Review on XL Rolling Duffle Bag With Wheels And Heavy-Duty Design For Travel, Sports, And More - Gothamite 36-Inch Luggage Bag In Black by Todd Wigfall

This bag is great for those who suffer from surplus joy in their life. I'll take up my umbrage with this item word-by-word:- Gothamite: Uh, the bag I received says Archibolt on the side. "Gothamite" is nowhere to be found. What kind of shell game are we playing here?- 36-Inch : Five stars on this, this bad boy is a full THREE FEET tall. Whoever left the review indicating that you would, quote, "likely not incur an oversized bag fee on any airline" must have been filling theirs with packing peanuts. Shoutout Delta Airlines, I went soaring past their 50lb limit with what I would consider to be a modest packing strategy and paid more than I did for the bag itself in overweight luggage charges within one day of it arriving on my doorstep.- Rolling: Nah. I bought this because it had three very cool, very 90s roller-blader-esque wheels instead of the normal two. This does not stabilize the bag. This makes it harder to turn, which you'll be doing a lot of, because you'll have 75 pounds of mass to throw around like you're a UFC fighter working on judo tosses in the bag check line. Also, these wheels amassed several feet of twine whilst rolling through the ostensibly twine-free streets of Brussels. Quite a mystery.- Duffle Bag: Wikipedia tells me that "generally a 'duffel bag' is used by non-commissioned personnel in the military, and for travel, sports and recreation by civilians." This bag fell apart within a week of fairly standard use. If I was in the military and they gave me this bag I would dishonorably discharge myself.- with Wheels: Technically true. See above.- Luggage Bag: Nah. This is a black hole with some cloth and wire sewn around it. "Luggage" denotes features like pockets, mesh, or zippers. Very few of any of those to be found on this barely-functional piece of hastily-constructed garbage.- Hockey Bag: I want to crosscheck this bag into the boards.You get the idea.Further notes:- This bag doesn't stand up on its own, so it's like having a lazy great dane carry your stuff around, if that great dane was also dead.- The "heavy duty" nylon tore at the bottom (see photo) after one week. The universe decided to wait until that hole appeared to dump rain on our campsite, through that hole, and into my bag - proof that God is a comedian.- MOST IMPORTANTLY: Hold in your head the image of a rolling duffle bag. Imagine lifting up the telescoping handle on that duffle bag. What do you hear? A CLICK. What do you see when you inspect that handle? A BUTTON HOLDING THE HANDLE IN PLACE. In their infinite wisdom Gothamite/Archibolt/ACME Corporation constructed their handle with a flimsy metal crimp INSTEAD of the tried-and-proven-by-a-hundred-plus-years-of-telescoping-handle-technology button clicky thing. In a related story, the handle on this bag is probably still in a Global Journey shuttle bus in Boom, Belgium after I threw it in the stowage in disgust, having dealt with the half-broken handle for miles and miles of walking around the Tomorrowland campsite with it.I hate this bag. Ebay refunded me in full, and let me keep it. I will be lighting it aflame and (legally) disposing of it in as gruesome of a fashion as I can concoct. One star.