Hinter den Türen des YiffyToys Shops.
Due to the current inflation and uncertainty, business it down a lot.
We took this opportunity to test an ad banner on FurAffinity for a month.
Strangely, their ad-report shows significantly more clicks then our fa-specific landing page counted requests.
Eine ganze Ladung an Paketen, die am 5.1.2017 an DHL übergeben wurden,
erschien nicht im Tracking.
Heute 12:23 wurden diese anscheinend alle im Paketzentrum Lahr gefunden und eingescannt.
Sie dürften sich jetzt auf den regulären Weg machen.
We have 2 important toy deliveries from Foxy Rabbit and Exotic Erotics for Eurofurence Dealers Den. Both are waiting in the local DHL delivery center since 10 days.
With DHL lowering it’s „energy-surcharge“ from 3,75% to 2,50%, we can lower the prices for shipping within Germany starting today for at least February and March. The surcharge for April will be announced by DHL at the end of February.
As announced, we have to increase shipping prices to Austria (the one without kangaroos) to offset the cost of their new recycling laws not having a threshold-clause for small businesses and requiring us to have an expensive representative in Austria instead of just licensing our packaging material for recycling. Sorry.
Given how often we have posted about DHL in the past, we added a new hashtag „DHL“ to the blog and all past entries mentioning them.
The worker’s union Verdi announced a strike at DHL for today.
So parcels and mail may get delayed a bit.
7 days later DHL in Germany is still on strike.
450.000 parcels currently not moving (7% of the regular parcels per day)
Hopefully they’ll find an agreement with their employees soon.
Today we had to evacuate for a World War II aerial bomb disposal.
This is the second time this happened to us.
Now we’re allowed back into the YiffyToys shop.
Everything went smoothly.
Sadly these things are still a very common occurence in Germany.
You’re lucky if one is found and disposed instead of them blowing up on their own.
Acid time delay fuses are just a bitch.
Usually they are found during construction work.
Yes, sometimes „disposal“ means these huge beasts have to be detonated in place.
That’s why such large parts of the city are evacuated with the red cross setting up camp in the trade show halls and everything.
As announced, we have finally lowered the prices of all imported toys due to the relaxed exchange rates between Euro and US-Dollar.
The last manufacturer we worked out way through was Exotic Erotics.
Note that there is also a delivery by Exotic Erotics currently on the way to restock many toys.
With the improved EUR/USD exchange rates,
we have now lowered the prices for Horny Ram toys.
e.g. the Large Ekino from 192.56 to 188€ and the Brutus from 155 down to 118€
The EUR/USD exchange rate has stopped it’s free fall, that started in May 2021 and may have stabilized in the 1.05-1.07 EUR/USD range.
This allowed us to lower the prices for imported toys from FoxyRabbit
Back in mid-2021, it started it’s nose-dive at 1.22 Euro for every Dollar
While this does not seem like much, it translates to quite a difference for toys that cost 50, 80 or 200 Euro.
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We have activated the new DHL prices in the YiffyToys shop.
Some prices have gone down, som up.
The majority of you will pay a slightly lower price when selecting „DHL“ as the shipping method in checkout.
Sorry, we forgot the 12ct „toll+CO2 surcharge“ and the new „energy-surcharge“ in the new DHL pricelist.
Luckily the November+December surcharge doesn’t apply anymore
but we will have to regularly update to apply the monthly changing „energy-surcharge“ that DHL charges.