Yikes!

[morsla]

I now have rather a lot of paintbrushes.

I ordered a batch of Winsor & Newton sable brushes from a US supplier, as a way of testing them out for future supplies. I won't be ordering from them again, as the brushes have been sent in two backordered lots (at $50AUD postage per batch...) over several months. I've also been charged more for the second batch than the entire order was worth. They arrived today, and I expected to find the box filled with my remaining items... so I took a photo as I opened the box, ready to send it to their customer service email address.

As it turns out, I haven't been charged for items that were not sent. Instead, they sent far more than I ordered, and charged me for the lot. Looking through their returns policy, I can organise to have them shipped back, be reimbursed for the shipping costs, and recieve a credit note for the items... but I don't particularly want to deal with them again. There's no way that I can turn the items back into cash again, so it looks like I have a larger store inventory than I had originally planned. Here's hoping that they sell well.

In other news - I have a website! You can find it at http://www.purple-mantis.com.au.

The site's still very rough at the moment (bits of placeholder text in a few Gallery pages, several "coming soon" pages, etc) but I decided it was time to stop tinkering with stylesheets and actually put something online. I'll be frantically adding bits to it over the next week, mainly to fill in gaps from the initial pages. It's mainly there for commission painting/sculpting at the moment, although I won't be taking on any new jobs until October.

I'll be adding an online storefront (using ZenCart) after I get back from travelling... hopefully, it will all be up and running during October.

Comments

[aeduna.livejournal.com]

Is it worth putting a link to publications as well? Stuff that you've written for :)

[morsla.livejournal.com]

Most of them aren't online, unfortunately - I seem to have a habit of doing work for fly-by-night groups that change name, "forget" to credit contributors, or never provide copies. I think the White Dwarf article is the only one that's still online anywhere, and that doesn't have a link off the current GW site - the page is still on their servers, but the company is centralising all their publications back to the UK, so the Australian content is likely to slip through the cracks.