Kudo's to the member who finally took the time to leave some negative feedback on ECF. I should have done that a long time ago and I was happy to see someone stepping up and doing the right thing for a change. There should have been many more of us to do the same. Thanks to the poster who did and good job.
Oddly enough...I decided to peruse the new posts here for a few minutes while I pondered how many bottles of Bananas. Foster Coffee I would order...AND IF I was actually going to trust Ms. Ts again...last year it was 4-5 WEEKS to get a lousy 30 ml bottle of juice...and I "swore off" BFC for a while!
THANKFULLY, I didn't get caught in THIS mess...I got caught BIG with SAFECIG when they went wonky...it's a difficult call to sit down and say on a public forum "I don't like waiting weeks for Ms T to make my juice!" It's ALMOST none of my business HOW anyone runs their business...all I can do is "bite with my wallet"...there are several vendors that I refuse to buy anything from! Ms T's is one...the other, I don't want to name...but, one day, I expect them to have a dead website
Clues to a failing business:
1) Shipments that take more than a week.
2) no contact from vendor in response to phone calls, e-mail, etc
3) orders which are incorrect and/or missing items
4) rude customer service/low employee moral
5) no innovation-no new items, especially after Chinese New Year
6) outdated website
7) valued employees leave
8) order numbers moving slowly
Perhaps these businesses are failing due to their success...what I mean is Ms T...(whose real name ISNT LOVELESS, she started using that name when she got divorced she told me) got to be popular VERY fast! Just like safecig! She fell behind on a little "do it at the kitchen table" type business...and, I'm guessing here...she needed to "invest" in a clean room and hire an employee...the problem probably was that she was living off of the "net"...paying her rent, utilities and supplies...and again, conjecture...all it takes is the hot water heater to go out, or to get sick...and the rent comes due...and the money needed for supplies goes to pay for rent...and all of a sudden money for today's orders are paying for last months supplies...and the rent is still due...the farther behind you get, the worse it becomes...and the only way out is to....evaporate....a small loan could have probably saved her...but, in "trying to save money" by not hiring help, it cost her more money...because people like me didn't want to wait 4 weeks for an order...
We are our brothers keeper, to some extent..,we CALL ourselves a "community" of vapers...I've seen us, as a group, do amazing things... (Like when M from Phiniac got sick). In tough times, we are a great group of folks. If Ms T has a truly horrible event going on in her life, she has my prayers that she will get this all straightened out for all of you...
But, God help her if she's pulling a scam! If I can be of assistance to any of you...even just to listen and console...I'm here for all of you...