My ears are totally devoid of adornment these days. The other day, a co-worker thought I had a *tick* in my ear. No, thats just an 8ga empty conch punch. Man, I'm such a slack. Which brings me to:
So what retail outfits are you-all ordering their jewelry from these days? Looking for (in decreasing order of importance): reasonable prices, pretty sparklies, and solid construction. Ooooh, and responsive customer service. Got to have that. Don't need anything exotic, just your basic CBRs, straight barbells, labret studs, nostril screws, gem ends, meow meow meow etc blah.
BUT, would appreciate to ability to vaguely "customize" -- that is, specify the size of the balls on a barbell or diameter of a flatback -- without too much difficulty or pushback.
Small gauge double-flanged eyelets of custom length would rule too, but I know as well as anyone that probably nobody does those anymore. (What in shit ever happened to Steal? Wah!)
And if you say Anatometal, you're going to have to convince me that they can consistently produce threaded product that doesn't come loose or totally fail to be interchangeable with purportedly identically-threaded ends. Had about enough of THAT in my life.
On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:55:54 -0500, the sprout <spr...@kwygibo.com> wrote:
>So what retail outfits are you-all ordering their jewelry from these >days? Looking for (in decreasing order of importance): reasonable >prices, pretty sparklies, and solid construction. Ooooh, and responsive >customer service. Got to have that. Don't need anything exotic, just >your basic CBRs, straight barbells, labret studs, nostril screws, gem >ends, meow meow meow etc blah.
The last few non-junky things I have purchased have been from bodycircle. If you sign on for their newsletter, they quite often have monthly specials discounting various things 20-25%, I've found their product and service to be consistently good.
I have a friend who has spent quite a bit of time on the phone to them, asking questions and requesting various small customizations - essentially just small things like you detail that weren't explicitly in the catalogue, they were very happy with the way they were treated.
the sprout wrote: > <snip>Looking for (in decreasing order of > importance): reasonable prices, pretty sparklies, > and solid construction. Ooooh, and responsive > customer service.<snip>basic CBRs, straight > barbells, labret studs, nostril screws, gem ends<snip>
If you're looking only for metal then http://glasswearstudios.com/ won't do you any good. However for reasonable prices, pretty sparklies, solid construction, and responsive customer service, well, they're it.
And they're currently offering a 15% discount from now until Dec 15th.
Kavin Taylor wrote: > Curt James wrote: > > If you're looking only for metal then http://glasswearstudios.com/ > > won't do you any good.
> Yes, post only to see yourself post.
Kavvy, wouldn't that make you a figment of my imagination? That's not possible, of course, as I - hey, imnerho - have a smart, snappy wit whereas you are ploddingly booooring. You couldn't possibly emanate from my imagination. No.
> That's helpful.
I am. Thank you for recognizing my helpfulness, Kavin. I'm just entirely about the useful assistance.
> > However for reasonable prices, pretty sparklies, solid > > construction, and responsive customer service, well, > > they're it.
> > And they're currently offering a 15% discount from now until Dec 15th.
the sprout <spr...@kwygibo.com> wrote: > So what retail outfits are you-all ordering their jewelry from these > days? Looking for (in decreasing order of importance): reasonable > prices, pretty sparklies, and solid construction. Ooooh, and responsive > customer service. Got to have that. Don't need anything exotic, just > your basic CBRs, straight barbells, labret studs, nostril screws, gem > ends, meow meow meow etc blah.
N Jill Marsh wrote: > On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:55:54 -0500, the sprout <spr...@kwygibo.com> > wrote:
>> So what retail outfits are you-all ordering their jewelry from these >> days? Looking for (in decreasing order of importance): reasonable >> prices, pretty sparklies, and solid construction. Ooooh, and responsive >> customer service. Got to have that. Don't need anything exotic, just >> your basic CBRs, straight barbells, labret studs, nostril screws, gem >> ends, meow meow meow etc blah.
> The last few non-junky things I have purchased have been from > bodycircle. If you sign on for their newsletter, they quite often > have monthly specials discounting various things 20-25%, I've found > their product and service to be consistently good.
thx. i may just go with them.
i've been a little leery of bodycircle in the past, but mostly because their threading 'taint "normal." (yttrx, you may now commence frothing re: countersinking & threading standardization.)
of course i made an error in my OP where i said that prices were more important than construction. not so -- 'tis vicey-versy, of course.
>> <snip>Looking for (in decreasing order of >> importance): reasonable prices, pretty sparklies, >> and solid construction. Ooooh, and responsive >> customer service.<snip>basic CBRs, straight >> barbells, labret studs, nostril screws, gem ends<snip>
> If you're looking only for metal then http://glasswearstudios.com/ > won't do you any good. However for reasonable prices, pretty sparklies, > solid construction, and responsive customer service, well, they're it.
when they start making double flare in 8g, then i'll shop there.
> <Snipped> >> when they start making double flare in 8g, then i'll shop there.
> Try piercing.org.
i recall corresponding with brian skellie years ago re: the very same subject. don't recall if he was able to send me anything or not, but he was very friendly.
> i recall corresponding with brian skellie years ago re: the very same > subject. don't recall if he was able to send me anything or not, but he > was very friendly.
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