I just wanted to share a Personal Website HUGE order I have! I have an open fund-raiser for my husband's non-profit organization. We sent out emails and I plan to have a small booth set up this weekend at his hometown. Anyway, most people have been ordering via my website - and doing it properly.
Anyway, yesterday afternoon, I got an "Online Activity" update email from PC. It says "Personal Order Online Sales of $1009.75" - and I was shocked!! Someone (the person elected not be notified so I only had her name which we do not recognize) entered a huge order - yes that's One THOUSAND dollars as an individual order via my website! When I called PC they said it was a valid order and her credit card cleared. I got some information out of them (the town - which is like 1 1/2 hours south of here while the fund-raiser is 1 1/2 hours north of here!) so I could try to link it somewhere and it took all day, but we (my husband & I ) finally figured it out. It was a friend of a friend of my husband's through work - she must have collected orders at her work (it's shipping to a company) and instead of entering it as my husband's Fund-raiser show, she did it as an Individual website order!!
After talking to PC numerous times (which they were great!) - it would have been a huge pain for them to cancel it, especially since the person has elected not to be contacted, to try to get it credited to the fund-raiser. They recommended that I let the order go through and then if it's truly to be towards his fundraiser, give some of my personal commission to the organization when I get it.
Can you believe that I got an individual order that large?? Wow - my website has paid off with this one! It truly looked like a show - Qty 3 Stainless Steel Mixing Bowls, etc! I didn't do a thing and I don't even know the person! My husband just sent out an email to a few ladies at work and one of them must have passed it on to her friend - who in turn collected over $1000 worth of orders!
The order already shipped today! It was just entered yesterday at 4:30pm!! And selfish me immediately thought - why couldn't that have gone through in JUNE so I could earn FREE fall product too?!?!?!? Anyway, it's been a bit of a mystery, but an exciting one at that! The people at Home Office have been shocked to see how large that one individual order was - she could have earned so much free too!! Oh, well. Just wanted to share and can't wait to get my commission on that order!!
I still can't believe it. Goes to show, you will never know where your catalog will end up and where orders will come from! I'm kinda bummed I can't follow up on this awesome lead either!
Joanne
Anyway, yesterday afternoon, I got an "Online Activity" update email from PC. It says "Personal Order Online Sales of $1009.75" - and I was shocked!! Someone (the person elected not be notified so I only had her name which we do not recognize) entered a huge order - yes that's One THOUSAND dollars as an individual order via my website! When I called PC they said it was a valid order and her credit card cleared. I got some information out of them (the town - which is like 1 1/2 hours south of here while the fund-raiser is 1 1/2 hours north of here!) so I could try to link it somewhere and it took all day, but we (my husband & I ) finally figured it out. It was a friend of a friend of my husband's through work - she must have collected orders at her work (it's shipping to a company) and instead of entering it as my husband's Fund-raiser show, she did it as an Individual website order!!
After talking to PC numerous times (which they were great!) - it would have been a huge pain for them to cancel it, especially since the person has elected not to be contacted, to try to get it credited to the fund-raiser. They recommended that I let the order go through and then if it's truly to be towards his fundraiser, give some of my personal commission to the organization when I get it.
Can you believe that I got an individual order that large?? Wow - my website has paid off with this one! It truly looked like a show - Qty 3 Stainless Steel Mixing Bowls, etc! I didn't do a thing and I don't even know the person! My husband just sent out an email to a few ladies at work and one of them must have passed it on to her friend - who in turn collected over $1000 worth of orders!
The order already shipped today! It was just entered yesterday at 4:30pm!! And selfish me immediately thought - why couldn't that have gone through in JUNE so I could earn FREE fall product too?!?!?!? Anyway, it's been a bit of a mystery, but an exciting one at that! The people at Home Office have been shocked to see how large that one individual order was - she could have earned so much free too!! Oh, well. Just wanted to share and can't wait to get my commission on that order!!
I still can't believe it. Goes to show, you will never know where your catalog will end up and where orders will come from! I'm kinda bummed I can't follow up on this awesome lead either!
Joanne