What's Wrong With The Store?

We have temporarily shut down the store.

Basically, the issue is we have been running the store from Canada. Its much more expensive to ship from Canada, but we used to be able to make up the difference with the exchange rate. However, with the collapse of the USD that difference was no longer there and the cost of shipping increased for you the customer.

We began to receive so many complaints, and frankly realized how ridiculous the costs got.

The decision was made to move operations of the store into the USA, but just note that this isn't a tiny change. We're currently working on spinning up a solution over there so that our american customers (who make up about 75% of the store's business) have better shipping options. It will not affect Canadian customers, as its actually cheaper to ship into Canada from the USA than it is Canada-Canada most times (go figure). Our European customers note we haven't forgotten about you but frankly we just don't have a good idea for how to handle this yet.

Anyways, your patience is as always appreciated. We'll get something new in place, and make sure that it works for our customers, so you guys can stop paying so much money to rock the Newschoolers gear you want!

Would it be possible to sell NS stuff through a 3rd party?

Maybe one of the following shops.

http://www.freezeproshop.com/

http://www.unity-proshop.co.uk/

Not a bad idea at all. Newschoolers is much better as a brand than a store.

We're looking at all kinds of options.

I can't promise that it will be quick to get up and running again, but I do promise that once we do it will be a good solution that works for the majority of NSers.

So you guys aren't in Montreal now?

Or you are, and you just aren't shipping out of MTL?

We just aren't shipping anything at the moment.

We are still based out of Montreal. Like Doug said we are looking at various other options to make the purchasing and shipping easier on everyone

Oh alright, I would of been sad if you moved out of montreal. haha

Possible mini headquarters in Burlington, VT?

Pros:
·Only 2 hours from Montreal
·In the US
·We're a chill mini city
·Proximity to Orage and Meatheads
·Ben & Jerry's
·Tons of NSers near by

Cons:
n/a

Well, now im fucked for shipping costs.

When the store comes back can we please please please get some new tees sweatshirts and a beanie?

No, you're fucked at reading.

Well it was way too impractical and out of the question at the time. Remember, the American dollar has gone from being worth 46% MORE than the Canadian dollar to 5% LESS. At one point it even got so bad that the USD was almost 8% lower than the Canadian Dollar.

That's a 50% increase in store costs, which changes the rules a bit. That tends to take things which used to be impractical and make them practical again.

As well, its only recently that Newschoolers is owned by a company that does a ton of magazine distribution and therefore has experience in this and a base of operations in the states.

Back when we used to talk about this we would have had to be opening a warehouse in the states which would have had 50% higher costs than what we were running here. That IS impractical.

Times have changed and we're adapting to them.

unity pro shop is no more after this season :'(

but a european distributor would appear to make things easier for us guys on this side of the pond

Any estimate on when this move will happen?

Best I can give you is that we're hoping to have something running by the absolute latest next winter. Ideally its much quicker than that, but its a big change so I'm really not 100% sure.

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woah that's long! hope it'll be worth it, and that it won't really afffect shopping to Canada

what about stickers via SASE