Corbin Pacific review: Disgusting company 16

Just bought a corbin classic solo saddle for my 07 flstc. bad experience! where to start? well first off, very expensive. second, they charged me thirty dollars shipping, way more than it should cost to ship something this small and light. but more importantly, when it arrived, I discovered that corbin has changed the design of the seat — despite that their web site still shows the old style seat with a small velcro tab covering the backrest hole, they now come with a very ugly and unnecessary leather flap over the hole, a real eyesore. and on top of it, they now have their logo emblazoned on the side of the saddle, also unattractive, in my opinion. but worst of all, the seat just doesn't fit properly and was poorly crafted — I actually had to modify it to even get it on the bike, and there is still a large gap between the bottom of the back of the seat and the fender.in addition, the bottom of the back of the seat is crooked and uneven. looks terrible. and finally, the metal decorative studs were put on crooked! all this would have been bad enough even if I could have returned it, but corbin has a strict no returns policy — so you're screwed if yoiu don't like it. avoid these seats and this company! (all the above can be documented by pix.)

I ordered a custom seat for my kawasaki sportbike. it looked ok when I received it, but when I turned it over... there was a big flaw in the molding. it was a 1/4"deep mold cavity about 2" long around the rear brackets. fiberglass was loose and I was concerned since it was located by the brackets. also, I was not too happy with how the exposed metal "tongue" fit under the gas tank. it was literally a loose metal to (painted) metal contact. not good. finally, the seat would splay out the plastic molding on the sides. we all know how fragile that stuff is especially after a few years. they always seem to break at the mounting tabs. so, why stress those components at all?

I contacted customer service and was directed to the technical rep (jared smith). he responded that the molding defect makes no difference. I contacted him again about the other complaints and no response in over a week. I guess they just wrote me off as a typical bad customer. so, I have the seat on ebay and will probably take a $100 loss on it.

Don't buy corbin products!

I ordered a Corbin Saddleman seat for my street glide about 3 weeks ago. The seat was $493 plus $42 shipping VIA UPS ground. Today I get a call from Michael out of their Florida office and he said my seat was ready for delivery but he needed an extra $20 because they had made a mistake on the shipping. When I told him to just cancel the order he said there would be a re-stocking fee. I then told him I would just turn it over to my credit card company, he then said he would try to cut the box down and find a cheaper shipper. I also learned that after our initial conversation he is suddenly not available to take any more phone calls. How does a company stay in business operating like this?

I picked out a seat - Dual Tour for my bike and had them make / ship seat to me based on measurements on the website. Well, the rear of the seat was supposed to be 12.5" and it's 14", which is much wider than what it says on their website. They said they could only take it down to 13.5 without paying $300+ for a new cover. When I told them that I ordered the seat based on the photos/dimensions on the webpage, she said, well they try to get it close but can't guarantee it will be the same. So I'm out $750 and will probably just sell the seat locally. If they had good customers service, they would make it right for their mistake. They shouldn't try to sell me another $300 of service to correct something they did wrong. She basically told me that if I wasn't happy, I could just sell the old seat and have a custom seat made by riding in.

Warning no return policy means you are stuck, sucker!
Seat for fat bob is uncomfortable as hell
Don't do it. looks good, sits like [censor]. hurts inside of your legs, and I am not a big person.
Until the day I die I will tell everybody I ever see on a bike you'll be sorry, if you buy corbin.
All the good reviews are made by employees. once you complain they wont answer your phone number ever again. wasted money.

Fair Warning... Anyone looking to order a seat from Corbin BEWARE. Their customer service is total [censored]. I ordered a seat and received it, and everything was fine, until I sent it back to get the free rework they offer to make it fit me better. After more than a month, they called me to inform me that the Oaknut leather that was on the original has been discontinued. They asked me what I wanted for leather on the recover. I told them that I wanted to go with the 2 shades of tan they had, with the darker tan on the bottom. It came back with a tan seat, and turd brown sides. Wherever the miscommunication was, they will not fix or replace the mistake. But wait, there's more. The diamond pattern stitching is all crooked, and the different sizes of the diamonds are visible to the eye. Also, the leather where the seat transitions into the side is loose or saggy. I can't believe they have such terrible quality control that this seat could make it out of their factory. As some of you know, these seats aren't cheap, it set me back almost $900 (with the backrest). The first seat I received was much better quality, I should have just kept it the way it was. Shipping it all the way back to CA cost me almost $100, so I'm really out a grand for a seat that I'm not happy with...AND THEY WON'T FIX THEIR MISTAKES.

Most horrible, low quality seats. Corbin sucks big time

I ordered a Corbin seat on October 24, 2019 for my BMW K1600B. At that time I read from their website that, "...During the "slow months" turn around time is roughly 2 weeks. During the peak spring and summer months this turn around can vary greatly..." So I figured 2-3 weeks. So, I waited, and when December 3rd rolled around without a word from Corbin (over 4 weeks after submitting my order), I sent an email to ask for shipping status. The next day I received a response from someone saying he should have an answer "by the following day" (?). The next day I was told it was expected to be completed by December 13th. OK, a little later than expected but I was understanding... When December 13th came and went once again without a word from Corbin, I emailed and inquired. On December 23rd I was told that my saddle did not get shipped before their Winter Break and that they wouldn't be back until January 5!

I finally received the saddle on January 9th. So after having an expectation of 2-3 weeks I ended up waiting for 11 weeks. Given that I'm in NE Ohio and wasn't able to ride much anyway I was only marginally upset with this delay, but as others have described, Corbin's customer service appears to be sorely lacking. I sometimes wonder had I not reached out for information how long it would have been before I heard anything from them. The seat I received looks great mind you, I have no complaints about the product, but I just hope I never have need for their support in the future - could be a long wait...

I purchased a Corbin seat in 2017 for my Kawasaki & a couple of months ago I noticed that the seat cover had worn right through in a couple of places. I've only done about 3K miles on it so am very disappointed.

My husband and I rode up to the Hollister factory beginning of this month, July 2nd. He had a ride in appt for his 2018 Indian Chieftain Limited. The experience was great, no complaints about in factory service or the seat, however, we paid to have his stock seat sent back. It never arrived. When attempting to contact them he was continually sent to the Florida answering service which only sent him back to the the Hollister number. More than once he sat on ignore way too long, yesterday he waited 2 hrs! He had his phone on speaker while he worked. Then he sent an email which I am sure will be ignored. When he did talk to someone a couple weeks ago they could not find his stock seat and my guess is they are scrambling to cover their [censored]. I was going to get a new seat from them, but now after this fiasco I may stick with my stock seat or get one some where else. We will be making another ride to Hollister, which is a 3 hr trip and another over night stay no doubt.

After finding bmc on ig, I ordered a "widow maker" for my sg, it did take some time to get due to the virus bs, which is understandable. but I was having a issue with the nose of the seat sitting up about 5/8"off the dash? well I adjusted the rear tab and couldn't get it to sit down. so I said"screw it, its comfortable"but then I was riding and had stopped at a bar with a bunch of riders and a guy asked me about a fold on the side of the seat that I hadn't noticed? well the side where the band wraps the seat it looks as though theres a fold in the leather. I sent tyler a email inquiring about it and he said I could send it back and they'd look at it. so I sent it back and when they looked at it they said it was meant to be that way for a crash bar insert, and he said big mike and corbins team said it was okay, but I looked at all the ones online and none of them have the fold or blemish? I could never get tyler to tell me why mine looked different from the ones on they're website? so tyler offers me a refund because he said that they could sell it to a dealer at the same cost and I only sat on it twice. so I took the refund but should've read the return policy. with tax im over $700 for this seat and they gave me a $416.00 refund?"big mike" spends a lot of time telling everyone that they're next level! instead of addressing they're customers legitimate complaints they dismiss you and steal a couple hundred bucks from you with the bs refund. next level piece of [censored]! I really expected more from corbin...

Used to be if you wanted a great seat for your motorcycle Corbin was the place to go. WTF happened? I ordered a Corbin seat for my 2014 Yamaha XT250 which I think was in production when Noah was building his ark. Big gap between seat and tank. ok. I can live that. Cover is too too small, stretched too tight and stitching is stretched at the seams. Ok, it's a dirt bike sort of. But those should not be there on a $400+ seat. The showstopper is the damn thing leaks. If it is in the rain the seat foam fills up with water and when you sit on it, water comes out the seams--days and days later and you [censored] and legs get wet. I'm not here to do their quality control. The seat is junk absolute junk. I am not going to try to sell it to anyone not even on ebay. Second thought, I might put it on ebay and list everyone thing wrong with it--with pictures. If you have a Yahama XT250 DO NOT BUY this seat. I don't know about their other seats.

Placed an order for a custom seat for my Honda. When I spoke to the man on the phone during the ordering process, I informed him I had VN custom hard bags on the back of my bike. He made no mention that their seats ONLY fit stock frames. After waiting weeks to get the seat, I tried to fit it to my bike but it wouldn't fit, not even close. I called Corbin and spoke with Johnathan who informed me that it wouldn't fit because of my bags and was then told "Congrats, you now have a $1, 265 conversation piece, thanks for your business" This company has HORRIBLE customer service. I would stay away from them if I were you.

I bought a Corbin seat on the 9th of August 2021 from DYNAMIC CYCLE PARTS IN ONTARIO ( CHRIS is the owner) .
I even called CORBIN in California and they said it's better to deal with Mr Chris in Woodbridge ontario which I did . First, He was very nice on the phone so I paid my Corbin seat with my Mastercard . Same said it take 4..6 weeks to get my seat done in California for my 2021 kawasaki Versy .I received my seat and IT DOES NOT FIT and even my mecanic said so . I called Mr Chris and he said 3 TIMES that I ONLY WANT TO SHOUT OF HIM ..IM A WOMEN AND NEVER EVER I WOULD DO THAT ! SO now, the seat was sent back on my expense and NO NEWS FROM DEAR MR CHRIS AFTER 2.5 MONTHS ! IM RUNNING AFTER MY $ 847.50 . And I only wanted to communicate threw emails after being arrogant towards me .
••••• I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND BUYING A CORBIN SEAT ..
Good luck bikers !

I bought a CORBIN SEAT FROM DYNAMIC CYCLE PARTS IN WOODBRIDGE ONTARIO .
The seat does not fit my kawasaki versy and same does not want to give my money back, $ 847.50
Even my mecanic checked the seat and it's not enough . I called the owner CHRIS and he said that I only want to SHOUT AT HIM .. haha ..Arrogant person . I'm a WOMEN and I've been riding motorcycles for more than 41 years . I think I know a little bit about seats ...

I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND BUYING A SEAT ..EVEN CORBIN IN CALIFORNIA IS NO HELP .
Thanks
Joanne Lafontaine
Rockland ontario

I bought a corbin seat for my 2012 Goldwing 7 years ago! I had to send it back and they redid the seat! Now about 4 years later and the leather is falling apart and it cost me over $500 for the seat and shipping! They told me they would cover the seat and now we went to Corbins little set up at Sturgis and he told me that I drag my foot over the seat and that was the cause but the leather is just falling apart! Send it back for them to recover the seat and $350 and plus $200 shipping there and back! The seat looks like plastic leather and I am not sending it back every 3 years or so! I have corbin seats that have lasted for years! The other seat I have, the stitching is coming out! I was very pissed off at the answer! The way and material they are using they will not be in business for 2 more years! I have friends that are having the same problems! Corbin has lost all the respect and seat competence of quality! The seats are JUNK and not stood behind at all! After 20 years of buying there seats quality has totally gone to hell!

Terry from Minnesota! They can look thru the books and know who I am!