Eastman Leather Clothing - Catalogue 1

[Officer Dibley]

Sorry to buck the trend but i like it. Some great original pics. You can pay £5+ for a monthly mag’ that is half adverts and thin paper. This has great stuff in it. It’s a brochure like RM but at least i can read the text in this one !
Don’t disagree with the comments on price rises or what we THINK is Gary Eastman’s new business model ( he doesn’t feel the need to comment - wonder why ...).
So don’t buy if you don’t want to but i for one am glad i did.

 

[Boyo]

Whoa, I should check my copy. I didn't notice that. Was it on one of the pages, or just a scrap of paper folded into the magazine?

@mulceber it was a post card with a code printed on it. The code was to be entered into the special instruction box at check out...worked like a charm.

@Officer Dibley I'm with you, It does look very nice and I would like to own a copy, but as has been pointed out by a few others it would have been nice to get the purchase price of the magazine back when/if you purchased a jacket.

 

[Grant]

Cool catalog! Can't wait to get one.

 

[mulceber]

Sorry to buck the trend but i like it. Some great original pics. You can pay £5+ for a monthly mag’ that is half adverts and thin paper. This has great stuff in it. It’s a brochure like RM but at least i can read the text in this one !
Don’t disagree with the comments on price rises or what we THINK is Gary Eastman’s new business model ( he doesn’t feel the need to comment - wonder why ...).
So don’t buy if you don’t want to but i for one am glad i did

Absolutely fair. I think a lot of us see this paid-for advertisement as part and parcel of deeper issues we have with ELC's new business model, but if you like the magazine, go for it.

@mulceber it was a post card with a code printed on it. The code was to be entered into the special instruction box at check out...worked like a charm

I must have thrown mine out without looking at it. Oh well. Thanks for letting me know.

 

[Persimmon]

Eastman just would not give large discounts. But even a smaller thank you would be welcomed. Had they put in a voucher to say you can use this to get £15 off your next purchase at least you could have got your money back

 

[petermack09]

If I ever sell my air comfort or Anj4 I will include it in the sale ,,,

 

[CBI]

Looks like a lot of time went into this. Congrats to them.

 

[petermack09]

Couldn’t resist,,especially when I saw free postage,,I love a bargain !! ;-)

 

[ausreenactor]

And if you’re going to charge for your catalog then why not give something back to your loyal customers?

I got a FREE calendar and subsidized Airmail after a repair, with shipping to and from Simon Williams for the art. Impressed the hell out of me.

 

[B-Man2]

and that's the right way to do things...it keeps people coming back, not that his art work doesn't speak for itself, but its just a nice touch.

 

[MikeyB-17]

Andrew ‘Roughwear’ Swatland, late of this parish, speaks highly of the ELC catalogue on the Book of Faeces.

 

[Micawber]

Andrew ‘Roughwear’ Swatland, late of this parish, speaks highly of the ELC catalogue on the Book of Faeces.

Does he have shares in the company?

 

[ausreenactor]

How much do you guys pay for an Osprey Book? Near on GBP10? Fifteen for a pretty solid publication surely isn't that bad?

 

[ausreenactor]

and that's the right way to do things...it keeps people coming back, not that his art work doesn't speak for itself, but its just a nice touch.

ELC gave me the freebies and sorted the cheaper shipping. Simon did the Art and packaged the box again.

 

[B-Man2]

Thanks

ELC gave me the freebies and sorted the cheaper shipping. Simon did the Art and packaged the box again.

Well ... that’s a thumbs up for them on that one . Good to hear that..

 

[MikeyB-17]

Yeah I got the calendar when I sent my A-10 gloves in for new knits. Came back in the nice ELC box too. Dunno if they’ll be giving away fifteen quid’s worth of catalogue though, although if you’re spending the sort of bucks most of their jackets go for these days, you’d think they’d chuck one in.

 

[Smithy]

How much do you guys pay for an Osprey Book? Near on GBP10? Fifteen for a pretty solid publication surely isn't that bad?

Problem with that analogy Couchy is the Osprey book isn't trying to flog what's in it. I'd personally ask how objectively accurate the information in the ELC catalogue is.

There's inaccuracies in Osprey books but they come from inaccurate research, lack of evidence and consequently misjudged hypothesis, or outdated information. I'd imagine any inaccuracies in the ELC rag will come from a marketing based position. I bet it doesn't say "original wartime A-2s were chrome tanned and pigment finished unlike ours" ;-)

 

[Officer Dibley]

Smithy, you may be right with your “I imagine...” but you can’t be certain - which you should be if casting aspersions against anyone. Also, Gary could be considered an expert equal to most.
As you are exercising your right not to buy, you will never know ! As fir ne, i don’t care, it’s a brochure. Gary did a reference book already.

 

[ausreenactor]

It's a product catalogue 100%. Buzz Rickson have never given theirs away either. I am sure it will sell out the first 'edition'. And like the Golden Book people will pay dollars for them down the line.

 

[Smithy]

Smithy, you may be right with your “I imagine...” but you can’t be certain - which you should be if casting aspersions against anyone. Also, Gary could be considered an expert equal to most.
As you are exercising your right not to buy, you will never know !

Thing is at the end of the day it's a product catalogue and product catalogues by their very nature are designed to talk up a company's goods and/or services for the express purpose of driving sales. I've actually authored a few back when I was a marketing and business development manager so I'd be mighty surprised if this ELC catalogue is transparently honest about everything in it.

If it is, then it probably deserves the distinction of being the world's first completely impartial catalogue!