Bag arrived in small parcel folded into mailbox. Expected a box, so I didn't actually get it until a day after delivery. This either ruined any rigidity the bag may have ever had, or more likely due to the canvas construction was never there.I expected the inside to be canvas, instead it is a scratchy vinyl material. This is especially grating and noticeable on the opening flap. You have this beautiful canvas bag, then you open it and that black glossy scratchy sounding material ruins the illusion. Overall the bag seems cheaply assembled. While the canvas is durable, as it should be, The plastic clips, inside material, and carry strap are all of poor quality or bad material. Though special note should go to the stitching, which seems to be or rather good quality.
The front pocket's snap is difficult to open with one hand, and combined with the poor quality of the 'leather' strap that holds it I feel I'm going to rip the snap right off. Either a slightly less tight snap, or a higher quality strap would solve this problem.
The metal Rectangular rings worry me. When loaded with only 3kg of books, hard drives, a laptop, and various other things, they seemed to begin to stretch, not noticeably but the strain was there. That is troublesome considering the size of the bag is something that encourages putting 3 or 4 kg of stuff into it. IN addition with a messenger style bag, more than 1 kg without paddding hurts a shoulder after a while. The lack of padding, or atleast a small moveable pad, is bad. The bag is large and if it didn't have all the above flaws would be an amazing item. But with them... It's average.
Unfortunately, I think I'm the only reviewer to bring up the inside material. I wish someone else had done so, would not have ordered if they had, would have spent more on another bag.
I'm not a fan of having to pay my own return costs, so I guess you could add this review to the seller review as well. I should not have to pay to return a defective product...
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This is my first messenger style bag and I really like it. I keep a couple of technical books for work, my lunch, gloves, phone, water bottle, etc. and there's still plenty of room left for many other things (like a laptop). I don't know how well it would work for school toting around 5 plus full sized text books, but it works perfectly for my commute to work and back.My only complaint would be that I find myself having to adjust the strap once a day or so because the strap adjuster slides around a bit to freely.
EDIT: (4/18/2012) Last week, my bags main seatbelt style snap broke off. I wouldn't say i snapped it off roughly, but i wasn't paying attention and i guess it got away from me. Thems the breaks i guess. I feel like this bag was a little young for me anyway. I'm gonna look for something a little more grown up this time.This bag is cute yet I used it for only one month and the threading came apart and the following day the zipper came off. It isn't a good bag for a college student. I carried only 3 books in it at a time and it couldn't hold up. I would just spend the extra money and get something worth buying.
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Very happy with the look and function of the bag. Unfortunately, the zipper on the big inside pocket came off about a week after I purchased it. It seems that's the seam on onside wasn't sewn all the way. Other than that very durable.Save 20% Off
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