We’re feeling rather proud of ourselves today – we were featured in Jigoshop Showcase #7.

It’s nice to see our little store getting a bit of attention outside the wargaming community. Thanks, guys!

Phew, we’re back!

Sorry about that, folks. We were down for most of the day due to our server taking a bit of a pounding – our account was even temporarily suspended while our hosts were trying to resolve the problem. Needless to say that was just a temporary thing and we’re back now.

Keep your eyes on this blog over the coming week as there’s several cool things happening here at Fox Box.

Have a good one!

Since Fox Box first launched we’ve been looking into how to reinvest our earnings, as you might expect. Right now our range is fairly limited and we’d really like to grow it, but as we don’t have infinite resources to work with we have to try to make a smart call as to where to take things.

Anna and I were discussing it in depth over the last few days trying to draw up specific options, rather than general ideas. On Dakka Dakka we’ve had a few different requests and then there’s been the various enquiries we’ve dealt with from people emailing us directly.

Essentially things break down into three options:

Option 1

Start stocking Kromlech products. We would not be selling them as bitz but rather as kits.

We’d be able to ship stuff from the UK rather than Poland making postage cheaper and significantly faster for you. Our prices would also be in Pounds Sterling as you probably guessed and so you wouldn’t need to deal with exchange rates and all that jazz.

In terms of what we’d be stocking, that’d be up to you guys. We can’t afford to stock their whole range to begin with, although in time we would be, so we’d want to stock things that are mostly likely to sell quickly allowing us to reinvest again and broaden our range.

Option 2

Extend our bitz range to include MaxMini Pirate Orc heads and their Feral Orc heads as well as stocking the GW Lootas & Burnas kit.

This option would probably carry the most risk for us.

Option 3

Something else entirely. Contact us, leave a comment, or post in our Dakka Dakka thread to tell us what you want.

Frankly we’d like to do all three and aim to in time, but this is a matter of how best to grow. We’re not a big company and can’t really afford to go into debt buying stock that may or may not sell.

So, please, what would you like us to do next?

You might have noticed our new front page. Not much to say there, it’s new and it’s our front page.

I need to write something? Oh, okay…

The change is for a simple reason – we had a huge influx in traffic this time last week and thanks to the feedback we received we were able to discover some bugs. For a start we fixed the permalink issues with our blog. This time last week it was impossible to comment on our blog posts or to even link to a specific post.

The second, and more pressing problem, was that pagination on the front page was completely broken.

Well, not completely, it worked just fine if one was logged in. Why?

No idea.

I spent most of the second half of last week trying to isolate the problem and discover what was causing the problem. Turns out it wasn’t me doing something wrong, it’s an actual bug in Jigoshop, the platform we run our shop on.

Essentially that means our front page, for now, can’t be a list of our products, at least until the next update is released.

In the mean time we’ve tried to provide a simple listing of products that should make it a little easier to find what you’re looking when you first reach the site.

Opinions?

Death threats?

Cake?

I stumbled across this over on Dakka Dakka and felt I just had to share it:

Waaaagh for now!