Outfitters with no website or facebook

[btheis13]

What do you think about an outfitter that doesn't have a website or facebook page? No online reviews either.

Would you consider booking or run?

 

[Flipper Dude]

What do you think about an outfitter that doesn't have a website or facebook page? No online reviews either.

Would you consider booking or run?

I don’t know if run is the right word. I would question why I was looking at an unknown outfitter when there are some many good ones with a history available wherever you wish to go and for whatever you wish to hunt.

I’d let someone else take that risk.

 

[K-man]

Only if I met them in person (at a show or similar) would I book with them. I'm old school from before there were websites and facebook, so not as important to me.

 

[375Fox]

It depends who referred me to them and if I can cross check them with other PHs I’ve hunted with. I’m currently booked with one in Tanzania.

 

[Firebird]

With today’s capabilities. I would quickly lose interest no matter who recommended them. A well constructed, maintained website would be a MUST

 

[375Fox]

With today’s capabilities. I would quickly lose interest no matter who recommended them. A well constructed, maintained website would be a MUST

The lower the volume and the higher the cost the more common it seems to become as you move north in Africa. I’d agree with you in South Africa or Namibia though.

 

[sureshot375]

One of the best outfitters I know in RSA has no website and a very limited Facebook.

30 years in business and stays booked up on word of mouth and past client referrals.

In contrast some of the crappiest outfitters have great websites.

 

[Frederik]

That is why this forum is so valuable you could only ask about that outfitter/ph here and find or not find many answers.

 

[btheis13]

One of the best outfitters I know in RSA has no website and a very limited Facebook.

30 years in business and stays booked up on word of mouth and past client referrals.

In contrast some of the crappiest outfitters have great websites.

This right here I believe to be the 100% true.

A high quality outfit stays booked on word of mouth and repeat business. Why should someone need to post kill photos on their website or facebook?

The reason I asked this question:
Back in September I began searching for an outfitter. After posting on AH for recommendations and searching the www high and low, I called a dozen different outfits in the U.S. and Canada. Some I left a message and never got a response back, some I was given a sales pitch and others said things that just didn't work for what I was looking for. I ended up finding an outfitter that didn't have a fb page or website. The initial phone call(s) where exactly what I wanted in a hunt. A couple references were given and those calls were 100% positive. I thought to myself, "this is either going to be really really great or really really really bad!" I booked it...... Tomorrow is the last day of the best hunting experience of my life. I could not have asked for anything more.