VENT: Oooh, Bargains! Good Buys! Good Deals! - NOT!

Bravo! Well Said! {{{{applause}}}} i totally agree!

amy in CNY

You've never seen these kinds of posts from Nann, thank you very much.

And we really, REALLY don't need a sermon from you.

Thanks anyway, Cindy

Doc, you've hit on much truth. No question, you get what you pay for. Name brands are more expensive for a reason. But when some online store has Fossil Ferns or Hoffman Batiks for $5 a yard, I want to know about it.

Sunny

How we wish 'you get what you pay for' was still true. You can pay for a very fine iron and get one that has the brand name on it but, in truth, is made at the Play-Dough factory somewhere out here in the swamp. You can pay for a very fine SM and get one that will make you cry. I enjoy (and need) to shop for bargains and welcome any message of someone else's finds. Someone here showed us Aurifil for $ 4.50 instead of $ 9.50. You have to accept colors like mush piccalilli but that does fine for piecing. Pass the M & Ms over my way, would you? Polly

"onetexsun"

You make an excellent point, Polly, but I wasn't speaking in terms of "brand names"; I was talking about quality of goods, which can be wherever you find it. Maybe that's what I had forgotten. I also wasn't putting anything in terms of absolutes; I never do.

If someone pays for a very fine SM and gets one that makes them cry, I think they should return it, don't you? It might be another case where the reason the price is so low is that you *can't* return it. IMO, it would be worth a few extra bucks to get it from someplace that will stand behind it.

Doc

The only thread I made direct reference to had nothing to do with Nann, so I don't know what you're talking about.

And I really, REALLY don't need to get dragged into exchanging personal attacks, thank you very much.

Doc

Like many quilters here, I just BUY fabric with no project in mind. I rarely use it immediately. I have discovered that there are many websites that carry out-of-date name brand fabrics at fabulous prices and often patronize them.

One I found after I bought a quilt kit at a LQS and they shorted me fabric. When I returned a few months later, of course they didn't have it and clained that it was impossible that it was short - I must have cut wrong (I didn't). I found the same fabric at a fraction of the price on a website because it was an old line. I loved it and bought lots of extra. So, sometimes all you are paying for is the current line, not the quality.

L , "You get what

You know, it's only *very recently that I have learned that there are fabric specifically designed for each year. I thought they were just 'forever' sorts of things, once designed, until people stopped buying them! There, that shows you how much I am aware of fabric practices >g<

(I buy for projects and *very occasionally just because I love something). . In message , Taria writes

I don't get it. Honestly, I'm not being argumentive or critical, but all I've ever seen on *this* ng are regarding some pretty sweet deals on higher-end fabric, thread, etc. from proven and/or trusted websites. I always appreciate the tip. As far as hard-goods, if I waited until I could afford a top-of-the- line (insert name brand)....I probably would have never learned to quilt. I'm afraid the retort *is* economics. We do the best, and buy the best, *that we can afford.* I'm not "waiting until they change." Besides, what you've said is not always true as a blanket statement. I paid full price for a Rowenta iron, and sold it in the garage sale for $5 less than a year later. But I've also found some *killer* deals on very high-end fabric.

*Sometimes* you "get what you pay for." But sometimes you can score a real coupe on quality stuff. If you stay with a trusted brand, you really can't go wrong on a sale.

Sherry

Sherry