be nice too...Don't think I could get the wife into a dirndl though
Londonshooter
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- SW Ontario
Gaston J is the son of the Glock Co. originator. Yes, according to the web sales page, this is the closure of the web store.
Yes, and they appear to be in the USA, in Atlanta actually, which is something I did not pick up on from the site. Knowing that, I can see that their British-Euro style products would not be too popular there outside of the likes of the southern gentlemen in the quail shooting community. It also explains why a lot of the stuff is light weight and made for warmer weather.
Anyway, I did place an order with them and, based on a previous post here, made a point of asking that they send it via parcel post, but they ignored that and have shipped using UPS, who I just recently had a negative adventure with. Whatever, the prices seen on the site were just too good to pass on for something I've been wanting for a long time, and if UPS reduces the bargain it's just the cost of doing business. I guess.
It will be interesting to hear your feedback on your order. And of course, pictures will be required.
Item is supposed to be here early next week. And tracking indicates it's cleared Customs with no sign of a demand for payment, but I'm sure that I'm guilty of crazy optimism in thinking that might not happen, unless maybe it's included in the ridiculous US$45 shipping charge.
Well curse my optimistic nature! Just got this notice of additional charges via email:
32.00
Duty:
0.00
HST or GST + PST:
34.42
Excise:
0.00
Other Government Charges:
0.00
UPS Customs Brokerage Charges:
69.66
Brokerage Fee:
60.00
Brokerage GST/HST:
7.8
Brokerage QST:
0.00
Permit:
0.00
Freight Charges:
0.00
Total Due CAD:
102.80
Good old UPS, right? I particularly love that they charge HST on their verdammdt "brokerage fee," Anyway, that's about twice the extra charge I expected but I guess I have no choice but to cough up. Never again though UPS, never again.
Just got this notice of additional charges via email:32.00
Duty:
0.00
HST or GST + PST:
34.42
Excise:
0.00
Other Government Charges:
0.00
UPS Customs Brokerage Charges:
69.66
Brokerage Fee:
60.00
Brokerage GST/HST:
7.8
Brokerage QST:
0.00
Permit:
0.00
Freight Charges:
0.00
Total Due CAD:
102.80
Good old UPS, right? I particularly love that they charge HST on their verdammdt "brokerage fee," Anyway, that's about twice the extra charge I expected but I guess I have no choice but to cough up. Never again though UPS, never again.
An there's the story - UPS is a total ripoff for Customs charges.
I do my very best to make sure that I can get shipping via US Postal Service. Despite slow shipping, held up at Customs, many smaller things end up without charges from Customs.
I do my very best to make sure that I can get shipping via US Postal Service. Despite slow shipping, held up at Customs, many smaller things end up without charges from Customs.
As I said, I did ask for parcel post but Gaston ignored me. Item will now cost about about twice the US sale price, but it was 70% off, so....
Anyway, as I was starting to pay online just now, UPS asked if I wanted to comment on their service and I said yes, got a popup that I was asked to leave open until I was done paying but that disappeared as soon as I hit 'make payment' so I guess they don't really want to know what Canadians think. I further guess they already do.
It's too bad this opportunity came up while the border is closed or I could have had it sent to within driving distance and then just paid the HST to bring it back, but anyway I hope the advertising was honest and that I'll like the coat. They have a great sale on their branded polo shirts, US$8 each instead of $40 as I recall, but to heck with that, I'd just end up paying the original price.
Last edited:
Falconflyer
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
I like how these us retail websites don't even give you a clue that there might be some pretty big courier charges! Gotta be careful!
I've been thinking about my deerstalker hat since the posts here this morning. I bought for two reasons, the first being that it fit me perfectly, which is a big deal for me, and secondly as a sort of a work related half-joke that I wore occasionally in the city but never in the field, quite the reverse of what an English or Scottish gentleman would do. I don't wear it shooting because of simple embarrassment, fear of looking like an English tenderfoot doofus, but the fact is that I would really like to. It's a perfect hat for the purpose in many ways you see: warm pure wool, double brimmed (both shielding your eyes and the back of your neck from the sun and other weather elements, perfect let-down ear flaps that can be tied under the chin to keep it on your head in any hurricane, made of a silent material for pushing through the brush, it's better functioning than any other hat, really, except that it's not blaze orange for max safety. Maybe someday I WILL wear mine in the field, Sherlock Holmes image be damned.
Sherlock Holmes would rarely if ever have worn one BTW, he was a London gentleman who was in the country on maybe two occasions: for The Musgrave Ritual and The Hound of the Baskervilles.
One's gotta be careful what you wear hunting as you always run the risk of being shot at !
And Londonshooter this one's for you.
I feel obligated to post a pic in the new duds.
Last weekend at the club sporting the new AlanPaine vest and sweater (only half yak btw).
And thankfully was shooting the gun well too...
All my stuff I got in last year's winter sale and was at least 50%. That sale was much better than this winter's IMO, much more selection and better prices.
Something funny happening on the Gaston site. They're advertising 80% off now but no merchandise comes up when you look, so it's either a repricing delay, a glitch, or they've closed down completely. Whatever it means, it's even more clear that I'd darn well better like what I bought.
Falconflyer
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Looks like they're all done, no merchandise on display at all!
- Location
- Vancouver Island, BC
I placed an order and got it 2 days after my order. The merino half-zip is very well made. I got dinged with the brokerage fee as well, but was expecting it. Serves me right for checking this subsection of the forum once.
