After reading that post from Mr. Brommeland I was torn with emotions.
This was a strange post from a man who one week ago told me in an email to basically kiss off because since Phil posted on threads regarding his inability to deliver in a timely fashion, I would get my order WHENEVER HE GOT AROUND TO IT.
This wasn't the same man who Ive known for several years and respected.
This man posted in an open forum that he took pity on me because of my unfortunate injury of two years ago and gave me a massive discount price on a belt, OWB holster and single mag pouch of $220. Further, he had to guts to say in an open forum that he informed me that because he gave me this generous discount that I neither realized nor asked for, he would get to it when he got to it.
The truth was, he told me in Feb 06 that it would be to me no later than March or early April 06.
I talked to him on line once or twice, and he called me one or twice during the spring of last year telling me it wouldnt me much longer.
He claims that I called him incessantly.
I have Verizon phone records that show I called twice between April and Sept of last year, once in April (obviously) and once that fall. Then I called in January of this year. His nice and gracious wife (really, Im serious, Remy is an extremely nice lady) told me my order was third or fourth in the stack. He then got on the line and told me I was close to being ready, and ahead of me was a law enforcement officer that had been waiting a month more than me.
He promised it would be a three-week wait. No package was forthcoming.
last month I received an email note from remy confirming the size of my belt, and stating he was doing belts that week,( have screen captures of that).
She suggested it would be ready soon.
Over a week ago, I sent him a frustrate note wondering if I would ever get my order.
He replied with a vitriolic message telling what I said at the beginning. That I was a pest, never to call or contact him again, and that the long wait was substantially due to the fact that Phil talked about him on line.
He said that "there wasn't a cow big enough to make a 54 inch belt.(yeah, Im a big guy), and suggested I was just lucky he was helping me at all.
Let's address the belt issue. Im a 6-3 inch 289 lb man. I'm a big, biscuit eating boy. I asked him if a 54 inch belt would be a problem. He said no problem whatsoever.
In 1997 I order just such a belt from Milt Sparks. The nice lady told me it would be no problem, and I received it in just FIVE WEEKS.
That belt lasted till 2005, when I retired it, because the thing was so stinky I couldnt get the smell out.
I bought an instructor belt from wilderness in 98 in that size. The belt cost about 45 bucks and was in my hands three weeks from my order date.
I wore it until just a few months ago when it just plain fell apart from 7 day per week use.
I understand the one man shop thing. I can dig it. There's only so much one craftsman can do. If he had just told me it would take a year in the first place, I'd have understood and been fine with it. He didn't say anything like that, however.
(I'll be happy to post his reply to me if he denies he said anything in this message.)
This whole thing is distasteful to me. Im a private guy..airing my dirty laundry in public turns my stomach. Gary said some nasty things about me, and I'm not standing by and taking it anymore.
I don't want to be pitied and made fun of by him in public. I'm pissed off.
Mike, if you don't like the way this thread is going, I understand. I dont have any problems if you lock it. I just wanted to answer what this dude in Tennessee is telling all over the internet about me.
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