That's because One Drop is going up to Seattle for a meet.......and took a lot of stuff with them. The store will be back on Monday.

The shopping cart is down right now. Working on it

I wish there was a separate shipping price for smaller things like response systems and bearings that you could put in a padded envelope.

That's be ideal, but the cart has no way of knowing what something weighs or how big it is. This seems like a simple problem if you think about attaching a shipping price to an item, like a bearing. But, when you think about ordering multiple things, it becomes more difficult.

You could just have 2 shipping options? One you choose when you order a yoyo and one cheaper one for when you order other small things.

What happens when you order both a yoyo and a small thing?

Yea, the thing is that it needs to be computer generated, so that they can easily and quickly pack boxes to be shipped. If they were processing every item and every shipping option manually, it would be far more difficult, and consequently, would take more time. Time = money.

Or have weights for the items. When the total weight is below a certain point, it can be shipped in a padded envelope. When it goes above a certain point it gets shipped in a box. This is actually a simple formula to do. It's very similar to the price calculation of the total cart, but instead if a weight calculation. Of course you could also do this by size instead. It's not as complex as people make it out to be, it's a simple datum added to each item in the shop, and just four more calculations and flow controls. It should just be a simple if statement.
If(total Weight > xx)then(ship Type=box)else(ship Type=envelope)
Seriously that simple. Well from a programmers stand point. Also if a yo-yo is ordered, it would obviously just go into a box. For smaller orders, of say pads, strings, and bearing this is much more cost effective. Simplify packing methods, reduce size and weight, decrease shipping. If a yo-yo and a small thing we ordered it would obviously just go into a box, since a yo-yo goes past the weight limit, or size limit depending on the route you do. Then this just gets marked in a easy to notice area on the order details. so it is doable. The question is, will it be done? What would be the hard thing is testing and getting it working. In the short run its going to cost something, but in the long run it could be cheaper.

You choose the yoyo shipping option. Like a person would pick out their stuff and then when you hit check out, it could send you to the shipping page. If you bought a yoyo you could choose that option. If you didn't, you could choose the other option. It's just a suggestion. I needed some thin pads for my M1 after I got it this weekend. I ended up buying a few things I really didn't need, like a new bearing and whatnot just to make it worth it with shipping and all. I ended up spending like $20 bucks. I don't mind giving you guys my money... but it would be nice

This is good feedback and a problem I've thought a lot about. If you offer the shipping choices people will no doubt choose the inexpensive envelope shipping when they order a yoyo. If you do it by weight there are other problems. For example bearings can't go in a standard envelope. They make the weight but they are too wide. And really the only thing we sell that fits this problem are the response pads. If someone only orders pads I'll usually refund some of the shipping and put them in an envelope.

The other advantages to using Priority for everything is that we get a tracking number.

Thanks for the partial refund and all. I gotta say you guys have exceptional customer service. It's probably a really tricky situation on your end. LOL at people ordering yoyos and picking the 3 dollar padded envelope option. You know that would happen all the time. Ah well. It's just a strange thing I noticed after getting in the yo game. Everywhere seems to charge $6 for priority even if you only need pads or whatever. Ah well.

P.S. I have gotten my Project 2 tuned like a champ and I'm loving it to death. I call it Ironman as the Red and Yellow perfectly match his costume. Thanks for the great service on, and options you provided me with that as well.

It's not as easy as you think. You're having to account for all dimensions of the products, and then determine the weight and what type of box it will fit inside. Given the large number of permutations in which these items could be organized, it's be quite difficult to find the cheapest option.

I'm not implying that there isn't a simple solution to fixing a majority of these problems, but accounting for all situations is more complex than you might first think.

Of course you could also just flag the products as envelope or box type. If it has an item flagged as box type, then they all get shipped in a box.

I would suggest that you add a MOD to the forum that makes threads appear as unread if it has been edited. With this people would know when for example the "Expected drop dates" has been edited without checking it every 10 minutes.

This MOD should do that.

I like this idea.

Found a workaround for the Drop Dates topic.

chatroom seems borked or offline at the moment. what am i supposed to do with my day now?! actual work?!?!



EDIT: spoke to soon. it's back to normal now, phew!

stickam crashes often...

That might be some downtime of our site on Sunday. Our ISP is doing some maintenance.

You want to know what really annoys me about one part of the site? It's been bugging me for quite some time...

When you go to the OneDrop store, the Shop link at the top of the page, you generally see two pages worth of store indicated on the bottom of the page, like so:

Pages: 1 2

The problem is, there is nothing currently on Page #2! It's Blank!

I see two possible solutions.

Solution #1 would be to make the store software smart enough to realize there aren't enough items to populate a second page, and remove the reference to Page 2 at the bottom when conditions warrant, or

Solution #2: OneDrop should quickly create and keep in stock a sufficiently large number of awesome yoyos and yoyo products so that Page #2 will always be populated!

So, what shall it be?

db <---- who is always "just trying to help"