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

I agree, it was pretty crappy not to at least give us a few days head's up so we could regroup. But not surprised. Typical of how they ran their business.

I wonder if they did this new board a favour - can you imagine the discussions, suggestions, facebook, no, not facebook, possible splinter groups that would have emerged from a drawn out closedown. The way it was done, I think, has made this board strong from the get go. We were all so pleased a find a new home so quickly.

I think shutting down the boards without warning could seriously mess up some swaps or trades. When you think you have access to contacts readily you don't always save it somewhere else.

That was my thought as well. It wasn't the way I've seen other scrap boards close. I've been on several that closed and they all gave some sort of notice. I'm pretty sure one even closed the FSOT board first, then began to close the others, so that no new swaps or trades would be set up. 

Considering that 2Peas has been an important part of our lives for over a decade, I found the sudden shut down to really offend me.  I believe it was the biggest scrapbooking board in the industry.   It's almost sad that the owners demonstrated such disrespect to the core customers of the industry.

A bit sad, perhaps, but not surprised. It was obvious something was going on (almost no new product in the store for months except exclusives), and not shutting down the message board would probably caused the server to crash. Still, it would have been nice to be given time to regroup before they shut it down.

Not surprised at all. They always demonstrated contempt for the message boards. Shady is probably the best way to describe the shut down.

I agree with you, Lynn. I will say I DID try to support them in the very beginning. I made quite a few orders, but got sick of everything being out of stock every time I tried to order, and I eventually gave up.

I didn't follow the business practices of 2ps.  I never ordered from them and whatnot, but I noticed how some things were handled on the boards and I'm not surprised.  Besides...this is NSBR, should we ever be surprised at drama?

Not the least bit surprised.  They were silent and sudden about every change they made to the boards and frankly, Jeff White was one of the most arrogant people I've seen on-line.

I think that people have very long memories and should Kristina and Jeffrey ever decide to venture into a business again in the future, they have burned a LOT of bridges by pulling the shit they pulled with their Two Peas busiiness.

A lot of people will remember how they conducted themselves in this situation, and while many will absolutely "be over it", they won't have forgotten it. K & J have proven that, at the very least they are bad business owners and at worst...well, I won't go there I just think they should have and could have handled the shutdown in a much better way...one that would ensure a measure of goodwill should they need it in the future.

Not surprised at all. Can you imagine the sh*#storm? It would have been epic.

I was upset initially, but realized that if they gave notice, it would have created too many issues and crashed the bandwidth of the board. I think that they would have been much better off to keep the store/board in their name and bring on business people to help run it for a share instead of selling rights. That's when Peas started getting upset and leaving.

I don't see why they didn't leave the boards up since the store is still open for a few more days. It just goes to show it really was a big "Screw You" to the mb community (aka, their customers!). I used to buy from them early on, but shipping was expensive and things were out of stock, so I just gave up.