Look I'm not trying to kill your business or anything, but you said you were shutting the business down in April of this year. I stopped paying attention after that, and I'm sure a lot more has gone down since that point. It was the last straw in a string of negative posts from you. I'm sorry about your personal life, but what are we supposed to think when you literally post you're done in a now deleted twitter post?
In April, my spouse who was still helping me with the accounts, because there were still debts in their name that they took out in a PayPal account in their name, decided to take the money that I had worked really hard to make by myself since December and use all of it to pay the taxes completely off as opposed to opting for installments like we always did. Now people have asked why I continued to trust my spouse: I just did. Their PayPal account which is in the business name was still in debt and needed to be paid off before we closed it (it is btw now fully paid off) I knew they wouldn’t steal the funds that were in it, and they didn’t. They simply used them to paid off tax in full. After the damage of the debt they got us into in the first place, I simply couldn’t actually afford that. I had enough money left to mail pending orders and that’s all I had. And because I’d recently taken my spouse’s name off the business I wasn’t being offered any loans from Shopify because those accounts were in my spouse’s name. I genuinely thought I was finished. I went on welfare for a month which wasn’t going to cut it. I took a 9-5 job next month that wasn’t going to cut it either. It was my original intention to work at that and do the business as a part time job to bump income but I realized not only would I rather make cables I simply can’t control the demand for the cables. When I limit sales, I get dozens of emails asking why. The only option was to try to expand, which I’ve been investing into doing.
Put simply in July I was offered a loan from a family member (I’ve paid that off too) and I was able to start selling again. I am now fully in the black, have repaired my credit enough to open new accounts with bonuses, am finally being offered loans from Shopify and PayPal in
my name not my spouse’s. And I have sunk money into expanding the business. I sunk money in from funds I had in the black.
The business and my cats are all I have left. I’ve lost everything else. I need this.
I’ve paid $7000 to secure cabling for another year, all the debts are paid off, I have a coworker arriving in 2 days and I can’t afford to lose the business just because of a tweet from 7 months ago that yes, was over emotional and yes I deleted it pretty quickly because I didn’t want people with pending orders to think I wasn’t going to fulfill them.
Please stop bumping the thread.
I’ve been through hell in the last year.
I am still not out of hell because I’m working all day and have no social life. I’ve took on coworkers so I can actually achieve that.
Edit to address this:
Thanks for sharing good news! BTW, I ordered over a dozen D-sub cables from you back when I was in the states, and took most with me after relocating to China. I've been wanting to order a couple more custom D-sub cables from you, but there is no option to ship to China on your store. Any chance that you could enable it? Or could I place an order directly with you?
In any case, best of luck, stay well and thank you for making the best cables!
If china allows usps tracking all the way I’ll allow it.
If not: I recently realised that it is affordable to use Uber to pick up ups packages (they only charge $5 for some reason) so I might be offering that as an option. It actually works out cheaper in total than usps priority. Having Uber pick it up on demand is a far more manageable thing than the huge time window ups have for pickup.
