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bernieyoo

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    Comment #6936614

    Thanks :)

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    Comment #6936127

    Email me. bernie[at]bombfell[dot]com

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    Comment #6936068

    ahh that would be because I"m an idiot. Thanks for the heads up.

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    Comment #6935980

    No particular reason, just giving a 2-sentence context to why I posted the link.

  5. story
    My close encounter with a pay-to-pitch investor

    You encounter lots of crazy people while fundraising for your startup. The results can be entertaining. Here's my favorite: https://medium.com/p/872e3afdec9f

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    Comment #6547954

    Just a ton of SMH moments. It's really funny, and then you realize those stupid things are costing you a lot of money.

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    Comment #5217001

    Respectfully disagree, our goal is to establish a lifetime relationship with our customers, not churn-and-burn them out within first 3 months. If we sent clothes that fell apart pe…

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    Comment #5215917

    Ooh ok, not yet available up North - hoping to be there by summer.

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    Comment #5215191

    We do send multiple items per month on user request. Just email us at bombsquad[at]bombfell[dot]com after you sign up.

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    Comment #5215173

    That in a nutshell is what we want to fix. Clothing retail online and offline isn't built with the majority of guys in mind. I think there's a large, silent majority of guys who wo…

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    Comment #5214980

    Yea we definitely want to offer clothing at reasonable prices. We're bringing web technology to the traditionally offline/manual process of personal styling so that we don't have t…

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    Comment #5214961

    Are you using any extensions? I'm using Chrome on OSX and not able to replicate that.

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    Comment #5214951

    And by abroad I mean "not US." Sorry, ignorant American here :)

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    Comment #5214948

    Sorry! Are you by chance located abroad?

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    Comment #5214178

    Thanks for the tip!

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    Comment #5214123

    Don't need to be embarrassed or ashamed. I think you'll find there's a marked quality difference at 10x cheaper, just because the economics wouldn't work out if you used higher qua…

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    Comment #5214085

    I think the issue is cost-driven. Particularly if you're going to offer free shipping both ways, you're going to have to charge a certain floor to make a profit after the manufactu…

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    Comment #5214060

    @arethuza We've found the significant other's approval is a critical factor in keeping it :)

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    Comment #5213989

    Yes! Email me bernie[at]bombfell[dot]com and I'll save your email to the notify list for Down Undah.

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    Comment #5213967

    Just commented elsewhere in this thread about this, we intentionally made the service super flexible so it's not a "cram things down your throat" model. You can rush or delay your …

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    Comment #5213954

    We've intentionally made it super flexible. You can rush or delay your next shipment, choose to skip a month, ask for another pick if you don't like it. Can change frequency to eve…

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    Comment #5213940

    Hey I'm a founder. We actually just started picking up real Big & Tall sizing within past 2 months. Still gathering data on how B&T fits guys' bodies, but learning a lot.

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    Comment #5213876

    We love the Manpacks team! Lots of respect for the trailblazing they did.

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    Comment #5213782

    With e-comm, the issue with Europe (from the prelim investigations we've done) is the lack of centralized shipping service. Whereas in US you can use one system to cost-effectively…