12-29-2004, 01:14 PM
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#1 | | Senior Member
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Just wanna tell people that the famous ex-worker from BG, Amanda, has her site up and running. http://www.absolutefencinggear.com/shopping/ | 
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12-29-2004, 01:26 PM
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#2 | | Din Älskling
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Originally Posted by shango |
Hehe, should've offered her a vp position...
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12-29-2004, 02:57 PM
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#3 | | Senior Member
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| You know, I hate to say it but it looks kind of like she just ripped the source code from Sword Masters and inserted her own info into the fields and tables! Mayb ethere is a template out there that they both use that I don't know about though. I am glad to see that she is up and running. I think the competition should do US fencing in general some good!
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12-29-2004, 03:05 PM
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| It's an online store software program called osCommerce. Highly configurable and very powerful, but it's quite a pain to modify.
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12-29-2004, 04:22 PM
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Originally Posted by CvilleFencer I am glad to see that she is up and running. I think the competition should do US fencing in general some good! | I think Allstar should make her the primary distributor here in the US.
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12-29-2004, 04:34 PM
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#6 | | Senior Member
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| If Allstar made ANYONE besides Blade the primary US distributor I might start using their kit again. As it is I will stick with really cheap Chinese made gear for our club and continue to use LP for my expensive top shelf personal gear. Besides, I tend to favor LP more on most things, but it would be very cool to have a US distributor that did not charge a small fortune!
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12-29-2004, 05:35 PM
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#7 | | Senior Member
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| Compliment to the chef
Hi,
Just had a quick look and the site's pretty good. A lot of the (product) pictures aren't available yet, but the site itself is good - easy to navigate, quick to load, and generally well-designed. Well done  | |
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12-29-2004, 10:22 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by CvilleFencer If Allstar made ANYONE besides Blade the primary US distributor I might start using their kit again. As it is I will stick with really cheap Chinese made gear for our club and continue to use LP for my expensive top shelf personal gear. Besides, I tend to favor LP more on most things, but it would be very cool to have a US distributor that did not charge a small fortune! | Blade is terrible. Allstar-USA's site is up http://www.allstar-usa.com/cgi-bin/s...ge=1&cat=sales though I'm not sure if any one is still working there..................
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Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs Italian, the mechanics are German, the lovers are French, and its all organized by the Swiss.
Hell is where the police are German, the chefs are British, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss, and it's all organized by the Italians.
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered" George Best | |
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12-30-2004, 12:09 AM
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Originally Posted by darius It's an online store software program called osCommerce. Highly configurable and very powerful, but it's quite a pain to modify.
darius | Highly configurable yet hard to modify, eh? :P
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12-30-2004, 12:11 AM
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12-30-2004, 01:03 AM
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Originally Posted by davtsung | Allstar USA is just another Blade affiliate/front like Fencesmart and Physical chess, although I heard that the owners of PC slit off from blade a while back.
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12-30-2004, 02:51 AM
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#12 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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| So what maker is "Absolute"? I imagine it's Chinese?
I hope her selection grows, at the moment it looks like either this Absolute stuff or Uhlmann, and nothing in between... | |
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12-30-2004, 03:01 AM
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#13 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
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Originally Posted by Inquartata So what maker is "Absolute"? I imagine it's Chinese? | No no no, Absolut is in fact a swedish make... 
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12-30-2004, 03:03 AM
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| The division between Amanda and Mr Chen in their business is making decisions difficult for those of us who have shopped from Blue Guantlet for years. I feel like I am betraying Mr Chen if I shop from Amanda and vice versa.
Mr Chen has always built my kids weapons and knows what they like better than anyone. He personally picks out their blades. Amanda does like wise with clothing.
I guess it is time to shop at Fencingpost. 
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12-30-2004, 12:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Zilverzmurfen No no no, Absolut is in fact a swedish make... | From my county, even 
Have a nice time!
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12-30-2004, 12:40 PM
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#16 | | Senior Member
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| The name is excellent marketing. It sticks her at the top of the vendor list  
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12-30-2004, 12:40 PM
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#17 | | Scavenger
Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Pennsylvania
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| I already placed an order. Let you know how fast it comes. I like Amanda.
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12-30-2004, 09:49 PM
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#18 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: NJ
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| Amanda's new location is only a few miles from my house, so I stopped by the other day to say hello and pick up a few stocking stuffers. She has some interesting gear.
She has her fencing bags made with oversized zippers that she says are much stronger than the normal size, and her "beginner's bag" is large enough to hold a mask along with the rest a new fencer's gear. She is selling a German made, one-piece foil guard that looks very strong and feels lighter than the Vniti.
Speaking of German made, she says that a lot of the so-called German equipment is being made in Southeast Asia, not Germany. If her stuff is German, she says she wants it made in Germany and the foil points I bought say so; "Made in Germany" is etched into the barrels and on the tips.
Her top of the line stuff is Uhlmann & Allstar and her Absolute house brands seem comparable to BG and in some cases are updated/improved.
I hope she does very well, it will save me a lot on gas and mileage to have something so close, not to mention the convenience.
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01-03-2005, 04:18 PM
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#19 | | Scavenger
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Originally Posted by Peach I already placed an order. Let you know how fast it comes. I like Amanda. | Came today (over the New Year's weekend!), in a tidy box, well-packaged, solid-looking stuff. Unlike my last order from BG which arrived in a squashed shoebox held together with duct tape.
I think I'll keep ordering from them.
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