The Armour Archive Feedback Forum
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2003 5:19 pm
Considering the amount of stuff that is bought and sold on the Armour Archive want ads page...I am surprised there is no feedback function attached like eBay has.
This is a shame in a way because I have had a plethora of good experiences buying stuff from fellow Archivers and there is no easy way for me to impart that to other people other than to post a topic that will be gone in a few days.
My most recent good experience was with Wilhelm. He sold just about everything he had, and I felt bad for him that (for whatever reason) he had to part with so much really good stuff. This did not, however, prevent me from taking advantage of it.
Everything I bought from him arrived exactly when he said it would and all of it was in the exact condition he said it would be.
All of it was priced fairly (if not underpriced). I believe I got a great deal on the chainmail swaths that he had.
On a sidenote:
I have discovered the best way for me to make chain mail is to let others make chain mail. That is to say, buy their half-completed projects and finish them. Making chain mail is not a process that I find difficult, but nor is it one I find that edifying or enjoyable. Nor is it a process I have much patience with. I get about halfway through a big project and get bored.
But now if someone with the same level of tolerance as me has already half-completed their own project, and then they chuck it my way...I can find it in myself to finish it.
Just knowing that someone else did a large chunk of the work that I would have otherwise have had to do makes it go that much more smoothly.
Anyway...it took me about ten minutes to modify the ready-made swaths that Wilhelm sent to a size more commensurate with my own purposes. After that it only took me about an hour and half to decorate the swath with a dagged fringe...and presto! A dagged skirt to cover me bum and upper thighs.
And I still have enough left over (that I have already presized) for two more skirts, a coif and maybe some foot coverings!
Woohoo!
This is a shame in a way because I have had a plethora of good experiences buying stuff from fellow Archivers and there is no easy way for me to impart that to other people other than to post a topic that will be gone in a few days.
My most recent good experience was with Wilhelm. He sold just about everything he had, and I felt bad for him that (for whatever reason) he had to part with so much really good stuff. This did not, however, prevent me from taking advantage of it.
Everything I bought from him arrived exactly when he said it would and all of it was in the exact condition he said it would be.
All of it was priced fairly (if not underpriced). I believe I got a great deal on the chainmail swaths that he had.
On a sidenote:
I have discovered the best way for me to make chain mail is to let others make chain mail. That is to say, buy their half-completed projects and finish them. Making chain mail is not a process that I find difficult, but nor is it one I find that edifying or enjoyable. Nor is it a process I have much patience with. I get about halfway through a big project and get bored.
But now if someone with the same level of tolerance as me has already half-completed their own project, and then they chuck it my way...I can find it in myself to finish it.
Just knowing that someone else did a large chunk of the work that I would have otherwise have had to do makes it go that much more smoothly.
Anyway...it took me about ten minutes to modify the ready-made swaths that Wilhelm sent to a size more commensurate with my own purposes. After that it only took me about an hour and half to decorate the swath with a dagged fringe...and presto! A dagged skirt to cover me bum and upper thighs.
And I still have enough left over (that I have already presized) for two more skirts, a coif and maybe some foot coverings!
Woohoo!