Comments | onceupon: Yarn: DENIED

onceupon

Yarn: DENIED

Jan 10, 2011 17:34

Well, poop. I was going to order some Knit Picks yarn for the sweater I want to knit... but you can't split a payment on two cards. I have a Visa gift card I want to use up and then I wanted to put the rest on my regular card. Alas, they cannot do this for some reason ( Read more... )

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rivenwanderer January 10 2011, 23:01:05 UTC

How obnoxious! Webs has always let me use a mix of gift card and normal card...

onceupon January 10 2011, 23:04:13 UTC

They said they don't take gift cards from other companies. And I'm, like, it's a VISA. But there's only one field for credit card entries. I'm wondering now if they really can't do it at all or if they just aren't trained in how to do it. It seems strange to limit the payment system like that.

firynze January 11 2011, 01:42:28 UTC

That does seem quite odd, especially since it's a Visa. Hrm. Maybe their payment system is just weird? I'm not sure I could split payments through PayPal, which is my processor...

diseased_inside January 10 2011, 23:04:53 UTC

Can you do two separate orders on the same night? I've done that with gift visas before with no problem.

onceupon January 10 2011, 23:07:29 UTC

I'm worried I might not get the same dye lot that way. If there were a way to split it up so that the yarn would still fit on the gift card, I'd totally do that in a heart beat. But it's about ten bucks more than I have on the card. I guess I could call back and see if they could make sure the dye lots would be the same.... The sales rep was really not helpful so I don't want to bank on them going out of their way for me.

diseased_inside January 10 2011, 23:11:09 UTC

Damn I hate that. I tried to buy a bunch of something or other awhile back and though it said same dye lot promised they were not and I was mad. MAD. Yarns is srs business.

onceupon January 10 2011, 23:14:59 UTC

SRS.

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gypsy_kitty January 10 2011, 23:31:44 UTC

Thanks for posting the link to that site! Been looking for someplace to grab yarn on the interwebs because the craft shops in my area are woefully understocked.

I'd be very interested to hear reviews on yarns you've personally worked with on that site.

neeuqdrazil January 10 2011, 23:41:54 UTC

As not-M, but as someone who has ordered a bunch of stuff from KnitPicks over the years...

Their quality is... decent. It's not outstanding, but it's generally good, solid, basic yarn. I've used a number of different yarns from them, but generally all wool-based.

They only sell their own in-house brand, although a bunch of it is comparable to other yarn brands. (There has actually been some drama online recently about KP and their tendency to copy other brands' yarns (see the new Chroma yarn and . They're also highly divisive internationally, as they won't ship further afield than Canada, AFAIK.)

Depending on what you like to knit:

The Sweet Sheep (TheSweetSheep.com) is another online yarn purveyor that I've been quite happy with.

The Loopy Ewe seems to advertise on Ravelry all over the place, although I've never ordered from them.

And my current go-to for yarn is Etsy. There are a bunch of really awesome indie dyers who sell their stuff through Etsy.

gypsy_kitty January 11 2011, 00:08:50 UTC

Thanks! I will admit that I'm a fan of the "Simply Soft" yarn - it's my go-to yarn for blankets and other misc stuff because it's got a nice sheen and beautiful drape to the finished fabric (I crochet, not knit, btw).

Are any of the lines similar in feel, texture, sheen, as that line?

neeuqdrazil January 11 2011, 00:15:30 UTC

Not that I know - sorry. :(

elusis January 10 2011, 23:38:42 UTC

Do they do their own gift cards?

1) Use VISA gift card to buy gift cert. from yarn site.

2) Purchase yarn using site's own gift cert. plus your own credit card.

3) PROFIT

I had to do a bunch of work-arounds like this when AT&T's promised "$200 gift cards with installation" came broken up into three separate cards with so many restrictions on how you could use them that they were nearly worthless for regular in-person transactions (writing that you have $2.57 left on the card isn't difficult, but mentally subtracting $2.57 from your purchase so you could ask them to run your own debit card for $29.63 leaving $2.57 which you then paid for with the gift card was a hassle for me and for store clerks; buying $50 gift certs. with $50 VISA cards was a hell of a lot easier.)

onceupon January 11 2011, 13:10:23 UTC

YOU ARE BRILLIANT.

bummble January 11 2011, 13:05:42 UTC

KnitPicks are annoying.

They won't do orders from Europe which, ok, fine - but not even on patterns, which would be emailed, not snailmailed...

onceupon January 11 2011, 13:09:53 UTC

Oh, that really sucks. I mean, the shipping can get outrageous, so that I understand but downloads should be different.