*HOW TO PURCHASE*
This is really easy, just e-mail me with the item you would like to purchase and I will get your total to you with shipping costs.
We accept PAYPAL, CASH and MONEY ORDERS & WE SHIP WORLDWIDE. PAYMENT MUST BE RECEIVED WITHIN 10 DAYS or your TREASURES WILL GO BACK ON THE WEBSITE. (please read the rest of my policy page on non-payment or canceling your order)
Please realize it takes me about a week to get everyone's order boxed up and ready to go. All treasures are FIRST COME FIRST SERVE to be fair to everyone. We try to list new items on the website 2 times a month, sometimes more.
We also have a couple of new policies that need to be enforced, even though I didn't want to have to do this, so here goes:
WE ARE THE ORIGINAL "Back Porch" and want to keep that running, however, if you are only ordering from the "Back Porch" there is a minimum of a $10.00 purchase at 50% off, it's just the way I have to do it from now on. If you are ordering from anywhere else on the website, then there is no minimum from ordering on the "Back Porch".
Being on my 8th year of the website, I have never ever had to charge a handling fee. Since I have resources to obtain recycled paper, bubble wrap and FREE Priority Boxes, I don't have to charge any of those "extra" fees. Your packages aren't all dressed up and pretty like some of our other favorite websites, that's how I keep my prices low and so reasonable. You pay only what the post office tells me what you pay. If I had to take my time, gas and effort to run around and find boxes to ship non-priority, then I will have to charge a handling fee. I think it's a win/win situation for all of us that I continue with the priority shipping and no handling fees, just actual shipping charges. Remember, I live out in the country where UPS and FED EX will not let me set up a business account. Therefore I am shipping everything via the USPS. I ALSO USE FLAT RATE BOXES ALL THE TIME, IF YOUR ORDER CAN FIT INTO THEM without DAMAGE!!!!
It takes me A LOT of time to get the website ready, to mark your items sold, carefully package it up, tape the box with expensive packing tape, and go to the USPS.com website to calculate your shipping. I then, send you an email with your total.
This all takes time and TONS OF MY ENERGY....when you receive the total from me and then decide not to purchase the items, you will be taken off my mailing list and I will not allow you to buy from me again, NO WAY, NO HOW, NOT EVER, NO EXCEPTIONS. I know this seems harsh, but I put my heart and soul into Four Sisters In A Cottage and I am very hurt when people "change their minds" and decide not to purchase the treasures I have ready to ship and have taken them off the website so no one else can buy them. From my point of view, it is also something that someone else might have wanted and so that is why this policy has to be in place. In the 7 years I have been doing this, it has only happened 2 times and I want to keep it that way.
ALSO, FROM NOW ON, EVERYTHING REQUIRES DELIVERY CONFIRMATION AND INSURANCE. Not so much for breakage, but for THEFT!!!! It has come to my attention that some items have been taken off front porches and so I REQUIRE INSURANCE and DELIVERY CONFIRMATION. If you do not want this, then please do not buy from me.
You might ask yourself, why not just add a buy it now shopping cart button to your website. I can't, it doesn't calculate shipping for those of you who buy more than one item, so that's just the way it has to be. I hope all of you can understand where I am coming from. This is my business , it is helping pay off all those medical bills and other bills I accrued while going through cancer. I have to start treating it as such and I am sure you can all understand that. That's why I love all of you who have supported me.
Hugs to all of you and have fun looking thru "The Cottage"
~Amy, Mom To The Four Sisters~
FOUR SISTERS IN A COTTAGE
