Recent content by thegascupboard

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    I'm sure you all know "that" customer...

    We sell products for model railways. These include 1/76 scale fences, hay bales, concrete bollards to name a few. Only last week we had a web order for 4 packs of hay bales and i thought i'd better explain these aren't real, fullsize hay bales - how can we even get 4 hay bales POSTED by RM for...
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    CS CART - good or bad?

    We just have a fixed p&p charge for RM. Not much to export!
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    CS CART - good or bad?

    We switched to CS in february after 4yrs with oscommerce and i can highly recommend. We have had quite a few custom mods made for us such as instore epos - the software is the heart of our business and depend on it every day.
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    Rent Arrears

    £100 for the whole month?
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    Store feeds - who is out there?

    I understand the difference between googles interpretation of "in stock" and "available to order" but where does this show up for the user? I can't see it anywhere. I have an issue where we have about 4,000 lines with things in and out of stock on a daily basis and was wondering whether to just...
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    Store feeds - who is out there?

    Sorry my bad, just so used to calling it google base
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    Store feeds - who is out there?

    Froogle is long gone, replaced with google base. Pretty easy to setup as long as you have the required fields in your csv.
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    Sundays?

    Who stays open on Sundays in December? We have in the past 10 - 2 with mixed results. Will be open the Sunday before Xmas this year though.
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    In Store vs Online Pricing Strategy

    What are peoples opinions on different lower pricing online to instore? Do any of you have different pricing for different markets?
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    Rats in the shop

    Its all sorted now. The landlady's agent has informed me they have had a rat issue that was supposedly resolved recently (before we picked up the keys last week) and the council are reinvestigating the job next week.
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    Rats in the shop

    Its a standard internal only repairing lease, if that helps.
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    Phone, Broadband & Payment Terminal

    Hi, We are in a similar position of choice at the moment. I have decided on switching to VOIP for our phone system (with VOIPfone) to include broadband and line rental. We have our existing Barclays card terminal (which I can thoroughly recommend) to plug into a standard phone line.
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    Rats in the shop

    We're currently renovating a new shop and we have found a rats nest within the walls, now who has responsibility to pay and sort this out? The tenant (us) or the landlord?
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    what flooring?

    We sell models/hobby products. Decided after meeting with the flooring co, to go for a basic carpet cord £5 sqm.
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    what flooring?

    Just planning new flooring for a shop and was interested to know what others have in their shops? Any pros and cons to the options?