Spend $150 Get a FREE Gift
Spend $150 Get a FREE Gift Beginning today and ending January 31, 2023, we’re giving customers a FREE gift when you spend $150 or more. The gifts will have a retail value of at least $6.00 and a maximum of …
Small Business
General news category covering small business affairs
Christmas Lights Discounts Through December 31
Just 17 days until Christmas but that is plenty of time to get your holiday season decorations to brighten any occasion for your home or office. Beginning today and ending December 31, Christmas Lights Creations is offering 10 percent discounts …
Free Shipping Threshold Increase to $250
With the ever increasing costs of fuel and transportation, Christmas Lights Creations is raising the minimum purchase requirement to receive free shipping to $250. Based on average order amounts over the past three years, this increase will have no bearing …
UPS and FedEx Announce Fuel Surcharge Increase
As expected, UPS and FedEx will increase their fuel surcharges to customers shipping boxes beginning on April 4, 2022. These additional charges are in direct response to the rising crude oil prices over the past year. According to a statement …
Surprise! Product From China Has Arrived
Apparently miracles do happen because we received our order from China late Thursday. It would have been nice if the importer had bothered to notify us, but we’ll deal with that later. Among those products we received were the 3 …
Supply Chain Fiasco Preventing Us From Getting Product
The ongoing supply chain fiasco continues to negatively impact our product availability for the upcoming holiday season, and at this point it doesn’t appear that we will receive our Christmas stock before Black Friday. We placed our order with a …
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No Blow Molds For 2021
Unfortunately we will not have blow molds in stock this year. We can’t force Cado to respond to our emails or voice mails, and to be honest we don’t want to do business with companies that can’t perform the basics …
Pay Pal Increases Transaction Fees
As of August 2 Pay Pal has increased their transaction fees that affects virtually every small business, and Christmas Lights Creations is no exception. We strongly disagree with their decision to raise fees, but we do prefer Pay Pal over …
Skyrocketing Transportation Costs Force Retail Price Increases
International and domestic transportation costs have risen dramatically since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, and those costs borne by businesses will be passed along to consumers. Container rates from China to the U.S. west coast have continued to rise …
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Thanks to UPS Shipping Blow Molds Will Be More Expensive
Small business is taking it on the chin again, this time in the form of an additional accessorial fee imposed on companies that ship boxes that exceed 105 inches in length and girth. Effective January 10 of this year UPS …
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