Keep up with us on Twitter

ToolBarn.com has a presence on Twitter now. You can keep up with new products and the latest articles by following us. If there is something else you'd like to have us send via twitter, please feel free to let us know in the comments on this blog post.

Oh, I almost forgot to link to our twitter page at http://www.twitter.com/toolbarn. We'll probably have a few contests coming out via twitter, too.

A Milwaukee Deal

Sometimes, I see a deal that makes me say "Wow." Today is one of those days. We normally sell this Milwaukee 18V 1/2" hammer drill kit for $269, but due to a special purchase it comes with a reciprocating saw and we're selling it for less. Not just less, but a lot less.

I'm going to have to call this a great deal for someone wanting either a drill or a sawzall and get back to work, though. It seems I always have too much of that work stuff left, as I'm sure most of you can relate to.

Third Party Errors

Yesterday, 4/2/08, we had a third party begin a test that affected some of our customers. This was specifically in the checkout portion of ToolBarn.com and created problems placing orders for a small percentage of visitors between 3:15pm and 6:15pm central time.

We would like to apologize for any inconvenience this caused and assure you that we are doing everything we can to ensure this does not happen again and this is not a normal occurrence. Unfortunately, the tests we were running are controlled by a third party and we had no control over fixing this.

Direct from the party involved:

...the bug itself originated at one point in our code where we've used a hard-coded URL by mistake.

Again, we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and are taking all necessary steps to ensure this does not happen again.