Is anyone else surprised at the way TP's shut down?

No they were stupid to begin with. Look how the store was set up. It was run poorly and it is no surprise to anyone that they shut down they way they did.

Well, it sure as heck surprised me!

Most stores give you some notice before they just close down the good parts of the store.

Surprised when it happened, looking back, not surprised they did it that way. It seems to be very them.

Me three. I would pay huge sums of money to have your hair...

I think the way they did it, was nasty, and mean. They knew what they were doing. How many other scrapbook sites have others been on, that announced it? and let their message boards cont? A lot of us came from dMarie. They were classy about it. I would love to hear the behind the scenes talk,and I bet it was not pretty.

It is hard to buy from them when they were always sold out. However, I will admit I haven't scrapped for years so maybe that changed. ??

This! ^

(this is my first post here)

I figured it was due to not wanting to hear the negative remarks.

While I am surprised that it happened....once they made the decision to shut, I'm not surprised that they did it like this.
It would have been a huge shit storm, probably thousands of emails, multiple threads on multiple boards would have crucified them and their decision.
They are closing every part of the business for good, they don't need the 'goodwill' they don't need to keep potential future customers happy, just having it over and done with on one day with no warning saved them infinite amounts of trouble.

This is how many businesses do things these days.
I work in a large multifaceted business, a month ago they decided to restructure one major area and everyone worked as normal on Mon and Tues and on Wed HR reps were in the office and told about 50 people they were being made redundant. Apart from the top level managers, no-one had a clue what was about to happen.

I think they should have given at least a couple of days notice so that we could re-group and announce it to more people. I'm very impressed with whoever took the time to set this board up so quickly, and how many of us have found it already. I think word is spreading pretty quickly. And look how many posts have started in just a day.

I agree with Cindy.

I'm not surprised the store shut down. However, with the advent of ads on the boards, I would have hoped they could have kept the boards going at least a few more weeks on ad revenue. They wouldn't even have to hear the whining if the didn't moderate it.

No, not really. With the store not being updated, you could kinda see it coming.

A lurker from the old board, that does not want to be one here.

That's got to be it. They closed up all the social media accounts at the same time. They clearly did not want to hear anything - good or bad. I guess I can understand that, to a degree. I am sure Kristina and Jeff poured their hearts and souls into this over the years. Shuttering a family business is an emotional decision and maybe they just couldn't deal with the second guessing. I don't *agree* with how they did it, but I can also understand why they did it they way they did.