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Post by Retrovision on Jan 30, 2007 12:44:12 GMT -8
 www.bcferries.com/gift_shop/index.php
Including their feature item, Eagle Ridge Bluffs Commemorative Arbutus Keychains... 
...Well No, not really from the controversial Eagle Ridge Bluffs section of the Sea to Sky hwy. expansion project near Horseshoe Bay terminal, but it smacks of irony so much that I had to use it to start the thread.  |
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Koastal Karl
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Post by Koastal Karl on Jan 30, 2007 15:07:33 GMT -8
They have always had passages gift shop items you can buy online, lol! They seem to have more selection now though!
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Post by Queen of Nanaimo Teen on Jan 30, 2007 16:12:10 GMT -8
Yeah, Karl's right! The online gift shop has been around for 4 years now! (basically since BC Ferries was relaunched as a private company)
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Post by Koastal Karl on Jan 30, 2007 16:14:59 GMT -8
Someone is a little behind, COUGHGrahamCOUGH!! lol!
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Post by Low Light Mike on Jan 30, 2007 19:23:52 GMT -8
Let me jump to T-Terminal's defence.
I just noticed the online gift shop on the BCFS website myself, this past weekend.
So it was new to me too.
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Post by Northern Exploration on Jan 30, 2007 19:36:04 GMT -8
I think it has been online for a while but they must have made the link more prominent. I also saw it on the front page for the first time. I got excited thinking they had improved it or offered books or booklets etc. Not so much hehe.
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Post by WettCoast on Jan 30, 2007 21:29:02 GMT -8
The gift shop has been online for more than a year - maybe two. They now have a link on the home page. That appears to be the only difference. Still just a handfull of items available for sale online.
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Post by Retrovision on Jan 30, 2007 22:31:32 GMT -8
Woops - I glanced so briefly over the new menu item on their homepage that I Mistook their link containing the word "new" as naturally containing something new because it's displayed alongside news releases, etc.
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Post by BrianWilliams on Jan 31, 2007 0:55:46 GMT -8
Ha! I hadn't noticed the gift shop link either ... oh, these aging eyes.
Though it's nice to have a good newstand/gift shop on board, I think it's a bit of a stretch to expect many frequent riders to pay the BCF profit-centre prices from the comfort of home. There's a Zeller's just down the street...
Still, we can hope that tourists impressed by our great ferries will buy some more BCF stuff after they go home.
PS: Nice touch, the Eagle Bluffs arbutus souvenirs. I'm incensed by the stupid destruction in West Vancouver. There will be an extra supply of bulldozed arbutus wood coming soon.
In fairness, maybe some driftwood objets d'art ("actual wood swallowed by Pacificat Explorer and sculpted en route by the vessel's propulsion system") should be offered, too.
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