Wednesday, August 03, 2016

Bean Counters = Crap Quality


LLBean: Quality Guaranteed Since 1912.  Forget it.  In the last few years LLBean clothing is sub-Made-In-China quality.  I’m not that hard on my clothes so there’s no excuse for my LLB purchases falling apart.  After a wearing them for a few times they just start deteriorating.

People tell me: “Well, send it back.  They guarantee their product.”  Sure, send one POS back and get another one that breaks down in six months or less.

I’m not alone. Google “LLBean Quality” and you’ll find complaints just like mine.  Apparently the Bean counters think they can maximize profits by charging top dollar for third rate quality and consumers won’t care.

Boycott LLBean and any other clothing manufacturer trying to foist their fragile fiber crap on us.  That will force them to make good clothing.


With other pants I could easily re-attach a button that fell off with needle-and-thread.  But how do you attach a button to a riphole?


Cargo pocket shorts, worn a few times.  Holes just growing on their own.


Another pair of LLBean cargo shorts, another hole growing by itself in a pocket.

LLBean chamois shirt disintegrating.  Never worn tucked in so no real stress was put on it.  Maybe gravity was the culprit.

1 comment:

Tal Hartsfeld said...

How about them Doc Marten shoes?
Why just stop at L.L. Bean? Lean into these other veteran companies who think nothing of fleecing us with false promises.