05-14-2006, 02:47 PM
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#1 | | Senior Member
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| Uhlmann have updated their website
Hi all, greetings from down under!
I was browsing around at 4am local time, and stumbled upon Uhlmann in the midst of updating their website and putting up what seems to be an accessable storefront, though I'd give people a heads up. http://www.uhlmann-fechtsport.com/index.php
Enjoy,
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05-14-2006, 03:03 PM
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#2 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
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Originally Posted by Monash_Armourer Hi all, greetings from down under!
I was browsing around at 4am local time, and stumbled upon Uhlmann in the midst of updating their website and putting up what seems to be an accessable storefront, though I'd give people a heads up. http://www.uhlmann-fechtsport.com/index.php
Enjoy,
Darcy | Niiiiice!
I was there only yesterday and they still had the pre-90's looking site up.
This certainly is an improvement. 
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05-14-2006, 03:09 PM
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| 1) Shopping links disappear as soon as you switch to English...
2) Can't believe they are using osCommerce | |
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05-14-2006, 03:25 PM
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| I think it'll be a few days before it's all up, I could see things being updated while I was browsing. One minute their English portal only worked for the main page, and would revert back to German once you followed a link. A few moments later everything but a few links were now English.
Also when I tried to set details for my shipping address, I was informed that there were no other countries than Germany to ship to. Clearly somebody failed their 6th grade geography class.
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05-14-2006, 06:07 PM
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#5 | | Have Blazer, Will Travel
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| It's probably their way of spiting the EU or something...  | |
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05-14-2006, 07:40 PM
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Originally Posted by _fence(1) 2) Can't believe they are using osCommerce | Is osCommerce really that bad? I've only toyed with it a bit a long time ago, never used it for a production site...
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05-14-2006, 08:48 PM
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| I am in the market for a new jacket. The prices look good, but I have heard that they moved production to China. If this is true, I will not buy any FIE gear from China.
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05-14-2006, 08:55 PM
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| assyms for ~75 bucks! | |
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05-14-2006, 08:59 PM
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05-14-2006, 10:34 PM
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Is osCommerce really that bad? I've only toyed with it a bit a long time ago, never used it for a production site...
| It's not *that* bad, but code quality is pretty awful; they've changed coding methodologies a few times, and it shows. It you're just messing with it out of the box it's fine, but doing any heavy customization is a major pain.
That said, I'm not aware of anything better; my company tends to do custom e-commerce platforms, so everything ends up specialized, but tailored to client need. We haven't played much with other carts.
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05-14-2006, 11:07 PM
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| Did anyone else notice that the sabre pictured in the Uhlmann homepage header has a capteur? Ahhhh. That takes me back....
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05-15-2006, 04:38 AM
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| big improvement on the site's look but Uhllmann/Allstar will never start shipping direct from Germany as they have to protect the (massive) mark ups of their agents all over the world.
Not sure about the clothing but the masks and all their parts including points etc are now made in China hence the yo yoing quality of them in recent years.
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05-15-2006, 12:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Alex_Paul big improvement on the site's look but Uhllmann/Allstar will never start shipping direct from Germany as they have to protect the (massive) mark ups of their agents all over the world.
Not sure about the clothing but the masks and all their parts including points etc are now made in China hence the yo yoing quality of them in recent years.
Alex Paul |
Alex,
I never had any problems with Uhllman shipping directly to me in the US in the past. All I had to do was e-mail them directly and they were more than willing to send it to me.
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05-15-2006, 01:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Alex_Paul big improvement on the site's look but Uhllmann/Allstar will never start shipping direct from Germany as they have to protect the (massive) mark ups of their agents all over the world. | I have to agree with DaveSaint. When I was with UMass we placed a half dozen orders over the course of several years directly with Uhlmann without problem. And benefited greatly from the pricing structure, especially at the beginning of that time period when the dollar was rediculously strong ($0.88 to the Euro).
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05-15-2006, 01:34 PM
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Originally Posted by El Chucko Did anyone else notice that the sabre pictured in the Uhlmann homepage header has a capteur? Ahhhh. That takes me back.... | Heh, you're right. I hope they're not planning on bringing them back... | |
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05-15-2006, 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by peet Is osCommerce really that bad? I've only toyed with it a bit a long time ago, never used it for a production site...
-p | I'd recommend against using it in production with out a heavy dev/test cycle.
osCommerce was used as the primary web store app for the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition:
http://www.utsa.edu/cias/ccdc/
(I know 'cause my school took 2nd in nationals  )
Anyhow, out of the box, osCommerce is a leaky sieve, security wise.
If you have to use it, deploy cautiously, and test test test.
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05-15-2006, 01:46 PM
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#17 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
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Originally Posted by El Chucko Did anyone else notice that the sabre pictured in the Uhlmann homepage header has a capteur? | I see they little black thing you must be referring to, but what the ... is it used for?
(I don't know much about sabre, remember. )
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05-15-2006, 02:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Zilverzmurfen I see they little black thing you must be referring to, but what the ... is it used for?
(I don't know much about sabre, remember. ) | Ideally it functioned as a switch telling the scoring machine that a touch had landed. The scoring machine would determined whether or not the touch was was valid.
In actual use they proved to so unreliable that they were eliminated after a few years. | |
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05-15-2006, 08:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Zilverzmurfen I see they little black thing you must be referring to, but what the ... is it used for?
(I don't know much about sabre, remember. ) | They were kind of like a mercury switch that was supposed to tell whether or not the sabre was being moved in a cutting action. It was designed to prevent touches from being registered if the blade was just laid-on.
Sabre fencers soon discovered that you could keep the switch activated all of the time by shaking the sabre, though. The result? Every sabreur looked like they developed Parkinson's disease.
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05-15-2006, 09:39 PM
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Originally Posted by El Chucko Sabre fencers soon discovered that you could keep the switch activated all of the time by shaking the sabre, though. The result? Every sabreur looked like they developed Parkinson's disease. | So what's their excuse these days?
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