Limmer Boots

[Pete_Hickey]

One thing that I find interesting/amusing.. I can't imagine that these guys are really rich. Maybe well ioff, but not really rich, in spite of the fact that they are one of the top (if not THE top) and well known in the country. Now, had they been doing high-fashion footware, I'll bet they'd be way better off. financially, that is.

 

[Mad Townie]

Now, had they been doing high-fashion footware . . . /QUOTE]

What do you mean, Pete? Limmers ARE high fashion footware! All depends on your notion of fashion.

 

[--M.]

Custom Orders, as of 10/05

Does anybody know how to order custom Limmers?

I asked this question in October. The response was as David Metsky said, and I think it was $50. "Ken" (at the shop) said the list, which he had handy, comprised four yellow legal pads, and was growing slightly faster than they could produce the boots. If I remember, he said it was currently about a six-year total wait.

--M.

 

[SAR-EMT40]

Maybe well ioff, but not really rich, in spite of the fact that they are one of the top (if not THE top) and well known in the country.

They don't need to make high end fashion footware to become rich. I'm no financial expert but some of the projects that I have worked on we have easily been able to decide we are underpricing the product if we can't keep up with demand. Very easy to control this wait by raising the price. Raise the price and fewer people want (can afford) the product. That whole supply/demand thing we keep hearing about actually works. The waiting time is easily controlled in this fashion and they get paid what the product is actually worth. They just don't understand what their product is worth. Truly.

IMHO,
Keith

 

[Grumpy]

They don't need to make high end fashion footware to become rich. I'm no financial expert but some of the projects that I have worked on we have easily been able to decide we are underpricing the product if we can't keep up with demand. Very easy to control this wait by raising the price. Raise the price and fewer people want (can afford) the product. That whole supply/demand thing we keep hearing about actually works. The waiting time is easily controlled in this fashion and they get paid what the product is actually worth. They just don't understand what their product is worth. Truly.

IMHO,
Keith

I don't think that's quite true -- that business about the Limmers not understanding the worth (market worth) of their boots. In conversations I had with them while waiting out my time in the custom order que they clearly expressed pride in knowing they could charge a lot more for their product, and get it, and so reduce demand and shorten the wait time. But they also clearly expressed a desire to continue making a superb product that is affordable and available to "Ordinary Joe" hikers ("ordinary" from a pocketbook perspective). That kind of approach is a rare commodity in the marketplace today -- the idea that enthusiastic participants in an activity like hiking, hunting, fishing, etc., should have affordable access to the very best of it.

G.

 

[SAR-EMT40]

I don't think that's quite true -- that business about the Limmers not understanding the worth (market worth) of their boots.

I guess I should have made it clearer that this was tongue in cheek. I have no doubt that they know what the quality of their product is and the ways to reduce the demand.

I guess I should have made it clearer that I was joking. Sorry.

Keith

 

[Grumpy]

Keith, there's no need to apologize for your remarks. They did after all provide a nice springboard for me to say something about the Limmers that is worth noting! (I apologize to you if my post above read like it was scolding.)

G.