COMING WEBSITE REVISIONS - JUNE ‘08
June 28th, 2008Due to many factors (the rising cost of fuel and shipping, changing prices in materials and unfinished furniture, as well as abuse of our website, to name but a few), we will be drastically changing the way our artwork is priced on the site. A few of these changes are listed below:
1. Prices listed for painted furniture will be a minimum estimated price. This price will vary according to variations in the furniture being painted, customer added details, etc. In all cases, we will arrive at a final estimate for our customers, and will adhere to that final estimate.
2. We will be completely removing the paypal option for all painted furniture from our website. These are custom painted works of functional art, not fast food. Each piece is a unique work, and takes not only time, but talent to produce. Our work has been seriously under-priced (deliberately, by me, for the most part) for the last ten years, and needs to be adjusted accordingly.
3. Shipping and handling will be the combined cost of the actual shipping of the item, as well as materials and time to properly prepare the item for shipping or delivery. Other than not losing money for the time it takes to pack the item, we are making nothing in the way of a profit for shipping. This is more than fair, from our perspective, as most other companies make money on every aspect of their business (including outside advertising on our website, which we avoid due to the fact that we are not greedy capitalist pigs, but artists). We only make money on our time and talent, and though we strive to be fair, we have found ourselves the victims of those who feel that they should get five-star quality at a McDonald’s price. Again, this is something that I feel needs to be addressed immediately, lest it get out of hand.
As always, the changes I make to the site are done with the intention of making things better for our customers, and our visitors. We look forward to bringing in many more works of art to our site this year, and hope you’ll bear with us while we rewrite the site yet again.
~Namaste


