That's disappointing

Totally agree!

All hardware and steel is imported anymore

Thanks for the feedback, I feel like I've been very reasonable

​@@HardEarnedBacon Yes you have, and thank you for sharing your experience with swag.

Yeah nothing was a big deal until I realized what they were quietly doing with the reviews. If they had responded to my review or to my direct email, I would have never made this video.

it was rusty cause it rode on a shipping vessel across the ocean (salt water loves metal) from china =)

I'm glad that you shared your swag china experience with everyone. I too like to buy American made products. It seems like they may be selling china made products and charging American made prices. The thing that bothers me the most is the deleted reviews. I love to read reviews to find out what everyone else's experience has been but if they are deleting reviews that are slightly negative how can you trust them.

Thanks for the comment. I never received a reply from them and at this point I don't think I ever will.

@@HardEarnedBacon thats disapointing af about their reviews, I can get over the made in china collar and the rust, but deceptive practices for reviews is a trash business practice. thanks for sharing this!

But why rust in the first place . A rust spray (like WD40) is a cheap deterrent, but the collar and the bold china stamp is flying heavily against their motto . Dayum, I'm going to start looking at chinese parts like this if I'm going to get chinea in disguise . The reason I bought Primeweld welding gear since the last two years . Where do you think the components come from in these "American" welders and such ?... @@TheJefferson

@@user-kh2yl6nn3l Welders all have Chinesium components inside. All.

100% agreed. Thanks for the comment.

I agree, thanks for watching

Thanks for watching!

Thank you

Agreed, very disappointing. That being said the brake works perfect and will serve you well.

@@HardEarnedBacon The point isn't that the product is no good. The point is that you paid $400 dollars for an "American" made product instead of $200 for a Chinese product presumably because you want to support American business. And that is fine. But when both products are (possibly) made in the same factory in China, you have to realize that the only thing you are supporting is One American's Greed!

Well swagg can't guarantee raw materials aĺl are made in USA good % steel is imported should be stated fabricated in USA guarantee that your reviews are genuine and deleted and rust could have been from shipping who knows what happens when it leaves and arrives to you usps it's raw steel if you bought it completely done then I would expect it to be rust. Free you have to weld a grind on it so....

... scratch that. I just watched another on that was done 5 years ago... MADE IN CHINA. 😕

Agreed

Only if they are accredited, which it doesn't look like they care to be.

Bbb a scam itself

Wow so it goes back before covid shortages and they have always claimed 100% USA. Disappointing.

@@HardEarnedBacon Yep,,It was June 11,.2018.

Interesting. I didn't do any searching to see if other people have had this type of experience with them but maybe I should.

Depends on where you leave that review it seems

Can't stop me from making a video though!

True they can do whatever they want on their own site, even if it is very shady. Not sure what the full law says but advertising something as made in USA when it isn't can get you into legal trouble though.

We will probably never know for sure

Especially when the ratings have been "cleaned up".

Several other people said their reviews were deleted as well, so it looks like they censor and ignore anyone that doesn't leave a perfect review. They can't stop me from making a video on KZfaq though, lol

Nothing

Not really a big deal until I noticed my reviews were missing. They can't stop me from making a KZfaq video though.

Agreed, not cool. Some people are defending them which makes me laugh.

Nothing

@@HardEarnedBacon Sad, I have had the same responce (No responce) from some of the other equipment suppiers after posting a review like yours. Thank for the reply...................

I find it hilarious that you completely missed the point of this video.

I love my Swag equipment even more than you, thanks for the view!

I'll just delete your comment from my video since you don't fully agree with me. -That's what Swag would do. I didn't say they shouldn't have a chance to do business, but lying about where your stuff is made and hiding verified reviews that aren't completely in your favor is wrong.

You leave a comment like that and then call me the nutcase? One glance at the videos you have uploaded tells me everything I need to know about you lol 😂🤡 Please seek help.

Clearly you do lol

I did not leave them a poor review and I did contact them before making this video. If you had paid attention you would have known that. Your statement is inaccurate and misguided.

@Hard Earned Bacon let me ask you how you would have viewed your review of you were the owner of swag? Would you want to be called a cheat for substituting one bushing with a China sourced bushing? Would you think that was a positive review? And would you want that up on YOUR WEBSITE, yes Swag owns it, for potential customers to read when the guy that left it was so upset that he never bothered to say "hey guys," ? I doubt you would, so let me say it again, you're being petty. I guess the need to create content surpasses the need to seek real solutions so you succeeded but again did it solve a real problem?

@@timblossom8904 I'm not the owner of Swag so your question is irrelevant. However, if I was the owner, I wouldn't advertise my products as 100% USA made and then ship my customers parts made in China. I didn't call anyone a cheat, you are making stuff up to support your ridiculous argument. Yes it is their website, but if you delete reviews off of your website that you don't like, then your review system is worthless and people deserve to know. I attempted to say "hey guys" multiple times and was ignored. Again, you would have known that if you had paid attention to the video and not latched on to something with your own bias. If anyone is petty it is you for clicking on my video just to leave a tirade of silly complaints that are completely irrelevant. Since this video has given people a view of my experiences and shown that Swag is far from the perfect company that some people think they are I would say yes it has solved a problem. This video has 20x more likes than dislikes so you are in the minority. Your ridiculous comments will change nothing. Thanks for coming back to keep commenting, it helps with the KZfaq algorithm and helps this video get seen by more people.

I do. And many others as well if you read the comments and look at the likes. No crying anywhere except by the people that complain about me sharing my experience.

Facts and receipts is a conspiracy theory? Lol good luck with your cope.

@HardEarnedBacon "Facts and receipts" Lol OK. "I took a few screenshots and that's pRoOf they edited their website and deleted my review!" Ever heard of a spam filter, champ? I've talked to the owner a few times in the past. He's the real deal. Does he use a shaft collar that was made in China, potentially as a result of skyrocketing costs? Maybe. Did you get so emotional and sensitive that you put together a 10-minute video specifically trying to harm an American company? Definitely.

​@@donjohnson5424 A silly, left field comment followed by another silly, left field comment. You can use the wayback machine and see for yourself if you like for the homepage edits. My review is visible at Judge.me which is the service that Swag uses to post reviews, but not visible on Swags website which means it is being hidden. What does a spam filter have to do with anything? There was no spam and the review was left with the verified link provided in the email from Swag. Plus that doesn't explain being completely ignored by the customer service email sent directly to them. If you actually came into this with an open mind and read some other comments on this video you would see that others have stated that the Chinese part has been used as far back as 2018, long before skyrocketing costs. Sharing my personal experience after being misled and ignored by a business that can take my money but can't handle my review (that they asked for) makes me emotional and sensitive? You claim I am a conspiracy theorist yet you say I am specifically trying to harm an American company which is a completely false statement and in itself a conspiracy theory. Thanks for the view and comments, helping this video in the KZfaq algorithm and get seen by more people. Luckily you are the minority and most people see this video for what it is and aren't triggered by someone passing along a truthful story. The owner of Swag may be great guy and the real deal, but not all of his products are it seems.

Yep, you were asked to provide a review by SWAG in a email as a customer - or likely you wouldn’t have bothered. Then when you do bother (twice) your “censored” because the company don’t want any “negative press” on their website from perhaps their unsatisfied customers? 🤷‍♂️👎 I would object to being censored also, if my opinion was sought & I went to the trouble of providing it. The “dishonesty” of claiming “proudly 100% USA made”, then censoring comment to hide the fact that at least 1 part is stamped “China” would tend to make me question if perhaps most of Swag Offroads products aren’t all maybe outsourced to China perhaps? Heck for all we know there could be a town in China called USA, so that the Chinese can mark all manner of components “Made in USA”. I’m amazed that the Chinese haven’t copied this product by now & selling it into Swag Offroads USA market place in competition, because that is what they do, put the original designer inventor out of business by selling their cheap knock off copies of products into their competitors market place. They think absolutely nothing of stealing intellectual property, breaching copyright or patents even - because theirs nothing anyone in the west can do about it, you can’t hope to sue anyone in the Chinese Courts System run by the Chinese Communist Party in China as a westerner and hope to win, that’s just never going to happen. Doing such a thing in our western culture is considered to be the lowest form of scum sucking pond slime, but it’s the reverse in China. They take great pride in doing this because they consider that it shows their intellectual superiority over the westerners - when they can “put one over” on the round eyes. 🙄👎😡 The CCP encourage it. Look at the Chinese knock offs of Gibson hand made custom shop guitars - worth many thousands of dollars and a proud USA manufacturer with family owned business history going back over 100 years. Now they have to compete against cheap Chinese knock offs that even employees at Gibson would have trouble telling apart from the real McCoy item. There’s so many of them imported and sold in the USA now that they are Nick named “Chibsons” (ie Chinese copy Gibson’s). And when the Gibson company is driven into bankruptcy and all those manufacturing jobs are gone (replaced by Chinese Uigar prisoners under slave labour for 2 bowls of rice per week, the USA government will do nothing to protect its citizens or its manufacturing industry, its jobs it’s economy by placing sanctions on China & all Chinese made products. 🙄👎 Biden really is the dumbest and worst US President who ever stole an election. If your not going to change that then you have only yourselves to blame at the end of the day. Swag Off-road will get his own comeuppance one day when the Chinese have copied his product and are selling it into the USA via Amazon at half the price he is asking. It’s a b!tch when your Karma backs up over your Dogma.

@@ianmoone2359 - you may be correct about some Asian culture ethics. I was told by a man who would know, that some Asians consider it proper/acceptable to "get-one-over" on a customer, regardless if they are foreign or domestic - it is not an ethnic hatred as you imply, nor does it show "their intellectual superiority over the westerners - when they can 'put one over' on the round eyes". It is simply part of a culture. I suspect there is a Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese, or some other Asian language word for the practice. As far as Biden being a dumb, worst, or a bad POTUS, you are far too simplistic. He has a long history of lying and getting away with the practice. He, at this point has suceeded at getting elected as POTUS (a long term desire), while campaigning from his basement, in his pajamas. That's dumb? The fact is that Biden is the GREATEST socialist POTUS, EVER. He is greater than Woodrow Wilson, F.D. Roosevelt, and Obama. The socialism marching order, job one - two steps forward, one step back. Biden is a willing victum of elder abuse, being used by his wife and handlers as a means to an end.

I agree for the most part, and will still buy from them as well as stated. Although I have pretty much switched to all Rogue at this point. That being said, as mentioned in the video several times the Chinese part was not that big of a deal and was not the reason I made the video. Others have commented that the Chinese part has been included since 2018/2019 so Swag has always shipped them even before the supply chain issues.