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A Balanced Diet for residents and vacationers

June 27th, 2008

It’s not easy for some of us Maui residents to be on a diet. I walk up and down the aisles in the market yearning for the goodies I want but can’t have. I watch vacationers piling their carts full of indulgent snacks and drinks.

Then a calamity happens. Vacationers give me their leftover snacks and drinks when they get ready to go home. There, in front of my eyes, are the goodies I saw in the market and couldn’t have. And it’s all free. It’s more than I can bear. There goes my diet, again.  

 

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Blackie Gadarian – Maui Blackie

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United Kingdom loves MauiShirts.com

June 26th, 2008

guitar Received my first MauiShirts, (GUITAR TROPICS & ISLAND ESCAPE)

today, absolutely beautiful, I’m ordering again already the are so beautiful.

I want them all

 

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ATM lines are my favorite place …

June 20th, 2008

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CLICK ON THE IMAGE. WAIT A FEW MOMENTS IF YOU

HAVE A SLOW CONNECTION. THE IMAGE WILL GET LARGER AND YOU WILL BE ABLE TO READ IT….

 

I have watched people in the line at the ATM machine money wall.

The people waiting to use the ATM have a sad, grim look on their faces as if their dog died.

After they get their money, they leave happy and smiling.

They look like they just won a jackpot.

Do they think they got a bunch of free money?

Blackie Gadarian – Maui Blackie

Customer's Communicate

Select Alternate choices of print and or color —- PLEASE !

June 20th, 2008

What is it with you folks? Take a good look. Why are you not selecting alternate colors or prints? Why? There are hundreds of prints, more than a dozen styles. Literally thousands of choices. Think about it. It is impossible to keep stock of every print, in every color, in every size, in every style all of the time. It just can not be done. No other web site offers more variety of Made in Hawaii and Shipped from Hawaii clothing. Use the "Special Instructions" box at the bottom left of your order form as you check out to type in some alternate selections in case want you want has sold out or is temporarily out of stock.  You have all the space you need in this box. There is no character limit. If you put an item in your shopping cart ,and you read in the drop-down menu of "Available-Selections" that there is only one (1) in stock, there is a good chance someone has already beat you to the punch. The web site is updated manually every day, though out the day, to reflect sales, exchanges, returns. Many, many times, the same item with one dress, one shirt, noted in stock in the drop-down menu of "Available-Selections", is sold the same night. MauiShirts.com receives upwards to 10,000 page views a day. Our customer help staff can not take the time to call everyone who does not select alternates. We do call many. But, because we are 3 to 6 hours earlier than you, it can be difficult to do this all of the time. When you select 2nd Day Federal Express as your shipping option, we assume you are in a rush. We can’t play phone tag. We will ship your partial order and refund the out of stock or sold out item when the order ships. Orders for matching outfits will not ship. We will either call or send an email to customers who have selected matching outfits. We will cancel the order if you do not respond within three days. You can always call the toll free number to check the availability before you place your order. Don’t forget, MauiShirts.com is on the island of Maui in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Our clocks do not change. You folks on the mainland are always messing with the time. Local Maui Time can be found on the top of the Contact MauiShirts page.

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I love a great Luau

June 20th, 2008

sarong  Rating: Excellent

Price Rating:Excellent

Shipping Options Rating:Excellent

Delivery Rating:Excellent

Ease of Purchase Rating:Excellent

Customer Service Rating:Excellent

Nice user friendly site.  Good quality clothing.  Received clothing in a timely manner for a house warming luau my husband and I are attending this weekend and for a luau we are attending for my high school reunion in July.  Thank you MauiShirts.com!

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The Golden Dragon speaks

June 20th, 2008

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Rating: Excellent

Price Rating:Excellent

Shipping Options Rating:Excellent

Delivery Rating:Excellent

Ease of Purchase Rating:Excellent

Customer Service Rating:Excellent

Great Shirts, quick shipment, good communications..Thanks 

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The Purple Dress is Beautiful

June 20th, 2008

Rating: Excellent

Price Rating:Excellent

Shipping Options Rating:Good

Delivery Rating:Excellent

Ease of Purchase Rating:Excellent

Customer Service Rating:Excellent

monstera-garden I love the dress I purchased.  It is beautiful and I cannot wait to wear it for my husband’s surprise 40th birthday luau!  Thank you so much!

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Extract a pound of flesh for a fallen button

June 15th, 2008

Here is a true story of a popped button. A customer purchased a shirt from MauiShirts.com’s mirrored listings on Amazon.com. A button fell off a shirt. The customer, being a lady, sent an email requesting a replacement button. Her email was not answered immediately. She then entered the following remarks in the public form of Amazon.com. “This shirt lost a button immediately. I contacted the seller, and never heard back from them. I will have to replace all the buttons on the shirt to make them match.

My response: (MauiShirts.com is entitled to have the last word when a customer leaves feedback). This is absolutely ridiculous! Why in the world would you post such utter nonsense? Buttons are FREE. All you have to do is ask. There is a toll free number to call. I have received no request from this person.

Now, you might say that was not such a bad thing for her to say. It was her experience and Amazon.com automatically asks all customers for feedback from their partner shops’ customers. But, you must realize that the MauiShirts.com customer feedback, now into the hundreds, from thousands of transactions, before her remark was at 100%. Her little remark of dissatisfaction knocked the positive feedback down to 96%. Not so bad. Well, I’m very sensitive about this sort of thing.

Then, as things go, her email is discovered in the spam, trash folder, along with the penis enlargement, Viagra and lottery scam emails. I replied to her email and asked for an address. She did not include an address to ship the buttons within all the pages of her email. My guess is she expected us to research her order, investigate the situation with the attempt to locate her address. And, I can only assume after due diligence the address located was where we should send the buttons. We can not assume anything in the Internet business. The address that you had your order shipped to, might not be the address where the buttons should be shipped to. There is little room for error. We can not, and will not, assume anything. All we ever ask is that you give us the information we need to ship you what you want.

 

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Four New Maui Images from the eye of Adrienne

June 14th, 2008

 

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Here is a familiar look at Lahaina Towne from out harbor.

 

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An early morning look at our sunken boat. It is always interesting to hear passerby speculate on the boat’s demise.

 

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Birds of Paradise fill the Hawaiian Islands

 

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This last Easter Sunday morning, I captured this photo of a whale’s tail that had been either mutilated by sharks or by a boat’s propeller.  The good thing is, this is his second year he has been spotted.  He must have to swim on his side since most of his tail is gone.  We named him McStumpy.

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Jungle Parrots Boy’s shirt is a favorite print for children of all ages

June 14th, 2008

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Rating: Excellent

Price Rating:Good

Shipping Options Rating:Excellent

Delivery Rating:Excellent

Ease of Purchase Rating:Excellent

Customer Service Rating:Excellent

Grandson’s shirt is great.  Purchase online through MauiShirts was easy and fast.

 

Allen H / Houston, Texas

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