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Pets of Balloon Juice 2020 Calendars – Ready to Order: Repost

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Order Pets of Balloon Juice 2020 Calendars at this link

or

Click on Our Store at the top of the site and choose the 2020 calendar on the left.

If your previous calendar order was cancelled, you will need to place an order again.

Why were many of the weekend orders cancelled?  The answer from Cafe Press went something like this:  we’re not sure, broken image… mumble mumble, no we don’t know why… mumble mumble, or how that happened, and no, no one actually fixed anything…  mumble mumble, but orders seem to be going through okay now so mumble mumble it should be fine now.

That didn’t inspire confidence, and in the end, Beth recreated the calendar on the Balloon Juice store on Cafe Press.

If you hadn’t already checked the calendar for your pets and pet names, please send email to WaterGirl and include the names of your pets, or share that information in the thread below.  Either way, I can check for you and let you know.  

2020 Calendars – Order Now!

It’s a really special calendar this year, with the inclusion of an In Memoriam feature, honoring jackals who have gone on before us.  You can read more about that at the link to the original announcement on Saturday.

Link to the original Pets of Balloon Juice 2020  announcement from Saturday.

Update: First 40 comments were from earlier today, before it got buried.

Update 2: 10:00 pm.  Someone asked for a direct link to MARC:

Marion Animal Resource Connection

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  2. 2.

    WaterGirl

    @geg6: Some of the orders went through.  If you want confirmation that your order went through, I can check for you.  You can do that here in the thread or you can send me an email.

    Just tell me your order number if you have it OR the first and last initial of the card that was used.

  4. 4.

    zhena gogolia

    @WaterGirl: 
    I ordered it while I was at work and I don’t think I printed out the receipt. I never got an e-mail confirmation, so I don’t have the order number. I’m not sure what to do now. I got no e-mail telling me it was cancelled.

  5. 5.

    zhena gogolia

    I can’t figure out how to e-mail WaterGirl. There used to be a “contact us” thing. I can’t find it. I also don’t know what “first and last initial” of a credit card means.

  7. 7.

    West of the Cascades

    I just got notice that mine shipped today! But I ordered from the old link (evidently not one of the ones that got cancelled) … is there a link you could post to donate directly to the pet rescue since such a measly sum from the previous link’s orders is passed their way?

  16. 16.

    WaterGirl

    @zhena gogolia: if the name on the credit card was Robert Johnson,

    then tell me the initials are R J – I can see the name on the card as well as the order number.

    or you can send me email with the name on the card and i can check that way.

  19. 19.

    WaterGirl

    PSA:   Contact Us in the ever-present white bar at the top provides instructions for reaching every front pager.  It’s their nym at balloon-juice.com

    Of course for people like mistermix and dougJj who like to change their nyms all the time, we have a list that shows you the one that will work for every front pager, not matter what the current version is. :-)

  20. 20.

    PaulWartenberg

    I would argue finding another printer for you as Cafe Press IMHO has dropped in service over the last five years. I’m cancelling out my account with them.

    I will try to put another order in for the calendar though.

  25. 25.

    Humdog

    The link you wanted us to order from does not allow me to put the calendar into the shopping cart. It just sends me back to the B.J store.

    i do wish we were allowed to pick the starting months for the calendar. Now the January pets and quotes will be overlooked.

  26. 26.

    WaterGirl

    @PaulWartenberg: Which link are you using?  I just got them to take down the link that will give us only a piddling amount for the rescue.

    I wonder if you might be caught in limbo.  Can you post the link you used?

  29. 29.

    pat

    I clicked on the link that we are supposed to order from and got a message that over 20,000.000 accounts from cafepress were compromised in 2019 and Firefox can check to see if mine is at risk.  And this is from the Balloon Juice Online Store.

    This is a Firefox Monitor message.

  30. 30.

    pat

    The link that we are supposed to use goes to Balloon Juice Store and if I click on the calendar it appears but there doesn’t seem to be any way to put it in the cart, which is still under CafePress.

    In other words, it seems to be still screwed up.

  31. 31.

    WaterGirl

    Yep, Cafe Press did indeed delete the Shop version of the calendar (Balloon juice Shop) when they were only supposed to delete the Marketplace version (where the pet rescue only gets $2).

    Are we having fun yet?  :-)

    Beth is now in the process of recreating the calendar in the Shop, and with any luck the calendar will be available at the Balloon Juice Shop – before bedtime today!

    That isn’t as horrible as it sounds, because Beth has the file for each calendar month on her own computer, so it’s a matter of recreating the calendar in Cafe Press, but not starting the whole thing from scratch.

    I think I speak for both Beth and myself when I say that we love Cafe Press right now. //

    In the meantime, we have completely opted out of the “Marketplace” for this and all future creations, so the new calendar should only show up in one location – the Balloon Juice shop.

    I will add this update up top, as well.

  32. 32.

    Ruckus

    @WaterGirl:

    In the navy we had a word for situations like the one you are dealing with. Starts with a C and ends with a K. The only thing that works is laughter, second best is violence, although many skip the first choice. It rarely works anywhere near as well at that point.

  37. 37.

    something fabulous

    WG, this is so sweet of you!! You certainly didn’t have to, but I do appreciate it a lot; have been dealing with some– things, and have not been such an avid lurker of late. Will reach out to you separately now with all of the various details. Thanks SO much! ???

  41. 41.

    Another Scott

    Not that it’s here nor there, but if you go to cafepress.com and search for “balloonjuice” or “balloon juice” or “pets of calendars” you will not see anything about this calendar.  It seems like the only way one will ever see it is if one gets there from here.

    Even if it’s a marketplace vs. store issue, it seems like CP is bad and broken.

    :-/

    Ordered.

    Thanks very much for all of your efforts, Beth and WG and JC.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  42. 42.

    WaterGirl

    @Another Scott: We had to take the calendar down from the “Marketplace” because they were selling the calendar in such a way that it gave only $2 to the pet rescue, which was kind of defeating the point.

    edit: $2.11 each, to be exact.

  43. 43.

    WaterGirl

    @Another Scott: At the risk of sounding whiny:

    First they rejected orders for 52 calendars, for no reason.

    Then they started putting orders through, though they weren’t sure why, because nothing had been changed.

    Then we discovered the orders were going through in such a way that the pet rescue would only get 2.11 per calendar, instead of 7.11.

    Then, when they were asked to pull the calendar from the marketplace (because of that) they deleted the calendar from both places.  oops!

    So then Beth got to recreate the calendar in Cafe Press for the 5th time this year.

    And it only took 12 phone calls from me in the past 2 days.  I had guessed that it was 7, but I just counted.

  47. 47.

    Sab

    @WaterGirl: Also Beth is a trouper.

    I meant to order one calendar. If I get two then off to work #2 goes, and $5 to Coles’s dog people sent by me direct?

  48. 48.

    WaterGirl

    @Sab: If you think you might have ordered two, I can check and let you know which way the calendars you ordered went through.

    I could check by order # and by name (or initials will probably allow me to find your order, if you don’t want to share your name.

  53. 53.

    FlyingToaster

    I copied the link, but went to cafepress and logged in first, then went to the link.  The order went right through.

  57. 57.

    WaterGirl

    Heading for bed, or at least TV and snuggles with the guys, but I will check in tomorrow morning for any questions or problems.

  58. 58.

    Another Scott

    @WaterGirl: I’m very sorry you (and Beth) had to go through all of that!  :-(

    Thanks again for all of your efforts.  This place would be a ghost town without you!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  61. 61.

    TMinSJ

    @WaterGirl

    Just FYI, I ordered after this post, and CafePress just canceled my order, so the issue may not be resolved. Here is their email:

    Leonda S. (CafePress)

    Jan 29, 09:22 PST
    Thank you for shopping at CafePress.com! Your order has been canceled because the seller temporarily removed the calendar from their website. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. The seller has requested that we let you know the calendar has been added back to the website would like for you to place a new order at your convenience

  62. 62.

    West of the Cascades

    @WaterGirl: Thanks for the MARC link! Headed over now to make a donation. And again profound thanks to you and Beth for all your work on the Calendar (and website).

  63. 63.

    WaterGirl

    @TMinSJ: The first two initials in your nym make me hope that you are the person who ordered 5 calendars on Tuesday.  Yes?

    If so, I asked them to contact you.  There was maybe an hour yesterday where Cafe Press deleted our calendar from the Balloon Juice Shop AND from the Marketplace, when they were only supposed to delete it from the Marketplace.

    I discovered that the calendar was gone (!) and called them.  Then Beth had to recreate the calendar on Cafe Press.

    If you are indeed the person who ordered on the card where the person had the initials TM, then you were the only person who got caught in the void.  Really hoping that is you!

    The name you mentioned in your comment does sound like the name of the Cafe Press person that I asked to contact the 5-calendar order person.  We see the name on the card, but do not have access to the email address of the person ordering.

    Can you let me know if that was you?  If so, you will need to reorder – sorry! – but it won’t be an indication of a wider issue.  Thanks,

  64. 64.

    TMinSJ

    @WaterGirl: Yes, that’s me with 5 calendars ordered on Tues — I submit my friends and families pets and give them as gifts. I reordered as soon as I got the cancellation notice. Thanks for getting back to me.

  65. 65.

    WaterGirl

    @TMinSJ: That’s so generous of you!  Sorry your order was cancelled, but very glad that it wasn’t indicative of yet another glitch with Cafe Press.

    Thanks for getting back to me, too!

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