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Rugged Material Ranger Wallet & Multi-Tool
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An easy way to condense your daily carry, and a nice backup tool set if you’re without your kit, the Ranger wallet is about the size of a standard credit card—but it packs a whole lot of function. Made from steel with a new Teflon powder coating, it holds up to eight cards and cash Read More
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keyboard_arrow_downNovanglian
158
Feb 10, 2018
Why does MD persist in offering "deals" that aren't. I just purchased this nicely designed wallet at the manufacturer's website (linked below). If MD recruits enough buyers to get to the lowest price, here's the "deal."
MASSDROP $29.99 MD lowest price 2.75 shipping - plus a long wait $32.74
RUGGED MATERIAL $36.00 price - 3.60 first purchase 10% discount 0.00 free shipping - and no waiting $32.40
So, you can get this product from MD for $0.34 more - and then you get to wait weeks to receive the product. Whadda bargain!
https://www.ruggedmaterial.com/collections/leather-wallets/products/ranger-minimalist-wallet-multitool
A few thoughts for MD:
1. You (MD ) need to do more thoughtful due diligence in determining what actually constitutes a meaningful deal for your members.
2. You should really rethink your bulk purchase and re-shipping approach. A lot of MD's margin in a product gets lost to the substantial cost of handling, re-packing and re-shipping, I doubt that MD can leverage the deeply discounted shipping that at least their larger vendors can demand. If MD can aggregate enough customers to negotiate for a discounted bulk purchase of a product, and therefore offer members a discounted unit price, why can't they negotiate for the vendor to ship directly to the buyers? This would enable MD to access the vendor's potentially lower shipping cost, save MD the cost of handling, re-packing and re-shipping, and save MD's customers from the slow delivery time. By saving the costs of handling, re-packing and re-shipping, I would think that MD could offer members a purchase price that would be as low - or even lower - than their current pricing, and still receive a profit that is the same - or even larger - than under their cumbersome reshipping method.
Not to mention that unnecessarily shipping each item twice is not the most environmentally sound approach to product distribution.
Makes me wonder: Is all this redundant shipping process just about MD keeping their customer list confidential for fear that the vendors might market directly to MD's customers with a promotional insert in the package? That would be a competitive threat - really?
3. Please stop with the $xx.99 pricing - take a moment to consider what that says about what you think of our intelligence. Please treat us like your members, not consumer sheep to be manipulated with cheesy marketing gimmicks.
4. For the umpteenth time, please - please! - show us the full price, including shipping charges, on the description page - or just show us both the product price and the shipping charges on the description page. After all, you certainly shout "FREE SHIIPPING!" on this page for those few items that don't have shipping charges.
It is irritating to have to click the "join drop" button just to see the shipping charges, but, no, it's not terribly burdensome to do so. But it is really irritating that you force your members to do this in order to get full pricing information and then abuse them by treating that coerced click as your permission to flood our email inboxes with repeated pushes to come back and "finish checking out."
Again: Please show a bit of respect for our intelligence and our support of your company and treat us like your members, not consumer sheep to be manipulated with cheesy marketing gimmicks.
MASSDROP $29.99 MD lowest price 2.75 shipping - plus a long wait $32.74
RUGGED MATERIAL $36.00 price - 3.60 first purchase 10% discount 0.00 free shipping - and no waiting $32.40
So, you can get this product from MD for $0.34 more - and then you get to wait weeks to receive the product. Whadda bargain!
https://www.ruggedmaterial.com/collections/leather-wallets/products/ranger-minimalist-wallet-multitool
A few thoughts for MD:
1. You (MD ) need to do more thoughtful due diligence in determining what actually constitutes a meaningful deal for your members.
2. You should really rethink your bulk purchase and re-shipping approach. A lot of MD's margin in a product gets lost to the substantial cost of handling, re-packing and re-shipping, I doubt that MD can leverage the deeply discounted shipping that at least their larger vendors can demand. If MD can aggregate enough customers to negotiate for a discounted bulk purchase of a product, and therefore offer members a discounted unit price, why can't they negotiate for the vendor to ship directly to the buyers? This would enable MD to access the vendor's potentially lower shipping cost, save MD the cost of handling, re-packing and re-shipping, and save MD's customers from the slow delivery time. By saving the costs of handling, re-packing and re-shipping, I would think that MD could offer members a purchase price that would be as low - or even lower - than their current pricing, and still receive a profit that is the same - or even larger - than under their cumbersome reshipping method.
Not to mention that unnecessarily shipping each item twice is not the most environmentally sound approach to product distribution.
Makes me wonder: Is all this redundant shipping process just about MD keeping their customer list confidential for fear that the vendors might market directly to MD's customers with a promotional insert in the package? That would be a competitive threat - really?
3. Please stop with the $xx.99 pricing - take a moment to consider what that says about what you think of our intelligence. Please treat us like your members, not consumer sheep to be manipulated with cheesy marketing gimmicks.
4. For the umpteenth time, please - please! - show us the full price, including shipping charges, on the description page - or just show us both the product price and the shipping charges on the description page. After all, you certainly shout "FREE SHIIPPING!" on this page for those few items that don't have shipping charges.
It is irritating to have to click the "join drop" button just to see the shipping charges, but, no, it's not terribly burdensome to do so. But it is really irritating that you force your members to do this in order to get full pricing information and then abuse them by treating that coerced click as your permission to flood our email inboxes with repeated pushes to come back and "finish checking out."
Again: Please show a bit of respect for our intelligence and our support of your company and treat us like your members, not consumer sheep to be manipulated with cheesy marketing gimmicks.
Elfein7Night
75
Jun 28, 2018
NovanglianInternational orders are much cheaper through here than the manufacturer's site though.
Same thing goes with a lot of other products, might not make sense for Americans because you get free shipping on pretty much everything, but everyone else needs these drops.
bigdaddykim
11
Feb 23, 2019
NovanglianGreat comment. As an MBA I think you are hitting a lot of nails especially about them wanting to keep their client list or access to their clients confidential
EVILDAIFU
100
Feb 10, 2018
Nice reply - for me in AUS it does work out cheaper because same products are marked up by distributors over here to cover their import costs (shipping and AUS taxes). That's why I'm a Mass Drop fan. Shipping of eg AUD $3.50 is a bargain if there is a 100% mark up due to import costs and the distribut ors margin. I recently bought the Fisher Pen drop and saved 50% compared with buying the same in AUS from a local on-line dealer or bricks'n'mortar shop. So I guess its horses for courses 👍 Thanks Mass Drop.
sblaydes
Feb 22, 2019
Why would I think it is a good idea to take my cards and cash out every time I need to open a beer?
Maybe I am missing it, but what keeps the cards in the "top" opening? I don't carry 8 cards, so will they fall out the "top"?
Psychomann
26
Feb 12, 2018
Agreed. After reading this I went straight to the manufacture and got 10% off my first order. Come on Massdrop you gotta do better if you want to keep us around.
cgalny
157
Feb 24, 2019
I can’t help but add my two-cents to this discussion. I’m a big proponent of carrying around the absolute smallest wallet humanly possible: something that will carry all of my required credit and identification cards (as opposed to every single one of them), and something durable and easy to use.
I’ve been using a Nomatic Basics wallet for over two years. Yes, you have to pull out the credit cards to find the one you want. This does not bother me at all.
I just checked and I currently have 13 cards in mine, with room to spare. If I remove half the cards, I can cram at least 15 cash bills into the wallet, and probably more.
I was initially afraid the wallet would fall apart, but it’s still in great condition after two years, with a lot of use. It’s soft and therefore comfortable in any pocket. And once again, it does not bother me at all that I have to fiddle with it a bit to find what I want.
Amazon has it for $20, Prime shipped, and Nomatics is selling it for about $24 shipped.
https://www.amazon.com/NOMATIC-Minimalist-Wallet-Everyday-Holder/dp/B01DFU15DC
https://www.nomatic.com/products/black-basics-wallet?variant=11245451969&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIlNjC_YTV4AIVkZ6fCh2yQwI7EAQYAiABEgLpqvD_BwE Coupons from Nomatic are often available. I love this thing. I’m just a happy customer, and have nothing to do with the manufacturer.
https://www.nomatic.com/products/black-basics-wallet?variant=11245451969&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIlNjC_YTV4AIVkZ6fCh2yQwI7EAQYAiABEgLpqvD_BwE Coupons from Nomatic are often available. I love this thing. I’m just a happy customer, and have nothing to do with the manufacturer.
SillySpinner
162
Feb 22, 2019
If this wallet interests you check out the Trayvax Armored Summit. Same price and function, made in USA, build and finish quality has been second to none:
https://www.trayvax.com/products/armored-summit?variant=12097765900363
2rms2
84
Jun 27, 2018
I could be missing it but I don't see anywhere else to get the tan version, so there a plus for ordering here
Mezz
350
Jun 25, 2018
The extra band to accommodate pen or flashlights looks like this ( pics from manufacturer website)
tedddy9
25
Apr 27, 2019
So this is the first minimalist wallet I’ve seen with the flashlight/pen elastic band feature and I’m intrigued. I carry my wallet in my back pocket so I’m not worried about too bulky for my front pocket.
Is there anyone that can speak to the effectiveness of the flashlight/pen setup? Would this be too bulky for back pocket carry? What was you’re experience daily carrying with the flashing/pen combo? Are there any other minimalist wallets that have this feature that do it better?
Thanks!!
LazarusLong
210
Jun 29, 2018
Always tempted by these multi functional wallets. But just dont think it’s safe to take out your wallet in public too frequently.
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