>>557800After seeing dozens upon dozens of busted or threadbare jansport straps, yes, I do. The straps seem to be attached to the backpack by the single seam that closes the top of the backpack up. The reason why jansport can have a warranty like they do is because those backpacks are made extremely cheaply so it's easy for them to just send someone a new one because it costs them next to nothing anyways.
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if the % markup on the jansport backpacks is higher than the Gorucks if you get a Goruck on sale. Jansports are made in China, probably in some dimly lit sweatshop with no AC. I bet it costs them a few bucks each to make a single backpack and they turn around and sell them for $40+ for the no-frills models. Gorucks are meticulously made in the US out of a fabric that is extremely hard to work with, with bartacks everywhere, built in such a way that you would seriously have to be trying your damnedest to actually tear it up. The two might both have lifetime warranties, but like I said, that warranty is no good to you until you make it out of the woods with the annoyance of having one or zero straps.
Not to mention the retarded placement and angle of the JS straps. The straps are at such retarded angles that I often see people wearing them and the entire load of the backpack is isolated on the inside edge of the straps on their shoulders, because the straps aren't laying flat and the weight isn't being distributed. Which probably also contributes to their short lifespan. Jansport is utter shit.
