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Happy First Day of March! March 01 2024, 0 Comments
Accessories bring an atmosphere of relaxation and coziness to even the smallest of outdoor spaces so don't forget a new thermometer, decorative bird house, relaxing wind chimes, and new planters to complete your new look. Check out our New Products collection. And, of course, no garden is complete without beautiful signs and plaques for your potting barn, garden shed, or outdoor entertaining areas to bring your sense of style and personality to any space. Click here to shop our latest Outdoor and Garden products.
Woodland Decor, Vintage Decor....This is where the shopping fun begins!
2021 Year In Review - Going Forward January 31 2022, 0 Comments
We're in our 12th year of business thanks to our wonderful customers like you!
2021 was a difficult year for most small businesses. We were not an exception. We were notified by nearly every wholesale partner that currently supplies our goods that due to increased raw goods costs, production costs, and transportation costs, a sharp rise in wholesale pricing as well as higher shipping costs was inevitable. While our suppliers continue to hold back and are absorbing as much of the additional expenses as possible, an average additional increase of 10-12% has been passed on to online and brick-and-mortar retailers like us. Christmas 2021 was quite a struggle, but we managed somehow, but not without many, many delays. 2022 has started off much the same but rest assured, we are trying to contain costs as much as possible. Unfortunately, we have had to make sacrifices on which products will be available going forward and as a result, we have dropped a few of our product lines entirely as a result of poor supplier business performance, products not selling, or continuous supply chain issues with certain vendors. We hope to find suitable new products lines soon to give us a wider selection of goods that are reasonably priced and going forward, we will deal only with reputable suppliers to provide the best products as the best prices possible.
Products made of raw wood, steel, aluminum, silver, glass, and injection molded poly resin materials are among a few of the categories of products that have proven to be the most affected by increased costs. These increases are three-fold for us as a small business since we are not only absorbing higher incoming shipping costs but also the higher cost of the goods, higher minimums required by our suppliers, and increased outgoing shipping costs to our customers. While we have continued passing our discounted UPS and US postal shipping rates to our customers, we have not increased our tiered shipping rates for the past four years and at this point, we do not plan to increase shipping rates, however, this may have to happen down the road as our current shipping rates barely cover shipping costs in most instances, even for smaller packages of less than 3 lbs. to most delivery areas. Costs of packing materials, tape, and new shipping boxes (required for UPS and FedEx) have also seen sharp increases in costs in recent months. However, for customer shipping that creates a loss of less than $5.00, we absorb the difference in higher shipping from our profit margin rather than raising shipping rates or even higher product prices.
PLEASE NOTE: We only bill our customers additional shipping fees for larger or heavier items that require over-sized rates or when shipped to an obscure delivery location that dictates much higher costs. We will continue this practice for a long as is feasible. Products that may require additional shipping have a disclaimer in the description, however, combined shipping of multiple items can also create higher shipping costs that are not calculated at checkout. Our shopping cart calculates shipping based on purchase price and delivery region only, without consideration to size or weight. This is not something we can change currently. Please review our Shipping and Handling page for complete details.
We are in the process of adjusting prices for products with all our suppliers and in the coming weeks will be eliminating a few more of our current suppliers while adjusting available product lines for some items that we feel may no longer be practical for us to carry that are creating high-cost freight overhead on incoming merchandise as well as utilizing precious warehouse space. With much regret, many of our most popular items may no longer be available after these adjustments have been made. Some larger items may show out of stock but are actually still available. Because of ongoing high freight costs and other extraneous expenses, these items are no longer profitable for us. We hope, with time, that escalating shipping costs and costs for goods will normalize if and when our economy improves and/or suppliers of these larger items will consider utilizing drop-shipping to avoid or eliminate double-shipping costs.
As we remain a small, family-owned and operated business, we try to make these decisions with our customers' best interests at heart. We want to continue offering a wide variety of high-quality goods at fair prices with the lowest possible shipping costs. While shopping with us, keep in mind that while we can no longer offer free shipping because search engines like Google and Yahoo penalize us by restricting relevancy and viewership on search results when we offer "FREE" anything. This hurts us and other small businesses in lieu of "big tech" helping their biggest paid ads customers Amazon, eBay, and other big box stores that can afford to absorb these costs and who receive much larger shipping discounts due to volume than we do. We are trying our best to prevent being squeezed out of the online marketplace to continue offering our customers fair and honorable pricing and policies without deceptive offers where the added costs are tacked onto the cost of products just for the sake of offering "free" anything. Many of our products are already priced at 20-25% below the manufacturer's retail suggested price to help our customers defray anticipated increased shipping costs. So, while we do not offer free shipping any longer, we do offer lower prices and our fairest shipping rates possible.
As a reminder, all of our products are sourced from American based companies providing American jobs and we plan to continue supporting American owned and operated businesses only. We believe that we can help keep costs down by being a part of the solution rather than contributing to the problem.
We appreciate your business and look forward to continuing to serve our customers in 2022.
Thank you!
Baubles-N-Bling Owners & Staff
Annual Winter Sales Event February 03 2021, 0 Comments
Winter is a great time to do a deep cleaning and redecorate your home. It's cold out and let's face it, you can only read so much or watch so much TV. Now is a great time to freshen up your kitchen and dining areas with some great new decor items. A simple change of accent colors, accents, deep cleaning, and re-arranging can give your home a whole new look.
For a limited time, save 20% on select Kitchen & Dining Room decor. Choose from our large selection of canisters, drinkware, salt and pepper shaker sets, paper towel holders, wall decor, baskets, signs, and more.
Valentine's Day Specials - Our entire selection of gold and silver jewelry is also on sale through the month of February. Go shopping here.
FEBRUARY'S FEATURED PRODUCT
From our family to yours, we wish you a safe and healthy winter season and a wonderful Valentine's Day!
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This is where the shopping fun begins!
Annual Bath Sale July 25 2019, 0 Comments
For a limited time, save an additional 20% off select Bathroom Decor. Savings are immediate when you add items to your shopping cart. NO DISCOUNT CODE NEEDED! Sale prices apply only to items in the Sale category. Hurry, these offers are for a limited time only and tend to sell out quickly. Sale ends 8/15/19.
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Thank you for your business and continues support.
Baubles-N-Bling & Staff
CLEARANCE SALE January 03 2019, 0 Comments
CLEARANCE SALE!2018 was a fun-filled year of changes and a handful of new suppliers with fantastic new products for our customers but as with every year, we have too many of some items still left in stock
Winter Sale is happening now! February 03 2018, 0 Comments
Winter is a great time to do a deep cleaning and redecorate your home. It's cold out and let's face it, you can only read so much or watch so much TV. Now is a great time to freshen up your kitchen and dining areas with some great new decor items.
For a limited time, save 20% on select Kitchen & Dining Room decor. Choose from our large selection of canisters, drinkware, salt and pepper shaker sets, paper towel holders, wall decor, baskets, signs, and more.
From our family to yours, we wish you a safe and healthy winter season!
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Enter current discount code: WINTERSALE20 during checkout when prompted. Discount code only works on products in the Sale category.
Celebrate Small Business Saturday on November 26th November 14 2016, 0 Comments
It's that time of year again to show small businesses some love! Whether you're an online shopper or you prefer to personally shop inside your local storefronts, remember that small businesses make up a very large sector of our American economy. Behind those small businesses are your neighbors, your friends, and jobs for local communities. When small businesses succeed, your communities succeed so please support your locally-owned and operated small businesses.
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Thank you for your business and continues support.
Baubles-N-Bling & Staff
Welcome to the new and improved Baubles-N-Bling February 25 2014, 0 Comments
Welcome to our new look! While the products, service, and overall presentation is still the same, we now have a great new shopping cart and checkout system that will not only improve your shopping experience but will also provide security and assurance of safety shopping with us. Your privacy is our top priority.You'll also notice great visibility of our products, features that allow us to give you not only accurate product information regarding size, weight and shipping cost but also information to help you shop smarter.
We look forward to servicing you and hope you will find these new changes an improvement over our old system.
Thank you,
Baubles-N-Bling Owners & Staff
4051 Madison Street, Ste #7
New Port Richey, FL 34652
Baubles-N-Bling is your one-stop shopping headquarters for Woodland Decor and Vintage Decor
