PSA - good price on zippers

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If anyone needs zippers (or doesn't need but wants to stock up anyway <--that would be me with most of the ones I just bought, but at the price, I know I will more than get my money's worth), Amazon has some good prices ATM. I got #3 (dress, skirt, whatever) nylon coil YKK in several sizes for $3.04-$3.29 per bundle of 25 assorted colors (prices fell in that range across the several sizes I got), as well as some invisibles (same price range per bundle of 25). I saw other bundles (different sizes, colors, etc) for similar values too. All are sold and shipped by ZipperStop (so no Prime, but all were free shipping). I've bought from them a couple of times and been happy with them (every time, the items arrived well before the estimated window - one came in the wrong color, but they were very easy to deal with and the replacement even arrived within the original shipping window).

[cmeon]

I love Zipperstop (and always buy from Amazon these days- I think they used to/are on Etsy, too?)

You do need to watch your vendor choice- people get confused clicking around and end up ordering from someone in China (with a crappier color/brand + 4 week shipping). Zipperstop is practically as fast as Prime for me.

And Amazon being Amazon, check prices. They vary by the hour sometimes.

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Sept 5, 2015 7:28:16 GMT -5 cmeon said:

I love Zipperstop (and always buy from Amazon these days- I think they used to/are on Etsy, too?)

You do need to watch your vendor choice- people get confused clicking around and end up ordering from someone in China (with a crappier color/brand + 4 week shipping). Zipperstop is practically as fast as Prime for me.

And Amazon being Amazon, check prices. They vary by the hour sometimes.

I completely agree. I always look for ZipperStop's name now. The first time I bought zippers on Amazon, I ordered a set from them and a set from one of those companies that turned out to be in China, not knowing anything about either. The ones from China marked "9-inch" were 9-inch entire length, not 9-inch zipper length. They also had a weird smell initially. Thankfully I had flexibility on the size issue. The ZipperStop ones usually say something like a week to week and a half for the arrival window, but I think it was around 3 days. I now have a private wishlist set up with a bunch of items so that I can easily watch prices on them. The zippers are all from ZipperStop that go in my list, but yeah, being Amazon, I have to double check that it stays listed as them even, as well as pounce when I do see a good price.