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  • Livestream Interview of HELD Founder Micah Perry with New Owner Sean Ongley

    Livestream interview with Sean Ongley

    Watch the new owner of Held Gear discuss the life and times of founder Micah Perry, learning why he decided to transfer his business to Sean Ongley.

    Over the next week, the baton will be passed in the form of training Sean (that’s me) on how to build a belt. The last scraps of material will be sufficient to produce a few more units, in addition to the 35 currently for sale on this website and the Etsy shop.

    Items can be backordered exclusively on this shop, while all items sold at Etsy are guaranteed to be in stock.

    Please watch this video in its entirety if you care about HELD as a brand, its ethics, and you want to understand where it came from and where it is going.

    This isn’t the whole picture but its a good conversation and you get to know us. We are spiritual, ethical, anarchists.

  • Inventory Clearance

    The Held Gear homepage, as previously posted, is now open. The inventory listed is highly limited, it only represents the remaining stock of 37 units that Twin holds in storage in Why, Arizona.

    To raise funds toward relaunch, some items are exclusively up for presale on this website and will ship in May. Another batch is set aside for the Etsy store where customers are waiting patiently for the store to reopen.

    Given the total clearance of existing stock at retail price, there will be enough revenue to acquire new materials and restart production.

    Belts can be custom sized, although our off-the-shelf sizes comfortably fit waists from 28 to 42 inches.

    All units can be reinforced with grommets. This option is presented as an additional item and should show up in your cart as such, if you choose it.

    To restore the complete Held catalogue, or get close to it, this will be the goal of 2022. Adding new products and working with designers, this is the exciting future of Held Gear for years to come.

  • The Store is Open

    Yesterday, the shop page opened, offering a wide range of payment options, including Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Shiba Inu. Held is going to HODL a portion of every crypto payment and will work toward establishing trade with our partners settled in Bitcoin and Litecoin.

    All of these services are secure and facilitated through WooCommerce and CoinPayments. We do not store your payment information, that is managed by the above mentioned services.

    Please be patient as details are improved in the shopping experience. Direct mail order by cash, gold and silver bullion, as well as wallet-to-wallet crypto transfers will become available within 2022.

    Product is not ready to ship. If you order something today, it will not ship until May. Held is not yet back in operation. Relaunch mode.

    Please make a pre-order today and help build the future for Held now.

  • Coming Soon

    Held Gear is relaunching. The founder will tell his whole story soon enough. The new ownership will be revealed.

    Held was an early innovator in durable vegan accessories and will regain that position soon enough. His products have earned hundreds of 5-star reviews with top-rated Etsy and Amazon stores.

    First, the classic belt will be put back into production with all online shops open within 2022.

    Going forward, this company will sell predominantly from Etsy and HeldGear.com. On this homepage, we will accept Bitcoin and Litecoin, as well as traditional payment methods including mail order.

    Wholesale will be available to American main street retailers in smaller markets, gradually scaling up. When the opportunity to produce abroad becomes available, the same grassroots process will be replicated.

    Manufacturing ethically has always been at the core of Held’s mission. We are in the era of sustainable product design and decentralized economic models. Held will be at the forefront of that.

    Sourcing of recycled materials will always be integrated into our designs, allowing for limited creative product runs. Even the buckles can be transferred to new belts, allowing for custom design work.

    The truly exciting thing about relaunching Held is rediscovering what is possible. Can we produce a boot? How beautiful can we make something that will last a lifetime? Imagination is key.

    Thanks for checking in. Please use the contact page if you are interested in pre-ordering a Held belt.