Quiz, snow, sale

[bunn]

 Our team won the monthly quiz at a local village hall. Such pride! I think everyone on the team had at least one 'nobody else knows this' question, which is always rewarding.  We won sugary treats which are very bad for us.  They were delicious. 

Today, it snowed. Most of Pembrokeshire seems to have been covered in a delightful white blanket, though down here by the water the snow quickly went to slush. 

Much hard work went into launching the Shop on the Borderlands winter sale (we decided to ditch the idea of Black Friday, which is kind of meaningless in the UK anyway, and go a week or so earlier.)   There was much rushing around putting books into piles and photographing them at top speed.

Then I forgot to clear the site cache before we sent out the newsletter yesterday saying the sale had begun, meaning that a lot of people saw an empty page of No Offers.  Oh well.  There has been a steady stream of sales today so it's all more or less worked out, though we're both rather worn by the effort of all the packing.  

Comments

[grundyscribbling]

Well done ditching Black Friday. Hope the winter sale goes well!

[bunn]

I am honestly not sure it was a good call. The sale has been pretty quiet by the standards of previous years and I wonder if we have missed out on shoppers who were/are specifically looking for Black Friday. It's not like we have any of the usual complaints about the event: we don't have any workers to overwork or abuse, and really we are too tiny to be setting any kind of trend.

Then again, everyone has less money to spend and we've pretty much lost our US customer base despite all the work on streamlining tariffs so perhaps it would be quiet whatever we do. The Finns seem to have stopped shopping with us too, unless they have decided to take a break from buying our games to actually play them this winter :-/ Hey ho.