No new Weber product brochures for 2024?


 
Chris Allingham

Chris Allingham

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As you know, we've got a big collection of Weber product catalogs and brochures that help us keep track of what products and features Weber offered in each model year. And it's around this time of year when I contact my guy at Weber and ask if he can send me a copy of this year's product catalog. And faithfully each year, he sends it to me and I post it here.

Last year, Weber did not produce a consolidated product line catalog as in the past, but individual product line brochures in PDF format for Charcoal, Gas, Pellet, Griddle, etc. as well as a New Products sheet.

I am flummoxed to learn from my contact that Weber hasn't produced anything in print for 2024. Zip. Nada. And I find this hard to believe. Not even a point of sale brochure for the new Searwood or Slate products?

@John Burns do you know if my contact is mistaken and there are such documents for 2024? If not, I'm starting to think about how pages can be scraped from Weber.com and saved as a PDF so we have a record of what Weber offered in 2024.

Any help on this from anyone from any source is appreciated.
 
Everything seems to be going to PDF type stuff these days. Hell, you buy a new whatever product, and the owner's manual is usually nothing more than a sheet with a QR code. That will link you to the needed literature. The way of the future I guess. Might also explain why my daughter is so busy at her job with Office Depot/Max as manager in their print shop. People bring her these files then she's constantly making brochures, manuals and what not.
 
I was out in Erie, PA a month ago (helping a buddy work on a boat,) and had to run into an Ace Hardware. I got VERY distracted by the shiny at the door, a brand new Weber griddle. I spent a good 20 minutes chatting with the staff while my buddy dug out his fasteners. Their impression was that the Weber was much better built than the Blackrock that they also carried. But I digress..... they did have a stack of new product brochures on the griddle, and really wanted me to take one. "No, I live over a thousand miles away, I have a local outlet and I'm rather unlikely to buy one anyway. Save these for your more likely paying customers." So, something does exist.

I'll make it a point to stop in at the local Ace and see what they have for brochures.
 
Chris Allingham said:
As you know, we've got a big collection of Weber product catalogs and brochures that help us keep track of what products and features Weber offered in each model year. And it's around this time of year when I contact my guy at Weber and ask if he can send me a copy of this year's product catalog. And faithfully each year, he sends it to me and I post it here.

Last year, Weber did not produce a consolidated product line catalog as in the past, but individual product line brochures in PDF format for Charcoal, Gas, Pellet, Griddle, etc. as well as a New Products sheet.

I am flummoxed to learn from my contact that Weber hasn't produced anything in print for 2024. Zip. Nada. And I find this hard to believe. Not even a point of sale brochure for the new Searwood or Slate products?

@John Burns do you know if my contact is mistaken and there are such documents for 2024? If not, I'm starting to think about how pages can be scraped from Weber.com and saved as a PDF so we have a record of what Weber offered in 2024.

Any help on this from anyone from any source is appreciated.
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Let me check around with a few people here at HQ.
 
Paperless is the way of the future. I am constantly harassed by my bank, insurer, credit cards, utilities, etc. to go paperless. You have to be careful to not check that box or link. Of course, hearing aid companies, funeral homes, gutter guards, realtors, etc have no problem stuffing my mailbox with paper.
 
I remember when e-mail was first becoming the big thing and how it would cut down on paper usage as we moved to a paperless future. Instead it went up as everyone printed emails to archive;). Thankfully there is still a lot of print/paper items wanted/needed that, as a printer, keep me in business. But many things I used to print have gone completely digital.
 
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