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bleaustone
February 04, 2008, 02:59:32 pm
yo, anybody know what's up with bleaustone? have been emailing and phoning them for over a week now with no reply/answer....  :shrug:

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#1 Re: bleaustone
February 04, 2008, 11:25:02 pm
I'll tell you what's up w/ bleaustone:

They are w/ out doubt the best.  But they are not worth the dough compared to HOLDZ.  They just aren#t.  They make them in Eastern EU for cheap labour yet end up weirding their designs to reduce postage weight.

Support a British firm that will do it for far far less, they're not THAT good matey, fuck em off.

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#2 Re: bleaustone
February 05, 2008, 09:31:57 am
No you are wrong Paul. They make them in their own Factory in Sheffield and have done for the past 2 years.
Dr. Blowfin I have Pmed you.

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#3 Re: bleaustone
February 05, 2008, 09:38:37 am
I'm wrong - take it back;  I've been fibbed to . . .

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#4 Re: bleaustone
February 05, 2008, 09:49:02 am
You a shareholder Dave?  ;)

No harm done.


(Actually, the info came from someone who makes climbing holds - and as such not something one would think to check up on - not I anyway . . .)

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#5 Re: bleaustone
February 05, 2008, 11:40:22 am
Doesn't surprise me where your info was from, seems that a few of the competition are misinformed. Bleaustone certainly used to have holds made in eastern Europe but have been making Quality Sheffield product for a while now.
Not a shareholder Paul, but it is run by very good friends and as such I feel obliged to put right any incorrect assumptions. Not your fault.

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#6 Re: bleaustone
February 05, 2008, 11:58:00 am
Sure thing Dave - like I said - they are the best kit, they are - & I'd certainly support any indigenous firm (even if they were more expensive) than any company that chose to farm-out the graft to cheap foreign workers (say in China for example, where it seems everyone chooses to turn to these days in order to turn a profit w/ out a thought for the filth the Chinese pump untreated into their rivers and atmosphere and the oil that must be burnt to get the product to Europe).

I apologise again, I got it wrong and don't wish to tar Bleaustone w/ any dirt brush strokes.  Their product is strong. 

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#7 Re: bleaustone
February 05, 2008, 12:36:23 pm
Well it's really not miss-informed if they did actually make them in Eastern Europe, it's just out of date info.

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#8 Re: bleaustone
February 05, 2008, 01:10:38 pm
Nice work Sherlock.
I'm not going to get into the issue of tenses, that would be patronising.

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#9 Re: bleaustone
February 05, 2008, 01:30:13 pm
Yeah this thread is rubbish - let's leave it to go the way of the


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#10 Re: bleaustone
February 06, 2008, 11:23:42 am
bleaustone are the only resin holds i buy with my own money for my board they are the shit and also the dogs bollocks to boot

 

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