04-27-2005, 08:17 PM
Alright, I\'ll chime in here since I\'ve been on the end of a few VERY long waits, and still am on a few. Do I mind? Sure to some extent, no one likes to wait, idealy when you send someone your hard earned money, you want something to show for it right? Does it bother me? No, not really. I can order a piece, and kind of put it out of mind, till I get that email saying it\'s ready to ship, then that wait kills me LOL! It really is an extension of this hobby though, when you\'re dealing with such highly hand made pieces, and the artists are dealing with a high volume of orders, it\'s gonna take some time to get you that amazing piece you decided to spend $100, $200, $500 or whatever it cost. Simply put by many people, if you can\'t wait 6 months plus, you are in the wrong hobby, and you\'re just gonna end up pissed off, and pissing off the mask makers with email after email, sorry.
Right now, I\'m in well over a year wait with a couple guys, and closely aproaching a year with a couple others, I\'m not going to mention names, that\'s childish. But I can say I am 100% fine with those waits. I have the utmost confedence in those makers, and their ability to deliver absolutly incredable pieces that once I have will completely nulify any wait time I had! I\'ve actually told many guys over the years my stuff wasn\'t a huge priority, it could be pushed back if they needed to get something else done.
What does really bug me though, is when guys aren\'t upfront about the wait time, if you tell me it\'ll be a year that\'s fine, no sweat! But if you tell me it\'ll be 2 months, then it drags into a year, that\'s what gets me. Yes there are extenuating circumstances, everything can take 10 times more time then it should, and it does happen. If I get an explaination why, that\'s alright then, yes agrivating, but I can see it from the makers viewpoint, and accept it easily. However, if I keep getting told \'oh it\'ll just be another week\' or another month, or it\'s shipping soon, or any of the other countless excuses, that\'s when I get annoyed. I would MUCH rather hear \'I have no real idea when I can get it sent out to you\' then be given a date, only to see it go by, again and again.
thus ends my rant o\' the day.
Right now, I\'m in well over a year wait with a couple guys, and closely aproaching a year with a couple others, I\'m not going to mention names, that\'s childish. But I can say I am 100% fine with those waits. I have the utmost confedence in those makers, and their ability to deliver absolutly incredable pieces that once I have will completely nulify any wait time I had! I\'ve actually told many guys over the years my stuff wasn\'t a huge priority, it could be pushed back if they needed to get something else done.
What does really bug me though, is when guys aren\'t upfront about the wait time, if you tell me it\'ll be a year that\'s fine, no sweat! But if you tell me it\'ll be 2 months, then it drags into a year, that\'s what gets me. Yes there are extenuating circumstances, everything can take 10 times more time then it should, and it does happen. If I get an explaination why, that\'s alright then, yes agrivating, but I can see it from the makers viewpoint, and accept it easily. However, if I keep getting told \'oh it\'ll just be another week\' or another month, or it\'s shipping soon, or any of the other countless excuses, that\'s when I get annoyed. I would MUCH rather hear \'I have no real idea when I can get it sent out to you\' then be given a date, only to see it go by, again and again.
thus ends my rant o\' the day.