I will say that if you're willing to deal with a middleman, you can get some high-quality stuff because the middleman takes care of making sure you get what you asked for. I don't dare deal with them directly. People romanticize them because they just go to Amish Country on Saturday and visit the tourist shops. You really need to live around them to understand what they're like. One last thing, in the town I worked in running deliveries, it wasn't uncommon to see an old goatroper coming out of the bank with a paper bag. Turns out that the bag is usually full of cash, as they don't use credit.