Thread: Cautionary tale of poor quality product from Spika.

Originally Posted by Mintie

A soft case whose sole purpose on this earth is to protect my rifle. Poor workmanship on this "deluxe" product has caused damage to my gear. It's not like I was throwing it around onto the deck of my ute and bashing it down the road expecting it to be protected, it was being used as designed slung over my shoulder and the stitching just went ping.

Hard cases have a time and a place, and I have a few to use for that purpose, but soft cases are much better for just in and out of the ute and stashing behind seats etc.

Do you check the oil and water in your car? Or run it out of oil and blame the manufacturer at x amount of years ? Why not check your gun bag over like your barrel or suppresor so many variables mines got a square stitch with a cross threw the middle doubled onto the same material and then threw 2 layers of material whos to say you didn’t give it a heave hoe one day (or a mate) to get it unstuck out of the car it just isn’t that bigger deal save your heart ache and claim insurance this is my exact issue with warranty vs insurance it’s exactly what insurance is for if people choose not to have it well more for them

Originally Posted by Kelton

Do you check the oil and water in your car? Or run it out of oil and blame the manufacturer at x amount of years ? Why not check your gun bag over like your barrel or suppresor so many variables mines got a square stitch with a cross threw the middle doubled onto the same material and then threw 2 layers of material whos to say you didn’t give it a heave hoe one day (or a mate) to get it unstuck out of the car it just isn’t that bigger deal save your heart ache and claim insurance this is my exact issue with warranty vs insurance it’s exactly what insurance is for if people choose not to have it well more for them

The value of the scope is about the same as my insurance excess so that's not viable.

This bag was only months old when this happened, had only been used maybe 20 times. If I bought a brand new car and it ran itself out of oil in 20 trips I would absolutely be expecting the manufacturer to replace it.

Yeah nah.

I don't think it is outside of the expectation for a gun bag with a strap to be of reasonable quality - unless it is marketed as "bargain basement" or particularly cheap.

That looks like pretty average quality, the webbing isn't cut square and it looks like a single line of stitching, is the stitching exposed on the inside of the bag?

Not much guts in that stitching Mintie.Should beable to carry 5kgs of rifle divided by 2 ends of strap connections.Good luck with yr claim with spiker.

Originally Posted by Mintie

The value of the scope is about the same as my insurance excess so that's not viable.

This bag was only months old when this happened, had only been used maybe 20 times. If I bought a brand new car and it ran itself out of oil in 20 trips I would absolutely be expecting the manufacturer to replace it.

Yea I see iv just being dealing with a warranty claim and in my circumstance it would have being way easier if they were damaged for insurance sake but sadly not software issue so back and forth with the manufacturer and the issue isn’t continuously happening so chances are when their doing the testing their working just darn painful

Originally Posted by Ross Nolan

Yeah nah.

I don't think it is outside of the expectation for a gun bag with a strap to be of reasonable quality - unless it is marketed as "bargain basement" or particularly cheap.

Price is definitely not necessarily an indicator of quality or workmanship, you can pay a lot of money for example a custom gun from a so called professional and end up with the same result ............. a total piece of shit despite all the promises.