South beach leather mad max jackets?

The prices seem too good to be true. Anyone have anything to say about them, in quality or accuracy? I understand that Abbyshot may be the best to get, but the price of South Beach Leather's jacket is very inticing.

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South Beach leaves alot to be desired.

Looks like shady folks, but unfortunately I didn't see anything specific to quality of their merchandise... especially the Mad Max jacket... I think I'll avoid them anyway... thanks for the tip.

Check out these threads.
http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=75715&highlight=South+Beach+Leather

http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=68953&highlight=South+Beach+Leather

http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=64079&highlight=southbeach+leather

Ghost Host said:

Looks like shady folks, but unfortunately I didn't see anything specific to quality of their merchandise... especially the Mad Max jacket... I think I'll avoid them anyway... thanks for the tip.

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Southbeach has not been shady in my experience. Maybe they've cleaned up their act lately, or maybe I've just been lucky.
I've done three orders with them and had fast shipping, good quality (for the money) and even did a successful exchange (even though it was my fault for ordering the wrong size).

I own their Mad Max jacket and it actually has some advantages over the much more expensive Abbyshot jacket (though there's no denying that the Abbyshot is the winner in overall quality).

Definitely check those other threads, and for more threads about the mad max jacket, check out the props and costumes section of the mad max forum (madmaxmovies.com)

I own the Southbeach mad max jacket and I replaced the shoulder caps with accurate plastic ones (not too tricky if you have some experience with that sort of thing). The shoulder caps on the Southbeach jacket are leather and do not look right at all. Either live with them (knowing you saved some money) or be sure to tell Southbeach to leave the shoulder caps off when you order it. That will save you the hassle of removing them yourself.

The actual quality of the leather I've gotten from them has been pretty good. On par with other cheap to medium priced leather items I've bought. The biggest knock on their jackets is that I've heard the zippers break. But it hasn't happened to me yet.

Thanks for the additional info guys.

Does anyone know how I can get in contact with SBL besides email?

So Fjackets is a good and trustworthy place for jackets right? or should i stay clear?

Fjackets??????????????

DTLSchiller said:

So Fjackets is a good and trustworthy place for jackets right? or should i stay clear?

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