Victorinox...luggage?

Thunderpants · **on:** November 10, 2015, 07:26:17 PM

Can't help noticing Victorinox makes some very decent looking luggage - at ridiculous prices.
Random examples:
Small sports bag - 169 euros
laptop bag- 229 Euros
Carry-on flight case - 269 Euros

etc.

Since you can get the equivalent from Samsonite, Eastpak etc for ca. a quarter of the price, does anyone actually buy this stuff? And why, when their pocket knives are so reasonably priced, are they charging an arm and a leg for luggage?

anon · **Reply #1 on:** November 10, 2015, 10:12:20 PM

Is it rebranded stuff like Wenger used to do?

ColoSwiss · **Reply #2 on:** November 10, 2015, 10:21:54 PM

Victorinox luggage sells because it holds up. The cheap stuff doesn't. As usual you get what you pay for. My sister-in-law is a major 'road-warrior' and has regularly used Victorinox. I had a Samsonite that broke a lock three trips in a row. Switched to Travel Pro, which I had good luck with for many years. Broke a handle on it earlier this year; the case was so old spare parts were no longer available. Looked at Victorinox, Travel Pro and Eagle Creek. Got a good deal on an Eagle Creek and went with that.

kkokkolis · **Reply #3 on:** November 10, 2015, 10:51:57 PM

I don't use the Victorinox luggage (I use the family luggage which consists of several cheap replaceable stuff) but I regularly use a briefcase (Trevi, around 300-350€ during 2008) for work, a drop shaped monosling (over a decade, my EDC bag), a backpack for traveling, an electronics container and have in reserve a newer monosling, another backpack amd a retceted mini backpack/funnypack/monosling. They are the best thing in the world, I tell you.

http://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,51758.0.html

WoodsDuck · **Reply #4 on:** November 11, 2015, 04:09:49 AM

I think they make some nice looking bags.

Thunderpants · **Reply #5 on:** November 11, 2015, 09:28:55 AM

yeah, they look great... and you don't see the Victorinox logo very often at the airport carousel, so it would make life easier for air travel. I just can't see myself spending several hundred bucks on a rucksack!
Maybe I'm just a cheapskate.
After all, I reckon the Victorinox Bantam is their best pocket knife! Cheap and functional!

cbl51 · **Reply #6 on:** November 12, 2015, 03:18:20 AM

Victorinox luggage may be high priced, but if my better half is any judge, it's great stuff. My better half, Karen, Bought a new Victorinox suitcase years and years ago. It has about 100,000 thousand miles of air and airport terminal travel on it. Karen traveled a lot on her job, and that rolling suitcase has been to more countries than a Secretary of state.

About three years atom a wheel broke. Karen got a big box and shipped it to the Victorinox repair place in Connecticut. About a month later, it comes back, cleaned up, and with all new wheel assemblies on it. Good for another 100,000 miles now!

Victorinox stands behind their products!!!!