Online Ordering
After much deliberation, we have decided
not to participate in the further commercialization
and corporatization of the economy by taking credit
card payments for our products.
Not only are we a small cottage industry
unable to absorb the hidden fees and expenses of bankcard
transactions, but we believe that, as a local community
business that also happens to sell our products through
our website, maintaining a direct relationship with
our customers is essential.
By avoiding the overhead of using bankcard
companies to process our transactions, and by preventing
them from profiting on each transaction, we are able
to keep our prices lower, rather than passing fees on
to our customers.
We take pride in practicing a local market
economic philosophy with our longer-distance customers,
and we hope that our customers will understand this
choice, and appreciate the lower costs that we are able
to offer, as a result.
We also encourage everyone to share in
the satisfaction that, together, we are helping to keep
the quality of business, and of our lives, in our own
hands, rather than contributing to commercial interests
that profit only by and because of the work that the
rest of us do.