Hi everyone.

I've been thinking about this post for long, long time. There - I can hear the "Uh-Oh" light clicking on in your brain. So I'll head you off at the pass - the site isn't going away. It's going to change, however. Its shape is going to change.

I did a lot of thinking about how to go about explaining this. And I decided, I'll try keep the post short (that is, short for my standards.)

So, here it is. Our main shop is going to undergo some changes. It may close, we might gradually draw down the listings, or it might stay open in some form or another.

But the bottom line is: We just cannot compete with the vintage sales we get on other venues.

I've long moved away from being angry or annoyed with this. Suffice to say, we can sell much more on Etsy or Ebay than we can on this hand-built-from-scratch online store.

You may think it was foolish to even try it. But we've had a good experience with our main shop. However, listing items in it has become akin to taking rare jewels and hiding them away in your bedroom drawer.

It comes down to promotion. I don't want to discourage folks - you can definitely do your "own" shop. But you need to have the mindset and personality to promote it and CONTINUE to promote it day and night. I just do not have the personality or means to do that. And I don't want people trying to tell me I can "change". Anyone can probably "become a plumber". It's easy. But would you WANT to? Everyone's different. It's not my game.

We'll continue to blog and update our thrift store finds here. I'm still trying to figure out how to convert the whole shop without destroying our search traffic, perhaps to a more informational site. Because we do still get significant traffic to our individual items, and I don't want to lose that. I'm not stupid, yo.

We'll be listing new items mostly in our Etsy outlet and our new Ebay Store.

One benefit of listing on Ebay, is that we can pretty much list anything. Look for hair curlers and women's underwear in our store soon. I'm actually semi-serious about that.

In summary: I really like selling vintage items. It's a near perfect job for me. But since it's a business, we absolutely need to sell things consistently. Having our own shop was WAY cooler than other folks who just used ebay, etsy or some other venue. I toot my horn. But cool does not pay the bills. It was cooler and more admirable, but it couldn't bring in enough eyes in without having to do all the promotional stuff I mentioned. We're not going to do the promotional stuff. I refuse, captain my captain. So we're going to have to sell on venues that have those eyes "built-in". Otherwise, we can't do this anymore. And I still want to do this.