The Armour Archive

ARMOURER ERIC

In know Sir Brut, he lives about 20mins south of me, I will try to dig up his phone and call him, IIRC there were problems resulting from the wildfires last October, I don't know if this had an impact on this deal. I know him to be a very honest person and hope this can be fixed. BTW, canm you post ...

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Let me get through tomorow wuth my sanity in tact and I'll get everyone an update.

Eric

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Todd,

I just gotta strap yours.

Eric

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It looks like a good time for a mini-update. Frankly, I was in a real depressed mood for the last part of last week, finally got some St. John's wart on Saturday, fixed me right up. I got the Shiz and Nuke C orders done and boxed, got about $300 in the shipping account and I will get those out in th...

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Aaron wrote:As I'll be in Pennsylvania and New York 14-18JUL08, California 21-31JUL08 and New Mexico after that, I'll have to end the auctions on Wednesday of next week (09JUL08) so delivery can be made.

But everything will be put up with a picture or two on Sunday.

-Aaron

Where in California?

E

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Leo Medii wrote:I read your posts. Please, post more!

Leo, are you getting my phone messages, I just want to insure that I am calling the correct number, sorry to post here but I have not been able to access the PM board for about an hour.

Eric

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I had my first eCheck payment ever in January, with having been selling on ebay for 8 years. At that point, you could select a preference at Paypal to not accept those as a payment, by March 1, so many ebay sellers were sick of the system and dropped it that ebay made it mandatory, because, what the...

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I think what's confusing to is that I have 2 Norman Helm orders, they look like they are both from "Adam" and both in the eastern part of New York My records are: Adamo,Adam new norman, Long Island Sneaborn/skywalker?/Adam, complete existing started norman, Wantaugh, NY And By the way, wha...

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Hey, I'm just reading this post, I don't think I have any emails from you . I did just address your helm status on the Classified this morning , I rarely have time to look at this forum, sorry for stressing you out, but nobody told me you were looking for me here. IIRC, you are getting the norman th...

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It looks like I got the $$ now. Eric And to be specific, I had to ship a box, the client sent me $50 to ship the box, the check bounced, dinged my shipping account for $83, The client is to the point of not answering phone calls. That's why it's difficult to maintain funds to ship, and by the way, J...

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Dan,

All the $$ is good here, just got the balance of the cops like 2 days ago. I have 4 pair completed and boxed and will ship today or tomorrow, and another 3 pair in progress, I'm shooting to finish the joints by Monday.

Eric

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And yes, I can pan, and have found some but it's rare and the size of glitter. They have opened up a trading post and it's got real cool stuff in it.

Eric

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I did not think the wording indicated that, sorry, your good. It sucks, 6 months ago, before ebay changed their feedback policies, I never used to have to wait like this. But apparently now there is a 30% non-paying bidder rate at ebay, so it isn't just me. I keep making the same mistake: I got $800...

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man, I was hoping for a scantily clad woman going on outside your front door .... while not as cool, the mining thing would be at worst mildly interesting for a few days Hell, the extra $100 a week helps alot, since there is no additional driving involved. And I don't have to cut my hair . Eric

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Thank you Matt, I already PM'd him.

Eric

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OK --Here it goes: The following have been shipped and are in transit: Ceddie Armyeric Gallachad Strongbow These are done and ready to ship, I'm just waiting for ANY of the 7 people who bought $750 worth of stuff on ebay to pay me . Shiz Nuke C The last A&L order with no significant customizatio...

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Where are you?

Eric

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Dang, only got the PM like 2 hours ago. Yes, I got the check.

Eric

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Shiz, I finished your today. Gareth, I'll email you shortly. Nuke C is half done, prob Friday, Todd R, the last one is under way, Ceddie's is done as well, it's been a little rough from the heat, it's been 98-102 for the last 3 days.

Eric

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Look for an update either tomorrow or wednesday night. I'm taking the day off today. Not that much left to the backlog.

Eric

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Can we get any info about what the new fighter armour looked like?

Eric

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I just had a marathon 2 day session in the shop. I have completed and boxed these orders to ship as soon as the PO opens: Warc MacLeod 5/3 Ebay (for an archiver here) Strongbow (I need your address) I have completed at the shop and will box later today, and ship tomorrow: Armyeric Gallachad 5/18 eba...

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I just got home from a 2 day shop session with an overnight stay up there, I'll be doing a big update in a few hours.

Eric

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We need to find a way for you to do this near LA

Eric

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From a business standpoint, what stresses armourers is that there is no inflation in the marketplace today. I know competitors settling for $6 an hour to keep afloat. How many new helms havbe been offered here lately that are less than $100. I consider myself as having the most popular arms and legs...

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In Oct 2005, when I left Jack in the box from stress, I was working 70 hours a week, 1 hour from home to pull $45K, but working 16 hours a week as an armourer 20 mins from home, opposite rush hour to pull $20K, it wa a no brainer. in both 2006, and 2007 sales increased 20%, this year it is double 20...

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ETC wrote:Wow, with all these armoury question I wonder if being a full-time armour is a good job or is it an ok job that you love? It seems like a really difficult venture.

I do love it

Eric

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One big mistake that I made early on was not watching the Paypal fees, if a $150 item sold, I took the $150 and kept the rest in Paypal to reimbursed my Discover card for shipping charges, I spent $16,000 on shipping last year, the 3% on paypal can add up. Also, I know what happened with the Conneti...

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This is a good timely thread and I wanted to give input while my experiences were still fresh. For a little background, I am a one person operation, and Iâ€™ve been making armour for around 26 years, this is my second stint at armouring full time and Iâ€™m 3 years in at this point. So far this year ...

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I'm taking a chill day today, but I can give some good recent insight into this and will try to post later tonight.

Eric

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Let's let this die off gentlemen.

Eric

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For the record, yes, you have been very polite in your communicatios with me, and I have in my records a 3 week delivery, which would have been last Monday. I felt from your posts that I was being twice accused of lack of communication when in the first case we had just talked hours before. Obviousl...

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Thanks guys I needed that, I do deserve to get some major sh*t right now from some people (ceddie, Lincoln D in AU), but I'm getting major sh*t from people whose orders are done and less than 10 days late, geez maybe if I go 3-6 months late like some of my local competitors, I'll get less crap. Eric

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I would really like to know the answer to the same question I have asked 3 times now and gotten no answer, has my order shipped? You may want to check and see if your PM inbox is working properly. I just checked mine and it shows that the last 2 PM's you sent me, including the one from 2 days ago w...

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