Buyer BEWARE!!! (Cascade Taxidermy)

[TheHunt]

Still no pictures... 

[jackelope]

I understand good taxidermy takes a while and is worth the wait, however just be honest and tell me its going to be a couple months rather than a couple weeks. Needless to say I wont be going back there. I can take picture when I get home from work tonight and post. Its nothing horrible, I would grade it about B quality work. Just after all of the great mounts I see on this forum it wasn't fully what I was expecting. I was more upset about the continued lying than anything.

This is something I just don't understand - why is lowballing the time needed to do the work seem to be a "standard practice" in taxidermy?  I would think that a fairly priced, above-average taxi with an actual desire to give a customer the straight dope about how long it is going to take would have all the work they wanted.

That said, after reading this if I went to a taxi and they offered me a different deal for different lead times, I would go somewhere else unless I was willing to put up the money and get the faster lead time.  You know that your work just became "low priority" compared to the guy that comes in behind you and is willing to pay 100% up front.  Enough of those guys and you may never see your deer back...

Overpromise because it's easy and it impresses your customers upfront. Under-deliver because you overpromised just pisses people off. Good customer service==Under-promise and Over-deliver.
Something to be said for keeping customers in the loop. You tell someone a day or a week or a month ahead of time that your service X, whatever it is, is not going to be done when you originally thought it would will get you way ahead in the long run versus not calling them or calling them a week or a month after you told them it would be done to tell them it's not done.

[kpigott963]

Does this look like $1200 worth of work? 

I spoke to two people who were satisfied with CTs product and the WDFW stated they had not had any complaints.

[6x6in6]

Got a pic of the backwards warthog tusk job?

[quadrafire]

Uhmmm.....Not a very attractive rug for sure

[Skillet]

Does this look like $1200 worth of work? 

 

Maybe if you're talking about the cost to fix your front bumper.

[pianoman9701]

Wow, that does look terrible. This thread is turning around in a hurry. Thanks for posting. Let's see more.

[jackelope]

Wow...
That looks like I did it.
 

[Greenhorn]

Pilgrims...........nuff said.

Good one Plateau, I am still laughing about that one!

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[Jonathan_S]

YES!  I was hoping this turned out to not just be a trolling attempt.

That bear literally looks worse than the rug I did myself   

[Rainier10]

Okay, things did just take a turn I wasn't sure would come.  Thanks for the photo, more would be better but that one sure looks less than satisfactory.

[kpigott963]

I will give credit where credit is due.  The tusks were pointing forward and on wrong side, Cascade fixed it right away.

The big problem was that he spray painted the entire thing, no definition.  The warthog is still at Rogers waiting for a new cape.  Cascade did 2 impalas, a gemsbok, Kudu and a Wildebeest.  Outside of seeing stitches and a bolt in one ear they are OK, afterall they are short haired animals.

I wish I had pictures.  I don't have an agenda, just like the title, BUYER BEWARE.  Nathan was unreasonable and called me names for his poor work.  I have taken dozens of big game animals and do all my own caping (Minus Africa), he blames the cape. 

Can you imagine a $30,000 sheep being treated like my bear.  Fortunately I'm only $4,000 on an Alaska trip plus the $1200 for my rag.

[Maverick]

I wish I had pictures.  I don't have an agenda, just like the title, BUYER BEWARE.  Nathan was unreasonable and called me names for his poor work.  I have taken dozens of big game animals and do all my own caping (Minus Africa), he blames the cape. 

wouldnt how that bear was caped out be at least part of the issue? it looks to me like whoever caped it out did a bad job.. 

and really i think youre talking out your rear, you talk about all this  bad work a guy did but only post a pic of one mount. if i had bad taxi work done and had to take mounts to someone else to get fixed then id definetly have pics. it sounds like you just dont like the guy. like everyone keeps telling you but you cant seem to figure it is post pictures. post some actual proof of everything youre trying to say. otherwise youre just gonna end up looking like a complete idiot.

[MtnMuley]

The bear looks caped evenly to me   No excuse for a taxi to let that outta the shop.  Good taxi's will fix poorly skinned bears.   

[Broken Arrow]

Seeing that bear....OMG i would be livid also!