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Post by jray on Mar 17, 2015 10:48:44 GMT -6
Rodeo Bros update - ordered Thursday morning and they're in Toronto already - amazing! Hopefully I don't get nailed with custom fees
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Post by brentkuz on Mar 17, 2015 10:53:00 GMT -6
How are you guys avoiding international transaction fees? Bank America wacks me with fees for the rakuten sales. $5 and 7.42$ so far.
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Post by jray on Mar 17, 2015 10:56:25 GMT -6
Ickes - you shouldn't have picked a company to order from with f!@k you in the name  |
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Post by wdw on Mar 17, 2015 10:58:18 GMT -6
How are you guys avoiding international transaction fees? Bank America wacks me with fees for the rakuten sales. $5 and 7.42$ so far. I can't speak for the US, but I have a UK card which charges no fees and no conversion factor. I pay the published pure MasterCard rate, shown each day on its site.
If a vendor uses Paypal, say if my card was declined for security as happened with Fukuraku, you can change the Paypal charge to be in yen, so that I paid my pure rate and not the loaded Paypal one.
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Post by ickes on Mar 17, 2015 12:44:15 GMT -6
How are you guys avoiding international transaction fees? Bank America wacks me with fees for the rakuten sales. $5 and 7.42$ so far. I just don't care really. I'm saving enough money by buying from Rakuten that I don't care about a five or seven dollar fee. |
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Post by brentkuz on Mar 17, 2015 12:48:09 GMT -6
Saving money is my first name. I use a straight credit Visa card not Paypal at all. They originally told me my card was declined then told me it was a mistake and it was all set. Maybe I should use Paypal from now on and avoid that fee.
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Post by jeffrx on Mar 17, 2015 21:01:42 GMT -6
How are you guys avoiding international transaction fees? Bank America wacks me with fees for the rakuten sales. $5 and 7.42$ so far. I just don't care really. I'm saving enough money by buying from Rakuten that I don't care about a five or seven dollar fee. I get hit with that fee too, but it's still with it. Agree with you totally. I just got 2 IH shirts for the price of 1 here in the US. They can have their 7 bucks. |
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Post by wisdom on Mar 17, 2015 21:04:36 GMT -6
I just don't care really. I'm saving enough money by buying from Rakuten that I don't care about a five or seven dollar fee. I get hit with that fee too, but it's still with it. Agree with you totally. I just got 2 IH shirts for the price of 1 here in the US. They can have their 7 bucks. Get a card with no international fees.. there are a few good ones out there (I use Chase Sapphire Preferred). |
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Post by marauder on Mar 18, 2015 1:39:24 GMT -6
Rodeo Bros update - ordered Thursday morning and they're in Toronto already - amazing! Hopefully I don't get nailed with custom fees Don't worry. Canada Post is too lazy to do the paperwork for customs. |
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Post by jray on Mar 18, 2015 5:04:28 GMT -6
Marauder - I hope you're right. It seems to be hit and miss with them. The damn things have been in customs for a day already though.
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Post by PaulR on Mar 18, 2015 8:49:22 GMT -6
Anyone know the difference in fabric between the Sugar Cane 1947's and the Okinawa's?
Thanks.
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Post by exophobe on Mar 18, 2015 9:29:12 GMT -6
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Post by PaulR on Mar 18, 2015 9:45:18 GMT -6
Yeah, I noticed that, but I was also operating under the assumption (perhaps wrongly so) that all Sugar Cane denim had that 50/50 blend. I believe the old Self Edge site had a more detailed description of the denim itself. I have read about and seen the other differences--pocket bags, patches, rear pocket stitching, etc. |
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Post by Marc on Mar 18, 2015 19:41:15 GMT -6
Yeah, I noticed that, but I was also operating under the assumption (perhaps wrongly so) that all Sugar Cane denim had that 50/50 blend. I believe the old Self Edge site had a more detailed description of the denim itself. I have read about and seen the other differences--pocket bags, patches, rear pocket stitching, etc. has some pretty detailed descriptions of Sugar Cane items. |
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Post by PaulR on Mar 19, 2015 9:28:24 GMT -6
Yeah, I noticed that, but I was also operating under the assumption (perhaps wrongly so) that all Sugar Cane denim had that 50/50 blend. I believe the old Self Edge site had a more detailed description of the denim itself. I have read about and seen the other differences--pocket bags, patches, rear pocket stitching, etc. has some pretty detailed descriptions of Sugar Cane items. Thanks. Interesting stuff. |
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Post by wdw on Mar 20, 2015 1:07:53 GMT -6
And the savings go on...
Just ordered the IHV-09 vest from Rodeo Bros. They don't have it in stock but can get it Monday for me.
I also asked for the IH 21oz black vest, but that's not in stock until May.
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Post by jray on Mar 20, 2015 5:53:55 GMT -6
Does anyone know how the rakuten vendors do the one wash? Are they soaked and hang dried or done in a machine for washing and drying?
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Post by bentin on Mar 20, 2015 8:51:27 GMT -6
Does anyone know how the rakuten vendors do the one wash? Are they soaked and hang dried or done in a machine for washing and drying? I just assume they give them a "hot" rinse in Fukushima bay. |
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Post by jamesr on Mar 20, 2015 15:29:18 GMT -6
jray, I've read that "one wash" just means sanforized.
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Post by Marc on Mar 20, 2015 15:45:54 GMT -6
jray, I've read that "one wash" just means sanforized. "One wash" means unsanforized denim that has been washed, which is different from sanforized denim. I don't have insight generally as to how it's done. But I have a pair of Eternal 883s and I know in that case Eternal does a hang dry. Apparently to retain as much of the loomstate character of the denim as possible. |
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Post by unnamed on Mar 20, 2015 18:09:07 GMT -6
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Post by wdw on Mar 23, 2015 1:45:58 GMT -6
Rumiko from Rodeo Bros has been very helpful to me, so I was unable to resist getting the IHSH-62 in black Wabash as a special order. If they don't have something in stock, they'll do their best to get it in for you.
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Post by Griffin on Mar 29, 2015 5:37:53 GMT -6
how do you spell wabisabi in japaneese?
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Post by Griffin on Mar 29, 2015 5:40:36 GMT -6
and also...any known seller with stuff from pbj?
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Post by unnamed on Mar 29, 2015 11:02:07 GMT -6
how do you spell wabisabi in japaneese? 侘寂 |
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