Almost two years ago, we prototyped and sent to production a large Union Jack Light Box and released it exclusively – this was the first time a product like this was created, and even today, we’re the only ones selling a Union Jack lamp in Lightbox form. We had a lot of them produced, too many, in fact!
Last year, when we moved and knew space would be limited at our new house, we opted to put a few hundred units in a fulfilment warehouse. This solution worked well for us; whenever someone ordered one, it was properly packed and shipped. It worked great until recently.
The problem is that we received a letter from the fulfilment house who informed us that they would be massively increasing their monthly storage fees and fulfilment prices, to the point where it would no longer make sense to have them there – but as of today, we still have 100 units there, so we need to get them out of there. We need to sell all of these units as soon as possible because they also informed us that they would be charging us a significant amount of money to get the units out of the warehouse.
So, from this week the Union Jack Lightbox will be priced at $24.99 plus shipping until they’ve sold out at the warehouse. This is the lowest we can price the units to basically break even on these. We need to sell them all as soon as possible. We sent emails to Angotopia followers yesterday, and as of this writing, there’s still about 90 left. If you would like this beautiful product, or have an Anglophile friend who would – please let them know about it. We got to sell them out as soon as possible.
I should add that, we are likely not producing more of these lightboxes, so once they sell out, they will be gone for good.
Please help us get rid of these, and if you know anyone who would like one of these, please tell them as well! Thank you!
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I understand your dilemma. About a decade ago, as webmaster for my library’s Friends group, I wanted to celebrate the then-upcoming centennial anniversary. With the library’s Board’s permission, I arranged for a special, local, postmark with the US Postal Service; the library held a contest for the postmark’s design (it was a draw between two of five contestants, so, the two winners were merged into the winning postmark). I then ordered 100 of the postmarks to be sold at $1 each to benefit the Friends, and, hence, the library. That was 100 times 46 cents (the cost of first class postage at that time) plus the cost of the envelopes. I advertised, heavily, within a 50 mile radius in news media and online, all at no charge, since it was a charitable event. Didn’t sell a single one, not even to the Board members! :,(