Is'nt that funny, im just about at the end of my tether with them also.
Ive already got two of thier poles a Carbon Fibre 57footer and and Ally 26Footer, both great poles and have been a testimant to good craftmanship but, unfortunatley thats where my good experience of Brodex ends.
I thought well these have been good and have lasted well (baring £32 for new bolts and fasteners for the 57footer??) i'd go back. The intension was to buy my mid range C/F 36footer from there but was advised that they were having a cracking sale on the Ally version for £99, i thought "wow thats nearly at a quarter of the price of what i wanted" a little heaver but not a great deal after it has a light-weight brushe added.
Anyway cut a long story short it took around two weeks to get to me with an addition of a new 18footer. The 18ft one was fine nothing special but when i opened the packing to find that the crank was on the wrong pole and the gooseneck on the other i was a bit miffed??
Surely a company of this size wouldn't make such a minor cockup by not reading the order? Anyway i took them outside to check that all that clamps etc worked and to my horror my new 36footer looked like it had been in a fight with something and lost... Every section had had its coating scratched and hacked off and one other's the coating had reacted with the poorly finished metal work underneath!!!
Spoke to them the next day arguing that this is'nt right and should be collected at thier cost not mine (as im sure they try and do with everyone) and after upteen failed emails of pictures showing the extent of the damage and phone calls to chase up whats happening... Im hopefully safe to say my new pole should be here tomorrow and im not paying for colection/delivery of the damaged one!!!
If im honest i cant say i wont go to them again for a cheap pole but all i can say is. There quality compared to thier older generation of poles is by far WELL UNDER PAR!!!