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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.
We will reopen shipping on Monday.
Today we received the invoice for the shipping fees of a Zetacreations shipment,
that we expect to arrive in the second week of January.
Just as every year, we will be on vacation and there will be no shipping during the holidays.
Contrary to last year, we will not open again between Christmas and New-Year.
The shop is closed from 2019-12-17 until New-Year.
This blog posting will be updated as new information comes in.
The last shipping will happen on 2019-12-16 for orders played and fully payed on 2022-12-15 20:00.
If you select DHL Packstation, please make sure to include your DHL Postnummer in the address.
if you select Hermes Shop2Shop, please tell us about what Hermes shop to select via email. (Hermes wants a delivery address AND the shop.)
FurryStyle will no longer accept custom orders to be finished this year effective today.
We have just recieved some last deliveries by Sidewinder Creations, FlurbMe and by Bad Wolf (including Wolf Cum Lube). We will announce them at once, so you can still place an order to be fulfilled before we have to close down and have it arrive before christmas.
At the moment every DHL post office is crowded. If you can, please select a DHL Packstation instead of having anything delivered to a selected post office. Because if you do, expect very long waiting queues.
We have shut down our presence on Amazon on the 15th of December.
This step is needed because orders made there would have to be shipped in less then 7 days and that is not possible while we are enjoying the holidays like everyone else.
Amazon will be reactivated before or very shortly after we return.
Looks like our credit card used for our own US orders has charged us a wrong exchange rate for an oder payed on the first of November.
Their price-list says they would use the mastercard exchange rate and where to look it uo. However that gives a different rate for that date then the one they actually charged.
We noticed a fairly stupid (failed) hacking attemp in our server by placing an order with code-injection.
It’s a simple and fairly bad attempt to get the shop to download and execure some PHP-malware.
The malware is very generic and probably just off-the-shelf.
The attempt was very rudimentary and made in a way that would instantly come to attention.
So this was in no way targeted and is probably attempted with thousands of shops in an automated way.
We informed the abuse department of the domain registrar used to download the malware from.
We also added the existing captcha also to the account-creation process.
Obviously we did check the log files, security scanner report and that indeed all patches against known issues (security relevant or not) hava already been applied.
We also enabled an „invisible“ Google ReCaptcha V3 in addition to the existing server-side captcha for account-creation and deleted a large number of similar accounts created by harmless bots in the past.
The strike of Royal Mail will not happen at least in the next two weeks.
Limitations with shipping to UK customers are thus lifted.
Sadly FlurbMe had to raise the prices of theit toys and thus we had to match their new prices.
Paypal is increasing it’s fees from 2.5% to 3.0%.
Due to PSD II regulations, we are not allowed to charge a fee associated with any one payment mechanism. So normally this would force up to increase all prices, even when paying with a credit card (1.4%), by bank transfer (0.10€/100 transactions) or in cash at events (free).
Since we already had to increase so many prices due to the EUR/USD exchange rate falling, we opted to instead only remove the Paypal express checkout button from the shopping cart for the time being. A permanent solution can hopefully wait until the current crisis is over.
Update
We checked again and while the LG Munic ruled that we can’t do that for Paypal. later the higher OLG Munic ruled (10.10.2019 Az. 29 U 4666/18) that we are allowed to charge fee for using Paypal as long as the fee is not higher then the fee Paypal charged to us.
There is also a 2001 ruling of the highest court (BGH) with the same verdict.
So starting 1st of August 2020 we may do that.