My First Class Alternative! Going around Miva Merchant 4.3

A New Zealand customer e-mailed me to find out if there was perhaps a less expensive way to ship his order for 6 sets of bookplates than the$48.00 on my website.                      :::BLUSH::: Spent this morning coming with an Alternative Plan for customers - US, Canada, England, Australia and New Zealand - that - although a bit clunky - brought his shipping down to $6.00. Yeah, that's more like it!! Explained it on the website, let's see if people stop dropping their shopping baskets when they get to the checkout now.          ------------------------ First Class is no longer offered by my software program, and it's what is most often appropriate for lightweight bookplates! This is my alternative to the shipping choices for your orders. There is one choice for the US and Canada, another for UK, Australia, New Zealand (other international customers, please contact me using the form in the section. To use, scroll down to the bottom here 1.) Select the appropriate First Class Shipping product and place in your basket. 2.) Choose the quantity of bookplates in your completed order (you can also adjust the quantity to fit if you add or subtract bookplates). Shipping First Class after a certain weight isn't allowed- the order will have to be shipped Priority, Parcel or UPS - so that's why the quantities stop at a certain number. If you want something shipped faster - select Priority or other - do NOT use this! Note: If you ordered Limited Edition bookplates, to determine how many packs divide your total by 12 and round to the closest number. (so 1-6 Limited Edition loose bookplates= 0 sets 7-12 Limited Edition loose bookplates = 1 set 13-18 = 2 sets 19-23 Limited Edition loose bookplates = 2 sets etc. etc. Remember, if your order totals over $50.00, you get free shipping and you will not need this! While occasionally someone will try to take advantage of something like this to get a great deal, I know bookplate customers generally won't do that! I'm a small, one person operation with shallow pockets! And please, don't worry - I will double check the shipping total - if there is an error, I'll let you know and will either issue a refund or request payment for the difference before shipping the order.

http://www.friendlyspirit.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=SHIPPINGINFO

Cats Books Life is Sweet Custom Jewelry from Zazzle.com

There's also booklover jewelry for sale on my Cafepress account - here's one example...

Cats Books Life is Sweet by friendlyspirit

Meanwhile, with spring coming it's time to do some yardwork and house cleaning. I'm giving some serious thought to having this be the last year for the bookplate section of my business, for reasons I will go into at another time. It isn't the most portable business...

New bookplates!!!

This was exciting -- I need to get some new bookplate designs, but with the economy what it is, money is limited. I called out to fellow artists and got a bunch of really nice designs, which I put into my shop just in time for back to school.

I hope these go over well -- some of them are so nice, I want them for my own collection!

They're all laid out in my shop..Right here