Evil LV has free shipping again

Re: Evil LV has free shipping again

Mark Nowicki

Offering "Free" shipping forever, it seems.

No ending dates, at least on the Canadian site.

Get ready for some significant price increases.

BTW, do you still see the old site or their "new and improved" disaster?

new site?

Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

BTW, do you still see the old site or their "new and improved" disaster?



I don't know. I think it looked different, unsure. What ever....it worked fine

new LV web site

Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

disaster?

I think what comes up looks new. I didn't have any problem finding what I was looking for. Searched for some other stuff uneventfully. What is the "disaster" of what I suppose was the new site I found?

These issues

Bill Howatt

He is referring to the issues described in this thread:

https://forum.canadianwoodworking.com/forum/off-topic/off-topic-aa/1254017-new-leevalley-web-site

Post #14 is from Rob Lee who explains the issues they have to deal with.

My feeling is that it is a work in progress and will ultimately get tuned up.

Bill

Like I said......

Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

.......I didn't have any problem finding what I needed. At least once a year I page through the catalogs to learn about what LV sells that I might not know about. It must be difficult for a company to indulge customers that eschew catalogs. I have never found any company's 0n-line "catalog" useful for searching non-specific needs.

Re: These issues

John in NM

yeah, well, I guess they have to move with the modern trends and leave us old, inflexible farts behind.... Still, I read Rob's post and felt a bit sorry for him. Had to buy into the technobabble crap that the kiddies all talk about (I get to hear it from 28 year old professors at work - guys who can't program their way out of a wet sack, but still think they know it all - I hired an old fart like me as a consultant to do the heavy lifting in good old, reliable C).

Too bad, I really liked the old site. I used to browse it like a catalog. The new one just turns me off. Just as well, I probably have everything I need already, and a lot I don't need. I suppose I'm not the target demographic anyway.

Re: These issues

jessecloud

Oh Lord - professors who think they are IT gurus!! I used to work for a science based government agency and know the problem well. We had planned about $200K for a major system that would be available to the public. Professor Boss was outraged, claimed he could do it over a weekend in his basement computer room.

Well, sure enough he came in one Monday with a grin on his face and said 'told you so!' revealing an app running on his pc.

We took at look at it and explained to him, that yes, it did an ok job on the main transaction, but that was only about 5% of the whole system. Still needed the boring stuff - user interface, error processing, security, telecomm, strategy for simultaneous users requesting the same asset, and documentation for users and for future programmers who would need to maintain the thing. He decided that those things were not worth his time.

To get things moving, we knocked a few K off the estimate and gave him credit for his "help".

The boring stuff...

John in NM

Too true, its the boring stuff that makes software truly durable. Finding and squashing every last bug, getting all the other things like the GUI's working smoothly.

I find that the professors and the kids they train don't like doing all that un-sexy work required for a 100% functional program. Working with a 30 year professional engineer is vastly different - no nagging required, its a point of pride to track down all the bugs when working with pros.