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News, updates and developments at SomethingStore
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SomethingStore on CNN Money
by SomethingStore |
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 SomethingStore.com was recently featured on CNNMoney.com.
"After an hour of browsing, he decided it would be much nicer if somebody would just make the decision for him. The idea for SomethingStore.com was born: a customer would pay a flat price for an unknown item."
Click to read the rest of the story.
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World's Weirdest White Elephant Gift
by SomethingStore |
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 Our friends at myEdu.com are holding a cool contect called "World's Weirdest White Elephant Gift" and giving, what else, but somethings from SomethingStore as gifts to top 10 voted participants.
Click on the myEdu logo, or here, to post the weirdest white elephant gift you've received or vote for the weird gifts other people have received.
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New Lower International Shipping Prices
by SomethingStore |
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 We're happy to announce new and lower pricing for our international customers. Thanks more compact shipping methods we have adopted and a new contract we made with our shipping provider, we were able to lower our own expenses and we're passing the savings to our customers. New prices as follow:
CANADA: New Shipping Charge: $2.75 | Old price: $4.75
OTHER COUNTRIES: New Shipping Charge: $5.75 | Old price: $8.75
Shipping continues to be free for all our customers in the United States.
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Unique Birthday Gift Idea: Surprise Something Box
by Sami Bayrakci |
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Having trouble finding a fun, clever product as a birthday gift? I did, too, and I started a company around that idea, even though it seemed a little wacky, it worked and it worked well: welcome to SomethingStore!
SomethingStore sells suprise gift boxes that recipients only find out the contents when they received their packages in the mail. Our items make perfect unique birthday gift as even gift give doesn't know what it is, doubling the fun. When selecting our products we make sure they're fun, interesting and represent real value so we can deliver our promise of "Surprise & Delight".
Continue Reading Unique Birthday Gift Idea ... |
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Take a Chance on Your Wacky Ideas
by Sami Bayrakci |
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 One day, in summer of 2007, I was shopping online for a present for a friend's birthday. After trying search engines, browsing dozens of gifts stores for almost two hours, I came up empty. Nothing, no idea what to buy. That's when the SomethingStore idea hit me; what if someone simply selected a fun, interesting item as gift and made my life much easier. Simply there would be online store, people would pay a flat price, we would ship them their product and they would find out what they purchased when they received it the mail.
Crazy! Who would pay to receive random stuff? Most of friends rejected the idea immediately.
I asked myself "what do I have to lose?". Let me try it. So I did. Started I built the SomethingStore website, purchased some products and started it of from my spare bedroom in Brooklyn, NY on October, 2007. Being just before Christmas shopping season and thanks to word of mouth from the early adapters, the word spread quickly. We sold 1,500 boxes in the first two months. Next year was better; I moved the business to a real office, then the media took notice. We were featured in major outlets such as BusinessWeek, Inc Magazine, NPR (National Public Radio), Los Angeles, NY Daily News and many more.
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SomethingStore Has Shipped to Over 60 Countries
by Sami Bayrakci |
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 We're proud to announce that SomethingStore has now customers in more 60 countries around the globe. We started shipping internationally in mid 2008 and in two years delivered surprise boxes every from small Mediterranean island country of Malta to Indonesia. If you live outside of United States, check out this page to find out how you get your own something:
SomethingStore | International
Below is the list of countries we have shipped to, arranged by the number of orders sent:
Canada
Australia
Japan
United Kingdom
Singapore
Continue Reading SomethingStore Has Shipped to Over 60 Countries ...
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Holiday Shopping Updates
by Sami Bayrakci |
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Order up to 20 Somethings at Once
We have increased the number of items you can order at once to 20 somethings (in the United States) per customer demand. Each item will be different, packed separately in invisible boxes or poly bags, so contents will not be revealed until each item is opened. You can, of course, order as many items as you'd like. If you're ordering more than 20, please contact us and we will send you a convenient email invoice.
Guaranteed Fun, Guaranteed Value
We are continuing to improve the quality of items in our inventory and are now happy offer a value guarantee. Simply, each something will have over $10 in value (MSRP or list price) or we will refund the difference. So, order today.
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SomethingStore Now Ships Worldwide!
by Sami Bayrakci |
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We've been receiving many requests from our international visitors that they want their somethings, too. We couldn't say "No" anymore so we're now shipping everywhere.
Not surprisingly we're not able to extend our free shipping offer on international orders. So we've added nominal fees of $4.75 for Canada and $8.75 for other countries.
Continue Reading SomethingStore Now Ships Worldwide ... |
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Over 1,000 Somethings Have Been Sold
by Sami Bayrakci |
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Just before the dawn of our first month since the launch, we have reached another milestone: Over 1,000 “somethings” have been ordered! Thank you very much, to all those who have ordered, told their friends/family/colleagues about SomethingStore, and mentioned about us on their websites.
As we're getting off the ground, we are very carefully listening to your feedback and taking steps to improve our service, every day. While almost everybody liked our idea, some reviews on our execution were mixed: Some people loved their something, while others did not care about theirs so much, which is understandable. Mainly, some buyers have suggested that we could improve on shipping times, variety of the merchandise as well as quality of the items. We acknowledge that we have a lot of room for improvements on every aspect of our business and we are trying our best to accomplish them.
Continue Reading Over 1,000 Somethings Have Been Sold ... |
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Multiple Ordering Is Now Available, PayPal Added
by Sami Bayrakci |
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 We now added the multiple something order option to our check our page, per your requests. You can order up to 3 somethings at once and all items will be different. They will be packed separately and shipped together.
PayPal is added as a payment method
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Upcoming Changes at SomethingStore
by Sami Bayrakci |
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We're making some changes and adding new features that we wanted to inform our blog readers of:
Ordering Multiple "Somethings"
We have received orders as high as 10 somethings per person (Thank you, David). So it means you guys want more! We will be adding multiple somethings option to our order page soon. You will be able select 1, 2 or 3 somethings per order.
Surprise A Friend
Our idea was to for our visitors to surprise themselves. But, some of you have asked to be able to send "something" someone else.
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Cool News!
by Sami Bayrakci |
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SomethingStore is selected as the "Cool Site of the Day", by none other than coolsiteoftheday.com, for November 10th. We're very excited. We thank the editors of the site for the honor and we hope you will come and vote for us tomorrow.
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Over 100 Somethings Sold
by Sami Bayrakci |
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 Today we achieved a small but significant milestone: Over 100 somethings have been sold! Many thanks to those who have ordered. Hopefully, this will be a start to many more milestones to come. Missed the first 100?
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Started Sending Somethings
by Sami Bayrakci |
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SomethingStore is off to a decent start; thanks to 23 'early adopters' and many more to come. Thanks guys and gals! We've started sending your somethings and you should receive them soon. We are updating Something Tracker page with highlights from recent shipments.
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SomethingStore Is Here
by Sami Bayrakci |
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 An idea: Offer the good people of World Wide Web something. Let them not know what it is until they get it. After all, if anything can be sold on the Internet, why not something? Is it dumb? Or is it brilliant? Something in between? We couldn't decide. Here is SomethingStore.com so you can decide.
We registered our name, somethingstore.com over a year ago. Since then we fine-tuned our strategy, filled our little warehouse with many different somethings, and spent some quality procrastination periods.
Continue Reading SomethingStore Is Here ....
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