Custom order from Bates

[regius]

https://www.batesleathers.com/highwayman-i-ii

Anyone called them recently, ordered anything? I just want to know how their tone and customer service is on the phone these days. I'm scared to call...

 

[Monitor]

Chr... T2 is $2745 now!? I should've just ordered one a year ago when it was $1000-something. It's 2x T1 / Highwayman price, though! Why???

 

[ton312]

Why would you be scared to call? Their IG shows lots of seats and boots but not too many (new) jackets. I’d be curious too but I seem to recall you were disappointed with the leather they use?

 

[regius]

I’m scared, truly, of the way the Bates lady converse with customers/me. Instead of just answering like a normal person about lead tome or leather or whatever, she has this super casual, nonchalant, answer with a question, semi-judgmental, semi-interrogation tone..., I’m like, what’s so hard to tell me the current lead time, instead of questioning “why I need so many jackets”? On pricing of alternative leather, it’s like “well, you know the price, hehehe, you know what you are doing, why ask me?”. WTH??


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[regius]

Just called, Dawn picked up. Dana is busy sewing. Dawn is always nice to talk to. It went well, I’m gonna send an email & request samples.


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[ton312]

Just called, Dawn picked up. Dana is busy sewing. Dawn is always nice to talk to. It went well, I’m gonna send an email & request samples.


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Please post them! I’d like to see what they are working with!

 

[regius]

so, this is a custom T2 from two years ago. The leather is a German chrome tanned cowhide, it’s like the Vanson comp weight but much much softer, nicer than their Forenzi weight. Bates said this is what they use on competition suits (really??), but the tanner no longer has it anymore & now they are using something else. So let’s wait & see. I wanted something stiff but they keep saying they don’t have any.


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[ton312]

Yeah I don't really like the looks of that hide at all TBH...

 

[Guppy]

https://www.batesleathers.com/highwayman-i-ii

Anyone called them recently, ordered anything? I just want to know how their tone and customer service is on the phone these days. I'm scared to call...

The idea of someone who is looking to buy a leather jacket as worn by the Terminator being afraid of talking to customer service to place the order is unintentionally hilarious.

Put on your best Austrian accent, call them, and just say: "I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle." Call naked if it helps get you into character. You can negotiate down to drop the boots and motorcycle.

And if they cop an attitude with you, just tell them "Hasta la vista, baby."

 

[JMax]

No bueno. I too am interested in seeing what they currently offer. Tks.

 

[regius]

The idea of someone who is looking to buy a leather jacket as worn by the Terminator being afraid of talking to customer service to place the order is unintentionally hilarious.

Put on your best Austrian accent, call them, and just say: "I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle." Call naked if it helps get you into character. You can negotiate down to drop the boots and motorcycle.

And if they cop an attitude with you, just tell them "Hasta la vista, baby."

The Anti-Terminator: sneaks into a bar covering his crotch, hunched over, approaches a biker from the side, “excise me? Sorry sir, excuse me...”, biker ignores the anti-Terminator. Anti-Terminator scans around the room looking for a jacket that’s not on someone’s back, sees one, & went to grab it, but stopped by the owner, & ran out the bar still naked...


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[regius]

Update: no update. No reply, as expected. I think I’m permanently banned by them
Not surprising actually, anyone who buys a Terminator jacket should expect it be their final jacket before either getting blown up & crushed or melted. The Terminal jacket

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[ton312]

Update: no update. No reply, as expected. I think I’m permanently banned by them
Not surprising actually, anyone who buys a Terminator jacket should expect it be their final jacket before either getting blown up & crushed or melted. The Terminal jacket

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LOL...so they won't be sending a samples?

 

[Lebowski]

The idea of someone who is looking to buy a leather jacket as worn by the Terminator being afraid of talking to customer service to place the order is unintentionally hilarious.

Put on your best Austrian accent, call them, and just say: "I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle." Call naked if it helps get you into character. You can negotiate down to drop the boots and motorcycle.

And if they cop an attitude with you, just tell them "Hasta la vista, baby."

You forgot Terminator's famous phrases "I'll be back" and "Nice to meet you"))

 

[Lebowski]

 

[Maxwell Von Chesapeake]

https://www.batesleathers.com/highwayman-i-ii

Anyone called them recently, ordered anything? I just want to know how their tone and customer service is on the phone these days. I'm scared to call...

I spoke with the owner of Bates on the phone some months back, and she couldn't have been nicer or more helpful. In fact, her and I talked on the phone for roughly forty minutes about things that had nothing to do with leather jackets. My next order will definitely be from them.

 

[handymike]

I believe they still have all the old patterns. This with a bigger collar would rock!

 

[navetsea]

Update: no update. No reply, as expected. I think I’m permanently banned by them
Not surprising actually, anyone who buys a Terminator jacket should expect it be their final jacket before either getting blown up & crushed or melted. The Terminal jacket

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You should tell them "i might look and sound similar but not the same unit"

 

[Aloysius]

I spoke with the owner of Bates on the phone some months back, and she couldn't have been nicer or more helpful. In fact, her and I talked on the phone for roughly forty minutes about things that had nothing to do with leather jackets. My next order will definitely be from them.

In fairness, Regius’s experience was three years ago so staff might have changed (and in any case he wasn’t our through to the owner).