I've been watching Iraq Veteran 8888 for 3-4 years. Eric and Barry turned me on to the 9x18 round which I believe is awesome. The guns are cheap and utterly reliable. Ditto for the Mosin, of which I have more than brain cells. The channel's videos are worth watching. 

 

Last month I decided to buy one of Eric's "Man Cans". Cost $35 plus shipping. Here's what I got:

 

* A Kershaw folding knife, not too pretty and not very exciting. Will never replace the one I scare old ladies with at Shop Rite. Retails for $17. Now I have 6 instead of five pocket knives costing between $6 and $75. I guess I can throw it into my something or other bag.

* One bar of soap. Hmmm. First time I've seen soap in years.

* A bottle/can opener. Carried one on my keychain for about 25 years, never ever used it. I'm not 20 anymore. Eric's opener went to Davy Jones' locker as well.

* A fake coin with the IV8888 logo. Can't even connect it to a keychain. In the garbage.

* Black plastic business card holder. I throw away all business cards, and I chucked the holder as well.

* A velcro patch with the IV888 logo. Into the garbage

* One magnet, one card, one sticker with the IV 888 logo on them. Guess where they went.

 

I'm totally shocked that this guy, whom I respect, would offer about $20 worth of stuff for $35, plus shipping. 

 

Try a Man Can if you like. The $40 won't make a huge difference in most of your lives. But you'll probably agree that it's a very poor value.

 

Sorry Eric.

I didn't know people actually bought this stuff. Always though it was just a gag.

I'm sure sales are through the roof....lol

I know it's not the point of your OP, so I apologise for the derailment, but Barry made the channel. I miss the old guy. The only time I ever went back after his passing is to watch some of his old videos.

They sell out of over 1500 units each month, and since Eric hasnt worked at Moss pawn for months and only focusing on his channel now I am sure they are doing fairly well financially with this.

 

I ordered this can along with a few others since they started. I think I am done ordering them now.

 

This one def was a turd for a EDC themed can. Nothing very useful

 

The knife I got retails for $29.99 on the Kershaw site. I could always use another knife.

 

For the rest of the stuff I will most likely throw in a drawer for now.

 

The fight soap is ok, it doesn't last long for some reason, dissolves fairly quickly.

 

The bottle opener is way to heavy to carry, I got a much better one that is actually a multitool key chain in  previous can and much more practical. The wallet is fairly useless to me too. and got 4 stickers.

 

The challenge coin I will use for a card holder for p-oker, doesn't have any other edc use.

 

 

I apologize on my behalf but I had a good chuckle reading this post. Not laughing at you directly, but laughing at the way you wrote it and as I read it, knowing I would have done the same thing.

 

Some of these "youtube celebrities," "instagram superstars," etc are really begging for money nowadays. I enjoy Instagram because I love pictures of guns, hot girls, guns, sports bikes, girls in yoga pants, guns..you get the picture..and Instagram has all of that and some. Now don't get me wrong, I know many people donate money to these people like hickock45 and fpsrussia and the like and I'm sure in the beginning it help a lot to get off the ground and start their channel as well as adding ammo and such to do the videos. But at this point, most of them have a bazillion views and are making a good amount of side money for shooting guns and recording it plus the sponsors of ammo, guns, and all that to supply most of it. 

 

I'm typing so much but all I meant was these youtube stars are cool but get lame when they put stupid stuff like this out. Stop trying to sell me this BS and make some more cool videos. I've also noticed a lot of gun people are worse than women when it comes to all the shit in their pockets, a tactical backpack for every day of the week, bars of silver coins on a necklace…so many accessories. I like EDC gear but I am a plain and simple type of person..a knife, beard comb, chapstick, keys and I'm good. Some of the gun guys that have 29192103 things in their pockets is ridiculous and is just a show. Kinda like a woman trying to show off all her accessories. And A LOT of gun stars are diving into the soap business which is so random IMO.

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out of all the youtube channels i could never watch IraqVet8888. he just comes off as a turd to me for some reason. I prefer Hickock45, colion noir, thearmory channel, RangeTime TS, scootch, MustyYeti tactical.

I know it's not the point of your OP, so I apologise for the derailment, but Barry made the channel. I miss the old guy. The only time I ever went back after his passing is to watch some of his old videos.

I totally agree. Before Barry's death the channel was much more educational. I never missed watching them, and as someone relatively new to guns I learned a ton of stuff from them. Now I can take 'em or leave 'em.

out of all the youtube channels i could never watch IraqVet8888. he just comes off as a turd to me for some reason. I prefer Hickock45, colion noir, thearmory channel, RangeTime TS, scootch, MustyYeti tactical.

Sooch seems like a cool guy. I watch maybe 1/4 of his vids, even for calibers and platforms I have no interest in at this time. Hickock is getting repetitious IMO. "Let's see if we can hit the gong with this pea shooter." Nutnfancy is ok if you like 90 minute vids on tactical buttons for your survival shirt, but I don't have the time. Most of these guys, unfortunately, have become full of themselves after achieving some degree of success on Youtube. Whether they've made it rich (I hope) or are living in cardboard boxes I can't say.

My favorite is nutnfancy or Tim from MAC

Just found Colion Noir, really like his videos. 

Just found Colion Noir, really like his videos.

Oh yeah....hes awesome......a lawyer too