Unless someone with a badge appears at our door with a warrant, nobody gets any client information from us! Period!

Okay, we can do this one of two ways. We can either take your credit card information and not charge you until we ship the merchandise, or you can pay 50 percent up front (sales tax and shipping will be added to the second half). Take your pick.

If this were Sequim, Oregon, we would never have to charge a sales tax to anyone. However, our Governor might take offense if we didn't charge sales tax on merchandise sold or shipped to anywhere in the state of Washington. We don't plan on making her (or her minions) upset. On the other hand, if you are ordering from outside Washington state for delivery outside of Washington state, we will not charge sales tax.

Our default manner of shipping will be the U.S. Post Office, for which we'll charge 10 percent of the sales price for shipping, handling and insurance or $3, whichever is higher. If you opt out of insurance we'll calculate shipping at 8 percent of the sales price (minimum $3 charge still applies). (Our products are fairly indestructible, but we've had an unnamed shipper burn us by breaking the unbreakable.)

If you want to opt for UPS or FedEx or Pony Express (or anyone else, providing they are available to us), we'll do that, using the carrier's charge plus 2 percent of the sales price. Shipped item(s) will be insured unless you tell us not to.

It would be nice for us to be able to say 'forget it', but being the half-way reasonable people that we hope we are, we'll accept unused, non-special order merchandise and refund the cost of the merchandise minus shipping and handling if claim is made within 30 days of purchase. Now, isn't that fair?