A FANTASTIC deal on regimental Black Watch fabric surplus

**ronstew** · 6th November 09, 12:01 PM

Looks like 53 of 61 m have been sold, so one should hurry.

A thousand curses. I'm poor as a church mouse at the moment.

**ForresterModern** · 6th November 09, 12:57 PM

Originally Posted by Galician

I'm trying to make a purchase but it's not taking due to S&H not having been specified by the seller. Anybody else have this problem and find a way around it?

Galician

As long as you have clicked the ebay committed to buy to complete that part of the transaction, whether you pay for it immediately or not doesn't matter. If there is a need for the seller to figure shipping he can send you an invoice after he figures the shipping, and you can pay then. As long as you committed to the purchase before the stuff was gone you should be good to go.

jeff

**ForresterModern** · 6th November 09, 01:03 PM

Interesting. I just checked the auction, which is priced on a per meter of fabric basis, so you commit to buy how many meters of the fabric you want, and as they are sold it should talley them up until it runs out. Fascinating that in this guys description of the tartan rolls he says there are about 61 meters or so of the stuff, but when you check the talley of how many yards are sold it says there are 65 sold, and the auction is still open, stating that there are at least 10 more "items" (which should be meters of fabric)remaining. Fascinating. I fear there may be some disappointed customers at the end of this one. Wait and see.

**Woodsheal** · 6th November 09, 02:02 PM

I committed to buy 4 metres, but am probably too late. To complete the transaction I entered a 0 in the shipping box, which the seller can correct later. I have a feeling he's going to be sending back lots of refunds when he wakes up tomorrow...!

**HarborSpringsPiper** · 6th November 09, 02:24 PM

I though S&H last night was listed as GBP6.00 for the first and GBP3.00 for each additional to the USA. Now it is not listed for US but has 8.00/6.00 for Europe in the S&H details.

Does anybody who purchased last night recall? Am I just imagining this?

I went ahead and purchased with PayPal using this scheme. Might be too late anyway, but I'm curious if they changed this or my memory circuits are failing me!

**ForresterModern** · 6th November 09, 02:38 PM

Up to 75 meters sold now. Fascinating.

My s/h worked out to be just what the 6gbp for the first then 3gbp for each additional price quote---I bought 5 meters so I should and did pay 6 plus 4x3(=12) for a total of 18gbp, which is what Paypal calculated for me. Unfortunatley I did not see the original listing of these shipping prices and got a bit of sticker shock at the 18gbp total (around $30US) at the paypal invoice stage of completing the transaction.Still, even figuring in shipping it comes out at about 17gbp (about $28US) per DW meter for 19oz government quality tartan.

Not sure what mill made the stuff, but the only one i saw listing the superheavyweight stuff in Scotweb's directory was House of Edgar.

**ForresterModern** · 6th November 09, 02:59 PM

Intersting that the seller lists the total weight of the material at 133kg. Figuring that on a 19oz per linear yard (1.1 meters) and doing the rest of the conversion math (2.2 pounds per kg, 16oz per pound) somewhow gets me to this guy having about 225 meters of this stuff. That is a lot more than the 61 he quoted in the listing. Unless my math is wrong, or his fabric weight is wrong, or they are weighing the rolled fabric on some heavy rolling tube, i cannot make the numbers jibe. My head hurts, I am stopping now.

**turpin** · 6th November 09, 04:48 PM

He states he has 2 bales of the tartan. I bought about 64 meters of Gordon 18 oz a while back and it was part of a bale, so perhaps they bale in round numbers, e.g., 100 meters.

**BagpiperDon** · 6th November 09, 07:21 PM

AGGGGggggg!
This starving-musician/starving-student would love a military weight Blackwatch kilt.... and as a professional performing piper one of my 2 kilts is possibly on its way out and needs replacing -- the temptation is too great!

**chasem** · 6th November 09, 07:47 PM

Originally Posted by HarborSpringsPiper

I though S&H last night was listed as GBP6.00 for the first and GBP3.00 for each additional to the USA. Now it is not listed for US but has 8.00/6.00 for Europe in the S&H details.

Does anybody who purchased last night recall? Am I just imagining this?

I went ahead and purchased with PayPal using this scheme. Might be too late anyway, but I'm curious if they changed this or my memory circuits are failing me!

That's correct, I ordered last night with that rate.