We just got the notification that a shipment containing some new toy models will be shipped very soon.
Stay tuned!
No spoilers yet. 😉
DHL „Energy Surcharge“ stable
Looks like the DHL „Energy Surcharge“ stays stable at 2.5% and we don’t have to adjust our DHL shipping prices for Aril.
We will however be able to ever so slightly lower them for May.
https://www.dhl.de/de/geschaeftskunden/paket/leistungen-und-services/energiezuschlag.html
Spaaaaam
The special kind of spam you get as a business…
FurAffinity Banner
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.
DHL Probleme
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.
DHL 14 days quarantine delay
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.
New DHL prices for February
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.
Austria
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.
DHL Tag
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.
DHL Germany still on strike
The worker’s union Verdi announced a strike at DHL for today.
So parcels and mail may get delayed a bit.
Update
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.
WWII bomb disposal near YiffyToys
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.
Exotic Erotics prices lowered
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.