Cobra Gunskin Website Down?

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Okay, okay, some of you may be offended with their adds. PLEASE don't count me in that group--what fantastic pictures they are. The last couple adds mentioned posters available, but I either cannot type their website URL in correctly or the site is down. Anyone know?
 
I don't think their web site has ever gone up ... I've been trying to log onto it for months and haven't ever had any luck.

I was hoping to see their holsters :(
(well ... and other stuff too :p )
 
My experience mirrors Zundefloge's - I've been trying to visit since I first saw the ads, and I have yet to see anyting more than 'coming soon'. Slinky ladies aside, I smell a scam . . . anyone try the 800#?? Maybe they really just sell girly posters:rolleyes:
 
Curious about the lack of interest in the Cobra web-site, which I recalled visiting some time ago, I called the 800# and got a guy on his cell phone, as he had forwarded his office ph, as he was leaving town for the weekend. He said that they had a web site, but weren't satisfied with it, and would have a new one up in 2 to 3 weeks, and offered to send me a catalog. I recall that the previous website made it clear that the business was holstes, not "girly" posters, so if that was your concern, you can relax. As I recall, the holsters are some sort of high-tech plastic , similar to Kydex. :)
 
I saw some Cobra Gunskin holsters for sale at the last gun show I went to. I seem to remember some of them being leather though. Not entirely sure. They seemed solid enough but I didn't spend a whole lot of time looking at them.

brad cook
 
Newest AMERICAN HANDGUNNER and GUNS: COMBAT 2004 ANNUAL both have ads for them.

I'm curious about their products, but I'm not sending any money to a company that doesn't have a legit land-line phone number--much less a website or physical address.

THAT'S the part that has me suspicious of them...:uhoh:
 
Hi guys,

I own a small business and although I have a "landline" when I leave the office I forward the phone to my cell. So getting them on the cell is not necessarily an indiction that they are shady.

It could also be that they are out of business and have contracts to advertise with these pubs that haven't expired yet.

I have also been trying to get to their website.

DM
 
Like everyone else, my eyes were caught by their ads. I'm always keen to check out new holsters because I just don't know what I'll find, and the airbrush hotties were only a plus.

Repeated attempts to get on their website failed to connect. After hearing not one word about the company here on THR, I decided they were a bunko operation and took my money elsewhere.

I dig their ad campaign and give them points for originality, but that's it. Others produce a product......they produce eye candy.
 
I think the ads are a complete waste of money. Sure it's a attractive woman, usually nearly naked and soaking wet. But where is the product they are trying to sell? Can't see it in the ad. The purpose of ads is not only to gain attention, but create a mental association between a product or service and the company running the ad. As far as I can tell from the ad, Cobra Gunskin is a modeling agency.
 
Still "Coming Soon" message saying that the domain name has been registered Big whoop. It seems pretty clear that Cobra Gunskins doesn't have much of a clue about marketing in general, advertising in particular.

I always thought EAA's site was tacky, but at least they showed the products. Guns and sex? Grow up.
 
I think the ads are a complete waste of money.
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Apparently not because we're sitting around talking about it.


The ads are great ... they generate interest and create an image. Their problem is with followthrough.


If they would just put up a "coming soon" page better then their domain hosts "coming soon" page then they might be able to redeem themselves (of course it doesn't take that long to build a simple web page so it makes me wonder if they went out of business before they got started).



On a weird side note, I hit the search engines, looking to see if maybe their site wasn't up but maybe someone else is selling their gear and I came across some "gun fiction" that mentions them here http://www.palmdigitalmedia.com/product/book/excerpt/1164

Feeling conspicuous, despite the fact no one was in sight, he slipped out of the Cobra Gunskin Comvest. Before tossing the shoulder holster on the front seat, he ripped the Metalifed High Power from the leather, opened the front lower button of his shirt and stuffed the gun inside across his abdomen. It wasn't comfortable there, the black rubber Pachmayr grips sticking to his sweating skin, but it was better than being unarmed or appearing otherwise.
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but this was the real interesting part:

Copyright © 1982 by Jerry Ahern, Sharon Ahern
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