How is going to an armorer to pay to have your weapon sharpened or armor padded OOC?

They used to have these peddles regularly and I for one would rather have these than some of the peddles that have been around lately in which mediocre ESE priced gear is being sold as high quality peddle gear. I would rather see a peddle where someone can get that old broken weapon, bought when weapon peddles were selling high quality weapons only, that they spent 10k gold on fixed and sharpened. Or expensive peddle armor repaired and padded. I remember when getting a set of steelwood/steel armor padded 3 times could give the same protection as moonsilver/drathian.

Though I guess I would rather see Giant armor done away with than even getting any of these peddles. But as it is unless you can afford to buy drathian two-hander you really aren't doing any damage to a thug/oog through giant armor. My thugian with giant steel armor and zerk damage ignore can laugh at maxed drakes clawing him and only doing 8-12 per claw. Even I know this is way out of wack though it benefits my thugian to keep things this way, it just doesn't fit with the rest of the system.