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That's lovely Walker
I'm always amazed that apparently (per Darcy) original Nordic wasn't popular when it came out.“Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.”
“Sir?”
“It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.”
“Sir?”
“That’s practically zen.”
-Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
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It was quite true and for a lot of reasons. First all sorts of items were debuting in Aubergine around that time. There was no prior experience with 400d Halcyon. A lot of people flat out refused to consider it for the outside of bags and they only had the experience of the 200d Halcyon to go on. You know that we have a number of forum members outside of the US who are reluctant to try 400d Halcyon for their travel bags because it’s expensive to pay shipping costs and they’re not convinced of the long term durability. There were also a lot of people who absolutely wouldn’t consider a white grid pattern fabric. Unless you uploaded a high enough resolution photo, aliasing from the pixel sampling tended to show up as moiré patterns. And as a smaller company then they couldn’t afford to overextend themselves if people decided to wait several months to decide to try new products.Originally posted by G42 View Post
I ended up canceling the Aubergine/Hemp/Steel Imago that I had been planning to buy as soon as I heard one was in the works, so I could order the Swift and the Synapse in Nordic, because I figured if they didn’t sell enough when it was first released there might never be an opportunity to order it again, and I had to trust that I would be able to pick up the Imago later.
And, yes, by July they were thinking about dropping Nordic from their product line. backpackcan tell you about the spammer entry that drew attention to the thread, and the forum members who posted that they had been planning to try this but hadn’t ordered.
moriond
ETA G42 If you go over to Ravelry, type in Nordic spammer into the discussion search and press Return you’ll see the post where I detail all the information. Of course the links to the TB forum posts and threads that I provided didn’t survive the vBulletin 5 upgrade reindexing, but fortunately I also quoted all the most relevant passages so you can pretty much just read straight through.
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That was a good read, thanks. I especially like some of the replies and comments about the extent of their stash; I feel seen!Originally posted by moriond View Post
A month or so ago I snagged a halcyon Swift that someone had returned because a lady in my knitting class liked mine & was sad to hear the material was discontinued... So I was able to facilitate that introduction to TB.
Then I had a good friend I've known since college in town this past weekend who (cough) commented on the extent of my TB stuff. 😱
But when the new small bag she had just bought for this trip failed to work as expected (poor magnetic closure, tsk), I raided my emergency TB gift stash and she's now sporting a NW/Açai SE with a Pocket Pouch holding extra cards.
It's good to have a Stash 'o Stuff
“Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.”
“Sir?”
“It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.”
“Sir?”
“That’s practically zen.”
-Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
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My Burnt Orange Side Kick accompanied me on a train trip to see the incomparable Youn Sun Nah in Karlsruhe last night.
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