If we can pull this off, I think everyone will be very happy..... the initial concept is VERY cool.
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You tease! Any pictures yet?!
If we can pull this off, I think everyone will be very happy..... the initial concept is VERY cool.
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I'm really not at liberty to share, and I would rather wait until the details are ironed out before we show the masses.You tease! Any pictures yet?!
I'm really not at liberty to share, and I would rather wait until the details are ironed out before we show the masses.
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Hey guys,
Matt Kline here from Exodus Trail Cams and now XOP as well. I recently started with XOP managing marketing/sales and helping with product development alongside Cody D'acquisto and the rest of our team. We've been talking saddle hunting and platforms since the day I started and I wanted to give you guys some heads up as to why you saw the price increase. It really comes down to a couple of reasons:
1. The seat casting at $29 was not priced for mass market at all, we had a pretty thin margin on it like most of our replacement components. When we started looking at the numbers, we just couldn't sustain all the influx you guys have brought us over the past 6 months. You've been keeping our warehouse team busy! While we appreciate the business, we had to bring the numbers up to make sense.
2. The biggest concern is that the seat castings are really not designed for the load you guys are putting them under when using them as a foot platform. Cast Aluminum is a strong material, and in most cases you won't ever see a problem, but there is potential for an accident if there is too much leverage applied to the outside edge of the casting. This is obviously a huge concern for us as a company and we'd really like to discourage folks from using our seats for platforms.
With that said, we're in the process of building a specialized solution for you guys. Something streamlined and designed for saddle hunters specifically. I've hunted out of a saddle for two seasons on public land and Cody and I have been talking about it for awhile. After seeing all the orders this past fall XOP has decided it's time to move forward.
Naturally, I can't give out too many details until we're further along in the process, but we're looking to have something out early to late summer.
Just wanted to keep you guys posted,
Thanks so much for the support this past year!
I wonder how long they have been following this forum from the shadows.
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"Denots singing" I always feel like, somebody's watching me.I wonder how long they have been following this forum from the shadows.
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I wonder how long they have been following this forum from the shadows.
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I personally think it is a good thing that companies are watching the forums to see what guys do and do not like. I think it only helps them to make better products suited to their customers needs. I personally have not used a platform with my saddle yet as I am new to saddle hunting, but may give want to try one day. Looking forward to seeing what y'all are going to come out with.I don’t think they watched the forum much before I came on board, but the amount of seat castings going out the door this past fall definitely caught attention. I started looking through the forum to see what you guys liked about using the seat and what you didn’t like.
I think for a platform, our current seat casting is a little too tapered off the tree, not to mention it isn’t built structurally to be a platform.
So we put together a new design that won’t add too much weight. Looking forward to showing it off as we get closer to launch.
Hey Matt, glad to have you on here. I enjoy seeing guys from mfg involved on the site. Totally unrelated but (Cell cam, please........)Hey guys,
Matt Kline here from Exodus Trail Cams and now XOP as well. I recently started with XOP managing marketing/sales and helping with product development alongside Cody D'acquisto and the rest of our team. We've been talking saddle hunting and platforms since the day I started and I wanted to give you guys some heads up as to why you saw the price increase. It really comes down to a couple of reasons:
1. The seat casting at $29 was not priced for mass market at all, we had a pretty thin margin on it like most of our replacement components. When we started looking at the numbers, we just couldn't sustain all the influx you guys have brought us over the past 6 months. You've been keeping our warehouse team busy! While we appreciate the business, we had to bring the numbers up to make sense.
2. The biggest concern is that the seat castings are really not designed for the load you guys are putting them under when using them as a foot platform. Cast Aluminum is a strong material, and in most cases you won't ever see a problem, but there is potential for an accident if there is too much leverage applied to the outside edge of the casting. This is obviously a huge concern for us as a company and we'd really like to discourage folks from using our seats for platforms.
With that said, we're in the process of building a specialized solution for you guys. Something streamlined and designed for saddle hunters specifically. I've hunted out of a saddle for two seasons on public land and Cody and I have been talking about it for awhile. After seeing all the orders this past fall XOP has decided it's time to move forward.
Naturally, I can't give out too many details until we're further along in the process, but we're looking to have something out early to late summer.
Just wanted to keep you guys posted,
Thanks so much for the support this past year!