Financing Kilts, What Are Some Options?

[Riverkilt]

The hardest thing for me to get used to with kilt addiction wasn't the jonesing. It was accepting the fact that I was gonna give some company a lot of money up front, then wait a long time - weeks - perhaps many months - for delivery of what I paid for long ago. That seems to still be pretty much the standard process when ordering a new kilt and even accessories. This board abounds with horror stories.

But I got to thinking, there are some kiltmakers and companies that have addressed this problem.

Utilikilts, Buzz Kidder(or franchisees now??), and middlemen take their wares to Highland games. If we're lucky we can pay and take what we like that fits.

Stillwater Kilts seems to do very well just by cutting the delivery time to where the short delay is not an issue.

Kathy Lare asks for a down payment to buy the cloth and once the kilt is sewn and ready to ship she asks for the balance. Sort of a two payment system.

Freedom Kilts takes your order but doesn't bill you until its your turn to have your kilt sewn up so the delay between payment and delivery is much shorter.

I'm sure I've forgotten, or flat don't know, other kiltmaker's ways of easing the pain and paranoia between ordering and delivery.

Tell me the other folk's deals....

Is there a market for a company to hold kilt purchase funds in escrow?

Ron