We kept our promise
1 Comment4 January 2013 | Steve
The BBC Stargazing Live series of programmes with Brian Cox and Dara Ó Briain is nearly upon us! The first episode airs next Tue 8pm on BBC-2.
Some will remember how incredibly successful the last series was. The programmes generated a tidal wave of people interested in beginning astronomy. This chart shows the increase in traffic to our website through the period 1st Dec 2011 - 1st Mar 2012.
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It was wonderful seeing so many people wanting to observe the night sky but it put a serious strain on the astro retail industry because the number of enquiries more than doubled as importers/distributors ran out of stock! We apologised as best we could and promised to invest in additional premises, more staff and to carry more stock. We have kept our promise ![smiley smiley](/admin/ckeditor_121213/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.png)
We moved into larger premises and have another additional unit (we were going to use it as a showroom but it is now full of stock!). We have employed another full-time member of staff SteveB and Megan has joined us part-time to help with dispatch. We have also upgraded our helpdesk and website to make it easier to for you to email questions and receive a response.
We can't promise there won't be stock shortages but we have done all we can to make this year's 'Brian Cox affect' more manageable and less disruptive.
Steve
In a time of recession it is very encouraging to see a forward thinking company planning and preparing for the future.
Thanks for another year of great service FLO.