Solve : Mozilla Gear Store Closed?

1.	Solve : Mozilla Gear Store Closed?
Answer» Saw that Firefox was looking for donations today, decided to go to the store where I bought a shirt and was going to buy some ITEMS in which they get a donation kick back from the purchase and the store is closed. Quote This March, we’ll be winding down the site for a number of reasons. Chief among them: The store hasn’t met revenue or fundraising expectations, and the ROI of time and energy to maintain it is too small for Mozilla Foundation to continue. Additionally, our key vendor was acquired twice in the past 12 months, making operations more difficult. Without a strong vendor partnership, the demands to maintain the store and provide quality customer support weighs heavily on our staff. Another important factor in this decision is that we were not able to make international ordering as accessible and affordable as we wanted due to a number of logistical and fulfillment barriers. We still have quite a lot of inventory left as of today. Starting now, we’ll be HOLDING our largest sale yet to help liquidate remaining inventory: 30% off all items. We still have quite a lot of inventory left as of today. Starting now, we’ll be holding our largest sale yet to help liquidate remaining inventory: 30% off all items. We hope you’ll use this opportunity to stock up on your favorite Mozilla gear at gear.mozilla.org before the store closes officially on March 31, 2016! (Discounts do not apply to shipping costs.) We’ll be working hard to share the news with all our customers and community members to ensure everyone has the support they need with final orders. Customer support and service from our vendor will continue for four weeks after the sale ends. Until then, please click on Customer Support at gear.mozilla.org if you have any problems or questions about an order. Important dates: March 1, 2016: Big sale launches — 30% off everything March 31, 2016: Sale ends, gear.mozilla.org website taken offline April 30, 2016: Customer support ends There are several other ways you can continue to stay involved with Mozilla and support our mission. Join our community of thousands of volunteers, or make a donation to help keep the Internet open and free. Thank you for your support! https://fundraising.mozilla.org/category/gear/ Its sad that they didnt even try to work something out to have something vs nothing for gear with a donation kickback. Just gave them a donation but would have been nicer to get a shirt out of the donation etc as for my other shirt is showing its age when I bought through their store in the past to fund them. Sure I could get a firefox shirt elsewhere but I doubt any proceeds go to mozilla firefox project. It wouldnt cost much to have 1 person boxing up shirts to order and UPS swinging by to grab it all to ship on a business day basis to have something vs nothing. Comment below is my thoughts as well. Its nice to have something for the donation and I liked wearing my shirt showing my support for Firefox and it being an ice breaker for total strangers to hit me up and talk about computers as for its a flag that says this guy is into IT etc. Quote Scottithan wrote on 2016/11/16 at 5:58 PM: Heartbroken! Just learned of this. I wanted to support the best web browser in the universe but I’m also materialistic and wanted a sweet Firefox T-shirt! (RIDICULOUSLY long dejected sigh) They are currently GETTING so much grief over this i don't expect it to last long... On that note i think i bought some swag from one ove the overnite developers site... I'll track down the link.Quote from: DaveLembke on November 30, 2016, 11:26:17 AM It wouldnt cost much to have 1 person boxing up shirts to order and UPS swinging by to grab it all to ship on a business day basis to have something vs nothing. Agreed. Clearly we have a better understanding of the situation than the people who have been doing it for the last however many years. It's unbelievable that they, having done it for any number of years, seem to think they have a better understanding of how tenable it is than we do, with our vast ignorance of the situation.Why does this matter? If they stop SELLING things, will some bad thing happen? Why do they want donations? Will Mozilla Firefox no longer work? No, I am not being sarcastic. I just don't understand. What is going on? Quote from: Geek-9pm on November 30, 2016, 05:23:40 PM Why does this matter? If they stop selling things, will some bad thing happen? Why do they want donations? Will Mozilla Firefox no longer work? No, I am not being sarcastic. I just don't understand. What is going on? They had a shop where you could buy Firefox branded merchandise. They've found it far too expensive to maintain and the margins evidently too low to justify the added cost. They possibly also considered that if somebody was going to donate 25 dollars, they might instead have bought a T-shirt for a similar price, in which case a lot of the donation is lost to the cost of goods.

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Saw that Firefox was looking for donations today, decided to go to the store where I bought a shirt and was going to buy some ITEMS in which they get a donation kick back from the purchase and the store is closed.

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This March, we’ll be winding down the site for a number of reasons. Chief among them: The store hasn’t met revenue or fundraising expectations, and the ROI of time and energy to maintain it is too small for Mozilla Foundation to continue. Additionally, our key vendor was acquired twice in the past 12 months, making operations more difficult. Without a strong vendor partnership, the demands to maintain the store and provide quality customer support weighs heavily on our staff.

Another important factor in this decision is that we were not able to make international ordering as accessible and affordable as we wanted due to a number of logistical and fulfillment barriers.

We still have quite a lot of inventory left as of today. Starting now, we’ll be HOLDING our largest sale yet to help liquidate remaining inventory: 30% off all items.

We still have quite a lot of inventory left as of today. Starting now, we’ll be holding our largest sale yet to help liquidate remaining inventory: 30% off all items. We hope you’ll use this opportunity to stock up on your favorite Mozilla gear at gear.mozilla.org before the store closes officially on March 31, 2016! (Discounts do not apply to shipping costs.)

We’ll be working hard to share the news with all our customers and community members to ensure everyone has the support they need with final orders. Customer support and service from our vendor will continue for four weeks after the sale ends. Until then, please click on Customer Support at gear.mozilla.org if you have any problems or questions about an order.

Important dates:

March 1, 2016: Big sale launches — 30% off everything
March 31, 2016: Sale ends, gear.mozilla.org website taken offline
April 30, 2016: Customer support ends

There are several other ways you can continue to stay involved with Mozilla and support our mission. Join our community of thousands of volunteers, or make a donation to help keep the Internet open and free.

Thank you for your support!

https://fundraising.mozilla.org/category/gear/

Its sad that they didnt even try to work something out to have something vs nothing for gear with a donation kickback. Just gave them a donation but would have been nicer to get a shirt out of the donation etc as for my other shirt is showing its age when I bought through their store in the past to fund them.

Sure I could get a firefox shirt elsewhere but I doubt any proceeds go to mozilla firefox project. It wouldnt cost much to have 1 person boxing up shirts to order and UPS swinging by to grab it all to ship on a business day basis to have something vs nothing.

Comment below is my thoughts as well. Its nice to have something for the donation and I liked wearing my shirt showing my support for Firefox and it being an ice breaker for total strangers to hit me up and talk about computers as for its a flag that says this guy is into IT etc.

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Scottithan wrote on 2016/11/16 at 5:58 PM:

Heartbroken! Just learned of this. I wanted to support the best web browser in the universe but I’m also materialistic and wanted a sweet Firefox T-shirt! (RIDICULOUSLY long dejected sigh)

They are currently GETTING so much grief over this i don't expect it to last long...

On that note i think i bought some swag from one ove the overnite developers site...

I'll track down the link.Quote from: DaveLembke on November 30, 2016, 11:26:17 AM

It wouldnt cost much to have 1 person boxing up shirts to order and UPS swinging by to grab it all to ship on a business day basis to have something vs nothing.

Agreed. Clearly we have a better understanding of the situation than the people who have been doing it for the last however many years. It's unbelievable that they, having done it for any number of years, seem to think they have a better understanding of how tenable it is than we do, with our vast ignorance of the situation.Why does this matter?
If they stop SELLING things, will some bad thing happen?
Why do they want donations?
Will Mozilla Firefox no longer work?
No, I am not being sarcastic.
I just don't understand. What is going on?
Quote from: Geek-9pm on November 30, 2016, 05:23:40 PM

Why does this matter?
If they stop selling things, will some bad thing happen?
Why do they want donations?
Will Mozilla Firefox no longer work?
No, I am not being sarcastic.
I just don't understand. What is going on?

They had a shop where you could buy Firefox branded merchandise. They've found it far too expensive to maintain and the margins evidently too low to justify the added cost. They possibly also considered that if somebody was going to donate 25 dollars, they might instead have bought a T-shirt for a similar price, in which case a lot of the donation is lost to the cost of goods.

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