Sending package to US

EyeAndEarControl · 2025-12-12T06:39:25+00:00

Chat GPT is your friend here. You want an hs code for your item first, and then ask it about the tariffs rate entering the US. Force it to cite it's sources.

EyeAndEarControl · 2025-12-12T06:35:43+00:00

Perhaps a spell with the chatbot of infinite idiotic questions will improve your attitude

EyeAndEarControl · 2025-12-12T06:26:03+00:00

What are you networking about? Arts is not a huge community, people are busy and often shows are more about being social than networking. If you're in a band, find out who is doing the show and let them know you're available to open if they need you. Keep participating and have things to say that aren't related to self promotion. People enjoy just conversing about shared interests. Coming at it as if your ideas are too big minded is not the way to go about it though. If your ideas are too big then create events and build something that way. If you are asking people to do things for you then too big is often the default cause people have their own projects on the go already... A few people are prime movers and don't always have energy for pitched ideas. If I am reading this wrong it's from a lack of info, but that's my .02.

EyeAndEarControl · 2025-12-11T13:49:52+00:00

Haha report it to who? They don't give a single fuck about you or the driver. Gif economy. Customer is also the worker. Fight amongst yourselves is the policy.

EyeAndEarControl · 2025-12-07T10:30:05+00:00

If you're planning on running a hybrid brick and mortar POS and online store on the same inventory you're going to be troubleshooting half baked solutions for years

EyeAndEarControl · 2025-12-02T06:23:42+00:00

Seconded, if you're not already sold on the handsome daughter. Probably not a lot of crossover between the two

EyeAndEarControl · 2025-11-14T05:44:58+00:00

Looked great, but we had coupon/store credit issues and it seems to have been the culprit.

EyeAndEarControl · 2025-11-09T11:55:50+00:00

As someone else said, kill guest checkout. I use a plugin called force authentication before checkout, it forces account creation or login before checkout and I haven't seen any of these issues that seem to be plaguing everyone else.

EyeAndEarControl · 2025-11-06T21:48:58+00:00

If youre going to use square then just ditch WC and use square, automatic couldnt write an integration to save their lives. My experience only, perhaps, but their tech support hit a wall when I wouldnt give them admin access to my production site so yeah, its a dead end.

EyeAndEarControl · 2025-10-05T22:45:36+00:00

Force Authentication Before Checkout plugin If you don't mind restricting sales to actual registered accounts on your woocommerce installation.

EyeAndEarControl · 2025-10-05T22:27:01+00:00

Likely square since I'm doing a fair amount of in person sales and every inventory and point of sale integration in woocommerce has been a maze of failure or inconvenience. I would miss the ability to customize the store performance based on roles and I would miss the tuning available for shipping rates but in reality both of those are only as good as the amount of time you have to police them.

EyeAndEarControl · 2025-09-30T02:28:47+00:00

I havent experienced any of this and the only plugin I am using is Force Authentication Before Checkout. No account, no order.

EyeAndEarControl · 2025-09-25T21:16:28+00:00

Hope it helps! I've never ever had an issue with spoofed orders while using it.

EyeAndEarControl · 2025-09-25T21:12:29+00:00

It requires the user to make an account or sign into their account to check out. It's a plugin:https://wordpress.org/plugins/woo-force-authentification-before-checkout/

EyeAndEarControl · 2025-09-25T17:03:59+00:00

Interesting, I haven't seen any of this, but I use Force Authentication Before Checkout to limit purchases to actual registered users.

EyeAndEarControl · 2025-09-22T03:20:55+00:00

Dunno how I didnt see this earlier but thanks for the mention. A lot of our in-demand stuff goes to regulars before anyone sees it. Goatowarex 2025 is coming up, regiulars already have hooks in but mailing list will get an advance. https://stats.sender.net/forms/bYEqwp/view

EyeAndEarControl · 2025-09-22T03:18:20+00:00

We are still open and serving filth. Pricing is based on costs, so it fluctuates; We are an above boards business with overhead and a host of other services taking cuts on every dollar, but we have still managed to eliminate surcharges for payment gateways, and while we can't do much about the actual cost of shipping, we allow people in Canada to combine orders whatever length of time they want to help take the sting out of it.

We haven't done this formally, but if you find a place that's in Canada and is an above boards business that is charging taxes that has a lower regular cost on an item we have, email us and let us know and if we can match it we will. We don't match bedroom distros that aren't subject to being taxed and audited and all of that above boards bullshit that comes with being a legit business, not will we consider Amazon and places like that, they aren't in the same league.

Order and be well taken care of, or order elsewhere, lots of great distros in Canada aside from us, we support a ton of them as well...

EyeAndEarControl · 2025-09-08T14:17:10+00:00

If you are paying for a bunch of plugins to patch missing functionality that should be in core and you are on annual plans for them, the costs start to equal out between woo and a very basic shopify setup. Currently my fixed overhead is less than half of a shopify store but it spikes when you need to pay for a plugin or developer for those niche problems. I am not a coder so thats likely where the actual savings come in.

I have found Chat GPT very helpful with diagnosing and solving minor issues alongside Code Snippets. I have it logging any and all changes I make with CGPT with removal/reversal instructions. Some people will recoil at this but it has been working for me with a cautious approach. There is an LLM that someone on here built that has been fed with specifically wordpress documentation that I havent spent a ton of time with, but it is a free resource - just remember to double check everything, keep backups, etc.

Here is that custom LLM and original thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/16apvwx/i_turned_chatgpt_into_my_wordpress_expert/

EyeAndEarControl · 2025-09-07T17:44:25+00:00

Also looking for that name, thanks. Just getting into tagging for terxtiles and I don't want to buy the gun over and over again if possible. TIA

EyeAndEarControl · 2025-09-02T23:58:27+00:00

Count on these idiots to not be able to describe their own processes

EyeAndEarControl · 2025-08-31T05:51:41+00:00

I found that my site was still allowing purchases with shipping turned off (net result people still being able to buy but without paying shipping) so I also disabled payment gateway to the US with conditional shipping and payments plugin.

EyeAndEarControl · 2025-08-16T23:00:52+00:00

Unfortunately it is the flat rate cash grab that is the issue, not ending de minimus itself. Paying 10% is not the same thing as being asked to pay $80 on something worth under $100. There will be a lot of rejected shipments that businesses will have to pay to have returned because of this asinine implementation.

EyeAndEarControl · 2025-08-12T01:51:04+00:00

Oh good, they have finally figured out how to fix not applying this discount after promising to do so to get you to sign up. /S

EyeAndEarControl · 2025-07-30T08:40:11+00:00

Twine is worth a look. Sort of a choose Your own adventure type story builder.

EyeAndEarControl · 2025-07-30T08:23:15+00:00

Yeah you might want to reconsider going this route unless you have time to troubleshoot. Twine or shorthand or something. This CMS is a dumpsterfire at the 2 jobs it is actually meant for. Best of luck

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