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The Mysterious 32kg Incident

Strange things happen in the Kettlebell world. We had an issue with a couple 32kg Kettlebells we sent out to a new Coach from the San Diego Certification last month. We haven’t officially “retailed” our Professional-Grade Kettlebells™ yet, but we have distributed quite a few over the last year. We’ve given over 2500 bells away since the beginning of our Coach Certification, and even sold some “Special Edition” Signature Fedorenko’s to the original die-hard Kettlebell Lifters in the Community before that. Logo BellsWe also sell quite a few through Coaches of ours that retail them to their customers and students, and do retail some through word of mouth. Randy Contour’s Gym has some “Special Editions”, and Josh Burkman’s Coach, who is also an AKC Coach, uses them too. Oh, and if you live in the Salt Lake City area you’d be lucky to work with an MMA Coach like Rob Handley. MMA Conditioning is of particular interest to Valery. We just shipped some out to Evan Tanner today, who happens to be fighting in Columbus March 1st (Arnold Expo Weekend). Between all that and the Military, we’ve got a lot going on and retailing to the general public isn’t our focus in this phase anyway. We’re going to hold back our public website release until sometime after the Arnold so we can finish up a few projects beforehand.

Somehow our new Coach got 6 out of 8 Pro-Grades™ delivered and a few days later got the 32kgs, but they had a problem. Ugly KBsThey were used and abused (dragged through a parking lot maybe?), and strangely Special Edition bells packaged in Pro-Grade™ boxes. Now of course we wouldn’t send anything like this, but somehow between our hands and our Coaches, the bells look like they’ve been to Russia and back.

They look like Valery’s original 32kgs we saw at his Mom’s house! Only worse! Anyway, a call will be made to UPS, because we have also had some 32kg’s show up in surplus sales “on the cheap” near major hubs. But those have all been Pro-Grades™… Valery's BellsThese were bells we haven’t sent out in over a year! Really, we’ve never seen bells treated so badly :-) We need to check some shipping records. Mysterious, but no big deal. We’re going to strip them and turn them into “AKC Logo Bells” and auction them off for prize money for the World Kettlebell Lifting Championships in Toronto in September. This wouldn’t be considered a warranty issue, although we do have a Lifetime* Warranty on our Bells for breakage. We will get him some that match his set ASAP though. We have a few days left on our Inventory Reduction, by the way, so if you want 32kg’s they are the price of our 12kg right now ($100+sh). Email americankettlebellclub @ gmail.com


Mysterious 32kg’s… I’m going to stick with 24kg a little longer I think.

Eric Liford

 

* Lifetime-Limited Warranty is protection against breakage under normal use. This does not include scratches, wear of paint or dings. There is also a 30-day Money-Back Guarantee on our Pro-Grade Kettlebells. In either of these cases, return shipping is not included.

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