[pct-l] improve dirty girl..... light weight gaiters

[Rich Gambale]

I bet Dirty Girl would appreciate your thoughts on how to improve the site. 
Greenleaf
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Lynch" <jplynch at crosslink.net>
To: "Brian Lewis" <brianle at nwlink.com>; <Trekker4 at aol.com>; 
<pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net>
Cc: <dirtythoughts at dirtygirlgaiters.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] light weight gaiters


> No disrespect intended to anyone, but I ahve to agree with Brian.  The 
> Dirty
> Girl website is pretty obtuse.  The product may be great, and I'll take
> Bob's excellent testimony at face value, but it would be great to be able 
> to
> quickly and easily navigate the web site to find basic information about 
> it.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Brian Lewis" <brianle at nwlink.com>
> To: <Trekker4 at aol.com>; <pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net>
> Cc: <dirtythoughts at dirtygirlgaiters.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 12:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] light weight gaiters
>
>
>> "Well, Brian, it's certainly within your Constitutional Rights to expect
>> the
>> perfect website from everyone; however, I doubt that Dirty Girl is 
>> worried
>> about building the perfect website. I know she's not doing it for the
>> money,
>> since she apparently donates all her proceeds to various running
>> organizations in the western US; and she doesn't need the money, since
>> she's
>> a prosecutor. Don't make her angry.
>>
>>    She sells an excellent product, for an excellent price ($15), and adds
>> a
>> huge amount of color to the mundane, boring world of hiker's and runner's
>> feet. She's having fun; maybe you should loosen up and try to have fun
>> too.
>>
>>    Incidentally, my pair of her gaiters weighs 1.25 oz, and has no loop
>> under the foot. I've found no other gaiters close to that weight; in fact
>> I
>> never considered gaiters until I found hers. A whole lot of those western
>> runners, the ones who run 100 miles for the hell of it, apparently use 
>> her
>> product. Any week I can hike over 100 miles makes me happy, and I always
>> wear my Dirty Girl's. Now I even fantasize about her while I hike, hoping
>> she won't prosecute me for those dirty thoughts."
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback, Bob.  Of course I don't expect a perfect website
>> from anyone (much less everyone), and I didn't mean to convey any sense 
>> of
>> entitlement --- if the website owner wants to shoot themselves in the 
>> foot
>> (is it a kevlar gaitor? <g>), that's up to the website owner.  But as a
>> consumer/potential customer I think it's reasonable to expect to be able
>> to
>> find basic data about a product on a website that's about that product.
>>
>>
>>
>> I like sites that provide extra info.  I like the fact that lots of 
>> photos
>> are given of the product (in fact, the only useful data I could glean was
>> by
>> looking at photos).  I just don't like to grope around on a site hoping
>> that
>> I might find information that's relevant for me.    Whether the money is
>> going to the owner or charity or whoever, I suspect a little more money
>> might flow that way if a person could go to the site and find out things
>> like, for example, how to buy it.  And other basic issues, like what
>> material it's made of, whether that material is breathable, whether it 
>> can
>> only cover the ankle or if it can cover higher up the leg (for use in 
>> snow
>> or slush), etc.
>>
>>
>>
>> No attack on you or anyone intended; I hope your gaitors continue to work
>> great for you for years!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>            Brian
>>
>>
>>
>
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