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Despite not having all the monies I have a pretty comfortable life : )
I had a Kanken bag years ago - I liked the shape and ease of access but no structure and very little water resistance led me to sell it on within a few months. Theirs is a story that illustrates my point about sending all manufacturing overseas with the almost universal downgrade in quality and surge in pricing.
withered_preacher
You're doing it wrong 🙂
..yea I wouldn't mind either - alas the point I was trying to make is that their stuff became even more expensive, yet the quality went down.
Like: a lot of times instead of the (very sturdy / worth-the-money) G1000 fabric you now only get G1000 lite which doesn't last nearly as long.
I don't mean to bash on them for the sake of bashing, but to give you a really good example - their Kånken rucksack, a thin little thing that lasts about a year before developing holes and looking like shit, omnipresent on the back of hipsters all over Europe, is fucking £85.00 now.
And it's not made by well paid fairies in Finland but in Vietnam, by the way.