Club Obi Wan

Welcome Tony! Great to finally see ya here!

Travis C. Chaney

Welcome Mr. Nowak!
It has been really wonderful for me being a casual Indy fan and seeing the man behind the jackets come out and embrace a community of geeks. I doubt there is anywhere else such enormous time and effort is spent analyzing the tiniest details of a leather jacket, nor a place where types of leather is so hotly debated.

I didnt know what I wanted in a leather jacket until I saw your Raiders jackets start to be shown off and talked about by so many happy owners. It is my dearest wish to own one when I get up the funds. The only leather jacket I have ever owned is something I have had since I was 13 years old. As I grew into it, a love also grew in me for a good leather jacket for all occasions. That jacket of mine was retired last year after 10 years due to a tear in the leather.

Now I find myself in the market for a new jacket to wear for at least the next 10 years. I really want a jacket of supurb quality and stlye, one which also has the added cool factor of being a film icon and made by someone who is the best in the field.
That jacket will be a Raiders and I would like you to make it for me.

It will be my honor to wear something made by the most skilled and passionate man in the business.

Tony,

Welcome aboard!!! It's great to finally have you here. Now the Nowak jacket threads will only be a few pages long instead of dozens of pages of rants. I live in Hollywood, so I'm hoping to pay you a visit in the near future with my credit card in hand.

Kind regards,
Craig

Welcome Mr. Nowak, as you know, your reputation precedes you, you are quite the craftsman!

Tony!!!!!!You're finally here ) !!!!!!!!! Hope to see you in LA next week en route to SINGAPORE!!!!
ANDREW

WELCOME to to the Forum your work is well aprecated and i will be ordering a jacket very soon
thanks for everything
Franky jones

Dunross76 wrote:Tony!!!!!!You're finally here ) !!!!!!!!! Hope to see you in LA next week en route to SINGAPORE!!!!
ANDREW

You're headed to Singapore? What a coincidence... So am I!

MY GOD !!! DEAR FRIENDS !!! WORDS CAN NOT DESCRIBE HOW THANKFUL I AM FOR YOUR WARM WELCOME , I WILL RESPOND TO ALL YOUR QUESTIONS , IN THE MEANTIME THANK YOU KINDLY FOR YOUR PATIENCE , TAKE CARE INDY FANS !!!! BEST REGARDS ALWAYS , RESPECTFULLY TONY NOWAK .

Welcome Tony
It was great to talk to you at the Queen Mary and the Fort. You are a true gentleman. I hope to talk to you soon about a jacket.

Have you had time to look around the forum?

Tony:
So glad to have you join us here. You should know the number of posts used to be the highest in the hat threads until you started making Indy jackets. Now the number of posts in Jacket threads have quickly overtaken everything else. Congratulations on your excellent product and service.
best
Canada

Just ordered my first Tony Nowak Raiders Jacket! i can not wait for it to arrive! thanks Tony for your time and help!
-Jason

Hey Tony!! Welcome to the wonderful world of COW. Glad you made your first post of here, as many have said it is about time. I am trying to save my nickels and pennies, for one of your fine looking Jackets. The hardest decision will be which one to get. I have seen many of your jackets and they look like great quality and craftmanship went into every single one. Welcome to the Club.

IndianaChris

Welcome Tony!
Did you get the pic I sent you?

Kyle

Hey Tony. Welcome to COW. I have been admiring your work for some time now, and can't wait until I can afford one of your jackets. They are truly beautiful. Until then, I'll just dream and drool over photos of other people's Nowak jackets.

Dan

Hey Tony! Welcome
i love the look and quality you did for the crystal skull film and i personally think that jacket is the best out of the four films and someday i will buy a crystal skull jacket from you

Heyjude7 wrote:Just ordered my first Tony Nowak Raiders Jacket! i can not wait for it to arrive! thanks Tony for your time and help!
-Jason

Way to go! Start a new thread and tell us about it! What leather did you choose?

Chris_King wrote:Glad to see you made it over here Tony. Welcome aboard!
Thanks again for jacket #81. It's superb!

Chris

You have the new one now! What? No photos?

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knibs7 wrote:Welcome Tony!
Did you get the pic I sent you?

Kyle

HELLO KYLE . WHERE DID YOU SEND THE PICTURE AND WHEN ? PLEASE ADVISE . REGARDS , TONY NOWAK

indyfan1234 wrote:Hey Tony! Welcome
i love the look and quality you did for the crystal skull film and i personally think that jacket is the best out of the four films and someday i will buy a crystal skull jacket from you

I AGREE . YOU ARE CORRECT . I DO RESPECT EVERYBODY'S WORK THAT IS OUT THERE . IT IS ALL PART OF A GRAND HISTORY . RESPECTFULLY TONY NOWAK .

RCSignals wrote:

Chris_King wrote:Glad to see you made it over here Tony. Welcome aboard!
Thanks again for jacket #81. It's superb!

Chris

You have the new one now! What? No photos?

I agree !!!
;0

Hurray!
Welcome to the machine, Tony
Best Regards,
Joe

Hi Tony,

Now you've gone and done it! The myth is busted. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And here you are!

All kidding aside, welcome, my friend! Sorry I missed your entrance!

DCMJ!

-Be honest and be yourself...always!!!

Tony, thanks for the info on the new leathers........man you make it hard to decide on which should be the next one....Still loving #016 in the CS cowhide and#016 in the original shrunken lamb Raiders......you have truly set the new GOLD STANDARD in all your Indy Jackets and I know I speak for a lot of people when I say we truly appreciate your passion and your dedication to quality.......all the best , Doc

Welcome Tony!! I'll be a paying customer very soon

Just saw the trailer for the Bruce Willis film "The Surrogates". Thats your work he's wearing in the latter half of the trailer isnt it? It looks great from what I can see of it in the trailer! Your distressing?

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... d=57630556

That is a good looking jacket...BUT, looks like in the early sceens he's back in that BAD toupee from 'Day of the Jackal"......

I feel like the only person that doesn't know this. How much do the CS and Raiders jackets go for, Tony?

Dave

Something like 800 to 1000 dollars.

Thanks.

Dave

If I remember correctly, the CS goes for around $695. I'm getting my LC in his darker CS cowhide for around $750. Only a few of the leathers push the jacket into the $900-1000 range.

VP wrote:Something like 800 to 1000 dollars.

That is with shipping. Less if you can pick it up yourself.

the $800 stated is probably slightly higher than it really is even with shipping.

And sales tax?

Tony doesn't charge sales tax or shipping. The price he quotes you is for everything.

That's why it's best to call him

PSBIndy wrote:Tony doesn't charge sales tax or shipping. The price he quotes you is for everything.

Ok, People tend to forget the tax when quoting US prices.

Are the overseas calls included in the jacket price?

Actually, yes, thanks for asking. Tony makes it a habit to call people and speak until they find out everything they need. And shares a bunch of great stories along the way.

Kt Templar wrote:

PSBIndy wrote:Tony doesn't charge sales tax or shipping. The price he quotes you is for everything.

Ok, People tend to forget the tax when quoting US prices.

No Tony may not but Fed Ex DOES charge tax overseas ! I found that out the hard way !

Dutch_jones wrote:

Kt Templar wrote:

PSBIndy wrote:Tony doesn't charge sales tax or shipping. The price he quotes you is for everything.

Ok, People tend to forget the tax when quoting US prices.

No Tony may not but Fed Ex DOES charge tax overseas ! I found that out the hard way !

Obviously this wasn't a Fedex order from Tony. And I understand he even voluntarily gives out tracking numbers to ALL of his customers! Great, huh?

No I know, but the thing is fed ex in general charges taxes overseas. I don't know why, just *****, I don't know if it is the same with the TN jackets ! could be different ! maybe someone from this side of the pond who ordered one ( ORB ? Chris? ) can chime in

Dutch, I'm in Australia and I didn't pay a cent to Fedex.

Yojimbo Jones wrote:Dutch, I'm in Australia and I didn't pay a cent to Fedex.

Thats Great ! good to hear! Thanks

Dutch_jones wrote:No I know, but the thing is fed ex in general charges taxes overseas. I don't know why, just *****, I don't know if it is the same with the TN jackets ! could be different ! maybe someone from this side of the pond who ordered one ( ORB ? Chris? ) can chime in

What TAX does Fed Ex charge? Are you referring to a customs charge or a charge your own country places on the cost of a FedEx shipment?

RCSignals wrote:

Dutch_jones wrote:No I know, but the thing is fed ex in general charges taxes overseas. I don't know why, just *****, I don't know if it is the same with the TN jackets ! could be different ! maybe someone from this side of the pond who ordered one ( ORB ? Chris? ) can chime in

What TAX does Fed Ex charge? Are you referring to a customs charge or a charge your own country places on the cost of a FedEx shipment?

Knowing the Dutch customs as I do it's probably both: If the goods exeed a value of E 200,- customs will make you pay a customs charge and taxes. This will be collected by the company that is shipping the goods.

Regards, Geert

Dutch_jones wrote:

Yojimbo Jones wrote:Dutch, I'm in Australia and I didn't pay a cent to Fedex.

Thats Great ! good to hear! Thanks

You thinking of buying one, Dutch?

Thanks Geert. That's what I expected it would be and didn't think it was something unique to a Fed Ex shipment

gwyddion wrote:

RCSignals wrote:

Dutch_jones wrote:No I know, but the thing is fed ex in general charges taxes overseas. I don't know why, just *****, I don't know if it is the same with the TN jackets ! could be different ! maybe someone from this side of the pond who ordered one ( ORB ? Chris? ) can chime in

What TAX does Fed Ex charge? Are you referring to a customs charge or a charge your own country places on the cost of a FedEx shipment?

Knowing the Dutch customs as I do it's probably both: If the goods exeed a value of E 200,- customs will make you pay a customs charge and taxes. This will be collected by the company that is shipping the goods.

Regards, Geert

well the item in question was a laptop bag and the value was 75 bucks. And a friend of mine ordered Indy shirts from SW shop and was also charged, this was both under 100 euro

When Tony origianally sent my first jacket, he priced it at 50$ on the invoice to save on customs duty. Unfortunatey, Austrian customs didn't go for that and I had quite some trouble getting them to release the package for delivery. They wanted me to provide an original order form or some documentation that proved the value of the jacket, which I obviously couldn't do. In the end i forwarded some emails that Tony had written me (not mentioning the price) and they said they would assess the matter. 3 days later they sent on my jacket and I had to pay 50Euros tax. Still not as much as I would have paid at full price. What was really annoying was that when I sent my jacket back to Tony, I asked him to mark it clearly as "returned goods". Tony did so, but customs still withheld the package. They phoned me up and said that the goods were not regarded as "returned" as there was no copy of the original invoice nor the original customs tax. In the end, they tracked the original fedex number and saw that I had been taxed 50Euros. They told me I could either pay the same again or wait and have the package reassessed. I paid the same again - because if they had opened the package, they would have seen the second jacket as well!!!!
All in all I got off lightly.

So long story, cut short - you may well have to pay customs tax depending on where you live!!!

whiskyman wrote:...

So long story, cut short - you may well have to pay customs tax depending on where you live!!!

Exactly. Most countries have some sort of Import duties or tax, some apply both !
(and obviously not just to leather jackets)

Company like Fedex and UPS have agreements with coutries' customs to collect taxes. With national or others companies, it's random since it's the custom-officers who have to check shipping containers at airport.

In France to calculate the customs fees it's really complicated, you have to find in which categories belong your product to see if you have customs fees. Then you add the shipping price, the customs fees and you add VAT (18,6 %)

So in the end you have to pay nearly 25% of your product....

I ask Tony to put a lower value for my jackets ($50) and to say it's a gift. No custom fee to pay. I've been lucky