TOJ is basically Drew Keith starting by making stuff like varsities etc at first to only a few ppl but then word spreads and orders/operations get bigger. After a few years of success, dude decides to go into the restaurant business, which was always a thing he wanted. He actually planned to stop TOJ and took a ******** of 'last call' orders. A lot of ppl order. Note that the stuff is not made in advance so it's basically you pay and then they make it. At the time of the last call orders were a few months of wait time. After the last call, he became more distant (presumably busy with restaurant). However, not many jackets were being made/shipped out. Ppl were getting pissed and someone made a google spreadsheet to track orders made and turns out there's thousands of dollars paid to him but with no jackets received. Drew goes back a few times making posts to calm the masses but in the end stopped replying. There's still many ppl out there with money gone since it was way past paypal chargeback period. Restaurant apparently cut ties with Drew although I'm skeptical of that since theyonly did something after ppl started posting 1 star reviews on their page and it's only their word which i don't trust.
Charly and Dan were basically helping Drew when TOJ was a thing. Dan the operations guy in Korea and Charly more for measurements in the US. Apparently they didn't get paid throughout the whole ordeal. They started Falcon which is pretty much the same factory making the same stuff TOJ offered. I believe they introduced some newer versions of jackets though.
I ordered from TOJ in the past (way before the last call) and the stuff is good for the price, and considering it was custom measurements that you can tweak. Not sure if i'd order from falcon though. Whole thing is fishy imo. They haven't been paid in like 2 years but they didn't jump ship until the end. Dan supposedly works with Drew at the restaurant (or used to at least) and helped with the TOJ shipping and factory communicaitons but couldn't give ppl the update that nothing was really being made? When they made Falcon the first orders turnaround was like a month and a half give or take with the same factories and ppl so I find it hard to believe he had no idea of what was happening.
omgitswes
looks good
