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Here are comments received from recent customers who have purchased items off the website. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello, Just to let you know my furs arrived safely today -I am absolutely thrilled with them, they are out of this world. Your service has been excellent. In fact I am now thinking of ordering a black fox coat to complete my winter wardrobe! Very many thanks. Christine -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I just received the mink stroller – just a beautiful coat! Thank you, as always. Salli -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for your help. I will keep an eye on your website for future additions and will recommend your site to others‹and will let them know what good customer service you provide. --Karen -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I love the coat, I have two daughters that will be ordering from you soon, thank you, Lakesia -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just to let you know my daughter's black fox arrived safely this morning - it fits her beautifully and we are both absolutely delighted with it. Very many thanks, Christine COAT ARRIVED THIS AM IN GREAT SHAPE. WIFE VERY HAPPY. NICE JOB AND NICE COAT. REGARDS NELS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi I just wanted to let you know that my beautiful coyote jacket arrived on Thursday in perfect condition! I could not be more pleased with the quality! Looking forward to doing business with you again soon! Sincerely Helen -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BELOW IS AN ARTICLE WRITTEN IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ABOUT EFURS4LESS: Leap of Faith? Brave Lovers Go Online for Big-Ticket Purchases By JENNIFER SARANOW THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE February 5, 2003 11:11 p.m. Sure, flowers and chocolate are easy to get online. But what if you want to buy a serious, once-in-a-lifetime gift -- a new Lexus, say, or a mink coat? The International Mass Retail Association, an industry group in Arlington, Va., estimates 4% of Valentine's Day shoppers will buy their gifts on the Internet in 2003, up from 1% in 2000. Most gifts, both online and off, will be traditional fare like cards, candy and flowers, according to the association. But a handful of big spenders are using the Web to make their Valentine's Day purchases. We talked to some daring consumers who have bought pricey gifts online. FURS Matthew Callaway was at a disadvantage when it came to buying a fur coat for his wife this Christmas. "When you live in a rural area, your options are limited," says the 43-year-old physician from El Dorado, Ark., about 120 miles south of Little Rock. He found efurs4less.com on Google. Impressed with the gallery of photographs and lack of "hovering snobby" salespeople, he shelled out $3,000 for a sheared beaver coat. "It was an easy process," Mr. Callaway says. "The downside was that furs, being a rather tactile gift, could not be fully appreciated until delivered." The Fur Information Council of America estimates that less than 5% of fur purchases are made online, a minuscule fraction of a $1.53 billion business in 2001, the most recent industry figure. Still, says Executive Director Keith Kaplan, it's a growing segment of the market, especially for people like Mr. Callaway in out of the way locales. Online furriers expect that to be reflected in sales this Valentine's Day. Efurs4less.com (www.efurs4less.com), a three-year-old site based in New York, expects sales to rise to 15 a day this season from about 10 sales a day during the week before Feb. 14 last year. That translates into profit of $5,000 to $10,000 this season. High-End Options: Some luxurious choices available include Russian sables at efurs4less ranging from $4,000 to $20,000 and chinchilla designer coats at Famousfurs for $55,000. Ordering: Most sites have customer-service representatives reachable by phone or e-mail to assuage any anxieties about buying such an expensive and touch-sensitive item site unseen. A hint to get the fit right: Check the size of one of your significant other's outergarmets before ordering. To ensure delivery by Valentine's Day, efurs4less can send items in stock overnight, but custom orders take two weeks. Dicker & Dicker requires a week's notice for in-stock items and Famousfurs says orders should be placed by the first week in February. To guarantee the coats will arrive safely, efurs4less ships them in long thin boxes by overnight or second-day delivery so they don't stay in boxes too long. Dicker & Dicker and Famousfurs send furs in regular cardboard boxes with no mention of what's inside. Men's furs cost from $1,000 to $6,000 at efurs4less. Happy Ending? For Mr. Callaway (and his wife) it was. I will likely do it again in the future," he says. Still, he recommends research and scrutiny of a seller. What ultimately sold him on efurs4less was the 100% money-back guarantee on new items. Most sites will offer refunds or exchanges for new items, but custom orders are nonrefundable. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I consider myself to be a major fur-buyer, and own many furs… all of very good quality, and many of which were custom-made. I mention this because, over my years of fur-buying, I feel that I have become quite educated as to the process of the manufacture of furs and their sale to the retail public. I have been to the posh salons in the fur district, I have visited the fur department of major prestige department stores, but it was not until I ordered my custom-made stone marten coat from Efurs4less that I had the experience I have always wanted. This time, I was given the opportunity to work directly with the person who would be selecting the pelts, creating the design and then manufacturing the garment. This one-to-one dynamic was always the experience for which I had searched… no aggressive sales people PLEASE… or any of those others milling about, who having nothing to do with the finished product. Together, we looked at and discussed many pelts, drew lots of designs and talked a lot: it was GREAT… and the result… a magnificent “dream” coat… that would have cost thousands more if bought “in the salon”… except that it would never be found in a salon. I am thoroughly delighted, my expectations having been far exceeded; I shall definitely return in the future. My many sincere thanks to Dawn, Eyal and Vasilios… a great buyer-friendly team!!!

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