Well the holidays are over and we hope that all went well with you. As is normal policy this time of year, over the next 30 days we will be getting pricing changes from manufacturers (we get them January and June). In addition, we anticipate UPS will be passing along an increase. As we clearly state, we pass along our shipping zip code, your zip code and the estimated product weight to UPS for quotes, so we have no control over those quotes. Shipping is not a profit centre for us, never has been and never will be.

That brings us to manufacturer pricing changes. We have little control over that as well. As we get the new prices, we will assure you that we will NOT increase our prices unless the price we have to pay increases. That means that a change in the MSRP (the manufacturer suggested retail price) will not change our pricing unless the price we pay goes up. This has always been our policy with product pricing changes, and we will not be changing that policy as we start 2009.

We wish you the very best as this new year starts and look forward to continuing to serve you. Again, thank you for selecting Education 4 Kids, Inc. to meet your needs and help your bottom line stay as low as possible.

It's getting to the time of year where schools start to put together "supply kits lists" for the next school year. We work with PTA's/PTO's to help reduce the costs for these. A great example of how this can benefit parents, teachers, schools and students is the "supply kit" requirement for crayons. It is far less expensive to order a single classpack of crayons from Crayola than to tell parents to get individual crayons and get crayons from three to five different companies, of differing quality and actually pay more in the long run.

So how can we help? Put together everything you need for a single student in a single grade in a cart. Then go through and put the total quantity needed for each of those items. Add in classpack items where possible to save money. Save your cart and send us an e-mail using the contact us asking for a "School Supply Kit" price and the account name the list is under. We will put together a unique item which is the "School Supply Kit" you defined at a discounted rate and advise you of the item's URL via e-mail. You can then clear your cart, add the "School Supply Kit" we created for you and complete checkout. We will UPS the entire order to you and you can divide the cost per parent and save the parents money by making the purchase in bulk, and assure that all the products are the same from all the students. A win for the teachers, the parents and the PTA. Please note that all "School Supply Kit" orders must be in before July 1 to ensure delivery before school starts (Labor Day).

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In some cases we get notifications of manufacturers closeouts. These are made available to us at special rates. When we are notified of a closeout we will put the item on sale. Once a closeout item is sold out, we can not fill the order and you will be credited for the item (and the item will be removed from our site).

In addition we have a rewards system in place for our retail customers¹ that keeps track of all your purchase throughout the last 365 days. The more you spend with us, the more you save. The following discounts will be applied to your purchases after you have reached the following spending levels with us (we calculate the savings on all items that have a "Shipped" status).

• Less than $250.00 - 0%
• $250.00 - $499.99 - 3%
• $500.00 - $999.99 - 4%
• Greater than $1,000.00 - 5%

What about an initial "Bulk Order"? We handle those on a one-by-one basis. If you place a large order we look at the margin in the order and apply a discount based on the margin we have to work with. In general, orders that are over $750 will have a discount hand applied to the order when we process the order (discounts will not be computed on items that are closeout or sale. There are no discounts on the Yacker Tracker based on volume as there is almost no margin in the Yacker Tracker at our permanant sale price.).

¹The Loyalty Discount Program is limited to retail customers only. Customers in our special programs, like the Cost+15 program, are not able to participate in the Loyalty Discount Program.

Yes, we do take purchase orders from Schools and established businesses. We prefer to take purchase orders on-line. In order to be able to place your purchase order on-line please do the following:

1. Create an account
2. After you create an account use the Contact Us page to request that we allow that account to checkout by Purchase Order.

We will get back to you within 2 workdays with notification on whether you can place your purchase orders on-line.

The benefit of placing purchase orders on-line are:

• You always have access to your account history with us
• All on-line transactions get processed on the same schedule whether by credit card or PO (FAX'd and mailed PO's are processed once per week)
• Your invoice is available immediately
• All updates and status changes to the PO will be sent to you via e-mail, including shipping and tracking information
• The system will compute shipping rather than relying on a shipping-by-price model (which really doesn't work when UPS and USPS raise rates each January)
• The customer loyalty discounts will be applied automatically to the on-line order (yes, we even apply them to purchase orders!)

If you need to send a paper PO (and please include a contact e-mail for us on the PO) to us you can FAX the PO to us at: 702 940 9816 or send it by mail to:
Education 4 Kids, Inc.
PO Processing
11071 Bunkerhill Drive
Suite 1011
Los Alamitos, CA 90720

If you need to set up Education 4 Kids, Inc as a vendor in your system, our Federal Tax ID is: 35-2212566 and our address is the one above. We are a Nevada Corporation in good standing with a majority of the stock woman owned. We do not charge sales tax on purchases outside Nevada and if you are a tax-exempt business in Nevada we will need a copy of your tax exempt form.

Once again, we highly recommend that you choose to do on-line purchase orders as the benefits far outweigh the paper PO process.

Yes, we would love to fill your bulk order request. Yes, we do provide discounts on bulk orders over $3,000 even if it is your first order with us.

No, we do not participate in bids and quotes. Our pricing on-line shows that we are already the lowest cost supplier of educational products and school supplies in most cases. If we were to participate in the gamesmanship of the bidding wars, we spend a great deal of time playing, more than it is worth to us, and in most cases for just one-time orders. We would rather develop a long term relationship with you. For that reason we have established a simple program to provide school districts and schools that use us as a primary supplier the best possible program we can. If a school or a district agrees to purchase over $50,000 in a school year from us we put them on the Cost+15 program. In this program we charge 15% above the Contact-1 pricing charged by our distributors (or our regular pricing, whichever is lower). The goal is simple, you maintain a status of $50,000/yr in purchases from us, we pass along the best possible pricing we can to you.

For example, you are going to replace 25 overhead projectors with MMM1880. That has an MSRP of $570.09 and an Edu4Kids pricing of $501.69 (12% off). On the cost+15 program it would cost you $429.51. By being in the program you would see a savings of $1,804.70. It should be noted that not everything sees that kind of discount and we obviously selected an item that would show a large cost savings, that's the nice part about selecting the examples. But over $50,000 in general purchases should generate an average savings of an additional 10-15% from our already discounted prices (it should be noted that cost+15 customers are not able to participate in any other discount program we offer).

If you are interested in this program, please contact us so we can help establish your account in the program.