Climbing Frames Etc.

I am considering offering a range of swimming pools to compliment the range of climbing frames, play structures, and swing sets that I currently stock. I’m not certain that this site is the right place to be be selling them. The alternative is to build a brand new site. The problem with doing that is that it can easily be 8 months before it goes into Google’s results, and there is TONS of hard work to get it decent ranking.

So, adding them here would be the easy option. I’ve yet to decide. If anyone has any thoughts then feel free to let me know.

I’ve had a few calls from customers recently, asking me why there is a difference in prices between my Climbing Frames site and my other site, Garden Playground Equipment.

The reason is that delivery is that Garden Playground Equipment deals with a single manufacturer.  So, I show the prices excluding delivery.  Climbing Frames Etc. deals with a number of different suppliers, each of whom have different delivery charges and delivery timescales.  So, on this site I show the prices including delivery so that you, the customer, can make side-by-side comparisons of the products without having to worry if one product really is cheaper than another once delivery is added.  The price you see is the price you pay, so it makes it easy to compare products.

At the moment on the Climbing Frames Etc main menu there is an option for ‘Accessories’.  The problem I have is that there are minimum order values and/or minimum delivery costs from the different companies that I deal with.  For example, one manufacturer of play structures requires a minimum order value of £100.  If all you want is a new swing seat then there is a big difference to get to the £100 mark.  Similarly, nobody wants to buy an £8 swing seat and be faced with £20 delivery costs.

I tried to make it clear on the climbing frames accessories page that they would only be for sale with the purchase of a climbing frame or other play structure, so as to ensure that there would be no issues over minimum order values or delivery costs.  However, I don’t think that is working.  It doesn’t matter where I put the text, how big, bold, and noticeable I make it, the problem is that people simply are not reading it !

The only way around the issue is to remove the climbing frames accessories option from the menu.  What I plan to do is to replace that menu option with one for a FAQ.  I hope that I can answer a lot of the questions that people often phone me up about, but I can’t help worrying that if people won’t read something important in big, bold, red text, then I might be wasting my time !