Before I begin on this article I would like to get some feed back on how the Japanese characters are presenting to the reader. You may need to download Japanese Language Support to read the Kanji properly.
Please let me know how it looks on your computer.
David
For those of you living in Canada, especially Montreal and Toronto we have two retailers available for you at this time, one is Snow Lion in Toronto and the other is Association Zen de Montreal. You can find their information on our retailer page at http://www.oller.net/retail.htm
Theodore at Snow Lion says he will ship anywhere in Canada but there is no incense on his webpage so you will have to call or email him to make an order I don’t believe Zen de Montreal ships, so it may just be for those of you living in Montreal.
We are working to add more Canadian retailers so hopefully you will see the list grow.
For those who have been waiting it shouldn’t be long.
It will take some time to show up on the retailers webpage's,
but I expect less than 30 days from now.
The planned packaging is 18 gram boxes at a retail price of $10.00
A large 150 gram box should retail around $70.00
We expect most of the retailers will carry Tobiume. At this time the following stores have made orders:
Koshi (Japan Town) San Francisco http://www.japanincense.com/
Incense Warehouse http://www.incensewarehouse.com/
Essence of the Ages http://www.essenceoftheages.com/
Sensia http://www.sensia.com/
I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.
David Oller
It’s important to remember that Authentic Baieido products distributed through authorized retailers carry a freshness guarantee from Esoterics LLC. Look for this certificate on their website.
If you find the retailer on our “Retailer Page” http://www.oller.net/retail.htm they are “Quality Assured” retailers, whether or not they have the certificate on their website.
Well, we have been hoping the dollar would gain some strength for the last three months. We have seen our prices increase around 30-35% without raising our prices at the retail level. At the same time shipping costs have been increasing despite the fact the shippers costs are down.
I realize this is a terrible time, but it now seems unavoidable, we are simply going to have to raise prices. The only thing I can suggest for all of us is to consider taking advantage of the larger quantity packaging which should be more than enough to offset the price increases.
I will promise you that should we see the dollar improve we will again lower prices.
David Oller
Esoterics LLC
Baieido USA
