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PLEASE VISIT BC AT WESTERN STATES TOY
FAIR, LONG BEACH CALIF. 3/27-30/2010. BC IS THE FIRST ISLAND BOOTH AT THE ENTRANCE.
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IN STOCK NOW. BC puts a window sign, 1-2
collectors books and a poster in each order, no charge. A new double sided poster is IN
STOCK. Eraser grids are updated to include new zoo animals, new cupcakes, whales and dolphins.
BC helps you sell and make profit, because we cannot sell anything until you sell it. Only from BC,
exclusively. BTW, you should sell the poster, do not overlook it, 10,000 posters sold.
We do not believe in free stuff, kids and people do not respect free brochures and posters, they have to pay for it to treasure
it and keep it, it is just $1, if that is too expensive for such a beautiful poster, book or sign, they don't need it.
UPDATE. ELEPHANT
& MR. PANDA IN 6 COLORS. DELAYED TO 3/7/2010 due to very tight air freight schedule coming
out of Japan. You may want to delay putting them on orders a week. BC Exclusive.
| Party elephants in an elephant party! |
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Sneak peek giraffe in 6 colors.
Details still to be worked out, we may change to pastel colors and we want to have more dots colors. We originaly wanted to mix the colors(head and body and dots all different colors), but it is not
going to be, we will let the kids do that. Japanese have very rigid and disciplined minds, exceptional in following
orders without question, which is the prime engine for their highest quality, but at the same time, such freedom of random
mix of any 3 colors simply is overwelmingly unbearable for them mentally, they must know exactly which color head goes with
which body color and what dot color, after 50 emails of trying to explain it, we gave up. 6
colors of Giraffe and cow are scheduled for April. BC Exclusive.
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No.38033 Elephant and No.38036 Panda in 6 colors.
BC Exclusive. NEW
3/7. No.38033 6 colors of elephant. No.38036 6 colors Mr. Panda. Originally scheduled for 4/1, now limited quantity release 3/7.
2/11/2010
BC will be closed on 2/15 The President’s Day. We have never been closed on the President’s Day in 33
years, but this year the President will be in New York’s Toy Fair, so they all decided to take a day off.
We
received many calls from retailers they have “nothing to sell” this weekend, all sold-out, empty. We are just
as anxious as they are. We cannot sell anything until
the store sells it. We are often the last to know, we don’t exactly know what is going on in stores
across the country, we can only guess there is another eraser craze going on again judging by the tsunami of orders we are
getting, the larger sizes and the urgency of these orders. Obviously they are spreading the in South and Midwest.
Most
HOT toys go away after a season, why are erasers still so popular? New erasers!!! We have new erasers, new colors coming out every month. We have new erasers and new colors scheduled all the way through
2010. New erasers and new colors cost a lot of money and huge investment, there is only one source for these new erasers in the world: BC USA. There is a very
good reason why we do not discount, we invest those pennies we make into new erasers, airfreight, a network of top
professional reps nationwide, catalogs, trade shows and 4 websites to promote erasers. If you take
them away, the whole eraser craze goes away in 6 months.
1/18/2010 WHY ARE ONLINE ORDERS SHIPPED
SO MUCH FASTER? Online orders are processed automatically, we print and
they go straight to shipping dept instantly. Also since they paid us already, we are “pressured”
to ship out instantly.
Offline
(non-online) orders, by fax or emails, must be processed one by one, stamped, sorted, pull the customer folders,
check open balance, call for overdue or credit card, each items must be typed into computer for order entry, print invoices
and packaging lists in multiple copies, sorted and go to shipping dept, once shipped, all these paper come back to office
for further processing, file into 1,000s of folders which will need to be file away into varies file cabinets. When they pay
or when they don’t pay on time, the whole process starts again and again.
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2/27/2010 We are making good progress in shipping out
orders faster, what may seemed hopeless last week now shall be done. We have stock, we are shipping record high
number of orders daily, but we are not staffed to handle the huge volume of orders coming in. Current ship out
time is 2-3 weeks, but we just doubled the shipping staff this week, I expect improvement to 1 week ship-out in 3-4 weeks.
Short term it will get worse before it gets better, as we must train all new workers, everything they do must be checked by
experienced staff. All will be done, same issues solved a year ago, and 2 years ago, 3 years ago, etc. as we went
through same 200-300% growth for 6 years, just throw people and money at it. We will stop all marketing work until
we get a handle on it, we will. Give me a few weeks.
| NEW ZOO ANIMAL WINDOW SIGN |
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| FREE WITH YOUR ORDER 3/15/2010 |
This is a new letter size color window sign for your store, no charge, starting
approx. 3/15/2010, one will be included with each order, if the box is big enough to hold it flat.
2/28/2010 WE ARE OUT OF THE POSTER.
Reminder, we put a sindow sign, 1-2 collectors books and a poster in each order, no charge. A
new double sided poster is being printed, will be ready in 2-3 weeks. Eraser grids are updated to include
new zoo animals, new cupcakes, whales and dolphins, but not the 6 colors elephant, panda, giraffe, etc. If we wait to
include all new erasers(monthly), we will never get the poster out.
| DOUBLE SIDED 11"X17" MINI POSTER |
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1/27/2010 If you order 1 box each of single new animals, total 5 boxes, the qty of each
animal/colors is same as 5 boxes of assorted 38032. Same barcode 4 991685 200921 No.38032 Assorted pack Iwako Zoo Animals. Black Panda 6 pcs,
Brown Panda 6 pcs, Grey Elephant 6 pcs, Brown Elephant 6 pcs, Giraffe 12 pcs, Pig 12 pcs, Cow 12 pcs. Total
60 pcs.  1/10/2010 37 NEW ERASERS JAN 2010, SEE THEM ONLINE: http://www.bcmini.com/id279.htmlBC exclusive. We have 1,000s
of products and 100s of new products each year, we know our websites are not so easy to go through and find things, not easy
for us either. We added a new feature on our website www.bcmini.com, NEW PRODUCTS. In it there will be many sub-pages by MONTH. JAN, FEB, etc. In order not to clutter up
these new pages, we will limit New Products listing to mostly or all erasers. Yes, we have many more erasers coming.
It is a work in progress, so do check the pages frequently.
IWAKO STICKERS. These are recent
big success stories, more designs coming.
All stickers are based on our most successful Japanese erasers, we have millions of faithful little collectors who
will buy anything Iwako, they are guaranteed success. BC exclusive. http://www.bcmini.com/id269.html
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1/24/2010 DREAM ERASERS WHOLESALE NOW $0.55, $33 A BOX OF 60 BAGS.
Thus far we continue to see Dream Erasers in most orders, so the 2010 price adjustment
from $0.50 to $0.55 seems to be working out fine, it is a relief, as we are have not increase any price for years despite
the cost pressure we have been through. A couple retailers asked us about it, we thought we will explain
it. 1- Dream Factory increased the cost, BC does not make one penny more. 2-
Dream Erasers is made by Zensinsyoji, a very small Japanese factory with handful of workers. It is one of only 2 remaining
eraser factories in Japan, all others moved production to China. 3- Mr. Sato is the owner, Mrs. Sato is the cousin of Iwako owner
Mr. Iwasawa. Mr. & Mrs. Sato did very little business but life goes on fine. It
had no catalog, no salespeople, no show, no nothing. 4- In summer of 2008, BC signed on to full exclusive distribution
with Dream Erasers. 5- Suddenly they faced 100 million yen orders from BC and insatiable requests for
more products and constant urgent delivery requests. We simply could not get enough of his erasers, everything is pretty much
sold-out when they arrived, and we have to fly everything in. 6- Dream needed more workers, more materials and more everything
which all cost more money they don’t have. 7- Since it is tiny, they do not have the automated scale of production
like Iwako, so everything costs more. More business drove up the cost, Dream was no longer profitable.
As small business owners, I think we all understand that. 8- The Satos faced a hard choice, either raise the price in a recession
or just close down and retire. 9- Moving production to China is out of question for them, everyone
else did, but Sato-san is stubborn. 10- In Sept 2009, we met, we talked and we said OK, we will support
them 100% and pass on the increase in 2010. Whatever happens will happen, or else the choice is just to stop making and selling
Dream erasers. 11- Dream erasers are unique, many people said they like them more than Iwako. To
keep production in Japan is just as hard as keeping production in USA, it takes very stubborn owners willing to bear the burden
of everything costs 10 times more than China. In many ways, we are proud to support them, and I hope you
and your customers will do that too.
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