Wakelife.co is has 20% off for blackfriday. Anyone use their steel shot ballast bags? Looks like a pretty good price with the discount and free shipping but wondering about quality compared to other brands.
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Wakelife.co is has 20% off for blackfriday. Anyone use their steel shot ballast bags? Looks like a pretty good price with the discount and free shipping but wondering about quality compared to other brands.
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might ask leadwakes if they will match the price. they aren't too far off when they do their buy 10 pay for 9 promotion.
we have 800lbs of leadwakes and so far quality of the bags is great. just be prepped that shipping is slow as $hit. it'll show picked up by usps but it'll still be 2 weeks before you see it. I don't think 50lb bags of lead are what the usps thought they would be shipping :)
That is a good deal. If you buy the 500# package, the checkout price was $432.00 (includes shipping).
Never bought anything from that company, never really noticed them.
leadwake was $567.00 for 500#
pop-products was $468.00 for 520#
Good luck ever seeing the order.
I placed an order with these guys back when I bought my boat. After 2 months of receiving no product I had to contact them multiple times to cancel the order and get a refund.
I’m a patient guy, I don’t like to give negativity. But I’d pay the extra few bucks to go through a more reputable place. I will be.
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Yes good feedback! Wakelife does have some reviews on their site but none very recent.
Prop products was not on my radar but I see them now. Pretty close in price to wakelife. Anyone have experience with the quality on prop products - Comparable to leadwwake?
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Got a link to prop products? I can’t find find them.
Here’s the link to prop products:
https://pop-products.com/
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Although pop products are the cheapest wake bags on the market, the bags are vinyl and don’t like too much handling/moving.
The bags have a reputation of coming apart.
The codura 1000D material and seat belt webbing handles are far superior and worth the added cost from the other makers.
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I ordered from Wakelife Oct 26th, got a tracking number Nov 10th but it shows that it has not been picked up. I emailed them this morning about the order and the deal they are running now. They have already applied the discount to my card and claim to get to the bottom off the shipping issue today.
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Famous last words . . . ha ha. That cracks me up. Good luck.
I would also recommend the comment by @larry_arizona - spend the add'l $ for the lead wake bags. I've ordered twice from them over the years and the bags hold up great. There are multiple companies selling these types of bags, but are usually the cheapest straight from the source:
https://www.leadwake.com/collections/frontpage
From the website:
LEAD WAKE™ bags are 100% hand constructed using 1000d Cordura material, two layers of heavy grade vinyl and a 2″ nylon strap. There’s a 1/8″ load dispersing/impact absorbing foam layer between the shell so there’s no hard edges which also provides a smooth surface to slide the bags around in your boat. My Lead Wake bags contain ONLY 100% recycled steel material and are double machine stitched for strength and lasting durability.
just keep in mind you will have similar shipping issues with leadwake. we ordered 500lbs back in late summer. it showed ready for pickup for almost 3 weeks before they finally started moving with usps.
no proof but I suspect usps doesn't really want to pick the stuff up from them based on weight. they ship in a priority mail 1 price box and 50lbs for $15 in shipping is a good deal. I would guess he's only allowed to ship "x" number of boxes per day. I bitched a little after 3 weeks and mine moved the next day.
Glad my dealer gets pallets of wakeballast so I can just go pick it up.
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My Wakelife tracking number now shows my package is moving and should be delivered Monday.
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Good deal.
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wakeballast.com has 20% off with code Cyber20 this week.
My 1st Wakelife bag showed up today almost 2 months after placing the order. I guess I have all winter for the other 9 bags to show up. I've called USPS several times and they are no help and full of excuses.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...674a43ec60.jpg
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How’s the quality? Going to be throwing it around much?
1 of 10 bags, hmmm, if you get another you can match the savings of 20%.
The quality looks good but this is the first of any Ballast bag I have seen in person. It doesn't have the foam liner like some other brands but I don't feel any sharp edges either.
The boat stays on our lift all summer and it has enough capacity for the ballast so we won't be pulling it in and out of the boat for every use. Time will tell how much we move it around in the boat.
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The gift that keeps on giving, I have 8 out of 10 bags.
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Someone on social media was really complaining about this company last week. Never got their full order. Bad communication. Back/forth emails about a lost order. Etc. Said company did not have a phone number listed on their web site.
Owner jumped in in the thread. Talked about covid. Lots of lost orders after merchandise was mailed. I guess they post their phone number now.
Original poster was still pissed.
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Yeah this order has just been the beginning of USPS issues I've had this fall/ winter. A big reason I went with Wakelife was I had been hearing about supply issues with the other mfg's but didn't understand the source of the issue. I figured the price was right so why not try a lesser known vendor. I do recall not seeing a phone number when I went to contact them about the late shipment, my gut sank, then I sent an email and was met with a quick response and immediately gave me a discount I requested. They have followed up several times to check on the status of deliveries. I have all winter to get the bags, so it's not that big a deal.
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Wakelife has been great following thru with this order. I currently have 11 bags for a 10 bag order. I had 8 bags out of 10 delivered and Wakelife wanted to make me whole asap and sent out 2 more bags. I finally got the remaining 2 bags from the original order and 1 bonus bag. The remaining bonus bag is somewhere in a USPS warehouse.
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Sounds like the communication is better.
Not too sure about that delivery time, but who am I to say. I have a Black Friday order from another company on a different product that was still on back order last month. That reminds me, I need to email them . . . .
it was a good 1.5 months-ish for us to get product from leadwake. I get a sense usps is the holdup. they ever figure out how to stop shipping 50lbs in their $13 boxes it will kill the lead wake business. paying actual shipping costs for the product would be sky high.
When I order more Ballast there is no doubt I will request it goes freight. Working remotely for much of the last year I've been having tons of stuff shipped freight to my house. As long as you are there when they show up and can get it off the truck I've had no issues and get great rates on heavy items. With Ballast bags you could realistically unload by hand. USPS didn't even deliver the bags to my house, I had to go to the post office to get them... one at a time because they didn't show up on the same day. Would have been easier to go to a freight depot and get it all at once.
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Alright. Going to give this a shot one more time. I’ll keep updated and see how this works out for me. Everyone keep their fingers crossed lol.
Final15 is a code that is good for 15% off btw.
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Email them and see if you can have it shipped freight, they do ship freight if you can accommodate it.
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You know I ended up ordering from leadwake instead of wakelife after starting this thread at the end of November when they were running a sale. Here we are in February and I have only received 9 of the 10 ordered. I’ve tried emailing and contacting them through their website but can’t get a response and can’t find a phone number. Likely it’s a usps issue but I need their help to resolve. Anyone happen to have a contact or know if they are on this forum?
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if you saved one of the original boxes you should be able to get usps to check the tracking number and they can pull up the remaining 9. when I called on mine the agent was able to see all 10 boxes in their network. I THINK that leadwake also sent us the information in email but it's been a minute since.
Funny enough leadwake reached out this evening and they are sending me another bag - all is good
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