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Front Page News
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I have been tweaking the Daily Specials and have finally put up a version that works with all browsers (that I have been able to test). If you haven't noticed, on the front page of each category is a one item special that lasts just one day. These...
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You can now follow Valor on Twitter . You can get instant notification of sales, new items and more. You can also have Twitter messages sent right to your cell phone. Now you don't have to wait for the Valor's Specials email. Watch Twitter for...
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I apologize to anybody who received the Knife Specials 4 or 5 times today. I have been testing a new piece of software to send them out and low and behold, every time I thought I stopped it and restarted it, it kept running in the background. Sorry to...
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As most of you already know, new postage rates go into effect today. Priority Mail is going up an average of 13.6%. The biggest change is for larger packages going to zones 5 through 8 (over 600 miles). Any package over a cubic foot will be billed by...
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We will be conducting maintenance on our servers this morning. There may be some down time while we do some work on the servers. Sorry for the inconvenience. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...
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It has recently come to my attention that not everybody knows about MAP pricing. Hopefully the following will answer any questions that exist. What is MAP Pricing? MAP stands for Minimum Advertised Price. Some products we sell have MAP prices that are...
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New Catlalog Available for Immediate Download For the past two weeks, we have been sending out our new Knife catalog. You may have already received one, if not, you will soon. If you don't want to wait, the catalog is now available for download in...
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We are currently experiencing intermitent outages with our credit card processor. We are working to fix it and will post an update when it is fixed. You can place orders, but you may get a 'HOST' error. I have tested it over the last few minutes...
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I have read your comments, good and bad, and I appreciate all of them (well almost all ;)). After reviewing most of our drop ship accounts again. We have decided to change the fees and implement some internal changes. The new fees will be as follows:...
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We have decided not to implement the Cash Discount as of now. We will wait until we have it fully implemented into our site and software so it can be fully explained and demonstrated. Furthermore, we have decided to make a change to the drop ship fee...
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We have held off charging handling fees and drop ship fees for as long as we possibly could, but due to the rising cost of packing supplies, service charges, etc, we will be implementing a new drop ship fee, handling charges and freight policy as of February...
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Thank You to all of you who took the time to visit us at the 2007 SHOT Show and help make it a success for us. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...
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Come by and visit us at the SHOT show in Orlando, Florida this week. We are located in booth 1973. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...
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We're done with the main part of inventory. We will begin shipping again tomorrow. So now it's time for SHOT show next week in Orlando. I will put up our booth info soon. If you're in Florida, it is a good chance to check it out since it is...
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We will not be shipping between 12/26 and 1/3 as we will be closed for inventory. We will still accept orders online, but they will not ship until we reopen. All orders placed before 12/23 will ship this year. Sorry for the inconvenience. Happy Holidays....
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I have posted the Holiday Shipping Schedule on the main category pages of the site. They're pretty straight forward. The in stock script has taken off and seems to be working rather seemlessly. That's a nice surprise. I have received some positive...
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Well, one short week and the API is done. You can now put it on your live sites. I know some of you already have. Though, now that I am done, I don't consider it an API. It really only serves one function, so from here on out, I will refer to it as...
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I have finally got around to starting an API for Valor's site. This is something I have wanted to work on for a long time, but have never really had the time. I still don't, but what the heck. I began with a simple on hand script you can use in...
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The Holiday Season is already in full swing here. The usual influx of new customers is well under way too. Luckily I have changed the way we set up new accounts . After a short week long vacation last week, I had an inbox full of questions from potential...
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I'm off this week, but I am working online at night when I can and I have decided to put the latest blog post on the front page. This has turned into a semi site redesign. So what I want to know is, what info would help you as a customer when you...
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I've decided to go ahead and begin using this Community Server software for Valor's Blogs and Forums now before finishing the design part. I will go wit the standard skin for now just to use the software. As some of you may know, our old forum...
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I’m not going to beat a dead horse about last week’s “Impulse Buying” but to take it a step further, can anyone explain this one to me? I made a sales call to one of my accounts and after they placed an order for a few guns, I...
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Google has just merged two of their services together to form a nice little app called Google Docs . It was just posted on their official Google Blog . I have used Writely in the past and have been very impressed with it. I have not used the spreadsheet...
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Do you see a lot of these and still not know what they do? We have them all over Valor's site. They are links to an emerging tool that is changing the way we receive info from the web. They are called RSS (real simple syndication) feeds. They have...
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