B&B Confidential #7-West Coast Shaving Interview

**johnniegold** · 12-29-2010, 04:33 PM

John, have you thought about opening an East Coast Shaving store, preferably in my neighborhood?

Nice interview fellas.

**Darjeeling Express** · 12-30-2010, 06:54 AM

John, thank you for sharing this with us.

**joel** · 12-30-2010, 09:51 AM

Where are the pics of the new shop?

**BigFoot** · 12-30-2010, 11:52 AM

Originally Posted by johnniegold

John, have you thought about opening an East Coast Shaving store, preferably in my neighborhood?

Nice interview fellas.

I asked John the same thing for Kansas City..... John, you could even add some world famous Barbecue to the list of goodies.

Great interview gentleman.

**Bird-Man** · 12-31-2010, 04:45 PM

I think it is so awesome that a whole business has developed with the help of this website. I've been a member for a little over two years and WCS has really developed a ton since I've joined. It's very cool!

**armenakadino** · 01-03-2011, 07:33 PM

best shaving website, I been to the new store front when it was under construction it was nice to be able to see the brushes in person

**letterk** · 01-03-2011, 09:37 PM

Originally Posted by joel

Where are the pics of the new shop?

You got it.

First, the building. We're on the second floor.

Suite 220 to be exact.

Here's part of the store front with our checkout computer and (N)espresso machine. Please excuse the cables. I keep forgetting to bring the ladder. To the right will be more display cases and a couple chairs. Although, most walk-in customers just head straight for the back.

Razor blades.

Christine's/John's office. Printer. Assorted mess, which is not normal, but due to the craziness of the past few weeks.

The kids are often in the office, so we have a corner just for them. Netflix to the rescue!

Christine filling orders while talking on the phone to customers.

Christine and Lisa in the middle of shelves of products.

Dee (Christine's mom) printing shipping labels. Check out that fancy new shipping table!

Packing peanuts galor. And a nice view, which normally has horses and cows grazing in the fields. I'm also in the middle of setting up another shipping computer station on that table.

Shelves and shelves of products.

It sure was fun showing off some photos. Coming soon to the website will be photos of the entire WCS family.

**DFrancis** · 01-03-2011, 10:00 PM

Great pics John, I hope I wasn't the only one pointing at the screen saying "I have something from that exact shelf!"

**honed** · 01-03-2011, 10:10 PM

Nice interview folks!
And what a nice little shop/office!

Not that it is really necessary, but here is another satisfied customers praise to WCS

Interestingly I've noticed several times that I can get European-made "software" cheaper & faster from WCS (that is located pretty much on the other side of the world from me) then from any EU based store.

**BladeDE40** · 01-03-2011, 11:55 PM

Nice set up John! I'll definitely have to make a detour on my next business trip to socal.

**Zot!** · 01-04-2011, 04:49 AM

I stopped by WCS on my way home from work yesterday. John and family were so gracious and allowed me to look at whatever tickled my fancy on my own while they worked away. They offered coffee while I browsed. This is just a wonderful place, very organised and clean. I now have several things to put on my wish list. I am so happy to have them in my neighborhood! Thanks John!

**beginish** · 01-04-2011, 06:30 AM

John, Do you have a picture of the brush shelves?

**letterk** · 01-04-2011, 08:17 AM

Originally Posted by Zot!

I stopped by WCS on my way home from work yesterday. John and family were so gracious and allowed me to look at whatever tickled my fancy on my own while they worked away. They offered coffee while I browsed. This is just a wonderful place, very organised and clean. I now have several things to put on my wish list. I am so happy to have them in my neighborhood! Thanks John!

Thanks for stopping by, Ron. It was nice to meet you and hope we can chat again in future soon.

Originally Posted by beginish

John, Do you have a picture of the brush shelves?

That last photo has a bunch of brushes, but they're all in boxes so hard to see. Anything in particular you'd like to see?

**mretzloff** · 01-04-2011, 09:46 AM

Wow, John, that is a nice landscape. Good choice with that window.

Oh, ya, the stock room is nice too

**letterk** · 01-04-2011, 09:52 AM

Originally Posted by mretzloff

Wow, John, that is a nice landscape. Good choice with that window.

Oh, ya, the stock room is nice too

You wouldn't guess that it's in the middle of Southern California. The view is rare and worth a little more in rent. They told us it will eventually be built-up, but no one has any money and most business buildings are half empty around here (see the sign in the first photo), so I'm not worried about it any time soon.

**Austin** · 01-04-2011, 10:21 AM

Nice digs John!

**ouch** · 01-04-2011, 12:51 PM

Wow. Absolutely headspinning, John.

**KiltedShaver** · 01-04-2011, 09:40 PM

Beautiful! What a grand shop! And that view is awesome! Great interview, thanks John!

**Mizicke5273** · 01-05-2011, 05:24 AM

Very nice store! Wish I lived near by and could stop in.

I really like the new site, especially the wish list. I've been using it ever since I found out about it after the rebuild. I'd be nice if more places has wish list features, it's too much of a pain to remember all the products I want to try.