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I love shopping Ornament Shop for a few reasons: 1) as a preschool director its kinda "my thing" to give my staff a personalized Christmas ornament that has every one of the staff on it, depicted in a cute, fun way (IE penguins, snowmen etc) (2) This company seems to be the only one that offers ornaments that depict "families of 9+" that offer non traditional "families"-- meaning we don't want an ornament that has "a mom and a dad" (and a gaggle of kids) figures represented on the ornament. --we are an all female staff and we are all equal so I look for ornaments that depict more of a "group" vibe rather than "family" vibe. But most other companies don't offer more than one or two "group" ornaments AND certainly don't offer many in the large 9+ format. (3) Free Shipping--saves me money because I always order at lease the required number to get it! (4) Coupons/Sales--great coupons. Sometimes up to 20% or more if you're a longtime member, and you order early! I usually do, so I usually get! (5) Quality and clarity--a few years back when we were a smaller staff, I used a different company ---and everyone (angel theme that year) everyone turned out orange--ORANGE!!! No disrespect but most of the "white" faces looked like oompa loompas and the 2 "colored" faces were black--like MIDNIGHT COULD NOT SEE THEIR PAINTED ON EYEBALLS black--seriously? and these went thru quality control? really inspector # 42? you thought those were acceptable? So hence, I am now forever only shopping here! I get beautiful coloring all over and you can see eyeballs --oh, and did I mention names? Yes I personalize. I check spellings and placement. I have my husband check spellings and placement. I have him read and spell names out-loud just to be sure all is perfect! Every time this company gets it right! Have never had an issue with personalization or placement of the names or year (even when I thought there is no way there would be space) they found a way to get it on there and have it look good! I have no idea what i will do if/when we become a staff of 11 or more? But for now I am thrilled with all my previous purchases. I have never had any issues with searching for what i want, placing orders and/or shipping/receiving. The ornaments come uber wrapped in environmentally safe paper and some sort of lightweight cardboard flexible wrapping and they are wrapped like 30 times (OK joking about the 30) but they are really well padded for transport! But there is nothing that I don't like about this company other than you don't get an estimate on arrival time during the ordering process--that comes later in the confirmation email. But since I order in October, i never need to really worry about "when" they arrive. I will say tho--that I often hear people complain that "they take too long" ---so I say to those people--Hey, hel-looo you are getting quality hand painted looking work! That takes some time to do--if you want 24 hour turn around time (aka crappy work) and delivered "next day" then you'll need to shop somewhere else--because all good things take time to do right! Kaleigh W.
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