Any one know what is going on with the Batson web site?
Thanks much

working fine for me

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Super Tight Lines......Don

Looks like they have changed it completly. Not sure I like it as well as the previous one. Navigating through the new one is not at all instinctive, looks like it is done by a Graphic Designer without user influence.

Also, all the links are not working, I'm getting "error message 404" page not available.

As I use the site very frequently, I hope they get this staightened out quickly!

I emailed them Told them I did't like it
No Parts ???

I only hope they still are sending catologs

Bill - willierods.com

I don't like it either. Good thing I still have the old catalog.

Greg
Aptos, CA

I wonder if this is a work in progress? It seems to somewhat load for me, but with errors.



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An e-mail reply from Karry Batson, when I asked about the site:

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Yes we are working hard to make this new site amazing in every way but had to start with this look to get things rolling, stay tuned.
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Karry

I like it. It's clean, modern and intuitive. Very professional. You can download the catalogs by way of PDF and keep them stored locally.

I disagree Matt, I find it not at all intuitive, and I've been involved in web sites for many years. Also catalogs were available for download on the former site as well.

I believe Batson is customer oriented, so look forward to them improving it's usability.

I can't find the Rainshadow fly rod blanks. Are they not making fly rod blanks?

You have to look in the "catalog" now.

They still making paper catologs ??

Bill - willierods.com

Maybe they just had a Revelation and decided to make a change!

We must all be looking at different versions of the website??? The one I see has only five sub menu's across the top with drop down links that take you right where you want to go.

It's obviously not complete, and they probably shouldn't have made it live until it was complete to avoid all confusion, but it has the framework for a very clean website.

I never seen anything wrong with the old site

They COULD have asked if builders wanted something added or changed

My broker has been working on a new Streamer to watch stocks move --- FOR THREE YEARS --- PLUS
it still needs a LOT of fixing

Did you

Bill - willierods.com



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I don't like it for now because you have to review their parts supply like you would the catalog. I liked the pull down menu to quickly get to the section you wanted not paging the on-line version. I'm sure it will improve, but it should have been more functional before it went live. I'd also like to see all three catalogs combined into one searchable database not three separate.

Chester

May your line be tight and your beverages be cold!

As Karry told us in the e-mail.
The current web site that you see right now, is basically a shell of the web site that they are heading toward:

He indicated that they have much left to do to make the web site into the polished site that they are striving to obtain.

Be safe

Batson is a very customer oriented firm, they will get it right! Hopefully they are asking customers how they use the site and what they like and dislike. New software rollouts often have bugs, lets be patient.

I agree with Phil. Having to download a large PDF file just to look for a specific component is not acceptable. They need to fix it.

Lots of notes on the site explaining that the PDF downloads are temporary and the available components and blank descriptions will be up on the site soon.

I would think they could have made this a little less painless to customers by completing most of the work before the new roll out, however I suspect that the product development was ahead of the IT work and they were sort of forced to do this interim step to keep up with the product changes.

I'm sure they will get there.

Terry