Monthly Archives: December 2014

Only 2 hours left to save 10% on the Entire Store!

clock-2hours-leftOnly about 2-1/2 hours left to save 10% off of anything in the Arizona Silhouette store!

Just use coupon code:  LASTCALL10  during checkout to get 10% off of all the eligible products. The only products that aren’t eligible are the ones that are already on sale for MORE than a 10% discount. Offer expires at 4 PM EST.

10% off also includes gift cards – great for last minute gift giving OR buy some for yourself to save 10% off of your purchases next year.

Just a reminder, tomorrow is our last shipping day to get your order to you by Christmas.

SOLD OUT!

Exotic Burl pen blank variety packs are gone!
It only took a short period of time before all these blank were sold out by the end of the day. There’s going to be a lot of beautiful Majestic pens being offered for sale, or given as gifts.
We already sent apologies to the customers who missed out on this  deal.
(It really does pay to follow the blog.)

Hurry- Special Exotic Burl Pen Blank Variety Packs with 15% off Majestic Pen Kits!

Exotic Burl Variety Pack Pen Blanks - PBEX1. This pack has already been sold!

Exotic Burl Variety Pack Pen Blanks – SOLD

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Exotic Burl Variety Pack Pen Blanks – PBEX1. This pack has already been sold!

We are proud to be able to offer these AAAAA (5A) Quality, Stunning, Fantastic, one-of-a-kind, exotic burl pen blanks from Central America.  These burl blanks were first screened by the importer to choose the 5A blanks, and then re-screened by me to offer you the highest quality exotic burl pen blanks you will ever see!  The grading system for exotic wood goes from a single A to AAAAA and it depends on the degree of figure in the wood.
These are top-notch!

Since these are such spectacular quality blanks, we want to combine them with some great looking high end pen kits. All of the Majestic, Majestic Junior and Majestic Squire pen kits will be offered to you at a 15% discount when purchased at the same time as  any of the Exotic Pen Blank Variety Packs (PBEX2, PBEX3, PBEX4 & PBEX5).  This is a limited time offer and the pen kits must be purchased at the time you buy the exotic pen blank variety kits. The Majestic Kits are NOT on sale by themselves, only with the variety pack purchase.

These special exotic blanks are not for your run-of-the-mill clients!  These are for your special “high end” customers that are willing to pay a little more for these quality pen blanks!  Let me give you an example:  At the last Paradise City Arts Festival held in Marlborough MA. three weeks ago, I had purchased a few of these blanks as a sample to see if I could sell them.  I put a Honduran Rosewood Burl blank on two Majestic Squires and sold each one for $125 each.  I normally sell my Majestic Squires for $75 with a very nice looking burl but with this “special” Honduran Rosewood Burl on it, I charged an extra $50 per pen and sold all four of them!

So Hurry to  get  one of these while they last – we only have four remaining variety packs left. Please only ONE variety pack per customer we want to share these with a few people!
Happy Selling!

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Gift Cards 10% Off

Gift_Card3_274x274(BTW, This is NOT the special offer that we mentioned in our last email blast. We will be offering that *very* soon in our next post)

It’s the time of year for gift giving, and sometimes you don’t exactly know what your favorite woodworker needs. The next best thing is a gift card so they can buy  what they really want. We’re making it EXTRA good for the giver by offering 10% off the  full price of the gift card.  Available in $25 – $35 – $50 – $75 – $100 values.

If you are your own favorite woodworker, that’s OK too! You deserve 10% off ANY time of the year.

This offer expires at 12 noon EST on December 24th, but don’t wait until the last minute 😉

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Watch Out For Fraud!

scam-alertA lot of my customers make money from their pens either full or part time. Sometimes we see a large order come in, and get so excited about it. But please look much closer before you start to fill the order.

I have had four of these types of proposals (two from Germany, one each from Finland & Spain) the last few days, so I thought I would pass this along to you as a public service announcement.
The latest scam is for a “buyer” from “overseas” to place a large order by credit card (which is stolen) for your pens or your supplies, and then ask you to use their shipper! This is the red flag!  They will tell you to include the shipping in with the order, and usually tell you that his shipper will avoid all the “customs hassles” etc. That is why he uses their shipper,  to avoid all the trouble and waiting time for UPS or USPS, and that is why it costs so much more.
The buyer will also tell you that his shipper will only accept Western Union as payment so you will have to go to the Western Union Office and wire the money for the shipping because you already got your money through the credit card (which is stolen).  This is a clever scam, because by the time you send the money to Western Union they have already closed the account and cashed the Western Union Check and you are left holding a bad credit card order.
So, the bottom line  for me is that I do not accept ANY foreign orders unless they pay with PayPal, and ship with UPS or USPS – No Exceptions!

Do any of you have your own tips for dealing with international orders?