accessKansas - Operating a Business -- I ran across this while looking for something else on the Kansas government web pages.

Sales list published

Last night (it was actually early this morning) I finally posted my sales list to PEZheads of the NF collection that I purchased in November. I listed all of them except Olive Oyl. She is my prize!

This morning when I checked my mail before work I had 1 request already. Now I have email from 12 different PEZheads. Unfortunately, for both me and many of them, the USA stemmed pez are very popular. I must have priced them very cheap, because several of them have 3-6 people wanting to buy them.

Javascript On Mouse Over - I'm going to use this to make my sales table have lots of info but not look cluttered.

Pezzy Dance Of Joy!

I bought a collection of over 120 No Feet pez yesterday!! This is my first big investment for the business. The check that I wrote was the biggest one I have written since the closing when I bought my house. I hope to have the items all inventoried and priced over the Thanksgiving weekend. I will post a notice on the Pezheads email list and here. After the requests from the email list die down, I will add the remaining items to my website (and hopefully have the shopping cart working, too).

Giant PEZ on the way -- and maybe more

I just placed an order for a case of Giant Homer Simpson PEZ dispensers.

I'm also working on a potential collection purchase. If it works out I will have over 100 NF pez to add to my inventory. That will be a big investment for and a great step forward for my business! I'm very excited, but also nervous about tying up that much money in inventory.

A sale!

I have sold something through the web site! That's pretty exciting since I haven't really advertised the site very well yet. I need to make some time to get the shopping cart working. Then I'll advertise the webstore better.

Halloween

I gave away 45 new Glow-in-the-Dark Halloween PEZ dispensers (MIB) this evening. That's a few more than I expected, considering that the high temperature here was in the mid-thirties. I wore the hat from my Peter PEZ costume, and my son wore his Spider-Man costume to help me give out the dispensers. I taped a "coupon" on each package that is redeemable for a free pack of PEZ candy at the store when I have Sourz and some older PEZ for sale. Sneaky? Maybe. Good advertising? I think so.

It's been a while since I did an upate... I have made quite a few sales in the store now, and even had to restock the 24 count counter display. Frank (the store owner) said that one lady bought all of the pumpkins because the heads didn't glow (the stems glow). She didn't want glowing heads around her children's bedrooms that might scare them if they awoke during the night. The Sourz and refills have been selling some also. I'm hoping to go by there tonight to check on stock so I know what to bring on Friday.

I had an ad in the Valley Center Sweet Adelines show program this weekend. It was a 1/4 page ad on the inside back cover (so the background was orange instead of white). I think that was a good location, since it was next to the index of advertisers, and anywhere on a cover is more likely to be seen than many of the inside pages. The show theme was Feelin' Groovy so I had a Psychedelic Flower and some old 60's candy packs in the ad.

Sales!

I've sold 2 pez in the store! Yippee! Okay, it's a slow start, but at least it's a start. Tomorrow we will be delivering the Sourz floor display and some candy refill packs if I can find them.

Still waiting

Due to some circumstances at the store (moving in & the owner being gone for a few days) and with me (not being available about 1/2 of the evenings in a week) I still haven't moved any of my PEZ into the comic book store. I have a bunch of Halloween PEZ, so hopefully we can get started soon!

I've joined the PEZ webring. (See links above.)

Yum!
Sourz candy in the trunk of a car overnight makes the whole car smell good!

My floor shipper of Sourz all have Sour Green Apple and Sour Watermelon candy. The only way for me to get the Sour Blue Raspberry and Sour Pineapple candy is to open an assorted pack of refills. I had heard about this phenomenon on the Pezheads email list. Out of my 6 counter boxes (24 each) of Halloween pez, I got 2 of the glowing pumpkins on orange stems (most are orange pumpkins on glowing stems). All of the rest of the Halloween pez are glowing heads on non-glowing stems.

They're here, they're here!

(They actually arrived yesterday afternoon, a week after shipment, but I was gone.)

My PEZ order was shipped on Wednesday 8/28, so it should arrive today or tomorrow. Yippee!

Reeves Collectibles It works! It works!

I registered my domain name ReevesCollectibles.com on Saturday. As of this morning it still hasn't propagated through the DNS system yet, but it should be available very soon!

My PezRep replied to my email... PEZ closes at noon on Fridays in the summer, so he can't check the status of my order until Tuesday. Bummer! But I did get an invoice marked "Paid" in today's mail, so my pez order is on it's way, I just don't know when it will arrived.

I have not received my order from PEZ yet. I have emailed my pezrep in hopes of tracking down the packages. I had them sent to my office because I didn't want them left on the porch at home. If they don't arrive today, I won't be able to get them until Tuesday. Our receptionist says the UPS guy usually comes late in the afternoon, so there still is a slight chance that they will arrive today.

My website, Reeves Collectibles, has content now!

I have web space! Thanks Mike. (There's not much there yet, but my target is September 1.

I've added a poll to my blog... scroll down and vote on your favorite collection.

My order from PEZ Co. has been received. I should have the Sourz and new Halloween assortment within a week.

It's official

I got my state tax id number last week, so now I guess Reeves Collectibles is official.

I placed my first order with PEZ Co. Inc. yesterday, so I should be able to get rolling very soon. I have web space lined up for my online store from a friend (but it's not set up yet), and I found a free e-commerce site for the shopping cart (that's set up but doesn't point to the store yet). All that's left to do is register my domain name, create the web site, and advertise. Oh, and price and move my current stock into the comic book store that is renting me space. Yippee!