Today we got our 150th order in our online shop modes4u.com! That is really great! YAY! The 150th order is from a lady in Freiburg, Germany. Thank you!
The first 50 orders took almost 6 months, the next 50 orders almost 3 months, these last 50 orders took only 2 months and 3 days. I expect to get to the 200th order in around 1.5 months. I will keep you posted.
Today we got a suprise visit from France. A couple rang at our office door and introduced themselves as shopowners from France. I was surprised as I have never heard from them before and they didn’t even announce their visit with a phone call. We invited them in and they told me that they would like to buy my Tenshi Neko bags and wallets. I showed them some Tenshi Neko bags and Tenshi Neko wallets and explained our usual wholesale procedure. They left me their contact details so I can send them my wholesale catalogs.
They were really lucky to meet us because its Chinese New Year and therefore a public holiday. We decided to work today (we are so hard working) and catch up on some work. Lucky them 
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I wish you all a Happy New Year 2009! We are back in office now after arriving back from Austria where we spent our Christmas Holidays. I hope you all had a good start into the new year and have lots of resolutions to focus on Be sure, I have lots of goals for our cute kawaii shop for this year and I can’t wait to start.
All the best,
xoxo Sandra
The writer of the kawaii blog “Kawaii Gazette” was so kind and added our online shop to her link list. In return I would like to mention her blog here. Have a look: Kawaii Gazette
She writes a lot about kawaii items like Hello Kitty, Rilakkuma and other cute characters from Asia. But be aware, she writes in Italian
Today we got our 100th order in our online shop! YAY! That’s a reason to celebrate, don’t you agree? This order went to Düsseldorf in Germany. Thank you!
The first 50 orders took almost 6 months, the next 50 orders almost 3 months only. That’s really good progress and I expect the 150th order will be reached even faster.
From today on we have our Pre-Christmas-SALE *!
We need to clear up our warehouse for the coming season and offer every customer the following:
10% off on each order! (Coupon Code: 10xmas08)
Order items worth 70 Euro: 20% discount (coupon code: 20xmas08)
Order items worth 100 Euro: 30% discount (coupon code: 30xmas08)
Order now to make sure that your items arrive in time before Christmas!
How does it work? Very easy, just go to www.modes4u.com, add your items to your shopping cart, check out and key in the coupon code on the next page and click “Redeem”. After that complete the check out as usual.
Additional, we have the following offer in our online shop: Buy items worth 60 Euro / 95 USD and we ship your items FOR FREE! Do your Christmas Shopping now and save shipping costs!
We wish you Happy Shopping and Merry Christmas!
Your modes4u-team
I got a new source of some suppliers in China and they have only bank accounts in China. So we had to get a Chinese bank account ourself. First, we opened a bank account at China Merchants Bank in Hong Kong and then Alan went to China and opened another account there at the same bank. Really complicated, but these banks here work like that.
We tried to use the internet banking today but it didn’t work. So we called to the Hong Kong branch and asked why and they said, we can only have one internet banking for each ID. Now, that is stupid. Alan has to go to the Hong Kong branch again and apply to connect these 2 accounts together so we will be able to transfer money from Hong Kong to China and then from there to our suppliers. Such a complicated procedure but, on the other hand, the fees are really low. So, who complains? I can’t wait to get this working so I can order lots of new items for my kawaii shop.
Today we finally got our first bunch of San-X items with Rilakkuma and Mamegoma merchandise. These things are so super kawaii! Their quality is really great and the design is so cute. We got some bags, cellphone charms and stationery items like pencil cases. Here are some pics of the products:
YAY, we got our first 10 orders in our new online kawaii shop! It took a while since we opened on 23.3.2008 but we have to be patient with our new baby. The shipment went to Marseille in France. Let’s keep our fingers crossed for the future. Let’s see when we can pronounce the first 30 orders.
Today we got lots of new Tenshi Neko and Akuma Neko bags delivered, more than 400 altogether. Luckily we moved to our new office already and have lots of space to store all of them. Tenshi Neko is our bestseller so we have to order new bags frequently. Akuma Neko is a brand new character that was just released. Akuma Neko is the boyfriend of Tenshi Neko and the naughty one. We also ordered some new items today, not just handbags. We got some really gorgeous back-bags, wallets, cosmetic bags etc.
Here are some of our new bags:
Akuma Neko Bag
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Tenshi Neko Back-pack
Tenshi Neko Cosmetic Bag
Tenshi Neko Wallet
Tenshi Neko Bag
