I've always found the website lovely even back when it had a tweed border....loved it.
On Sunday, April 29, 2018 at 6:36:30 PM UTC-5, Grant @ Rivendell wrote: > It's not up to me, but I wish the subject titles like "Frustrated by Riv's > lack of inventory" wouldn't stay alive for weeks. It may have made sense in > the original post, and it's no up to me to change the rules of posting or > threading or whatever, but tour inventory level right now is at the past > 5-year average. > > Our focus will be "fewer things but more of them." I've passed on many of > the suggestions to Dave, who deals with that end of things. We are more > limited than REI and L.L. Bean in that we buy an ecommerce package that we > can afford, and it has more limitations than the unaffordable ones. > > If any of you out there is in the business of making ecommerce sites > better, or customizing them...then send both me and Dave ( > na...@rivbike.com <javascript:>) the same emails, and when Dave comes > back on Thurs...well, maybe not that DAY, but soon after, he may get back > to you. Our site runs on shopify--and we're not likely to change that > soon. > > If any of you are familiar with that and can improve it, great. The last > time we hired out for help, with a shopify expert, there was that messup > with the credits--now solved, but hooboy. > > There are better shopping sites than ours. I use them, too. But ours > continues to improve, if slowly, and is better now than it has been in the > past. Some of the improvements are on our end--the administration side. > > > G > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 10:16 AM, Paul Choi <choi....@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Rivendell is not Amazon. We don't want them to be. Grant, please continue >> to do what you need to do. >> >> On Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 5:01:09 PM UTC-7, Michael Hechmer wrote: >>> >>> OK, so I'm no longer a big bike spender, but I do own three Riv bikes >>> and feel some loyalty to the company. At 73 all I need are replacement >>> parts. I haven't ordered anything from RBW in two years because every >>> time I try to put in an order half of what I need is out of stock. >>> >>> It's finally Spring in Vt and this week I pulled all the bikes out of >>> the basement, cleaned & tuned them up. I made a list of the replacement >>> parts I needed, which was really very short - new HB tape and one tire. Of >>> course I can always use cleaner and lube so added them in, then threw in a >>> chain guard for the Rambouillet. Went to the RBW site and discovered that >>> the tire I wanted was out of stock, as was the chain guard. Not much point >>> in putting in an order for HB tape and two items I can buy anywhere >>> >>> VO has the tire (650b X 38 skin wall) and HB tape, so once again no >>> sale for RBW. >>> >>> Michael >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/uYHDkdQuvXg/unsubscribe >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
