Thursday, October 21, 2010.

The Wallingford Bicycle Parts website will go down around 3:00 this afternoon (central time). If everything goes well we should be back up around 6:00.

The new site will certainly have some bugs and glitches to work out but bear with us and the shopping experience at wallbike should improve considerably.

Thanks in advance for your patience.

Bill
888 731 3537

Are you going to be in New Orleans for Mardi Gras? Here’s a little teaser for our EXCLUSIVE Wallbike-Mardi-Gras-Brooks-saddle T-shirt.

When I say ‘exclusive’ I mean exclusive. If you come into the shop and buy a saddle during parade season (2/5-16) we’ll give you this limited-edition shirt for free. If you have already bought a Brooks saddle from us we will sell you a shirt for $25. If you haven’t bought a Brooks from us we would be glad to see you but you’ll have to get your Mardi Gras schwag at the parades.

The shirt will be colorful and cool. It will reference Mardi Gras completely. The screen printer is working on it now. He has promised a JPG mockup soon.

We need a bookkeeper for the summer. Someone who has experience and familiarity with the principals of accounting. Location: Uptown, New Orleans. Contact us if interested.

Sorry, but we had to raise shipping again. We tried to absorb this year’s UPS increase but we are loosing too much.

The change? We moved the threshold for $9 shipping down from $150 to $100.

UPS insurance is free below $100. After the first $100 declared value UPS charge $0.65 per $100 with a $1.95 minimum. So, say, a typical saddle that might have a shipping rate of $7.85 jumps to $9.80 with insurance.

Now our continental U.S. UPS flat shipping rate schedule is
Value to $19.99 = $5 shipping
Value to $99.99 = $8 shipping
Value $100 and up = $9.00 shipping

AK/HI and International are sent by mail and are quoted on an individual basis. Orders to continental U.S post office boxes are charged at the UPS rate or actual cost, whichever is higher.

We don’t make these shipping changes lightly. We understand that consumers are senstive to add-on costs. We don’t make any money on shipping but we don’t want to loose too much, either.

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It’s Jazz Fest time. (That’s the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival). I’ll be spending as much time there as I can. This means that on Friday, 4/24 and Thursday/Friday, 5/1-2, I’ll be at the Festival grounds all afternoon. I’ll be here in the morning and Brent will be here ’till 4:30, more or less. It shouldn’t be too disruptive but Jazz Fest is a distraction – Bill

UPDATE 5/6/09: Jazz Fest was great. I made it all seven days. If Theresa Anderson comes to your town with her one-woman show I can promise you will be entertained.

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