My big balls

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Originally posted by Robert H


Because I ship out 40 to 50 orders a week, and I am just one person. It takes me about 20 minutes to process each order. I have to pay for boxes and shipping material. 2% of the order goes to the credit card company. UPS charges me a weekly fee beyond the cost of shipping each order, plus a pick up fee. Shall I go on? If you ordered $100 worth of plants, would you want your order delayed another week because I got 10 orders for $10 a peice that I had to spend my time getting out the door?

I work out of my house... I could hire help and a warehouse, but then I would have to raise my prices. $25 isn't much of a minimum. It seems like a good comprimise to me. But nothing is set in stone either. I make exceptions for regular customers and other circumstances. But you are right, I'm not Ebay, or Aquabid....and I don't want to be!
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Fair enough - if you have enough business that warrants not doing orders under $25 that makes sense - Actually my bigger beef was the additional $5 handling charge on top of already high UPS shipping charges. For example, even if one was to buy 4 balls, which come to $18, after adding on UPS shipping of $11.88 and the $5 handling charge the price basically doubles

I don't know, guess I am just used to buying and selling via Aquabid - where I can ship something via USPS Prioirty mail for about $5 (which takes typically the same 2 days that the UPS 2 day service does) - and the USPS provides the free shipping material

But you obviously know your business better than I do so your policy works for you
 
Ouch,
Ball splitting will give you flattened balls.

Hey, Robert, when you sell out, will you then be "ball less?"

Regards,
Tom Barr
 
Originally posted by gcvt
Can't you split your balls in half, fold each half-ball over on itself, hold the ball in that position using thread, and end up with two small round balls?
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Hmmm, i would suspect that tieing your balls would be considered uhhh quite painful or even kinky - but hey if the fish don't mind;)
 
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Hey, I had two balls fuse together to make one big ball!

would I be ball less? Only in body not in spirit!

But hey, I will still have more balls than a frenchman, or apparently the Canadian president! Ooops, I guess now I will have a few less sold balls... but as long as I am ranting... hey Tom, guess where literally tons of all the weapons our soldiers are finding were made? France, Germany, and Russia! Now isn't that a big surprise!:o
 
Originally posted by Robert H
Hey, I had two balls fuse together to make one big ball!
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Wow! I didn't know balls could fuse together! :eek:

So, with that in mind, I guess it's better to keep a little distance between my balls?

I only have two balls right now, and I'd rather not have them fuse together - I want to turn them into more balls at some point.
 
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