the dishonest and unethical

THE ALL PURPOSE JACKET

Greetings Jerry,

Received my All Purpose Jacket today and am thoroughly pleased. Especially the color (coyote/brown) of the inner lining. Goes perfect with the black outer material. Thanks again for producing quality and most functional products. Additionally I'll be ordering some mukluks and over-boots from you pretty soon. Take care!

Gerry

The above comment about the “all purpose jacket” is the first written one to date. It is always very pleasing to read these positive comments and also when an individual says they intend to buy other products from Wiggy’s.

Thank you Gerry!

On the front page of today’s Sporting Goods Business on line publication was a picture of a red jacket with the Columbia label and shiny silver colored lining showing. Below the picture was the following and I have reprinted it verbatim.

“Each year, the FabricLink Network’s Top 10 Innovation Awards acknowledge new textile products and technologies that showcase outstanding developments that have been officially launched over the past year and are commercially available. Here are the honorees for 2018/19.”

I couldn’t wait to read what this company “fabriclink” had to say about the product that caused them to give Columbia an award. The following is reprinted verbatim from the article.

“Columbia Sportswear’s Omni-Heat 3D, a reflective insulation technology that pairs a breathable fabric with the reflective heat-retaining warmth of a space blanket;”

Having read this gibberish I went to the “fabriclink” web site to get a phone number to inquire as to the method used to determine if what Columbia told them proved to be correct. I was directed to Kathy Swantko the owner of the company who wrote the article. Kathy does not take phone calls and she does not even have an answering service on her phone. After 6 or 7 rings my phone just goes back to being ready to make a new call.

Attempting to use a reflective surface material has existed since the 1960’s when I first started working in the insulation aspect of the textile industry. Reflective materials demonstrated back then that they did not work and as time has gone buy and others over the years have used the reflective materials have found they still do not work.

People who have actually used space blankets learn very quickly they do not work; period!!!

This Kathy woman is ignorant of insulations and as such should not write about the subject!!! It would be better if Kathy just kept her thoughts to herself and look stupid versus opening her mouth and proving it. If I recall I wrote about this Columbia material once before since Gert Boyle was credited with creating it and as such was recognized for its creation. But it matters not if Gert was credited with creating it or not it does not work today, did not work yesterday nor will it work tomorrow. Trust me if it were beneficial i would have been using it for the past 32 years.

Fabriclink is supported by a number of companies who sell bogus products, Sympatex and event who make waterproof breathables; drirelease a chemical that I guess releases dry or moisture so you stay dry to name a few. They are birds of a feather and as one lies this ‘fabriclink” company swears to whatever they say.

This “fabriclink” company has a web site that gets they claim 85000 visitors a month so they are really spreading the B/S to an awful lot of people. From what I read on the site about Kathy she seems to be well versed in marketing more so than any other area of the textile business. This gives her license to support all of the untruths propagated by the mills and garment marketing companies.

She has to justify her existence so she gives awards to those who support her and consequently she promotes them. One hand washes the other.

HONESTY is the refusal to fake reality, i.e., to pretend that facts are other than they are. “Honesty as the Rejection of Unreality.” Leonard Peikoff- The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

ETHICS is the branch of philosophy that…provides “a code of values to guide man’s choice and actions---the choices and actions that determine the purpose and the course of his life.”

Quoting Ayn Rand from “The Objectivist Ethics.”

In my view honesty has slipped away in the outdoor area of the textile business. And they are unethical because their actions determine the purpose and course of their lives does not represent honest actions. They do not value the manufacturing of products that actually function for the intended purpose.