Have you ever heard of the Dragon Boat Festival? Somehow I never did… until today.
Apparently the whole country of China basically shuts down for this huge national shindig every June. Something to do with a patriotic Chinese poet who drowned himself when the king wouldn’t heed his warning about an enemy kingdom next door.
Anyhow, I found out about it when my operations manager informed me during our daily meeting that two of our key suppliers just now bothered to tell us we’re going to experience a 2-3 week delay in receiving any further shipments on some of our most popular products as a result of this Dragon Boat Festival.
“What?? You’ve gotta be kidding me!” I think was my first response. But she wasn’t.
Now I’m all for a big party every now and then… but it seriously ticks me off when our suppliers decide to wait until the last minute to tell us about a supply problem. I mean, come on, the Dragon Boat Festival is an ANNUAL event people!
So here’s what I’m going to do about it. We’re going to make one big party even bigger…
If you’re willing to order now but wait a few weeks for delivery, we’ll give you $30 OFF on the Back Ease and on our Seated Inversion Table…
Plus you’ll get FREE shipping (US orders only) and we’ll also give you our “Live Pain Free Diet” special report as a bonus…
Simply type (or copy and paste) the following coupon code into the upper right area of our shopping cart and the discount will be applied.
SPECIAL COUPON CODE: dragonboat
So why are you buying from China anyway? I’m sure we have the technology here in the U.S. to build devices which are just as effective. American-made First!
I agree… in fact, my preference is local community first, then state, region and country…
But unfortunately, many items are very difficult to source from manufacturers here in the US because most can’t compete in the “global marketplace”…
Which like you, irritates the heck out of me…
We do our best to source as many of our products as we can from here in the US… and we try go even further when possible…
For example, one of our items is not only made here in the US but is assembled by folks with special needs… it’s a true win-win situation.
Jesse
RE: Your apology for your “insensitive remarks”:–
Your article, and everything you wrote, WAS NOT ‘insensitive’!!
I know you are in business and have to deal with “the public.” I am in biz, also.
But, the people who complained to you {1} are SMALL MINORITY of who reads you!
{2} And, YOU WROTE NOTHING WRONG!! Everything you wrote/said was FINE!
DON’T WORRY ABOUT IT!!
When I originally commented I clicked the -Notify me when new comments are added- checkbox and now every time a remark is added I get 4 emails with the same comment. Is there any means you can remove me from that service? Thanks!
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