Customer Reviews

GSI Outdoors Lexan Gear Box (X-Large)

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The GSI outdoor gear box is a great product. Well made, heavy lexan box, water tight. Very sturdy and it has belt loops on each side to secure the box down.

This is an excellant storage container for valuables on my boat - wallet, cell phone, keys, etc. Fits in the glove box nicely.

I have the GSI Lexan S(mall) Gear Box. Bought it a couple of years ago. It keeps things dry - water doesn't get in (or out - sometimes doubles as my lunch box). No chips or damage. Lid hinge rod slides out a little but not more than a few millimeters. Rubber seal needs to be pried out (e.g., with a butter knife) if you really want to clean it well but it goes back in easily.

Walmart sells what appears to be an identical box 4" deep waterproof box for $8.00 I wanted another box like it 2" deep. I ordered a GSI 6.625'' x 5'' x 2'' X-Small Transparent Waterproof Utility Box from Amazon for $21.73. It arrived in an undamaged well packaged box. The latches were very loose yet to my amazement I could not open the box and eventually used a butter knife to open it breaking the seal in the process. I was left with a box that never latched properly with a broken seal and loose hinges. I tried to glue the seal and destroyed the box. The Walmart box still works perfectly, tight hinges, latches and the seal was never sticky. I highly recommend the Walmart box the GSI box is very similar but upon close inspection appears to be a cheaper model. Someone could buy better boxes for 1/3 the money at Walmart and sell them for 3 times as much on Amazon. Yeah I could have haggled with the seller shipping a overpriced item back and forth arguing about whose fault it is. I take full blame I was stupid enough to buy it online and try to fix it.

Amazon to my suprize refunded the shipping cost reducing my losses 33% a gesture that helps to restore confidence in online buying and brings customers back.