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On some other threads people were all over my butt about being hard nosed about our cancellation policy with package orders.
Here is my current dilemma!!!
Last Thursday evening we sold out for our standard 2014 package orders.
On Friday we put a note up telling people we would notify them if we opened up for more packages. In 3 days over 100 people have expressed interest and provided contact information.
If the weather on our end is on the margin of what my experience says we can do it with a 95% probability of success should I offer these desperate package seekers the opportunity to purchase under the knowledge that if things fail ( 5 % chance I estimate at this point ) they will get neither refunds or replacement package bees? Would you let them hang without the opportunity to purchase in 2014 or let them risk "wasting" a wager with their money on potential bees?
Most if not all of these folks are not going to get any elsewhere at this point and if they do it will be way late in the season from some unscrupulous Joe who tells them bees can build in June for a winter survival....
WHAT WOULD BE YOUR CALL? Sell or move on to the rest of the year?
Here is my current dilemma!!!
Last Thursday evening we sold out for our standard 2014 package orders.
On Friday we put a note up telling people we would notify them if we opened up for more packages. In 3 days over 100 people have expressed interest and provided contact information.
If the weather on our end is on the margin of what my experience says we can do it with a 95% probability of success should I offer these desperate package seekers the opportunity to purchase under the knowledge that if things fail ( 5 % chance I estimate at this point ) they will get neither refunds or replacement package bees? Would you let them hang without the opportunity to purchase in 2014 or let them risk "wasting" a wager with their money on potential bees?
Most if not all of these folks are not going to get any elsewhere at this point and if they do it will be way late in the season from some unscrupulous Joe who tells them bees can build in June for a winter survival....
WHAT WOULD BE YOUR CALL? Sell or move on to the rest of the year?