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Post by pgandy on Apr 7, 2022 16:51:33 GMT
I’m a late comer here. Just bookmarked your site and must say that it’s always good to have a new member especially a vendor. I wish you success and I remember Swords of Might.
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Post by buyswords on Apr 7, 2022 17:01:10 GMT
I’m a late comer here. Just bookmarked your site and must say that it’s always good to have a new member especially a vendor. I wish you success and I remember Swords of Might. Thank you very much for the kind words. I hope you remember Swords of Might fondly, as I do. I seen they were having trouble keeping up with the orders and site after I sold it. Hopefully over the coming months and years I can get back to being a great sword seller and also give back to the community whenever I can. I have some great ideas for some upcoming giveaways as well as adding other ways to buy like lay-away Etc. If you have any suggestions or thoughts, they are always welcome.
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Post by cerberus1426 on Apr 7, 2022 20:36:50 GMT
So for your first example, they do not even have the product and doubt they have since the prices have risen. Most sites I look at that do not stock most Ten ryus still have the old prices and would lose money to honor them. I have a very close relationship with that supplier and no one is getting ten ryu swords cheaper than me. As for the second example, I did look and see what they were charging and they are probably getting better discounts with cas Iberia than I am and can therefore charge a lower everyday price. I would be happy to match it for any customer that wanted those items if It is in stock at the other vendor at the time. As far as shipping rates, I am working on those. Right now we offer UPS and USPS. If a shipping rate is higher than another vendor, I will match or beat it. Swords are a tricky thing when it comes to shipping. It is not the weight so much as the length or width. My main reason for being here is to give choice to the sword community. I am not trying to replace anyone else nor be the lowest price all the time. I am trying to bring a little more to the table by offering more personal touches to each customer, and things like taking requests on pictures and videos of the products. As I have said before though, I will do anything in my power to make a sale. So if there is anything you ever want that I have on the site, drop me a line and I will be happy to tell you what I can do for you. I also would like to extend my gratitude for you even giving me the chance to be here and for considering me as a place you might be interested in buying from. I would like very much to stand side by side with some of the other amazing vendors again. Fair enough. They have been bad at updating the site since the ownership change a few times I have clicked on things to buy that say they are in on the main page then on the item page it is out, pretty annoying. As for the Ryus that's pretty cool that you know the supplier so well. I own exactly 0 Japanese blades but plan on getting one for the collection at some point so a cheap blade that looks nice and could at least cut some mats and bottles would be nice. Thanks again for posting man!
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buyswords
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Post by buyswords on Apr 7, 2022 20:43:53 GMT
So for your first example, they do not even have the product and doubt they have since the prices have risen. Most sites I look at that do not stock most Ten ryus still have the old prices and would lose money to honor them. I have a very close relationship with that supplier and no one is getting ten ryu swords cheaper than me. As for the second example, I did look and see what they were charging and they are probably getting better discounts with cas Iberia than I am and can therefore charge a lower everyday price. I would be happy to match it for any customer that wanted those items if It is in stock at the other vendor at the time. As far as shipping rates, I am working on those. Right now we offer UPS and USPS. If a shipping rate is higher than another vendor, I will match or beat it. Swords are a tricky thing when it comes to shipping. It is not the weight so much as the length or width. My main reason for being here is to give choice to the sword community. I am not trying to replace anyone else nor be the lowest price all the time. I am trying to bring a little more to the table by offering more personal touches to each customer, and things like taking requests on pictures and videos of the products. As I have said before though, I will do anything in my power to make a sale. So if there is anything you ever want that I have on the site, drop me a line and I will be happy to tell you what I can do for you. I also would like to extend my gratitude for you even giving me the chance to be here and for considering me as a place you might be interested in buying from. I would like very much to stand side by side with some of the other amazing vendors again. Fair enough. They have been bad at updating the site since the ownership change a few times I have clicked on things to buy that say they are in on the main page then on the item page it is out, pretty annoying. As for the Ryus that's pretty cool that you know the supplier so well. I own exactly 0 Japanese blades but plan on getting one for the collection at some point so a cheap blade that looks nice and could at least cut some mats and bottles would be nice. Thanks again for posting man! Absolutely! Also, if you need anything when the time comes like more specs or pictures of any item I have, or a price check, let me know and I will make it happen.
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Post by cerberus1426 on Apr 7, 2022 20:45:36 GMT
I will thanks!
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Post by alientude on Apr 7, 2022 20:51:07 GMT
Quick suggestion that would aid me in the way I browse swords - on any listing, I'd love a link to a list of all of the items by that manufacturer.
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buyswords
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Post by buyswords on Apr 7, 2022 20:58:12 GMT
Quick suggestion that would aid me in the way I browse swords - on any listing, I'd love a link to a list of all of the items by that manufacturer. Thank you for the suggestion, I am the same and am working on that for sure for our site. The way this cart works though it is not a built in function. On the left hand side there is a drop down (On desktop) that you can see all by any manufacturer, but it is not as optimal when normal browsing. Will hopefully get this added asap.
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Post by danielofjoderhubel on May 12, 2022 19:03:31 GMT
Had a couple of custom sword builds in mind and hit up Printed Armoury to look at my options for fittings and all the links to vendors for his stuff aside from Shapeways are now dead. LGMartialArts is gone completely and Rambletree apparently had a message about not carrying Printed Armoury fittings up on their page for like a day I guess, because it apparently happened not too long ago and I had to find the cached page on their site to figure out what happened.
I saw Rambletree's post on here about you taking over that line. I'm glad to hear it. Do you have an updated timeline of when you will have your listings up for the Printed Armoury fittings? Also are you planning on carrying all of them, including the non-Hanwei Tinker fittings, like the Reislaufer and Warden pieces?
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buyswords
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Post by buyswords on May 12, 2022 19:14:25 GMT
Had a couple of custom sword builds in mind and hit up Printed Armoury to look at my options for fittings and all the links to vendors for his stuff aside from Shapeways are now dead. LGMartialArts is gone completely and Rambletree apparently had a message about not carrying Printed Armoury fittings up on their page for like a day I guess, because it apparently happened not too long ago and I had to find the cached page on their site to figure out what happened. I saw Rambletree's post on here about you taking over that line. I'm glad to hear it. Do you have an updated timeline of when you will have your listings up for the Printed Armoury fittings? Also are you planning on carrying all of them, including the non-Hanwei Tinker fittings, like the Reislaufer and Warden pieces? I will hopefully have the pieces on our site by next week and will carry everything they send me. The owner and I are just working out some details and I will update this thread when they are on the site. I appreciate your patience.
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Post by RambleTree on May 12, 2022 19:16:58 GMT
Had a couple of custom sword builds in mind and hit up Printed Armoury to look at my options for fittings and all the links to vendors for his stuff aside from Shapeways are now dead. LGMartialArts is gone completely and Rambletree apparently had a message about not carrying Printed Armoury fittings up on their page for like a day I guess, because it apparently happened not too long ago and I had to find the cached page on their site to figure out what happened. I saw Rambletree's post on here about you taking over that line. I'm glad to hear it. Do you have an updated timeline of when you will have your listings up for the Printed Armoury fittings? Also are you planning on carrying all of them, including the non-Hanwei Tinker fittings, like the Reislaufer and Warden pieces? Hi there, A quick response to answer your question, in case buyswords doesn't get to it right away (he's probably busy shipping orders and getting the Printed Armoury products up on his store). BuySwords recently received all of the remaining stock I previously carried, including the non-H/T Swiss Complex Guard, Swiss Twisted Guard and Swiss Twisted Pommel. I chose to remove the product listings and related copy/content off my store (other than a blurb in the FAQ) for keyword/analytics and advertising platform compliance reasons (i.e. not getting FB ads rejected for my main products, because of the presence of 'weapons' related items on my store). Having those products on my Celtic Art and Apparel store made accurate Ecommerce analytics much more difficult, and I found that I didn't have the time/resources to create a separate store as I had intended - hence the 'hand-off' to BuySwords. I'm sure they'll update us on the timeline, but will carry the parts you mentioned. Cheers, Reagh
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Post by danielofjoderhubel on May 12, 2022 19:49:07 GMT
That's great. Thanks for the quick response, both of yah!
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