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.

Added My SNUZZLES to Our Catalog - Thoughts on Setting Prices for Collectibles

SNUZZLES Large Lion Blankie

I added our collection of Playskool Snuzzles to our Catalog today. Some of the harder to find ones are listed for sale on eBay for close to $100! I have tried to price them at what I consider to be a reasonable price, but Snuzzles are some of my all time favorite lovies, and I can't bare to part with them for "bargain" prices.

This brings us something that came up in an email I received the other day referring to a seller's price on eBay for a HTF (Hard to Find) toy being price gouging. Buying and Selling Collectibles is totally a Supply and Demand driven business situation. It really doesn't matter how much a toy cost originally. What matters is how much people are willing to pay for them today, right now. If the price is too high for a potential buyer - they don't buy. If the price is too high for a seller - it doesn't sell. Eventually, everything seeks its own level. That's how auction sites like eBay work to help set the current value of any item.

So, I tried to find that spot where I feel good selling my Snuzzles, and hopefully someone else will feel good buying them.

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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.

Another Lesson Learned - Don't Assume the Cart Was Abandoned

Carter's Plush Baby Animals

We had an abandoned shopping Cart today. But it turns out it was not abandoned after all. I don't know what caused me to check PayPal today, but there it was all paid, just as it should have been. But PayPal did not send me the email the way they normally do.

I wouldn't have even known about the sale if it had not been that Mal's e-commerce sends an email for each sale.

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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.

Working on Adding our Catalog Blog to Directories

Eden Plush Baby Animals

I started our other blogs so long ago that I had forgotten just how many little steps there are to get a blog properly setup on the internet.

I started last night adding this blog to the Directories that will help get traffic, and thus the catalog. So, we now have a Feedburner RSS Feed, in case someone would like to keep up with how our efforts are going. And I added this blog to our Dirty Butter MyBlogLog Community today, too.

There's much more to do, but that's all I have time for right now. We usually go to some of our favorite close to home toy hunt places on Monday afternoons, so maybe we will find one of the lovies our Plush Memories Lost Toy Search Service readers have asked us to find.

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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.