The Blender E-store is becoming more professional and will now also sell third-party products!
Ton Roosendaal writes:
In order to keep our store attractive, services are being expanded to ship more often, offer more third party products and courier express.
The Blender E-store still is the main income source for Blender Foundation, allowing to organize projects in Blender Institute and to hire people for work on Blender (currently 3 developers and myself full-time).
Customers expect from a modern internet store more services than we provided until now though; especially doing faster and more often shipments. To achieve this, we need to expand our product catalog to get a bit higher volumes per shipment.
Per January 1st 2012 we now rent a second small office and storage in the south of Netherlands (Budel) where our shop manager Anja Vugts-Verstappen will be handling the orders, shipping and regular shop support.
Summarized, changes will be:
- Shipping at least 3 times per week (monday, wednesday, friday)
- More choice in shipping speed (courier, or free shipping, T.B.A.)
- Shop open for third party DVD training, we added BlenderCookie titles now.
Publishers interested to resell via our e-store as well can contact me any time!
18 Comments
sweet!
Wow !!
This is good news.
A suggestion. Some womens blender tee-shirts. Not all Blender users are men (a hint in case it had not been noticed).
Some artwork of Gallery page with the Blender Logo would be nice :)
Kind regards
Andrea
How about providing 3D printing ? It would a small investment from your part as 3D printers are now cheap. From a small business point of view that is.
This may or may not be a good ideaI though I had to ask.
The Elwolf
Good idea 3d printing !
If the quality will be like Shapeways then I'll choose Blender's 3d printing! :)
If it hasn't been done already, you should allow affiliates to sell the products. That will help the store by ten fold if done properly.
Just let third party devs sell plugins.. then keep 30% of the income ;o)
I hope the shipping options are really improved, options like FedEX, DHL or UPS will be really welcome. I ordered the blend and paint DVD and I never got it and frankly I won't order again unless I see the option of getting a waybill number and been able to track my package. I have stopped ordering things from small e-shops and now only order from Amazon because I hate playing roulette with my orders.
UPS are too greedy, always the most expensive, and you have to pay on delivery as well (WHAT?? never again!), and service is more than average
Feels cluttered and unorganized. :/
in the style of blender itself then.
good news for us.
I would like to see other items to be more cool like blender pens, notebooks!
I agree, I'd like to see more things like the pens and notebooks, maybe you could also include some sort of money converter, as I would like to see prices in US Dollars. Third-party software (e.g. addons) would be cool, I know there is a pretty good Blender addon that you need to buy to get. Maybe it was BSurfaces?
Hi there,
You can change the currency at the top right between Euro and US Dollar.
I would like to see Blender window 'stickers' - the sort that cling to glass without adhesive, like company parking passes etc. A sticker in a cars' rear window is a great place to advertise Blender.
DVD compilations for people staved of bandwdith. Multiple Blender installers/zips/GraphicAll builds for multiple OSs, all plug-ins, textures, sounds, games, all BlendSwap models, extra software like Gimp, tutorials and the wiki, full Python install, Eclipse etc.). I think a small package with several DVDs would be very useful for those stuck behind thin, expensive pipes and those limited to GPRS/Edge/3G modems.