Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Yeti cup knockoff at Wal-Mart thread Part deux

I trust you are not implying that your family is more important than I.




Dave

No Alaska is sorry man

Lust for life, sharing this earth's wonders with 10 grand kids, crawling in bed beside Momma each night,

Right now I am watching three of the little tykes stare in amazement at their first view of the Pacific from the Oregon Coast.

That's gotta be a hoot!

Yeti keeps ice for a long time

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X100 We are sharing the next nine days with two of our daughters, their hubbies, and seven kids age four through fifteen. We are all native born near Boise.

I would post a couple pics, but the tablet is way smarter than I.

I have not figured how to do the links or cut and paste on the android.

We are taking several of the kids fishing out of Newport on a 24 ft Boston Whaler on Wednesday. Not sure yet if the target is tuna or salmon. But we will probably also bring back a limit of rock fish.

These endless discussions about a cup or coolie study disturb me.
The thing with yeti or Walmart yeti is.......
ZIP.
None.
Zero.
Nadia.
Neither........
has EVER made my beer colder. EVER.
Now, if you are the type to nurse an adult beverage for hours and want to water it down in the process with ice, more power to ya. I'm more of a volume guy.
On the other side I like coffee hot. Real hot. These units keep it fairly hot for a while, but not long enough to matter.
If you like lukewarm coffee, you are probably thinking "nirvana".

Lots of them at the local chinese embassy!

Chinese embassy....

Pretty sure I picked up that name here!

Fitting!

The guy doing the test said the Yeti made it 45 hours and 25 minutes and the Wally World made it 50 hours and 7 minutes, for a, per him, 35 minute difference. He's not much for math, I guess. Unless he misstated the time, that's a 4 hour and 42 minute difference: advantage Wally World.

I had a soft drink a couple nights ago after painting and had a good bit of ice in the Ozark Trails cup when I went to bed. 8-9 hours later there was still a good bit of ice in the cup. I've never seen that with any other insulated cup before that cost 8 bucks.

Took my RTIC (YETI clone) cup with me for a day of fishing down at the mouth of Hells Canyon yesterday.....
I filled it up with ice and water when I left in the AM and it did a fine job keeping the water cold....better than any travel cup I've ever owned....but I gotta tell ya....there's some pretty tall tales floating around on this thread....

I suspect some of these "scientific" tests are being conducted in air conditioned offices......

It wouldn't surprise me if YETI, Ozarc Trails, and RTIC cups were all made in the same factory either...

To the whole group here, I've been wondering what the fascination is with these cups. I looked at them at the local Wal-mart and saw that the plastic top seals by pressing into the top of the cup but the slot for drinking is always open.

How is this desirable?

I've used the Contigo insulated cups for years that I bought at Costco. The tops screw on and have an auto-seal opening for drinking. Depress a big button on one side of the lid and take a swallow or two, release the button and the opening seals up. You can lay the cup on its side or turn it upside down and it won't leak. No need to worry about putting it back in a cup holder to keep it upright so the drink doesn't spill.

In the summer I keep a couple empty cups in the fridge so they are pre-chilled to the beverage temperature to begin with which increases their cold-holding power to some unknown degree.

They come two 14 ounce cups for $20.00 at Costco but you can buy them individually at Target or at www.gocontigo.com in sizes up to 24 ounce. I just bought one of the 24's for $26.00 and it's great. No spilling ever. Same ice or hot holding capabilities as Ozark Trail or Yeti and did I mention - No possibility of spilling in any position unless the spring loaded button fails.

I can see the economic advantage of the Wal-mart cups but when all you have to do is let go of the cup to prevent spilling your drink all over yourself or the interior of the vehicle I guess I'd rather spend the money.

Value, I guess, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder (or in this case the be-drinker?)

My beers are always open and I hardly ever spill them in the truck.




Dave

I was given a Yeti and paid $7 for my Walley one.

In fairness though, you have a lot of practice.

Nothing fair about it at all...

http://magazine.promomarketing.com/article/yeti-coolers-is-suing-wal-mart-over-patent-infringement/




Manufactured in standard stainless finish -

https://zhuosheng.en.alibaba.com/pr...er_with_customized_paper_label_wrap.html

And in colors -

https://zhuosheng.en.alibaba.com/pr...offee_mug_tumbler_keep_hot_and_cold.html [/quote]

Doesn't look to me like any of the others could still be called Yeti clones either since it's pretty clear now that they all simply bought the identical beverage containers manufactured and sold by the very same Chinese company but each with their own brand logo embossed.

Little ones are drawn to coffee breath on old people and women dig some whiskey fueled lovin'.


The gaskets on these cups need a re design.