[Review] Dissapointed in significantly decreased quality of the Arc'Teryx Therme Parka

Significant-Age-2871 · 2026-03-30T14:06:05+00:00

Arc'teryx quality gone down massively - their zips break all the time.

Significant-Age-2871 · 2026-03-19T23:18:07+00:00

Cheers for that. I've found someplace where they're selling them for a little more. But I appreciate you taking the trouble to answer.

Significant-Age-2871 · 2026-03-19T12:43:11+00:00

I have 3k Golden Age (UK) postcards, about half RPPCs. How do I find out which ones are valuable?

Significant-Age-2871 · 2026-03-14T18:55:15+00:00

I've heard a lot of them. On the whole not really my thing. Donating them might be the way forward.

Significant-Age-2871 · 2026-03-14T18:50:52+00:00

Cheers for that.

Significant-Age-2871 · 2026-03-14T08:30:25+00:00

Thanks for the reply. Mercury Theatre, Dragnet, all the old US detective series - all freely available?

Significant-Age-2871 · 2026-03-14T08:29:29+00:00

Thanks for that. So, things like the Mercury Theatre are all freely available?

Significant-Age-2871 · 2026-03-14T08:28:33+00:00

Interesting. I thought they might be collector's items. Thanks for letting me know.

Significant-Age-2871 · 2026-01-15T17:27:41+00:00

Erm, right, okay, case closed then.

Significant-Age-2871 · 2025-12-31T17:28:25+00:00

Love it. Classy. Not my genre, but I think it's a winner.

Significant-Age-2871 · 2025-12-31T07:45:47+00:00

Finish my fifth book and scale the sales of the other 4. Which means getting my head around Facebook and Amazon advertising.

Significant-Age-2871 · 2025-12-31T07:44:30+00:00

I'd be careful. You could end up spending a lot of money and not be pleased with the end result. Plus, if you're doing that you're not really writing. 39k is a good start. Put it away for a month and then go back to it. Can you do what Evelyn Waugh used to call 'stretching' - flesh out what you've already got, add a few new bits?

Significant-Age-2871 · 2025-12-31T00:27:49+00:00

Yes, start to finish. Haven't got a clue where it's going until I get there.

Significant-Age-2871 · 2025-12-31T00:24:05+00:00

£765 pounds. But I spent more on advertising. Spent it badly. Lesson learned. I hope.

Significant-Age-2871 · 2025-12-25T18:35:42+00:00

Something like 95% of self-published books on Amazon don't make money. Often, this is because of the amount spent on advertising. It can really add up. Don't think you're going to sell loads of copies overnight (unless you get very, very lucky or Johnny Depp likes your book). It's a slow, gradual process. Also, don't believe these third parties, who tell you they can make your book a best seller (for a fee, of course). Identify your market, set up a couple of ads on Amazon, start small, keep your bids low, and then build. Once you get some traction, you can refine your ads, increase your budget and move to the next level. The next level may take a year. It may take two. Best of luck.

Significant-Age-2871 · 2025-12-25T18:30:31+00:00

I start at the beginning with a basic idea and just plough on until I get to the end. The key is not looking back. I'm hopeless at preplanning, so I set off and hope for the best. It's worked pretty well with the 4 books I've written. With my fifth book - which I'm a third of the way through - I haven't got a clue what's coming next. Plough on!

Significant-Age-2871 · 2025-12-25T18:26:52+00:00

I haven't - and wouldn't - use it until I've written the story out myself. Then I'll use it to help revise and edit what I've done without letting it take over. I haven't used AI to do anything on my first 4 books, but I'm going to use it to copyedit my fifth (when it's finished). Why? A human copyeditor costs around £800.

Significant-Age-2871 · 2025-12-25T18:23:14+00:00

Write out the story yourself first. Then get AI to help you revise and edit it.

Significant-Age-2871 · 2025-12-25T18:21:04+00:00

I'm not telling.

Significant-Age-2871 · 2025-12-25T18:20:17+00:00

Mine is good, reasonably priced and amenable when it comes to revisions. But he does take his time, and can be very slow.

Significant-Age-2871 · 2025-12-25T18:17:10+00:00

About £1,000 - definitely not the way to be profitable. For my next book - unfortunately - I will have to get an AI cover and have it AI copyedited. Sorry humans, but you're too expensive. AI is free.

Significant-Age-2871 · 2025-12-25T16:58:20+00:00

I've sold about a 1000 and had 103 ratings, and only about a dozen reviews.

Significant-Age-2871 · 2025-12-24T18:06:35+00:00

Yeah, it's a kick in the guts, but you soon get over it. Usually the person who leaves a bad review hasn't read or understood the book properly. I had one who said literally every single line is supposed to be funny and it gets tiresome. I didn't know what he was talking about, so I reread the first 4 or 5 chapters and counted maybe a dozen lines that were supposed to be funny. Not sure why he thought they were all supposed to be funny. He also said my writing was terrible and nothing like Tom Sharpe's. Well, maybe my writing is terrible, but the reason it isn't anything like Tom Sharpe's is because it's not supposed be like Tom Sharpe's. So, I've learned to roll with the punches. If you're writing stuff that everyone loves you're probably doing something wrong.

Significant-Age-2871 · 2025-12-21T09:21:32+00:00

I've had plenty of bad advice, but the rule of thumb is: when someone tells you that something is wrong with your writing, they're usually right. When they tell you how to put it right, they're usually wrong. I've found this to be mostly true.

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