Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Happy Holidays and Vacation

Happy holidays from TartBurners.com. We are closed until January 5, 2009. We will not be shipping orders or returning messages or emails until that time.

Effective December 24, 2008, the minimum order for free ground shipping in the 48 states will be increased from $50 to $75. We regret having to do this; however, we have maintained the $50 level for 6-1/2 years (since July 2002) despite annual increases in UPS shipping rates that we absorb. We have expanded our product selection exponentially during that time and plan to continue to expand product offerings in 2009. While were once just the "Tart Burner Superstore", we now offer almost 4000 SKUs of candles, home fragrance items, personal care and products for the home. We hope the the larger selection makes it easier to meet the free shipping minimum for our customers.

Friday, December 5, 2008

Holiday Shipping and Schedule

Happy Holidays from TartBurners.com.

We are still in stock on most items but are running out of a few categories, mainly Crazy Mountain warmers, McCall's Christmas candles and various Mud Pie monogram letters. If you are looking for these items, we suggest not waiting much longer.

We are still shipping virtually every order in 1 business day or less; however UPS Ground takes a week to get to destinations east of the Mississippi River from our location in California. We strongly suggest ordering by December 15 for Christmas delivery by ground. Orders placed on 12/16 and 12/17 may still get there in time, but it is better to build in leeway for weather and other unforeseen delays.

Our last day of shipping in 2008 will be December 23 and then we will close for vacation and reopen January 5. We will be unable to return phone calls and emails during vacation.

Friday, September 12, 2008

New Product Lines

It has been almost 3 months since we posted on our blog. During this time, we have added several new lines to our site, many in a new "For Home" section that includes cutting boards, wine accessories, coasters and serving items from Mud Pie, Cypress Home, Wine Things Unlimited, Highland Graphics and Grasslands Road. The Mud Pie monogrammed items have been particularly popular.

We have also been expanding offerings of some other new lines, including Hillhouse Naturals, Camille Beckman and others. We now have the new Bridgewater Candle soy blend line and have been adding more products from Virginia/Woodwick Candles.

Please also check our "ON SALE" section for items we are discontiniung at attractive prices.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Improved Site Search

TartBurners.com is pleased to announce a site upgrade that was completed this past week. We have added an "advanced search" function that is available from every page on the site near the top left. A search on any term will find all products with that term in the name or description in a section group format. The items can be added to the cart right from the search page. The user can also sort the items by price and relevance.

The latest line we have added is Camille Beckman, known for its hand therapy products and more.

Thursday, May 29, 2008

New "Mini-Cart" Feature

TartBurners.com is pleased to announce a site upgrade that was completed this past week. Each page of the site now has a "mini-cart" in the upper right corner that can be shown or hidden by the choice of the customer. Adding products to the cart and viewing the cart no longer requires navigating back and forth between the site and the cart. The customer can also choose the shipping option and calculate freight without navigating to the full cart, although we always recommend the most economical option of UPS Ground in the 48 states.

Adding products to the mini-cart has a slight processing delay that is longer than we would like, but it is still faster than navigating back and forth to the full cart.

Friday, May 9, 2008

New Product Lines

We have added more product lines and products over the last 2 months. These include Hillhouse Naturals, which offers reed diffusers, candles and more. We have also added triple fragrance votives and other items from Virginia Candle, more hanging tart burners, and more closeout tart burners. We add new items virtually every week.

We have been asked by many customers about out of stock Mosaic Plug-In Burners. We are told it will be at least June 30 before we will receive more.

Friday, February 29, 2008

New Product Lines & Closeouts

We continue to add new product lines to our web site. These include Lady Primrose bath & body, Kandle Indulgence soy wax melts, Vance Kitira timber pillar candles & Sunset Mountain tri-level pillars. We also got a great deal on some clearance tart burners, including hanging tart burners, which are now on sale in the "Clearance Tart Burners" section at very low prices.

We are also continuing to add to our major lines of Beanpod Candles, WoodWick Candles, Bridgewater Candles, McCall's Candles, Tyler Candles, Colonial Candles, Crazy Mountain candle warmers, K Hall Designs and The Thymes. New products and/or fragrances are now available in many of these lines.

Most products are in stock.

Friday, February 1, 2008

New Product Lines

We have added several new product lines to our web site in the past 2 weeks. These include BeeCeuticals, a line of natural body products, Mud Pie soaps and linens with initials, Upepr Canada Soap natural body products, Rhapsody Candle pillars and wax potpourri & Swan Creek 100% soy candles.

We are also continuing to add to our major lines of Beanpod Candles, WoodWick Candles, Bridgewater Candles, McCall's Candles, Tyler Candles, Colonial Candles, Crazy Mountain candle warmers, K Hall Designs and The Thymes. New products and/or fragrances are now available in many of these lines and more are coming in the next few weeks.

Most products are now back in stock.

Friday, January 18, 2008

New web site features

We are pleased to introduce some new features at www.tartburners.com:

1. "View Details": When you hover your cursor over the picture of a product on a group section page, an icon "View Details" appears. If you click this icon, this brings up an overlay window with more details about the product from its item page and the ability to add the product to the cart without ever leaving the section page.

2. Product Reviews: Customers can now review products right from the site or from an email sent about 30 days after purchase. If you do not want to receive a product review email, please check the "no" box on during checkout. We are interested in finding out more about what our customers like and do not like about products.

3. Improved checkout pages: Our checkout pages now more closely resemble our web site with links to key pages.

Most major product lines are now back in stock. We have added a new line of organic products "BeeCeuticals" and expect several more new lines in the upcoming weeks.

Friday, January 4, 2008

New Year Restocking

The holiday season typically runs us out of stock on many items. However, we have placed orders with most vendors to restock their products. This past week have have received shipments from Tyler Candles, For Every Body, Hanging Tart Burners, Enchanted Meadow, Crazy Mountain and The Thymes. We are expecting orders next week from Greenleaf, Bridgewater Candles, Beanpod Candles, Virginia/Woodwick Candles, Naked Bee, Scentchips, Gingersnaps Candles and Wild Rose Fragrance Oils. We should be pretty much restocked within 2 weeks. McCall's Candles is running slow in shipping.