Harris Tweed eBay score

**CMcG** · 14th April 10, 09:55 AM

My Harris Tweed jacket has finally arrived and here are the pics!

The listing on eBay was for the wrong size compared to the measurements the seller listed, so I'm glad I asked for confirmation of the measurements before buying. The seller was also very reasonable about shipping because they originally were going to use a courier but I convinced them to ship by ground mail.

Granted, I had to wait 6 weeks for it to arrive but well worth the wait to pay a quarter of the courier's price and save myself the extra "customs processing" fee that couriers like to add. It even managed to arrive at my door without any duty or tax. It also came with a tie and some very nice kilt hose (shown in the picture below)

Total cost: $77 CAD.

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 14th April 10, 12:25 PM

Looks great, and I like your choice of shirt and tie, as well!

**Chas** · 14th April 10, 01:10 PM

Great find and a great look. Well done.

Regards

Chas

**CMcG** · 14th April 10, 01:15 PM

Originally Posted by M. A. C. Newsome

Looks great, and I like your choice of shirt and tie, as well!

Thanks, that's the very tie the seller threw in as part of the bargain and I like to mix a pattern shirt with a solid kilt

**sanddog28** · 14th April 10, 01:36 PM

What a find... looks great on you, how did you locate the style of jacket i look through from time to time but only seem to locate the standard sport coats.

**CMcG** · 14th April 10, 01:46 PM

Originally Posted by sanddog28

What a find... looks great on you, how did you locate the style of jacket i look through from time to time but only seem to locate the standard sport coats.

I find that multiple searches with different terms (including misspellings!) seems to turn up the most good hits. Sometimes a really broad search means you have to look through a lot of unrelated things but too narrow a search won't find anything. For this one I tried things like:
- tweed kilt jacket
- argyll jacket
- crail jacket
- argyll tweed
- crail tweed
- lovat jacket
- scottish jacket
- kilt jacket
- tweed kilt

It came up as "Harris Tweed Scottish Formal Highland Dress Jacket."

Also, it doesn't hurt to look on all of eBay.co.uk, eBay.ca, and eBay.com. I have been sometimes been disappointed though when I find something in the UK but it doesn't ship to North America.

**denmcdough** · 14th April 10, 04:03 PM

Wow...great deal on Ebay. And, I love the color combination.

Well done!

**McMurdo** · 14th April 10, 04:19 PM

Congratulations, I've been looking for a jacket in that colour, I guess I've not looked hard enough, it looks great.

**BCTrucker** · 15th April 10, 05:03 AM

with regards to .co.uk not shipping to Canada, if you contact the seller sometimes they will provide shipping to Canada. Or at least this has been my experience.

**CMcG** · 15th April 10, 06:45 AM

Originally Posted by BCTrucker

with regards to .co.uk not shipping to Canada, if you contact the seller sometimes they will provide shipping to Canada. Or at least this has been my experience.

Sometimes yes and sometimes no. It certainly doesn't hurt to ask!

The jacket in the OP is from ebay.co.uk and the seller didn't list it as shipping to Canada. I'm so glad she agreed to do so when I contacted her