Flurb Me restocked

The recently announced delivery by FurbMe just arrived.
All toys except 2 are back in stock now.

The Draggy

(Yes, postings in the category „Disturbing Dildo Deliveries“ are basically copy&pasted.
There is just nothing original to write about such a thing but many people are waiting
for toys of a specific manufacturer to come in, so it’s important we post these.)

New delivery by FlurbMe on it’s way

A new delivery by Flurb Me is on it’s way. You can track it here.

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VixenMaker

The VixenMaker is a buttplug that a humpable vixen of medium ‚Fantastically Fuckable‘ size and the default soft firmness.

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MareMaker

The MareMaker is the same for a mare.

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PonyMaker

And the PonyMaker the same for a stallion.

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Custom toys:
For just a few days after this delivery arrived and before we place our next order right away, it will be possible to order custom variation again. Just contact us via email, stating all the details like colour and firmnes. Then we’ll provide you with a custom product that can be ordered exactly 1 time via the regular ordering process. The only  difference is that it obviously takes longer to ship and we require it to be fully payed right away. Also for custom made products there is no 14 day return period.

(Yes, postings in the category „Disturbing Dildo Deliveries“ are basically copy&pasted.
There is just nothing original to write about such a thing but many people are waiting
for toys of a specific manufacturer to come in, so it’s important we post these.)



Delivery of Bad Wolf toys on it’s way

Just after Exotic Erotics arrived on Monday, the next delivery is about to come in…


A new delivery of Dildos by Bad Wolf (English / German) is on it’s way .

We expect it to arrive in a few business days.

(Yes, postings in the category „Disturbing Dildo Deliveries“ are basically copy&pasted.
There is just nothing original to write about such a thing but many people are waiting
for toys of a specific manufacturer to come in, so it’s important we post these.)

Custom toys:
For just a few days after this delivery arrived and before we place our next order right away, it will be possible to order custom variation again. Just contact us via email, stating all the details like colour and firmnes. Then we’ll provide you with a custom product that can be ordered exactly 1 time via the regular ordering process. The only  difference is that it obviously takes longer to ship and we require it to be fully payed right away. Also for custom made products there is no 14 day return period.

(Yes, postings in the category „Disturbing Dildo Deliveries“ are basically copy&pasted.
There is just nothing original to write about such a thing but many people are waiting
for toys of a specific manufacturer to come in, so it’s important we post these.)

A delivery by Exotic Erotics just arrived

Stock status

4 of 130 (2 new toys added recently) Exotic Erotics models, are currently still not in stock.

Added sizes and photos

We added a number of missing size values and are working on adding additional photos for size comparisons.

Custom toys

We do offer custom toys to be included in the next order.
Please contact us early and we’ll create a custom product for you to order as soon as the next shipment leaves the factory and we place our own restock order.

(Yes, postings in the category „Disturbing Dildo Deliveries“ are basically copy&pasted.
There is just nothing original to write about such a thing but many people are waiting
for toys of a specific manufacturer to come in, so it’s important we post these.)

Updated Amazon integration creating problems

We are running an Amazon integration, allowing us to sell selected products on Amazon.de (and before Brexit Amazon.co.u).
We do not sell on other EU markets because we can neither provide support nor descriptions in the local languages.

A new version of this integration now replaces the mechanism of how product categories, description and attributes are handles.
Luckily this only requies effort for new products.

The problem is, the first step to sell new products on Amazon is to create a „Product Type“ and these require us to select from a fixed list of product types.
However the non-public category of sex toys is simply not listed to choose from.
So it is impossible for us to add products we have in the shop to our Amazon listing at this time.

They also changed the value we have to enter into the EAN/UPC field for products that don’t have an EAN/UPC/ISBN. Without telling anyone.
So now we have to change the value already entered in hundreds of products.

…and here I though the 5 hour printer jam was the worst that would happen on this lovely Sunday.

Paper jam – an existential crisis

The less glorious parts of running a dildo shop:
Instead of enjoying a sunny Sunday,
we just spend the better part of an evening fixing a paper jam in our (reasonably) big printer.
Down to the point of going through the service manual to take it apart (with some very scary steps).

It may sound benign but having to prepare customs paperwork for Monday and printing invoices and postage for shipping as well as (legally mandatory) product packaging, this is critical.

At this point we know every single photo-interruptor and levered microswitch that has anything to do with paper detection.
Turned out a tiny piece of paper was stuck in a hidden part, used only for duplex printing.
Of cause when we found out, every other part of this hellish contraption was already inspected, cleaned and tested a dozen times over.

Print quality is crap for the time being but good enough for customs paperwork.
In the past, this has solve itself by just having enough unimportant things to print until the last spec of paper dust and microscopic air bubble has left the system.

Improved statistics in preparation for Eurofurence

This was quite a lot of programming work today.
This is one of the many tasks that don’t come to mind when you hear „operating a webshop“.

Last year

We can not bring all toys to Eurofurence. There’s just too many of them.
So we have to choose.
In storage, our toys are organised on boxes of up to 6 different models.
Only models of the same manufacturer end up in a box.
In preparation for Last year’s Dealers Den we wrote 2 new statistics:

  • How popular are the products in all boxes of a manufacturer.
    • So we can make boxes with only popular and only unpopular toys
  • What are the N best boxes in terms of the popularity of their toys
    • So we can pack the most popular ones
  • Export this list of boxes in a format our custom „price list“ printing program understand
    • So the printed catalogues in the Dealers Den queue only contain products we actually have at Eurofurence.

We already made a switch to ignore products that are currently out of stock, so they won’t skew the popularity of a box.

This year

What we still had to do manually is to make sure all products that are new
(where not in the shop at the last Eurofurence) are in boxes we bring to the Dealers Den.
Especially since they may be so new, that there was no chance of them becoming popular yet.
So we added the ability to import this information into the statistics database,
store it, display it as additional details next to products and boxes, took care of all the special cases, debugged everything and finally added a second switch to ignore or use this information when sorting the popularity of products and boxes.


Bad Wolf partially restocked and some mistakes


The small delivery by Bad Wolf (English / German) has arrived.
All but 5 toys and most lubes are in stock again.

Mistakes where made

We made a mistake and ordered a few too many toys for the next delivery (not thinking about this one already being in the pipeline).
We also mistakenly ordered 2 colours of the same size for a new model instead of different sizes.

(Yes, postings in the category „Disturbing Dildo Deliveries“ are basically copy&pasted.
There is just nothing original to write about such a thing but many people are waiting
for toys of a specific manufacturer to come in, so it’s important we post these.)