New Everything Dinosaur Web Feature – Sharing Wishlists

The Everything Dinosaur website: Everything Dinosaur’s website. has a number of very useful, customer friendly features.  For example, for those visitors that create their own personal space on our website and open an account, they can put items from our shop into their very own “wishlist”.  A wishlist is quite a common feature on websites that have a shopping function.  It enables customers to designate products that they wish to purchase at a later date.

When a customer clicks on the link “add to wishlist” for a product, they will be directed to their very own personal wishlist page (if not logged in, they will be prompted to do so, or register first to access this feature).

The wishlist page shows all the items that a customer has listed.  Next to a picture of each product listed, is a box for customers to make personal notes for each item on their list.  There is plenty of room to make notes and to type in comments (see example below).

The Everything Dinosaur Wishlist for Customers

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

The picture shows what a typical customer wishlist looks like.  In the example above, two products can be seen in this particular wishlist, the dinosaur excavation game and a dinosaur wooden puzzle cube.  The field for personal comments can clearly be seen, and adjacent to this is the date when these items were added (4th April).  Customers can transfer items directly to a shopping cart (add to cart), or simply remove an item (remove).  To save the comments and/or the changes made to a wishlist, simply scroll down the page and click the button marked “update wishlist”.  Once this has been done, any changes made are safely stored on the customer’s personal wishlist.

Sharing Wishlists

Wouldn’t it be a good idea if you could share your wishlist with other people?  Perhaps you are putting together some gift ideas for your child’s birthday and you want to be able to share this list with other relatives.  Well so long as those relatives have an email address – now you can.

The Everything Dinosaur technical team have set up an RSS feature for the wishlist.  RSS stands for “really simply syndication”, it allows customers to distribute information in a standardised format, sending a wishlist of dinosaur gift ideas to relatives and friends; for example.

Sharing the Everything Dinosaur Wishlist

Sharing product gifts is easy – use Wishlist.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

At any time the information in a wishlist can be shared with others, simply scroll to the bottom of the page and click the “share wishlist” icon.

Once the “share wishlist” icon has been clicked, customers are invited to list the email addresses that they want to send this information to.  Each email can be typed into the box (each address separated by a comma (,)) and there is an opportunity to include a message to the recipients of the information if required.  By pressing the “share wishlist” icon at the bottom this information will be sent to the designated email addresses.

On this page there is a checkbox marked “check this checkbox if you want to add a link to an RSS feed to your wishlist”.  If a customer ticks this box, the share wishlist email will include a link within it so that a customer’s friends and relatives can subscribe to feeds from that customer.  This will enable them to keep up to date with gift ideas and any changes.

This is yet another feature for the benefit of customers that has been added to the Everything Dinosaur website.  Shopping and sharing ideas and suggestions with friends and family could not be simpler.

“Land of Dinosaurs” Model Range Released

The team members at Everything Dinosaur, have been very excited about the introduction of their new prehistoric animal model range – “Land of Dinosaurs”.  This collection of twelve different prehistoric animal gift sets represent a broad spectrum of prehistoric animals from the fossil record.  As well as Stegosaurus, Brachiosaurus and Baryonyx there are some very unusual dinosaurs in this series, animals such as Diceratops, a two-horned dinosaur similar to the much more famous Triceratops.  This set also features, another horned dinosaur (ceratopsian), the bipedal and fast running Microceratops, plus the Chinese raptor Sinornithoides and the huge theropod Acrocanthosaurus.

The Diceratops Model (Land of Dinosaurs)

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Each model set in the twelve model series, features an adult prehistoric animal and a juvenile from another genera.  For example, with the Sinornithoides there is a model of a baby Dimetrodon (pelycosaur).  With the Stegosaurus there is a bright and colourful model of a baby Acrocanthosaurus.

An Adult  Acrocanthosaurus and Baby Herbivorous Dinosaur

Fearsome predator Acrocanthosaurus.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

Prehistoric Animal Model Range

To view the complete range of dinosaur and prehistoric animal models available, take a look at the models section of Everything Dinosaur’s award-winning website: Dinosaur Models and Prehistoric Animal Figures.

Each model is presented in its own gift box, with twelve to collect there is bound to a big demand.  Nicely detailed prehistoric animal models that are great for imaginative, creative play.

National Science and Engineering Week 2010

For team members at Everything Dinosaur, this week (week commencing 15th March) is the start of our involvement in National Science and Engineering Week.  Officially, this national programme of science and other related events started on the 12th, but for us, our activities in schools really get going from today onwards.

National Science and Engineering Week

Organised by the British Science Association, this annual programme of events, exhibitions, seminars and presentations encourages UK residents to learn something about science, maths and engineering.  There are a number of activities planned over the next few days, all aimed at helping people discover something that they did not know.

This year’s theme is “planet Earth” in support of the International Year of Biodiversity, celebrating the diversity of fauna and flora.  Everything Dinosaur staff are taking part in a number of dinosaur themed activities – carrying out experiments with artificial dinosaur stomachs, casting teeth of herbivores and carnivores, plus taking a number of classes back to the Early Jurassic to investigate some new fossilised dinosaur footprints.

For replicas of iconic fossils and for educational dinosaur themed activities: Dinosaur Learning Activities.

A Great Venue for a Dinosaur Workshop

Well resourced teaching facilities.  A venue for a dinosaur workshop for National Science and Engineering Week. Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

Most of the lesson plans and schemes of work for our science week contribution are already finished, although we have a couple more to do today for the latter part of the programme, as the science week events are due to run until 22nd March.

Fake Reviews on E-tail Websites – Everything Dinosaur’s Point of View

Everything Dinosaur receives hundreds of emails from customers, we get feedback on our customer service and products. Every single one of our reviews is genuine.

I suppose it had to happen sooner rather than later, after all, it probably happens on other websites, we received a product review from a customer who praised the particular product they had purchased from our website but then commented that the other product reviews related to that item were made up.

Genuine Reviews

The truth is we get hundreds of compliments from customers and very positive feedback from those people who have purchased from Everything Dinosaur, or just asked for some dinosaur information, or help with a school project and such like.

Our company is made up of parents, teachers and real dinosaur experts, when we set up the business more than five years ago we drafted a set of articles that we as a company would abide by.  These principles, are our very own memorandum of association, setting out how we would run Everything Dinosaur, fundamentally we wanted to have a organisation that we could be proud of, what we stood for mattered to us.  Indeed, if we ourselves could not be passionate about what we do and what we stand for then how could we expect anybody else to be on our behalf.

The ability to post up feedback and comments on the website was a development first introduced into our website upgrade in 2008, the revised and expanded system operating today, the result of yet another upgrade, retained the “write a review/feedback” section as we felt that this was an important element.  Prior to this there was no facility for customers to publish the nice things they said about us, or indeed for Everything Dinosaur team members to put online comments and feedback received and we wanted to rectify this.

Unfortunately, when we changed servers a few months ago, much of the feedback and comments received could not be transferred over.  We lost much of the input from customers and clients of the company as a result.  However, slowly but surely the site is becoming populated once again by feedback.  This may be a slow process, to date we have had published on our website 146 product reviews and comments since the new server system was installed on the 6th May 2009.  This works out at approximately one customer review or comment every two days or so.  We are grateful and very appreciative of every one that we receive.

Customer Feedback

Perhaps it would be helpful if we outlined our policy on customer feedback and comments, as we do put quite a lot of work into this area of our business and indeed a great deal of what we do is influenced and directed by the comments we receive.

For every order that we send out where a feedback postal service is available, we include a feedback form and a FREEPOST envelope.  We get quite a few of these everyday and, as part of our work in the company, each morning those that we have received are reviewed and then split between us so that we can respond in person to any comments or suggestion that might require a personal reply.

As subscribers to the UK Data Protection Act (Registration number: Z9024867), we have a tick-box element on the form, so that customers can advise us whether or not they would like to be included in our newsletter and product information database.  Above this part of the feedback survey, there is a section where customers can provide comments, ideas, suggestions and such like.  Every form that comes into us, is read and discussed by the team members and it is from these comments that many of the feedback and comments published at the Everything Dinosaur are sourced.  In addition, since every order placed with us is responded to by a team member sending a personal email to the customer, we do get quite a lot of feedback and comments electronically.  If this is the case, we email the customer again, encouraging them to leave a comment on the website, we include in our reply a link to the product(s) in question so that the customer can write a view on the page of the item that they have purchased.

Feedback from Collectors

With the models that we supply, we tend to get a lot of feedback from collectors and dinosaur enthusiasts.  Many of the new introductions have waiting lists of customers, who have requested that we reserve a particular model for them.  When the models come in these people are contacted and often when they have received the model we get some comments back either via an email reply to our earlier correspondence or via the feedback form.

We can understand why some more cynical people could perceive portions of the feedback as being made up, this may be a practice found on other commercial sites.  For us however, it is a full time job, responding to and working with the customer letters, comments, reviews and everything else that we do receive, so we don’t have time to fabricate any.

Let me close by putting up the latest comment received by Everything Dinosaur.  Yesterday, we only had one feedback form in our Saturday morning post.  This form had been sent into us by a lady called Haidee from London.

Customer Feedback sent into Everything Dinosaur

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I think the above feedback, speaks volumes for our company and everything we stand for.  Our thanks to all those people who take the time and trouble to give us feedback and place comments/reviews on our website.

A Teaching Feedback Form Received by Everything Dinosaur

Every review posted is genuine feedback from a member of the teaching team.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

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Everything Dinosaur Brings in New Papo Models

Everything Dinosaur, the UK based dinosaur company run by parents, teachers and real dinosaur experts is to bring in Papo models for the first time.  Announcing the addition of Papo prehistoric animal models to their already extensive model range, a spokesperson for the company commented on how they had admired the Papo models for a long time and that they were delighted to be able to stock them.

Papo Dinosaur Models

Papo, the France based model and figure manufacturer have been making specialist figures for more than a quarter of a century.  They specialise in producing highly detailed, historical figures, animals and characters from films.  The dinosaur range, or as the French would say “Dinosaures” includes four new models, a Plesiosaurus, Oviraptor, Pachyrhinosaurus and a new Velociraptor colouration.  Everything Dinosaur will be stocking all these products, although the Plesiosaurus will not be available until late Spring.

To view the current Papo model range: Papo Dinosaur and Prehistoric Animal Models.

As well as the dinosaur figures, Papo produces a pair of finely detailed Stone Age people models, one with a stone hand axe, the other with a flint spear.

The Prehistoric Figures from Papo

Picture credit: Papo/Everything Dinosaur

It is fitting for a French company to have two superb caveman models to add to their collection of dinosaur models, as France is famous for early modern human settlements and remains as well as many Neanderthal artefacts and fossilised bones.  Papo dinosaur models are highly collectible and very carefully painted.  These dinosaur and prehistoric animal figures are highly regarded by dinosaur fans of all ages.

New Schleich Saurus – Release Date September 2010

Team members at Everything Dinosaur are eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Schleich Giganotosaurus model.

The Saurus range of prehistoric animals from Schleich is only having one new addition this year.  This German manufacturer is producing a scale model of a Giganotosaurus (Giganotosaurus carolini) to go with its large theropod collection of T. rex, Spinosaurus and the Late Jurassic Allosaurus.

Schleich Giganotosaurus Model

The New Schleich Giganotosaurus Model – Release Date Sept. 2010

Picture credit: Schleich/Everything Dinosaur

We have been lucky enough to see this model up close, as part of our preview work with the manufacturer.  This Giganotosaurus, continues this German company’s tradition of producing very stocky and robust looking theropods.  This model contrasts nicely with the long awaited Giganotosaurus from Bullyland (Germany).  Bullyland have chosen a very different look for their version of this large South American predator from the Neuquen Province of Argentina.

The red head on the Bullyland model is most striking, a reflection on the large theropod hypothesis put forward by Dr Bob Bakker et al.  More on this later no doubt when our first shipments come in; but in the meantime, it is exciting looking forward to the release of the Schleich interpretation.  The detailing on this model is very good, the expression of the fenestra in front of the orbit (eye) is vividly demonstrated.  This Giganotosaurus is clearly depicted as a ponderous, heavy, carnivore, quite capable of tackling a titanosaur if it wanted.

To view the Schleich Saurus range:  Schleich Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals.