In the past week, I have received numerous emails like this:<\/p>\n
Dear Sir,<\/p>\n
We are feeling proud to introduce our company named as (x). Our company is working since 1995. We are specialized in making following goods.<\/p>\n
1. Leather Wears
\n2. Motorbike Wears
\n3. Textile Wears
\n4. Gloves Collection
\n5. Leather Accessories
\n6. Leather<\/p><\/blockquote>\nFrom what I can tell, the message sender is trying either to get me to serve as a third-party retailer in the U.S. for his products, or just buy his products directly.<\/p>\n
I am sure that they figure that a guy like me who has a fair amount of leather gear that I wear for motorcycling and just around might be one of those “rich Americans” who would buy stuff from them. But I wasn’t born yesterday. Despite their claims, leather from Pakistan is of inferior quality. I have seen it over the years, and can tell from its thin and uneven surfaces, rough splits, blemishes, and other visible signs that the leather isn’t nearly the top-grain quality that one would find at dealers such as Northbound, 665leather, or Mr S. (For more details about choosing leather gear, read the Leather Gear Guide<\/i> on my website<\/a>.)<\/p>\n
They find me by surfing the web, landing on my “leather gear<\/a>” page, then finding my “write to me” page. I can see how they enter my website and then zero in on finding a way to send me one of their poorly-written proposals.<\/p>\n
I’m not sure if it will work, but I found a website called “Block A Country” that generates code to install on websites that will, I hope, divert visits from anyone in Pakistan. Seriously, I am NOT interested in any leather gear from Pakistan! I have quite enough, thank you. I am really not planning to buy any more leather gear at all from anyone. I have other things of much higher priority on which to spend my limited discretionary funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the past week, I have received numerous emails like this: Dear Sir, We are feeling proud to introduce our company named as (x). Our company is working since 1995. We are specialized in making following goods. 1. Leather Wears … Continue reading