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August 4, 2007
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of Mold Warehouse
August 4, 2007
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Contents:
1. All
products are now WHOLESALE TO THE PUBLIC!
2. News
about our long delay in sending out newsletters.
3. The
Community Forum and why it is no longer active.
4. A
new fund raising foundation is in the works.
5. Helping
us grow
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1. All products are now WHOLESALE TO THE PUBLIC!
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A major
change has taken place with our web site and business. We have now
completed the entire site and loaded it up yesterday with all products
listed as
Wholesale to the Public.
Pricing
is now the same whether you purchase one or hundreds
of the molds on our site. No limit on how many you can buy either. In
fact, you
only have to pay $25.00 for shipping on any purchase over $200.00 worth
of product, a
further savings over all.
We are
still going to make the same great molds without any drop in quality.
We have been
watching our competitors lowering prices for some time now and we have
been suffering
from lack of sales due to our current economic drop caused by rising
fuel cost and interest rates
going up all over the place.
Since
we manufacture all molds at the time they are ordered, and do not import
our molds from out of
the country, we have the best opportunity to make major changes on how
we do business. Many small mom and
pop business have taken advantage of buying larger quantities of our
molds from 50 or more at a time to
save on cost. For over 8 months now, even the mom and pop businesses
have been suffering and not able
to buy in even small volumes, so I decided to take matters into my own
hands and make it easy for anyone
to afford molds from our site. Prices are not just slashed, they are
at absolute 100% Wholesale Pricing to
the Public now.
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2. News
about our long delay in sending out newsletters.
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Right
at the start of our busy season for selling concrete molds on eBay,
they decided to kill
a very important listing program called Turbo Lister and tried to force
a newer version on us to use.
The new version was not only a total disaster, but was not functional
at all. All the long hours of
building listings to use on eBay was gone overnight in a flash. I tried
to do a few individual listings
but found that the time to do them and the return was not going to be
worth it at all. The other problem
was that the software I had tried (and paid for) to try and do the same
job listing was not up to
listing on staggered times. The staggered timed listings was important
to stay up at the top of the pages
during searches by the public. As eBay is also being SPAMMED heavy for
key words by people trying to sell
thin plastic craft molds as concrete molds, it was impossible to stay
up in the searches without the
timed listings capability.
Just
recently, the folks over at Raewyck Software ( http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeekbtk/
) listened to my
complaints and comments on the eBay forums and via personal contact
with me with email. They worked to include
the updates needed to make the timed listings to eBay on a wider choice
of schedules than Turbo Lister
ever did. For those of you that might use eBay to list the same products
over and over, or have friends
or family that do, please let them know about these folks. They did
a fantastic job on this.
To make it even better, if you have an internet connection that is always
on, you can do the listings on a
schedule without having to pay eBay a cent for it :-)
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The
other big event that happened here is about our web service. We had
a virtual dedicated server on Go Daddy
and had a large amount of web sites up for clients and ourselves with
them. The mail server went down and became
corrupted so we lost mail service to all the sites on the server. We
could not do anything with the server
from the web, and the tech support people at GoDaddy would not fix it
either, since we didn't have a high cost
managed service with them, so out of desperation, we had to move all
of our web sites to a new hosting service
just to get mail back up and running.
Some
of you might understand the monumental task that involves, especially
when your business and many others relied
on the service I was providing. I still have quite a few sites that
may never go back up again, but at least we are
back up and running for our customers.
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3. The
Community Forum and why it is no longer active.
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I spent
a lot of time building the forum and setting up the software on our
site so our customer
could share experiences and I could offer up tips and advise about casting
products and using molds.
It just seems you can't do anything anymore without bad people taking
advantage of web sites by
posting content and links to very bad places on the net. With that said,
I decided to take down the
forum and start a new program instead.
I am
welcoming any input you might want to give to be placed in the forum
for comments or advise, and
will be adding material on the site directly where bad people cannot
affect the static pages I put up
for use there. Until I can find a more secure forum software, I will
be doing that instead.
If you have something you want to send for me to post, write to sales@moldwarehouse.com
and let me know.
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4. A
new fund raising foundation is in the works.
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After
all the work, and money spent on eBay to build a business only to have
it torn down at the
whim of some system manager at eBay, it occurred to me to maybe take
a look at what eBay was actually
costing me to do business. The results were unbelievable. It was costing
me from 50% to over 100% at times
to post products on eBay. The rest of what I made was pretty much going
to postage and packaging.
The only positive thing was that some more savvy folks would find my
web site and do business with me
directly from being seen on eBay. Most of those folks needed more molds
than what eBay let me afford to
post, so I was selling to them at wholesale anyway.
I sat
down and wrote up a list of other options available to get my small
business back on it's feet again,
and was still trying to decide what to do when a customer contacted
me to make a custom mold for them to
help raise funds for a very worthy cause. That got me to thinking about
a solution that would help them
to raise funds as well as give other needy causes the money I was just
burning up at eBay.
The
CrowTalker Catcher of Dreams Foundation was born out of this. The web
site and supporting material will be
available very soon now. If you know anyone that has a needy cause,
and that can include anything from a
grade-school class to a large organization of any kind, please let me
know and I will contact them about what we
are doing here for them.
We already
have several animal and wild animal shelters and rescue organizations
ready to get on board, and
are also looking forward to working with some young ladies in the Midwest
that are out working hard to
raise funds to help the deaf. Churches and any good cause will be welcome
to participate.
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5. Helping
us grow
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We appreciate
all the efforts and purchases our newsletter subscribers have done for
us.
Without you, our business cannot keep growing or even exist without
your
support.
Passing
this newsletter on to friends and family helps let more folks know about
us and
what we do. Please feel free to forward this newsletter or a link to
our web site on to others.
Thank
you for all your help in letting others know about us.
We currently
have 222 subscribers as of August 4, 2007
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Danial
K. Miller
Mold Warehouse
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