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I love my ZipFits so far, what an amazing product. What pisses me off though, is what a shoestring operation this “company” is…
- Always out of the cork tubes… Seriously, if you’re selling your product based on how customizable it is, you better stock the cork. Without that your product does not perform to specifications. Again - customization is one of the selling points, without the cork one can’t customize the liners
- How difficult is it to keep the product description and pictures on your website up to date??? I just bought the Corsa, the product you get is different from the picture on the website. If it wasn’t from this forum, I wouldn’t know what I’m getting. Again - how difficult is it to update the SINGLE picture you have on your website of an item you’re selling for $500???
- The “Resources” tab of the website is laughable… For example, go to “Adding Omfit Cork” section (and forget for a second they’re always out of stock of said Omfit). There’s not a single picture / diagram of where the cork chambers are, what each of them does, how best to add cork, etc. What a joke… How long would it take to include a few pictures with actual instructions? Or at least a link to the YouTube video?
It’s like they actually don’t want people to buy the product, and want to make it really confusing…
End rant. I guess it’s only for really hard-core skiers like ourselves who frequent this forum.
Zipfit has always been run on a shoestring, Sven Coomer used to run it from his garage. When Chris Dominick took it over they relocated to a rural property they call “shredquarters”. https://soprissun.com/zipfit-reboots-in-carbondale/ The Zipfit YouTube channel has some videos of the inside, as you can see it’s very basic.
The web site was put together by some guys in Sweden, it looks like it’s still work in progress. There is a video on how to add more OMFit in the shop section. The videos that Sven made a few years ago are also still available https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHMkcUkTq4ed4uC4cjlglo5cr_QhsN0Tt courtesy of their Korean distributor.
If you can’t get hold of any OMFit, you could try making your own, it looks to me like it could be a mixture of granulated cork and oil/wax-based modeling clay.
Zipfit is not the only supplier of cork composite filled liners, a boot fitter based in France https://www.total-feet.com/en/home/ has also started to sell his own design https://www.ultimatefitliners.com/en/home/ The Italian company Topeca Srl http://www.nevadalabs.it/indexen.html makes a liner that is similar to the Zipfit and may also be the company that supplies the bladders and the cork filler for the Zipfit liners. The owner, Vanio Tessaro invented the foam filled liner, and he is also listed as one of the inventors on Head’s patent for their Liquid Fit liner.