Does anyone have any info on the Filson/Apolis Activism bag? - Page 16

All of us vendors paid well in advance of the production run and given the fact that the second run has not been offered to anyone I know of is all I need to know.

yeah im pretty pissed too. i purchased the bag because of its good cause and exclusivity and im definitely not the only one. i have a friend, who found out about hte bag through me, for the same reasons. i can only be a little less mad because its a good cause, but it definitely makes me think twice about purchasing from Apolis again

anyway i got an email from context saying they have another 25 for preorder that are being shipped to them by dec 14th.

lol.

the quality of this canvas is crap compared to standard filson - dont buy!!!

Sorry, I'm not really sure what this means. I think Apolis definitely mishandled the situation, but I don't think they went into the project with intentions to "dupe" all of you or whatever you want to call it.

Does anyone know the specifics of what the Ugandans are getting out of it? Is it just an order for the fabric? I can't imagine that the 400 bags would end up being that much fabric. It can't be that large of an order, no?

i threw the retarded apolis craptivism propaganda pamphlet away that came attached to the bag but IIRC they were selling the fact that the uganda factory has 1000 people working at it pretty hard. same shit as how the white house is lying about how many jobs the stimulus saved.

I can understand why you'd be pissed about the exclusivity part, but I don't get the criticism of their philanthropy efforts. How do you know they're lying? I think it was mentioned that they used a few farmer's entire yields of cotton for the bags. That doesn't seem completely unrealistic to me..

Yeah its only a few bags but remember that ugandan farms aren't as large as american ones lol

Intentional or not does not matter. This would be no different than me selling a limited edition print that ended up being a big hit and then going out and printing another identical batch and selling them while cutting out the galleries. Shitty business is shitty business and it doesn't matter to me what noble cause is or is not involved.

all i can say is that when you google "apolis filson" one of the top results is this SF thread. My hope is that once people read through this thread they will think twice about falling into this $400 scam under the guise of being "philanthropy" correction - this thread IS the top result

Here is the thing with Apolis. For being some goodie goodie holy rollers they are some fucking greedy, nasty people.
A limited edition means limited. I will NEVER do business with them again.
With all the fit issues with their clothes and the fake ass goodie goodie schtick when dollars are what they are after they can rot.
Jesus won't forgive you either boys.
Stick to sewing pink berries uniforms.

I'd pay top dollar to have heard the conversation between Mauro and apolis. Wowsa.

I heard a few comments of Mauro's. When they insisted on what and how we were supposed to present the product on my site you should have heard some of my comments.....

Basically, AA looked around for a non-profit that sourced their materials from countries with developing economies. It's not that AA is getting their fabric directly from the Ugandans but rather through this organization.