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Gregory are offering the chance to win a 45L Gear Box, 30L Tote and 70L Gear Basket. You can organise everything from your kit room at home, your car and at camp. 

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This is a thing?

Gotta find more things we can comfortably do without to top up the nurdles on the beaches. 

I pretty much always enter these competitions, just because why not.  This is the first time I haven't because it looks like such a bad product.  How is not just a plastic box?

Because if it were just a plastic box/basket, one wouldn't be able to charge £50/70 for it?

It's not so much that it's just a plastic box, but it is a massively over-priced plastic box. I have just looked at the B&Q website, and there are multiple options, all considerably cheaper.  

Funny - I looked at it and thought 'that basket looks great' :-D 

My garage is organised but I'm forever faffing about with bags-for-life to chuck kit in the car. Granted a big rubber bucket would do a similar job but it got me thinking.

In a consumer world where the middle classes have to have every potential new fangled fad item for any given activity, yes. Garages full of stuff that gets a run out once in a blue moon. 

You see it on social media with peg-boards and fancy storage systems where everyone's brand new and unused climbing kit is on individual hooks like it may as well be a climbing shop. 

If it isn't all battered and clipped to one sling and left in your climbing bag or chucked in a bucket, you're just a poser! 

The negative reactions to these were pretty predictable. And I certainly turned up my nose at them a bit as well. They do seem overpriced and there are certainly much cheaper options available that would do a similar job. A portion of the price must be down to them aiming at a fashionable rugged outdoorsy vibe and a premium feel. But on the flipside, how many of the cheap alternatives are built as sturdily as these hopefully are, with recycled materials and a meaningful warranty? No doubt those are significant contributions to the prices as well, and something we should be supporting on environmental grounds.