RE: User report on Lowepro AW packback

2001-07-06 Thread Jan van Wijk
On Thu, 05 Jul 2001 15:12:31 -0700, Cameron R. Hood wrote: > >The plastic clips that cause the problems are the ones on the ends of the >shoulder straps; it is like a little plastic sring loaded thing. Its a >stupid and cheap design, when, for the sake of an extra dollar or two >(probably less) t

RE: User report on Lowepro AW packback

2001-07-05 Thread Cameron R. Hood
The plastic clips that cause the problems are the ones on the ends of the shoulder straps; it is like a little plastic sring loaded thing. Its a stupid and cheap design, when, for the sake of an extra dollar or two (probably less) they could have had metal ones there like they use on just about a

RE: User report on Lowepro AW packback

2001-07-05 Thread Jan van Wijk
On Thu, 05 Jul 2001 10:19:49 -0700, Cameron R. Hood wrote: >It's the strap clips that cause the problems. They are plastic, and if you >look at the piece of plastic that controls the lateral motion, it's about as >secure as a bread-bag clip. Hmmm, I just had another look at the thing, and yes t

RE: User report on Lowepro AW packback

2001-07-05 Thread Cameron R. Hood
It's the strap clips that cause the problems. They are plastic, and if you look at the piece of plastic that controls the lateral motion, it's about as secure as a bread-bag clip. My advice is to change tham, and complain strongly to Lowe Pro. Cameron - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss

RE: User report on Lowepro AW packback

2001-07-03 Thread Jan van Wijk
On Mon, 02 Jul 2001 12:54:16 -0700, Cameron R. Hood wrote: >I had one of them for about a week, and the strap buckle (made of >plastic) let go one time when I was picking it up at an angle. All of my >photo gear went smashing to the ground. And no, it was not overloaded. >Repeated angry calls

RE: User report on Lowepro AW packback

2001-07-02 Thread Cameron R. Hood
I had one of them for about a week, and the strap buckle (made of plastic) let go one time when I was picking it up at an angle. All of my photo gear went smashing to the ground. And no, it was not overloaded. Repeated angry calls, letters and emails to LowePro resulted in them sending out a