Improbable Objects

02/07/2017

"Icing on the Cake" is how a customer described his use of an Improbable Objects artifact, and I couldn't agree more. I don't know if my customer built or bought the Iron Man "arc reactor" that he gave to a "superhero fanatic" for Christmas, but sticking a "Stark Industries Advanced Energy Division" asset tag on the battery pack is, well, kinda perfect.

12/31/2016

Temporarily(?) Closed, at Etsy at least.

December was a very grueling month here at Improbable Objects. I moved from one side of the state to the other, and among my various trials and tribulations was taking the exhaust manifolds off my truck (that I'd already had off last month in order to replace the cylinder heads) and having them resurfaced so the truck would quit filling the passenger cabin with exhaust fumes. (Yikes!)

Having all my inventory in boxes on the truck made filling orders rather difficult, and it was all on the truck longer than intended. Not unreasonably, some of my customers got concerned, especially since I had only intermittent access to my email, and was trying to get moved as fast as possible, so I was very backlogged even on answering email.

Nevertheless, all but one of the cases was resolved to the buyers' satisfaction by Christmas, and the only one left open was because the buyer had left to spend the holidays with relatives before my package arrived, so they could not confirm that they'd received it.

That one unresolved case was enough to make Etsy shut down my entire store, and they refuse to put me back online until I issue a refund or the buyer closes the case. I have no idea when the buyer will be back home, and the order was for more than $100, so until I get desperate enough to refund the buyer's money for the products sitting on their doorstep, the Etsy store will remain offline.

The Shopify store at http://store.impobj.com/ IS still open, and I just added the 2017 Stark Industries sticker to the catalog.

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