Comments on: Back From the Mountains

By: Minnie

Minnie — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:15:00 +0000

i’m already getting my stuff incredibly fast! are you going to use transporters ala star trek now?

and i love susan from perchance. i’ve bought her stuff, and it’s just lovely! (and she gave me a lovely wedding gift as well (fiber and yarn!))

By: Bronwyn

Bronwyn — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:39:09 +0000

By the by, did you see a skein of SG in Slayer is going for $40 on ebay?!?

By: Bronwyn

Bronwyn — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:36:50 +0000

Just a note for those who missed out on things this time around… I have a tried and true method. Decide ahead of time what brands you’d really like. For example, I knew there wouldn’t be any more Sweet Georgia, at least for a while, so that was my priority. Anything else I wanted (that was already in stock) I logged in early and put in my cart. When the update went live, I went right to the section I wanted, chose quickly, and then immediately checked out. Sheri will combine your orders if you place them the same evening, so go ahead and checkout the things that you REALLY want, then go back for to browse.

Hope this helps someone… (BTW, I only bought one pair’s worth of SG. I didn’t gobble it all up like I wanted to!)

By: Ronni

Ronni — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:34:51 +0000

Poor Sheri, I’ve not been reading your blog for long so can’t really say I know you, but I’m betting you’re feeling distressed that some of us were disappointed. Please don’t feel bad for me at least. Just to clarify, Sheri, I really am not unhappy with my experience. (Bummed I missed out sure, but there’ll be other sock yarns.) After all, anytime you have a stash the size of mine and find yourself thinking “But, I was shopping as fast as I can!” you just have to see the funny side. And anytime there’s something lots of folks want to see on a website it will be slow to load – that’s just par for the course. I expected that from the chatter earlier. No one can afford to have enough server to keep the system moving at normal speed when it’s got a huge peak of traffic. Maybe it’s best not to tell folks when you’re going to update? I dunno. Hard to say really…

My guess is that the shopping cart system is not something Sheri (or WH or CB or whoever does the website work) wrote but rather a piece of software complete unto itself. Which probably means it isn’t possible to adjust it at all. Or, at least, probably not in a way that would make everyone happy. It’s actually pretty nice to be able to see right away that your choice is out of stock. I think it’s better than hearing a day (or a week) later like you sometimes do with other shops. Those sorts of cart systems aren’t designed for this kind of “run on an item” shopping I think. It might be possible I suppose for the items to be moved out of inventory when they go into someone’s cart rather than when they complete checkout, but then what if they don’t end up checking out? If one would have been next in line otherwise, one might end up missing the yarn. I doubt there’s a way to waitlist stuff. It’s a tricksey tricksey problem really.

BTW – I meant to put this in my last comment but flaked out, my thanks for the pretty little red socky thing in my last order. (Rec’d yesterday! Very fast work that, thank you.) It looks too cute for words. I think I’ll have to play with it soon.

By: Vickie

Vickie — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:03:14 +0000

It sounds like I’m not alone in my frustration trying to buy from The Loopy Ewe last night. Everything was so slow to load and access, then once you had something in your cart and wanted to check out, you found out it had been sold right out from under you. Very disappointing and very frustrating. I won’t try THAT again!

By: Greeley

Greeley — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:01:10 +0000

It was really frustrating to have the Sweet Georgia yarns yanked from my cart while I was already in the paypal screen. I understand that it’s first-come-first-served but I was online at the buzzer and there should be some kind of grace if the customer is already at the payment processing screen. In the end I gave my business to another shop last night. Maybe there is a way to prevent this in the future?

By: meg

meg — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:46:18 +0000

Sheri,
Whew….while watching 24, I kept jumping up during commercials to see if you had updated. There were many wonderful things as usual! I look forward to seeing the Raspberry Kiwi SF yarn in person! Thanks for everything!

By: Belinda

Belinda — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:54:48 +0000

I was able to get some of the Perchance to Knit, yeah!, but I did not even see the loopy stitchmarkers and I was poised and ready at my computer. I didn’t see any yarn pirate either. I did not think that you put that up, but if you did it went like hot cakes! Soon, my home will look like a sock yarn shop! My mother is coming down from Altona, NY and I am putting together a gift basket for her of the wonderful yarns from your shop. She will be so excited as she has been on a yarn diet, but that doesn’t stop me from buying yarn for her!

By: gilraen

gilraen — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:22:26 +0000

All gone!!!! at 07.22 o_o

By: Capi

Capi — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:58:33 +0000

Whew! I can imagine how tired you must be, Sheri, cuz I am plum tuckered out from shopping! I too had a couple of my Sweet Georgia removed from my cart before I got checked out and I was hurrying just as fast as I could, but the bandwidth was jammed! That was like shopping at Marshall Fields during Bargain Basement Days!
Thanks for the excitement & looking forward to the lovely yarn.