Snuzzles MY BEDTIME BOOK in MINT CONDITION Added to Catalog

Playskool Snuzzles Baby Bear MY BEDTIME BOOK

I added the last of our Playskool Snuzzles Blankies Collection to our Catalog today. I have seen this bedtime cloth book before without all the parts, but this is the only time I have ever seen one with not only all the parts, but the pieces still attached. The book has never been used, as far as I can tell, and is in MINT Condition.

We have well over 600 baby plush toys and soft dolls listed online now in our Catalog, and I still haven't scratched the surface of all the storage boxes of plush animals and dolls we have stored. I am nearing the end of the Baby Toys, however, so hopefully I can start soon on some of the other collections we have accumulated.

We are in business, but the Lost Toys Search Service has lit a fire in us to rescue these lovies and reunite them with the grieving children and desperate grownups who are searching for them. Since we are retired, and I am somewhat limited in my physical abilities, this is something I can do at home to help people. And I am thoroughly addicted to it!!!

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We hope you will find the lovey you are looking for in our DIRTY BUTTER Plush Animals and Soft Dolls CATALOG. But we have many more toys in stock than we have listed, so please Contact Us if you don't see what you are looking for. If we don't have it in stock, we will search the Internet for it. If we still can't find it, we will post your request on our Plush Memories Lost Toy Search Service.

So Easy to Get Confused

Plush Baby Animals

I found a huge mistake in the catalog today, and it took quite a bit of time to fix it. I somehow managed to put up two pages that had some of the same pictures on them. I am feeling so much better now that I did not get all stressed and upset the way I would have back when I made the mistake. I was feeling so bad back then that I can't be surprised for making the mess. I had to change the numbering on a bunch of items, move some photos around, and fix the Google Base feed to correspond to the current numbering, but I did it.

I have now put over 500 plush toys online in our catalog, and we have had quite a few sales from it, too. I am working on putting up the Security Blankies now, but it will take me awhile to get the pages to a point that I can put them online. I have been experimenting with how to categorize them, and I hope I have come up with logical page categories.

I have also taken all the many puppets we have bought over the last few years and re-boxed them into what I hope will be reasonable categories, too, but I am a long way from taking all the photos and putting the descriptions up. But, I see progress in my storage system, and continue to work on making all our toys easier to find when someone asks for help finding a lost lovie on our Plush Memories Lost Toy Search Service.

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We hope you will find the lovey you are looking for in our DIRTY BUTTER Plush Animals and Soft Dolls CATALOG. But we have many more toys in stock than we have listed, so please Contact Us if you don't see what you are looking for. If we don't have it in stock, we will search the Internet for it. If we still can't find it, we will post your request on our Plush Memories Lost Toy Search Service.

Conrolling the Quantity Available in the Shopping Cart

RUSS Pink Baby Dolls

I am still using Mal's eCommerce FREE Shopping Cart, so it's not surprising that I am having trouble getting it to do everything I want it to do. But, thanks to the support forum, I did find the code I needed to add to each BUY NOW link to stop people from ordering more than one of an item. Well, it almost stops everyone. All someone has to do is click on an item more than once, and it will show up multiple times in the cart. But at least they can't change the number available in the cart any more. That will have to do for now, since every page in the Catalog has a prominent notice that they need to contact me before buying, if they want more than one of an item.

We ran into an unexpected glitch on selling two of an item to a customer recently. Our toys are not new, although we do strive to offer ones that look new or close to it. The buyer was pleased with one of the items, but in comparing the two was not happy that one looked like it had been washed and had shrunk in size a little. I didn't even notice it, but the buyer sure did. We offered a small discount and all was well. But that has caused us to rethink allowing anyone to buy more than one of an item, since the comparison might cause this to happen again. Particularly when we have already received a request to buy that same item again at full price, but we don't have any more in stock.

We have had our first experiences with abandoned shopping carts, too. I abandon carts myself occasionally, so I can't really complain. It's just at this stage of the process I would like to know why they left. I tried emailing one person who abandoned the cart, to ask for some help understanding if it was something in my setup that caused them to leave, but did not receive an answer.

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We hope you will find the lovie you are looking for in our DIRTY BUTTER Plush Animals and Soft Dolls CATALOG. But we have many more toys in stock than we have listed, so please Contact Us if you don't see what you are looking for. If we don't have it in stock, we will search the Internet for it. If we still can't find it, we will post your request on our Plush Memories Lost Toy Search Service.

As I get more and more items listed online, the sheer physical task of being able to find the items that have been sold is getting more difficult. That's not going to be an easy problem to solve, since storage space is my problem. Looking for an item means stacking and unstacking quite a few plastic tubs, looking for the specific item. There has to be a better way, but I haven't figured it out yet.

Problems with Quantity Orders

Eden WIMZIE'S HOUSE Children's Television Character Dolls

We have had several orders from out Catalog lately where buyers are paying for more than one of an item. It is rather unusual for us to have more than one of a particular lovie in stock at any given time, although there are a few, such as Rumples, that we do have lots of, as we buy them every time we can find them. There just does not seem to be any way to stop this multiple ordering from happening. I started by putting a disclaimer on each catalog page cautioning readers that most of our toys were only a quantity of one and to contact us if they were interested in buying more than one. When that didn't turn out to be enough, I went through all 300 items and added a Quantity Available number to each listing, right by the link to buy it. We are still getting orders for more than we can fill.

Mal's cart just doesn't have any way of preventing someone from ordering more than we have on hand. At least I haven't found any way of preventing it. I am going to ask a question about this on the Mal's Cart forum to see if anyone can help. Until then, I will just have to refund payments and email buyers, explaining we can only sell them 1.

Other than that problem, everything else is going quite well. Our Auction Sage program we have used for years with eBay auctions has come out with a new version that makes adding in website sales a whole lot easier, so that will be a big help. I think they were seeing the handwriting on the wall. eBay is in trouble. They have finally pushed the sellers to the point that those little guys like us are leaving in droves. I know we are not listing much for auctions any more, although we do have a respectable size inventory in our Store. It's just too expensive to do business there any more.

Even though we are selling from our own site, eBay still gets a piece of the action because they own PayPal. That means they get a fee from us every time we make a sale. We do have one pending sale waiting on a Money Order, but all the others have been immediate pay through PayPal.

Of course, if we opened a merchant account with a credit card company, they would take a percentage of the sale, too. But it would not be helping eBay. That's almost enough reason to open a merchant account. Well, almost. We are just too small potatoes to do that right now.

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We hope you will find the lovey you are looking for in our DIRTY BUTTER Plush Animals and Soft Dolls CATALOG. But we have many more toys in stock than we have listed, so please Contact Us if you don't see what you are looking for. If we don't have it in stock, we will search the Internet for it. If we still can't find it, we will post your request on our Plush Memories Lost Toy Search Service.

Haven't Found a Website Search Form I Like Yet

Plush Baby Dolls

I seem to be stuck on finding exactly what I want for the Search on our Catalog. What I am using now is a refined Google Base Search, but that is on a separate Google page, and not part of our own website. It also, since it is a Google page, has links to other sellers. That's not a good idea, but will have to do until I can find better.

Something else I have realized I need to do is to put a bookmark link to each of the photos on a given catalog page, so when someone does click on the search item it will take them straight to that item, not just the page it is on. Again, a website designer would have already done that to begin with, but I am learning all this the hard way, by trial and error. More error - it seems like! LOL!!

But, we are making sales from the Catalog, so for that I am grateful.

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We hope you will find the lovey you are looking for in our DIRTY BUTTER Plush Animals and Soft Dolls CATALOG. But we have many more toys in stock than we have listed, so please Contact Us if you don't see what you are looking for. If we don't have it in stock, we will search the Internet for it. If we still can't find it, we will post your request on our Plush Memories Lost Toy Search Service.

Starting Our Online CATALOG of Plush Toys

Carter's Plush Baby Dolls

We have been selling online now for almost six years, mostly on our Dirty Butter Store on eBay, although we did try the original Wagglepop until it disappeared. Every once in awhile we would make a direct sale to someone who wrote us wanting help.

But we really didn't start selling much from our own site until we started our Plush Memories Lost Toy Search Service.

We quickly reached the point, partly thanks to the MSNBC article we were featured in, that people were emailing us wanting to know where they could look at our toys online. So, back in February, I started taking photos of our Baby Animals and Baby Dolls and putting them in our Online Catalog.

I have always envisioned a fun place to look at lots of adorable toys, almost like window shopping, with an easy way to buy them. Hopefully, I have succeeded in making buying from us an easy and enjoyable experience for you. If you see any problems on our site, please let me know. I am still learning, and I'm sure I have made mistakes and some poor design choices.

I have learned a lot while starting the catalog, but there is still a lot more to be learned. This blog will give me a place to share not only what we sell, but also what is involved in the process of selling directly from our own website.

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We hope you will find the lovey you are looking for in our DIRTY BUTTER Plush Animals and Soft Dolls CATALOG. But we have many more toys in stock than we have listed, so please Contact Us if you don't see what you are looking for. If we don't have it in stock, we will search the Internet for it. If we still can't find it, we will post your request on our Plush Memories Lost Toy Search Service.