General Pond Stuff

This article and video are a bit off topic for us, but since we’re an online retailer and consulting service for ponds, it’s always been important for me to be honest and upstanding when dealing with people. It’s hard sometimes to trust folks when you can’t deal with them face to face.

And unfortunately not everyone uses the internet for honorable means.

In recent days (and I assume some of this is due to the holiday season) I’ve been getting more junk in my email inbox. Most of these are just harmless annoyances, but some are certainly more dangerous.

In the video below I expose several emails that I’ve received lately that appear to be from legit shipping companies. However they contain attachments that, if opened, could certainly cause some issues with my computer, or my privacy.

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Last week I sent out an online survey concerning several questions about our pond tips and my thanks go out to the hundreds of you who took time to answer the questions. It’s important to me to provide you with useful and helpful information but not to take up too much of your time in doing so.

The results of the survey show that, for the most part, we are on a good track that most people like. There are a few areas where we can improve and we’ll certainly try to do that!

As promised, I did want to share the results with you and also announce the winner of the $25 gift card from Amazon.com. And by the way, some folks asked about why we would give away an Amazon gift card and not provide a gift card from our pond shop. It’s a valid question to be sure, but to me, with the holidays approaching, it made more sense to give you something you can use immediately. Pick up a new book you’ve been wanting to read, or grab a gift for the grand kids if you’d like…you can use it for anything that you might want. So that’s that as they say.

Now on to the survey results.

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