For anyone who ordered yesterday, has your shipping status updated?

Comment · Tue, December 1, 2020 · 17 pts

It depends on when you ordered. Anything ordered before the cutoff went out yesterday, and my team stayed till 7pm to pick, pack and ship the rest. However, those would not be physically scanned by FedEx till today. 5pm

Comment · Tue, December 1, 2020 · 9 pts

Thanks! I am happy we had so much interest this year! I spoke to my team, and they said all orders that were placed before 4pm went out yesterday. They said sometimes FedEx misses a scan when they pickup. It's rare, but

Comment · Tue, December 1, 2020 · 7 pts

Thank you! I am glad we can actually handle that volume now. It's a lot of work building systems that can handle surges like this without order mistakes!

Comment · Tue, December 1, 2020 · 7 pts

Ohh hell yes, this year shattered last year. Every year beats the previous year, or we are not doing something right.

Comment · Tue, December 1, 2020 · 6 pts

Order numbers don't tell the whole story, because the amount per order goes way up on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Some people were making $1,500 to $2,000 orders. Factoring in order totals, it was about 6X a normal da

Comment · Tue, December 1, 2020 · 6 pts

My pleasure! If it is not there tomorrow, we will reship to you.

Comment · Wed, December 2, 2020 · 2 pts

Thanks! I am glad some people realize just how difficult it is to do what we do! I think a lot of people take for granted the level to which we have made "normal" now. It is not easy by any means. It's a lot of work by m

Comment · Wed, December 2, 2020 · 2 pts

Probably missed a scan. Everything was picked up. What happens with DHL Ecommerce is all the packages for that day go into big bags, and those bags get their own scanning code. Then those big bags go to the DHL facility

Comment · Wed, December 2, 2020 · 1 pts

A few thousand.

Comment · Wed, December 2, 2020 · 2 pts

Ohh, you're good. En route means it was picked up and is on the way to the distribution facility in California. Use this site to track DHL Ecommerce. It's the primary one. https://webtrack.dhlglobalmail.com/ Once they

Comment · Wed, December 2, 2020 · 3 pts

Focusing solely on profits is what ruins most companies. It's a shame. This is also why I have self-funded everything and kept things private. I only have to answer to myself and my customers, which means I can focus on

Comment · Wed, December 2, 2020 · 1 pts

My pleasure! Have a good day!

Comment · Thu, December 3, 2020 · 5 pts

I am not sure. I am comfortable with the way I do things. I understand how to run businesses the traditional way. The whole VC thing seems like bullshit to me. It just feels like a hype scam that has gotten out of contro

Comment · Thu, December 3, 2020 · 3 pts

That seems to be a common theme with most business owners. I was in corporate consulting before I started this company, and worked on everything from small mom and pop shops all the way up to companies in the top 50 of t

Comment · Fri, December 4, 2020 · 3 pts

My pleasure! Obviously different industries might make things more/less feasible. You probably couldn't bootstrap a pharmaceutical company, for example. That might be a bit tough. LOL

Comment · Sat, December 5, 2020 · 1 pts

I think the issue with that is that you are fighting against human nature. People are happiest when they think they are succeeding as much as those around them. The actual reality of it is less important. It's about thei

Comment · Sat, December 5, 2020 · 1 pts

No problem! Glad you got it!

Comment · Sat, December 5, 2020 · 1 pts

Very strange... There are shipping quotas to China right now, but that is usually weight-based, not value-based. I am having my team contact our rep about this now.

Comment · Mon, December 7, 2020 · 2 pts

My pleasure! Yeah, anything with groups of people will always have drama. It's just a fact of life. Being a contractor in consulting before all this, I was used to coming into projects, working with people there, then go

Comment · Mon, December 7, 2020 · 1 pts

I agree. Learning from people that have dealt with it before is invaluable. I had to hire people that were experienced in HR, as there is no way I could learn it all while trying to run the other parts of the business. S