Seriously disappointed in what Outside has become
340118
I haven't read Outside in years, because I got frustrated with how the format of the magazine had changed.  I was travelling a couple weeks ago and picked up a recent issue to read on the plane.  I have to say, all the reasons I stopped reading it years ago are still there, and probably worse.

I don't understand who they think their readership is.  All the "gear features" are for things most folks can't afford or wouldn't spend that much on ($5,000 bicycles, $15,000 motorbikes, etc.).  I don't get it.  There were no articles about great hikes, places to camp or backpack, or getting outside to enjoy the outdoors.  There were articles on marathon runners who overcame an injury, a big pity party about a skier who died, a cyclist, and short (snippet) features on places to go that most in the US will likely never get to.  Those features are great as a small component of a larger set of stories, but not great as the bread and butter of the content inside an issue.

I literally flipped through the magazine once and threw it in the trash.  I don't understand what they are trying to be, but they are not a magazine for outdoor enthusiasts.
774950
I expected the mapping to be updated from the 2010 version that I have. There are still huge neighborhoods (that are not that new- built 6-7 years ago or more) that are missing from the map. Roads that have been closed for years still show as open. Exit ramps are incorrect. Disappointed to say the least. And when you ask Delorme about updating their maps they say you're welcome to at your own expense map out a missing street / neighborhood etc and send them the data : the coordinates, the photos, the map adjustments so they can update it. Come on people. You are a mapping company. This is what you do. This is not what I do. I need you to do what I'm paying for. So get a team together to make it a useful navigation tool. Use Google maps and compile corrections to it etc.
3900023
They changed the recipe, color, and size. A product that was once amazing and harkened back to my childhood is now an abomination. please offer the old BETTER recipe.

DO not buy until seller changes recipe back
1461662
I received my item today and boy was I surprised!  It looks like it has been through a storm.  I would be embarrased to send this to anyone.  It is soooo bad!  It looks like it was found in a dumpster and then it got rained on! :((  I better get a FULL REFUND!!!! :(
993095
After purchasing Everyday Bicycling I eagerly placed it into my bookshelf with my many other bicycling related books. When I woke up the following morning, the reality I exist within, was disappointingly much as it had been before. I was expecting this book to create an environment and social structure for supporting mass everyday bicycling in my community, much as can be found in cities in the Netherlands, but alas it has been weeks now and this has not come to pass.

I am disappointed to say having Everyday Bicycling on my bookshelf has accomplished very little, and so regrettably I must rate this book 1 star for falling so short of the advertised expectations. For a higher review rating, I would encourage the author and publisher, to in future editions of Everyday Bicycling, pre-bundle a political revolution and template municipal bicycling action plan for immediate adoption, that can get instant results. Anything less than 30% mode share and happy bicyclists streaming constantly by one's residence within a week is simply unsatisfactory.
4614371
Gosh they don't make things like they used to. Pieces are so hard to put in and take back out. Plastic is thin and product is made much worse.
3083770
I've ordered these in the past and have found them satisfactory. However they have changed the material and it is now thicker and less pliable; AND, they are NOT water proof any more. This basically ruined my vacation as I expected them to be the same as they always have and planned on using them with my swimsuits. Extremely disappointed.
2991714
It's just plastic, with metals that cause visual breakdown, beginning in 3-5 years. My wife insisted on buying these, thinking they were compostable or biodegradable. Not so. Just petrochemicals, with a deceptive new branding.
4072860
If there is a perversion not covered in this book it would astound me.  David has wasted his talent for capturing the beauty of an area as well as the character of people by turning out a trash novel.  I hope he will return to his old genre as I am a huge fan, have read all of his books abut found this one to be a HUGE disappointment.
206774
I was trying to re-capture the years-ago aroma of Nantucket Briar ... I am so disappointed because this current version has an odd under-smell that makes this new one nothing like the old NB products. I can't describe the unhappy smell; it's chemical, unnatural, and unwelcome in my life. At least I got to recycle the bottle.
2726005
I posted this as a comment to another review, but I wanted to make it a review itself, so that my rating would be counted: I just bought three pair from Amazon - because, as Abby put it, they were perfect - only to discover that these goggles had devolved in this generation. They are indeed smaller, the bridge between the goggles has shrunk. But even worse, the material they are using is plain bad. The previous version had a supple, rubbery material in the surrounds around the eyepieces that was soft against your face, yet kept out the water. The new ones have this mean, stiff material which hurts your face if you make the goggles tight enough that they don't leak. But then they still leak anyway. Will not buy again, and will return the two that I didn't use. Really disappointing to see a company take a perfect product and destroy it.
1304831
Hugely disappointing.  We've gone from The Edge of Reason, where Bridget and Mark have decided to get married, to almost 20 years later where Bridget is a widow with two very young children.  There is very little about her marriage, which apparently was a happy one, but where she didn't learn anything.  She hasn't matured at all and is obsessed with sex, farts, vomit, and her boy toy.  UGH.  Better if Ms. Fielding had let it alone.
4912935
Not the quality that I've seen in the past.
1282668
I am appalled that there are now plastic parts in these kits. And what happened to the cardboard drum packaging. I haven't been this sad since plastic Tonka trucks came out.
874845
I checked out the recent reviews to see if anyone else had noticed the significant change to the design of the Kong frisbee.  Over the last few years we have bought a fair few for our 2 border collies (mostly because I keep throwing them into the canal or over a security fence and not because the dogs ruined them) but the most recent ones have been flimsy, poor in flight and most definitely made worse due to cost cutting.

I won't be buying any more because what was a really good quality dog toy has been made into a worthless bit of rubber. A real shame.
1740383
So here in southern TN we have this horrid red dirt called "chirt" it makes any digging a nightmare.  This would not have been an issue with this fence if it had come with metal or even sturdy poles.  But because the cheap plastic poles would break if I attempted to push them into the ground, there was a lot of digging involved.  When I was finished I was rewarded with an ugly appearance around my garden (the plan was to keep the feral cats from using it as a litter box) Then I discovered that I had to find a place to shelter the box as it cannot get wet.  Well my garden isn't next to the house so that doesn't make it all that easy.  Add to it the fact that this ugly thing only stops animals at a specific height who touch both the ground and the wire at the same time, and the stupid cats are just jumping over the ugly thing.

Needless to say it has been removed as it is both ugly and serves no purpose.  I'm sure that there are people who this would serve an excellent purpose for.  I am not one of those people
2381602
The actions of two of Scott's main characters have morphed to sociopathic and deranged. Events have become totally unreal and unbelievable. I think burn-out time has arrived.