Who we are
Tigbuy Gear Sheets is a small editorial desk based in Portland, Oregon, founded in 2019. We cover practical gear — bags, shells, pouches, organisers and small tools — with an emphasis on what the material actually is rather than what the listing claims. Our niche is gear discovery through shopping agents paired with hands-on material checks.
Three editors run the desk: Marcus Feldt (editor-in-chief), Priya Raghunathan (reviews) and Elena Vasquez (research). We buy the products we feature, we open them on camera, and we measure them. Every score you see here comes from a product our testing team ordered and handled in the Portland room.
How the desk works
We keep a shared order log: date paid, agent used, quoted weight, arrival date and the number of days between. That log is the backbone of our discovery coverage, because a great bag that takes six weeks and three follow-up messages is a different purchase than one that lands in nine days.
- Material checks: fabric weight, coating thickness, denier claims, hardware finish, stitch density.
- Use checks: fit on three body types, loaded carry, packing volume, weather exposure.
- Agent checks: delivery timing, packaging condition, documentation and returns handling.
We publish on a five-point scale and retest standing picks every twelve months. Corrections go through the same desk that wrote the sheet.