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Change

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

Change: next Tuesday, Rings & Things expects to cut over to our new, faster internet service and reroute our phone lines.

When? The scheduled time is 12:01 AM Tuesday morning.

Change

What??? We’ll have new “IP addresses”.  It may take a little while to migrate from the old to the new IP addresses.  Our web site names (rings-things.com) won’t change–just the underlying IP addresses will.

How might this affect you? It may take a while (minutes, hours, usually not days) for the DNS translation to migrate through the DNS system.

The upshot is, you may notice small difficulties or delays next week.  Thanks in advance for your patience with us!

Notify Me!

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Notify me?

Have you ever found exactly the component you wanted for making your jewelry…and it was out of stock?

Ever backordered an out-of-stock item…then forgot about it?

Rings & Things has found a better way.  Next to any item in our store that’s out of stock, just click ‘Notify Me’:

We’ll email you as soon as it’s back in stock.  You’ll be able to order it instantly!

Want to suggest improvements to our online store?  Put them in a comment, I’ll pass them to the right person here!

New free technique sheets!

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Technique sheets: learn all the hottest jewelry craft tips.  They’re now right in our online store!

Print them right out there, as high-quality PDFs — Or, click to add any technique sheet to your order for free.

Basic technique sheets now offered include these fun fliers:

ITS Image Transfer Solution technique sheetITS™ Image Transfer Solution

Gluing to metal, a technique sheet for jewelry makersGluing to metal

Metal stamping

Epoxy resin

Stamping on resin

And that’s just a sampling.  Check ‘em all out! Grow your business with a new skill or two.

Let us know if you have a request for any other guidance in the form of technique sheets…

New, improved…R&T website

Monday, March 8th, 2010

We’d like to mention a recent success.

We upgraded R&T’s online store.  Enjoy the easier and convenient-er times you’ll have shopping with us!

Same look. Way better!

Same look. Way better!

The old dog can do some new tricks, like these…

  • It saves your shopping cart: automatically, even, when you close the browser window! Just view your cart when done shopping session.  (It saves only what you’ve viewed.)
  • It won’t interrupt your shopping: so you’re not taken away from the page you’re looking at!
  • It redeems more than one gift certificates: at the same time (on the same order).
  • It previews product categories for you: just scroll over a product picture & there’s a pop-up bubble.
  • It collects recent product reviews: from your fellow shoppers.
  • It finds multiple previous carts: if you’re a registered R&T customer, this is a snap now.
  • It lets you check out as a guest: so you don’t have to register if you don’t feel like it.

Happy shopping!  Let us know how you like your new, improved R&T store.