Happy New Year!!!

Happy New Year from American Tradition Cookie Cutters! We wish you all a most healthy and prosperous year. This year hopes to be an exciting one for us. We hope to add some extra time into our clock so we can make new cutters. I recently sent out a newsletter that said this same thing and why we feel it is important to keep adding new items to our store. People are always looking for something new. New will keep our business fresh and going forward. We can’t say definitely when the new cutters will show up in our store, but be sure they will.
We also added a new feature to our store. It is THE DEAL OF THE WEEK. We will offer one deal per week (Sunday-Saturday) .The first deal started today, which is a little early, and will run until Saturday January 9th. The second will start on the 10th, and so on. Check back each week, don’t miss out on our fabulous deals!!

Due to rising costs, we are changing our discount prices as of January 1, 2010. Our regular prices will still be a low $0.90 each for our cutters. Please check our BULK DISCOUNTS page for further information.

Just a reminder: USPS is changing its prices as of January 4, 2010. If necessary we will adjust our SHIPPING costs as well. We have no control over what any shipping carrier wishes to do with their prices and we try to keep your costs down to a minimum.

Bonanzle Bonanza Block Party! Shop, Save & WIN!

BONANZLE is having a Block Party. There will be sales, games and prizes. Come join the fun on July 12, 2009 starting at 12pm PT or 3pm ET. There are already over 100 booths included with all sorts of items for sale. Our booth will be having a 15% off sale from 12-3 PT (that’s 3-6pm ET ) with over 300 items included. This sale will be extra special because we are already running a 15% off sale for Christmas in July. Don’t miss out on all the fun. Remember the date JULY 12TH—Mark it on your calendar.

Several New Cookie Cutters Added

During the past month we  at American Tradition Cookie Cutters have added several new cookie cutters to our line. You can find them all on our NEW CUTTERS page in our store. Hope you like them:

New Cookie Cutter Added April 5, 2009

Today we added a new cutter to our store. Please visit us to see this and many more cookie cutters. You can find us at American Tradition Cookie Cutters.

5.75″ Pipe Wrench

New Cookie Cutter this Week!

American Tradition Cookie Cutters added a new cookie cutter this week. It is a 5.25″ ADJUSTABLE WRENCH. It is a great addition to our existing tool cookie cutters. These include a hammer, wrench, screwdriver, saw, and axe. We hope you take a moment to visit one of our locations to see all the  cutters w have to offer.

Check out Bonanzle!

Looking for a great place to buy and sell? Check out a fairly new place on the net–it’s called Bonanzle. It is free to list your items. They give you a free booth to list them in. Listing is as easy as 1, 2 3.  The people are friendly and very very helpful. It is a great alternative to those FEE hungry other places. You do pay a modest fee when your item sells. All fees are shown and are NOT percentages, just a  small flat fee. I have a booth there. I set up in minutes and all my questions were answered by the friendly people there. The ” owners” are readily available by email to answer any questions and many times join in the forums. They are personal and friendly. Did I mention friendly???  You have nothing to lose by just looking. It may surprise you, you might just stay. You can check out some of my items listed on the right side of the page or just go to my booth: American Tradition Cookie Cutters.

FREE web stores for you

Hi,
It’s been a while since I wrote last. Was busy over the holidays and couldn’t get to write. American Tradition Cookie Cutters has posted on several other sites now. These include:

Blujay–new postings since December 2008

Ecrater–new postings since January 2009

Check these sites out. Both Blujay and Ecrater offer FREE stores, no fees, unlimited items you can post. If you are looking for somewhere to sell or buy just click the links and go to the stores. You can then navigate to the home pages and find the info you need. I really like them. Much better than Ebay (although I still sell there).  They both offer PayPal and Google Checkout and you can also offer to accept money orders, cash, check. (unlike Ebay). Check them out, I think you will agree with me.

EBay : The Mall or a Flea Market

Hi, I have been very disturbed lately over the many changes EBay has made. To me it seems like they want to be something they are not. They can’t be Walmart. It’s like putting a square peg into a round hole. It just doesn’t fit. To me Ebay is just like the mall or a flea market. Let me explain. The mall is just a structure or empty building. Without the stores occupying the space the mall cannot function. As the owner of the mall you can offer your tennets certain perks such as advertizing their items when you advertize your mall. You can also limit things such as hours of operation. As long as the tennet or store operates under the rules and regulations of the mall the transactions therein are between the store and the customer. Any disagreements are also between these two parties. You are not going to say” I hate the mall when it’s a certain store in the mall “you hate”. You most likely will still patronize the mall but avoid the store.

Ok, it’s the same with a flea market. Someone or some company organizes a flea market. They bring in vendors ( like the mall brings in store owners). In turn they also advertize the flea market. This brings in the people or shoppers. Again the tranactions are between two parties: that vendor and the customer. Any disagreement is between them. Most people don’t stop going to the flea market because of one vendor.

Ok, so what have we learned? Malls and flea markets need store/vendors. These store/vendor bring in shoppers. Everyone is making money and is happy.

So what if the mall/flea market owners decided that shoppers could now rate the stores and the store gain/lose priviledges based on the customers rating? Also what if the mall/flea market doesn’t allow the store/vendor to defend themselves against unwarranted negative ratings.  I will tell you. That store/vendor would leave that mall/flea market in search of another location.

Since EBay has changed it feedback system this is exactly what they are doing to their “stores/vendors”. There has been an increase in unsavory actions on the part of the customer/shopper in EBay. Many people do not not pay for the items they aggreed to purchase. There is not holding of accountability. EBay says that if a customer does not pay several times in a certain period of time they will get kicked off. Well, meantime the store/vendors are left holding the bag so to speak and now needing to relist the item they thought was sold. More money down the drain. So what do the stores/vendors do? They leave to find a more respectable place to shop.

Ebay has lost site of who brings in the shoppers. Ebay is a big empty mall and needs store to occupy it. It i the stores that bring in the customers, not the mall.

Using Cookie Cutters to Pay it Forward

I have been exploring other outlets for selling my cookie cutters on the web. So now I have three: Our Store, Ebay, and ETSY. In Etsy I am selling our boxed gift sets. Etsy is a place to sell homemade or handcrafted items. We make our sets up ourselves so I sell them there.

Anyway the other day while searching the site I bought a gift for my daughter. The seller was only asking the listing cost and shipping costs for the item. She called it Pay It Forward. I already knew what that was, but was so happy to see it done I decided as my “pay it forward” I would sell one of my sets for listing and shipping costs. I chose a Halloween Set since the holiday is coming up in the near future. Hopefully it will sell and the next person can “apy it forward”. Sometimes the smallest things can make you happy. I wish you all the BESTEST of days!!!!

This is the item for PIF sale!

Cookie Cutter Sites

Ever notice how many of the retail sites out there on the world wide web are “cookie cutter” in nature?  Even many of the cookie cutter sites are somewhat “cookie cutter”. By “cookie cutter” I mean they look like they were cut from a mold.  All their items lined up like little toy soldiers. I know that it’s easy to find things when they are lined up. I also know that the average customer does not want to “hunt” for what they are looking for. But, why be “cookie cutter”?  Why be like everyone else? You can still be functional and easy to shop while also be different and possible a little unusual. At American Tradition Cookie Cutters we bring you a traditionl idea with a twist. We are not a “cookie cutter” store but do sell cookie cutters! We offer a large variety of cutters in an easy toshop fashion, but try to make our pages in our store fun as well as functional.

So where is the unusual? Well I have searched the internet and have not come up with another store that offers a new cutter each and every week. We do! That will be a total of 52 new designs each year!! WOW!

Please let me know if you know of another cookie cutters store on the internet that does this.

Functional, fun, unusual, and a little mystery…what new cutter is coming up? Well, check back every week and you will see.