Custom Bats Cricket Forum
Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: tailender on August 20, 2013, 11:43:06 AM
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Just stumbled accross this brand on the net.
Their gear looks pretty smart anyone know if their bats are UK made or imported?
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My guess would be imported but Ryan, the guy who runs it, is a top guy and former Zim player.
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Made pretty local to us...
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Or at least used to be, but the bats on the website don't look very typical of the batmakers in question
I've seen plenty of them knocking about at a place i visit often, unstickered, stickered and ones in for repair.
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I was going to say they don't look very Hunts-Like.
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I was in hunts monday and they said they are made by them
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I wouldnt be happy about that lol
Not very professional from Hunts that is it?
Disclosing that info
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Why?
It doesn't take a lot of effort/knowledge to work out where bats are made, i prefer Hunts's attitude to TK's on this subject.
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Just doesnt seem very fair?
If a company has a supply agreement it should be confidential surely?
For example Gecko have a bat on their site for £275.00 but a custom hunts bat is 209.00 so why would anyone buy Gecko?
This is why i think its unfair and unprofessional.
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I see your point, but the majority of people out there will not know that. The level of knowledge on the forum is miles ahead of the levels outside of it.
Also, Hunts don't shout it from the rooftops, they give honest answers to questions asked by customers. If you are at Hunts in the back room and spot a Gecko (or any of the brands they make) the chances are you are at Hunts to buy a Hunts bat, so the prices of other brands don't matter too much.
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Hasn't there been a debate similar to this re: Hammer? (which got a bit messy as I recall).
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I see your point, but the majority of people out there will not know that. The level of knowledge on the forum is miles ahead of the levels outside of it.
Also, Hunts don't shout it from the rooftops, they give honest answers to questions asked by customers. If you are at Hunts in the back room and spot a Gecko (or any of the brands they make) the chances are you are at Hunts to buy a Hunts bat, so the prices of other brands don't matter too much.
that's a fair point well made.
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This debate always comes back to the fact that there are roughly 3000 members on this forum, and roughly 500 regular readers/contributors. The number playing cricket is something in the order of 600,000 in the UK, and obviously millions worldwide. On that basis, we are but a drop in the ocean.
As is said many times on the forum, most people don't care who made the bat they have bought. It's a bat and it hits a ball. If one company has a supply agreement with another company then sells at the price that covers their costs and provides a profit, that's business. That the supplier can sell more or less the same bat at a lower price is linked to their wholesaling. If you are at Hunts, and you see Gecko bats being made, it's pointless for them to deny it.
It's not a question of fairness, rather of business. Just the way it works. The same is true of many other businesses.
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true true fair point.
I would prefer my supplier to remain out of the picture if I was a brand that's all
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Hasn't there been a debate similar to this re: Hammer? (which got a bit messy as I recall).
Who makes hammer?
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Who makes hammer?
In the old days I would have guessed blacksmiths but in today's modern world there are multiple manufacturers.... ;) lol
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Lol
Im guessing TK? he seems to make for everyone.... or everyone claims their bats are made by him I cant quite work out which is true.
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In the old days I would have guessed blacksmiths but in today's modern world there are multiple manufacturers.... ;) lol
The Hammers I've seen have had a made in UK/NZ sticker on, the UK made ones are easy to guess who and as the NZ ones, they had a stand out toe shape and very thin up the top, again pretty easy to guess.
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I know the guy ryan who owns it :) top guy
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Hammer are made in multiple places.
His new upcoming bats(not yet released) are made by a third manufacturer, one that there own bats have just been added to the cricketstoreonline website.
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Working at Gecko Cricket I can confirm that we have no affiliation with Hunts.
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Hammer are made in multiple places.
His new upcoming bats(not yet released) are made by a third manufacturer, one that there own bats have just been added to the cricketstoreonline website.
b3?
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gecko cricket just offered me sponsorship on twitter? i presume other was a spam message though. and there sponsorship would just be 10% off
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gecko cricket just offered me sponsorship on twitter? i presume other was a spam message though. and there sponsorship would just be 10% off
I've always found it weird that cricket companies offer "sponsorship" to anyone who's prepared to but enough kit. Isn't that just a bulk discount?
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For me sponsership is either Free or at least 50% off. Any thing less than that I would say discounted kit to upcoming good cricketers.
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At my club, one of our players has a gecko sponsorship, he got 50%+ off.
His bat looked like it was made by TK (toe guard, shoulder shape etc)