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Market => Rumor mill => Topic started by: Pharmville on February 01, 2012, 05:03 am
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Hi everybody,
1. Tomorrow is Feb 1 and our store is going full PGP. This is both for addresses on orders and pm's. If you haven't made preparations for this (besides wagging my finger in your face and making that "you should know better" look that your Mother always made) we have made some allowance for people to ease into it and they are described on our sellers page. Please read it as there is also new info on a variety of other subjects as well.
2. Canada distribution center-well, this is not going to happen. The guy who was supposed to do it simply changed his mind. For all of you who wonder why we can't just get more people and ship faster and do everything like a normal Target store would, this is a good example: this person had the skills, the experience, was trustworthy, and had a great economic incentive both in the way he was to be paid and his life circumstances...BUT...when it came down to it, he couldn't handle the pressure of being the person making the shipments every day. It takes a special kind of person to do this work and for that I would just say...you might want to consider that before you light into one of your vendors about some tiny, immaterial issue. They are already taking great risk to bring you the products you receive. Please give them credit where credit is due. I am not talking about Ben and myself, we get plenty of kind words both in pm's and in feedbacks for our work, I'm talking about mostly the smaller vendors who are starting out and are having to feel their way through this "jungle". There's not a Boy Scout handbook for this kind of business, so where possible, be kind, rewind. :) We will continue to search for a distributor in Canada, the EU and AUS. But so far, it's looking rather dim. :P
3. Weekend shipping-a lot of newbies are writing asking why they ordered on Sat. and now it's Sun. night and we haven't confirmed their order. Please think before sending this kind of message: we don't put your packs in the mail until they are going to *move* to the sorting stations and actually be on their way. To do so would just be bad security and we won't do it. So orders that are placed over the weekend get packed and labeled and are put in the mail after midnight Sun. night so they are there for the first sorting on Monday. If that doesn't answer the question, then you probably shouldn't be here in the first place, IMHO. :)
4. Express Mail shipments not arriving overnight-as part of the Congresssional budget cutbacks on the Post Office, they have rewritten their "guarantee" and there are large swaths of the USA that are now only guaranteed for TWO DAY delivery. If you want to know whether this affects you or not, pls don't ask us, we don't know. Call your local post office and find out if you're still in the overnight guaranteed category OR if you are in the "we'll try to get it there overnight but it might take two days" category. And we at Pharmville have absolutely no control over this, so there's no reason to write to us about it, we can't change or fix it, so I will not be responding to inquiries about this problem after tonight.
5. Shipping confirmations-since Ben and I are working nearly around the clock, a lot of times I am sending out the shipping confirmations between midnight and 3am. So PLEASE don't write to me on the night your order shipped and ask me if it shipped. If you wake up and you don't have a shipping confirmation, it didn't ship and you should already have a pm explaining why. If not, then pls feel free to send me a pm to find out why. But please please please don't do it between 6pm-12am the night it's due to ship. Thanks! :)
6. OC's-Ben made a boo boo! He had been counting one item as another and as a result we have run out of OC40's and we have only 50 OC80's left. For the future he is going to use see thru bags to hold them so he doesn't have to rely on what's written on the outside of the package. But this means that we will be out of OC's for a few days. I'm very sorry about this and we will have them both back in stock by February 7 and then have them 24/7/365 from then on. Everybody makes a mistake now and then and this is his. :P
7. Commission free weekend-our special for the commission free weekend is going to be valium for $1.00 even. No commission, no add ons, nothing. I have had so many people ask me if they could buy valium for $1.00 even though the prices we sell it at now are the same ones we sold it at a decade ago...BUT NOW'S YOUR CHANCE. I will be listing just 50pc and 100pc packs for that weekend and you can order as many as you like. And they will still be the original Roche valiums, we're not substituting any Pakistani knock-off b.s. ones or any other off-brand product for this special price. This is the good stuff...just for a *very* low price. Stock up for as many months as you like, I am sure we have enough to satisfy the demand no matter how big it gets. :)
8. When SR is down-everyone please note that on our sellers page it gives you both our TorPM and Countermail addresses to contact us in case SR is down. Just in case you're too lazy or busy to go there, here they are: TorPM=PharmvilleTorPM and Countermail= Pharmville@countermail.com. Please use them when SR is down for maintenance or for any other matters that you feel you would prefer not to discuss on the SR website.
Please note: this is NOT a covert way of inviting people to contact me off site about out of escrow sales, so please don't read that into this memo. I think the fees are too high and I am doing everything I can to get them changed and encouraging others to write to SR directly if they feel the same way. I will work inside the system unless and until the system doesn't work for itself. And if that happens, I will be up front and open about it, not covert and sneaky. Ben and I try to show our respect for the buyers by not charging the highest possible obtainable prices for the products. We know that a lot of our buyers are daily users of the products and that the cost can really add up and take a big bite out of someone's paycheck. So we try everything possible to keep the prices down. Other people have their opinions, including the fact that the risks we take mean we deserve whatever price the market will bear...and those are equally valid. But now I'm off topic. Just want everyone to know that there are two places you can contact us that are secure if SR happens to be down. Thanks! :)
As always, we wish the best for everyone here and hope that things continue to get better and better!
>Alex & Ben<
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SR is currently down for me, can you post your public key in this thread? I've been mostly prepared :p
You guys rock, by the way.
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Hey Satellite,
Here's the key. We may rock, but Lou....well....he ROCKS!!! Nobody who owned Transformer on vinyl could ever walk away unaffected by it. It was my sole impression of NYC until a decade later when I went there and it was just like he said it was. One night it was raining really hard and I grabbed a cab outside a club at 6am and it was still dark and this trannie wearing nothing but saran wrap and about 7' tall started banging on the door window to let he/she in. I didn't, it was way too wet and he was way too big. But I remember thinking: yup, this is Lou's NYC. That was 30 yrs ago and I remember it like it was yesterday. So normally I'd tell someone to go to our sellers page and our key is right there, but as you have Lou for your logo (and it's the right Lou) I am compelled to do the work for you, so here it is:
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have fun,
Alex
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Thanks so much for this. I switched to something more secure and SR's just been acting weird for me. So thanks again for posting it, hope you have a Perfect Day
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Well if it ain't my favorite duo. Hey fellas!
You guys are outstanding! Sorry the Canadian deal fell through though. That's a bummer. Hopefully in the not too distant future something or someone just right might come your way.
Hey, you know, the other day I was thinking to myself and I said, "Self? you know what? I wish them fellas had a 75 qty for percs." That would be the sweet spot between 50 and 100qty. Would be cool if you could eventually offer this. You know I'd be ordering that.
Anyway, keep keeping on. And thanks for the update.