30th January 2014 Thanks for all your knowledge and extra leather care added(at sellers cost), I'm fully confident the product will achieve the desired results. Great to deal with, quick arrival, especially for xmas, will continue to purchase my necessary products from him with full confidence.
Paul
Tauranga
30th January 2014 Thanks for all your knowledge and extra leather care added(at sellers cost), I'm fully confident the product will achieve the desired results. Great to deal with, quick arrival, especially for xmas, will continue to purchase my necessary products from him with full confidence.
Paul
Tauranga
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1st November 2013 My experience with the taxidermy shop Marton left me gutted. Craig is lacking in professionalism and has very dubious integrity. I dropped off a pheasant to be mounted in June. The bird had a great tail but had lost a few feathers to a blackberry bush in the retrieve. Craig said he was able to stitch the tail onto another bird if I was to bring him a better specimen. A couple of days later I dropped of an outstanding pheasant with no white neck ring. I paid $260 as a deposit, the total for the job being $500.
A week after the date when I was told it would be ready I rung to see how it was coming along and was told it was still drying and would be another four weeks. The next call I had got me worried as Craig had had two other pheasants dropped off and had mixed them up and was trying to determine which bird belonged to who. He eventually claimed he had got it sorted.
I rang him again in mid October to see if the bird was finished. Craig had another story about having been busy mounting deer and then couldn't find my records although I provided him the exact dates and times when I had dropped the tail and bird off. He assured me he worked on the jobs in the order they came in. He went away and rang me back later in the day to say he had it sorted and the bird would be ready the following weekend.
The following Sunday I arrived to collect my trophy at last. Craig was away but a lady showed me the a pheasant he had which still wasn't ready. It had a large white ring and was not the bird I had shot. There was a second, complete, pheasant in the workshop but the lady told me that was an old one that had been mounted for years. Later that afternoon Craig rang and I told him the mounted bird was not the one I had shot. He tried to claim that the bird had been washed and fluffed four times and that had made the feathers stick out more. I pointed out that my trophy didn't have a neck ring and no amount of washing was going to make a dead bird grow new feathers. He was also very keen to correct what the lady had told me about the other pheasant and said it was one of the two that had been dropped off a month after mine. We arranged a time the following day to discuss the pheasant he had mounted for me.
The following day when I arrived Craig had prepared a cheque and returned my deposit to me. He also cut my tail off the bird he had mounted and returned that. I asked to see the second bird of the two which had been bought in a month after mine but it had already been completed and gone. I would recommend very strongly against trusting Craig with your treasured trophy and if you do be prepared for disappointment.
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Thanks for all your knowledge and extra leather care added(at sellers cost), I'm fully confident the product will achieve the desired results. Great to deal with, quick arrival, especially for xmas, will continue to purchase my necessary products from him with full confidence.
Paul
Tauranga