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Introduction

Hello and welcome to the VBZ Wiki! This area is intended as an open forum for members of the vbz.net community (customers, suppliers, artists, fans, family, friends, and critics). Many businesses seem to be almost afraid of their customers, hiding their contact information behind layers of "please read this FAQ first" and "please select the nature of your inquiry"; here, you can take the steering wheel. (More about this here.)

You can create an account if you'd like to have a name attached to your posts; otherwise it will just show your IP address. Please read the Wiki Guidelines before making any significant changes, however.

As of November 21, 2024, VbzWiki has 121 articles.

Latest News

• 2005-08-10: A customer pointed out some Mountain shirts which were still being listed in child sizes only when in fact they are in adult sizes only. I had written a database query to find all child-size-only shirts, and checked each one it found, but it turns out (as I discovered when I checked into the particular shirt in question) that the query had a bug. Fixed the bug and about 10 more mis-entered shirts showed up. They have now been fixed.
• I've been buying up discontinued Mountain shirts in pre-paks as the budget permits -- one pre-pak every order or two -- and I noticed last night that the most recent one was listed in one place as "in stock" and in another as "unavailable". I've fixed that too.
• 2005-07-27: The 2005-07-11 Server Outage crisis would seem to be over, as the cart system is running again. Although I didn't get the new cart system running, I did get a lot of work done on it... and vbz.net now has its own SSL certificate!
• 2005-07-19: a catalog data entry goof -- apparently a lot of new Mountain shirts had been entered as available in youth sizes only, when in fact they are available in adult sizes only. I'm rebuilding that part of the catalog right now.

...and hey, we just got our first wiki spam! Someone at 69.50.191.168 posted a whole bunch of porn links here on the main page. Congratulations to this anonymous spammer, and hope that we never find out who you are.

• 2005-07-15: Most of the static pages are back up, as are the images, but the shopping cart still is not quite right and the checkout is not online at all; please see 2005-07-11 Server Outage for more information.
• 2005-07-12: Still working on getting vbz.net (the main store) back up and running. Uploading thousands of files is slow, even with cable, and a lot of the stuff has to be rebuilt. Plus (while other things upload) I'm also playing around with oscommerce, in the vain hope that I might be able to get it to be workable with the catalog data I have now, because that would be... so awesome, as they say. (Proper "live" order management, just to start with, and about a zillion other features.)
• 2005-07-05: I just now discovered that a lot of emails I've been sending have been bouncing, and I wasn't notified because my spam filters were filing them away out of sight. Just one more reason spam is evil (two more reasons, actually, as the bounces were also due to spam safeguards). Anyone who has emailed me recently and didn't get an answer, please try again. (Grrrrrr.)

News Archive

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Articles

Policies

• Policy Index
  • Anti-Spam: how we work to reduce spam
  • Payment: forms of payment we accept, and how we handle them
  • Shipping: when to expect your package, and how it will be shipped
  • Privacy: what we don't do with customer and visitor information
  • Security: how we keep customer information safe
  • Returns: our no-hassle return policy, and how to use it

Miscellaneous

• Frequently Asked Questions
• Current status: what's going on, happening, occurring, taking place (get out your thesauri and help out!)
• Collectible Exchange: looking for a collectible? Got a collectible and want to know how much it's worth?
• Customer Comments: Share your experiences and help me improve the store!
• The Competition: I don't believe in competition; just improvement...
• International Shipping: issues regarding shipping to other countries
• Technology: the nuts and bolts behind vbz.net, for you technoferrets out there...
• Manufacturer Images: our position on availability of merchandise images for use by retailers
• General random discussion can go here: Discussion page
• Miscellaneous: loose bits of information which will eventually be put somewhere more useful

Artist Information

• Alexander Flores

Supplier Information

• New Suppliers: upcoming items to be added to the store
• Discontinued Suppliers: suppliers we're not carrying, for the moment
• Things we're not carrying: incense? (over the internet??) sports team t-shirts? Give me your 2 cents worth on whether we should add any of these items.

Random Comments

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