Fleeced!
December 29th 2009 23:12
Now Christmas is out of the way, I have a shed full of alpaca fleece to deal with.
I sell some fleeces from the farm gate, but most goes on the website and I sell it via Paypal. This has worked out pretty well, but it's a bit cumbersome and time-consuming to set up, specially at this time, when the pacas have just been shorn, so there's a ton of fleece to sort out and list.
I'll get to it though. We have different coloured alpacas here, so it's a bit more complicated than if we only had white alpacas, or all blacks (which is quite a trendy thing to do at the moment). Each alpaca fleece has a different feel too. The commercial ideal is every alpaca identical as that makes more sense from a business point of view, but my alpacas are just very cool lawn mowers, so I'm happy that they're all different. If I had a 1000 of the critters it would be a very different story I'm sure.
It's not such a chore, diving into that big pile of lovely soft alpaca fibre
(or fiber if you're in America
. I wouldn't mind finding a better shopping cart program to use for selling the fleece though. Paypal is good and it works fine, but something that isn't so clunky and tedious to set up would be better. I've tried Zencart and Oscommerce but they're really overkill for what I need. Something in-between the two would be perfect. If you know of one (preferably free, as that's a good price), let me know.
Likewise, if you'd like any lovely alpaca fleece to spin up for your winter woollies, or even to make a quilt for the bed (I have one, very nice!), we have fleeces for sale from very cheap seconds to exquisitely soft cria fleece.
I sell some fleeces from the farm gate, but most goes on the website and I sell it via Paypal. This has worked out pretty well, but it's a bit cumbersome and time-consuming to set up, specially at this time, when the pacas have just been shorn, so there's a ton of fleece to sort out and list.
I'll get to it though. We have different coloured alpacas here, so it's a bit more complicated than if we only had white alpacas, or all blacks (which is quite a trendy thing to do at the moment). Each alpaca fleece has a different feel too. The commercial ideal is every alpaca identical as that makes more sense from a business point of view, but my alpacas are just very cool lawn mowers, so I'm happy that they're all different. If I had a 1000 of the critters it would be a very different story I'm sure.
It's not such a chore, diving into that big pile of lovely soft alpaca fibre
(or fiber if you're in America
. I wouldn't mind finding a better shopping cart program to use for selling the fleece though. Paypal is good and it works fine, but something that isn't so clunky and tedious to set up would be better. I've tried Zencart and Oscommerce but they're really overkill for what I need. Something in-between the two would be perfect. If you know of one (preferably free, as that's a good price), let me know.Likewise, if you'd like any lovely alpaca fleece to spin up for your winter woollies, or even to make a quilt for the bed (I have one, very nice!), we have fleeces for sale from very cheap seconds to exquisitely soft cria fleece.
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