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Ashley Fogg with help during her health crisis, organized by Beth Bell Hi my name is Beth and I am fundraising for my beautiful friend Ashley Fogg.… Beth Bell needs your support for Ashley Fogg with help during her health crisis

Dear friends family and commodore obsessed fanatics, The past couple of years, those since Covid came to be a pandemic, we have found ourselves no longer able to keep up. Supply chain issues, shipping costs, inflation, and just overall worldly changes in general, have made our ability to keep up impossible. We have tried to tread water, and hoped for things to improve but our ability to continue has reached a point in which we were forced to make hard decisions. Our most popular items things we made as part of our Coprolite line our prototype boards our harnesses our VDC boards etc, have become just one of such issues. The company that used to make our boards changed how they charged us, going from charging us by the space we crammed our boards onto using every inch of space to prevent waste, to charging us per separate design. This effectively made our costs too high to keep making and selling items for the prices we have sold them for over the past 13 years. We have also experienced issues with sourcing components we used to create our items, finding them in either not sufficient quantity or quality. This means we were hemorrhaging money in sending out replacement items when products failed sooner than they should have and we being the people we are worked tirelessly to make things right for our customers who put faith in us and the things we created. Shipping costs went way up with unexpected delays that we couldn't do anything about causing stress for us and our customers when tracking no longer worked as it always had and more and more items showed up so late it was painful to deal with. The job is no longer fun for us and is costing us more than money to maintain. I can not any longer afford my ebay store which has been my baby and passion since 2004. We never did raise prices not once in `all our years as Coprolite we just kept absorbing the rising costs watching our profits shrink but still proud of what we did to keep Commodores running and in the hands of people who loved them as much as we do. I can not keep the fire burning in my genius husband and myself as such pressures weigh down on us and it is with heavy heart that we have decided to start shutting down. We have loved the journey, loved the people we interacted with over all these years. It has been our pleasure and joys to keep Kenny's first love (Commodores) alive and well. I'm going to have a few sales for whatever items still remain on our shelves, mostly bare boards and software floppies, and carts alike. I'll post here when I have figured out how to have our going out of business sale and I hope you know how much we have appreciated your patronage over the years. Be well be happy
Beth Kenny and Marco...those great people with the "sh*tty" name (Coprolite is fossilized dung) ....Coprolite Computer By-products