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P-Bay / B-Day
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| Written by admin360 |
| Last night I introduced a category to Penguin Place that I've been pondering for awhile. I call it P-Bay (pretty clever huh?).
You see over the years I've come across all sorts of penguin place items that I thought were gone forever. Some of these penguins years removed from my inventory. Sometimes I find them while doing inventory, cleaning up or moving some boxes around. Then all of a sudden the little long lost penguin appears and a long lost penguin plush, shirt, toy is found.
Since there's usually only one of these awol penguins discovered I'd never bother putting it back on Penguin Place, especially the way the old P.P. website was put together.
The old way I'd have to take a picture, send the image, copy and price to my webmaster and she would put it up on the website, charging me whatever percentage of $60 an hour it took to put the penguin back up. Definitely not worth it for just one waddler. But now the way the new website is set up, I can do all the updating myself. So in
5 minutes per penguin I can list all these long lost penguins that I've been accumulating all these years.
Plus, as I keep having children (O.K. I only have two, but that's twice as many as when I had one, and infinitely more than when I had none), I'm running out of room for all my personal penguin collection.
Which I must say is quite impressive and some of it pretty quirky. Sure, over the years I've used e-bay a bit, but for my own selfish and practical reasons I like the idea of P-Bay better.
Not only can I offer the penguin loving public some long lost Penguin Place treasures as well as some of my personal favorites through penguin ground zero (Penguin Place).
But come to think of it, I can also offer my customers in the same boat the option to sell their penguins directly to other penguin lover as well.
I know it'll all be pretty much
based on trust, but as I like to say "I never met a penguin lover I didn't like".
So why shouldn't I trust fellow penguin people that want to list on P-Bay.
After all, all they're doing is selling their penguin stuff to other penguin collectors. Just like me.
Sounds simple enough, right?
Time will tell.
Also, on a personal note, tomorrow is my birthday and although I didn't have a big party or presents, I spent a beautiful day with my wife Molly and my two little girls (Sophie and Rose) along with about 25 of my friends in Prospect Park playing softball and eating cookies and cupcakes (from my wife and kids) in Prospect Park. It was as good a birthday as I could have asked for. Plus, I hit 4 home runs!
Ron Cey, eat your heart out.
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