Saturday, December 13, 2014

UNICO, A GREAT UNDERWEAR DESIGNER AND MARKETING PARTNER

UNICO is a brand that we have always had a great deal of respect for. They produce a quality piece of merchandise, and offer it to the public for reasonable prices. You don't have to go to a sex shop to buy their product. It is always well constructed, always well finished, and attractive for most every guy from every back ground. While some designers live on the fringe of "good taste" vs. "bad taste", UNICO keeps producing a garment that is welcomed by many men, from many different backgrounds. We are very pleased to offer UNICO brand at 4Boys Gear, and we hope for a long and happy relationship between our two company's, and our many customers. Take a look at some of UNICO's most recent styles. Most products, sell be between US$18.-$25. 









Come by to www.4Boysgear.com for a complete listing of products produced by our friends at UNICO.

GREAT SOCKS FOR GUYS




We at 4Boys Gear are very pleased to introduce to you all our line of designer socks from the Pacific North West. We found this brand of socks, and when we began to work with the people and the brand, we received a number of letters, and notes, and hand written happy faces saying "thank you for your order" on our invoices. This is a terrific company, with terrific people, marking a great item. The socks sell for around US$13. a pair. We think that is a great value, considering other brands of this type sell at Macy's and Bloomingdale's for US$25.-$35. per pair. So, have a look at our collection, and head on over to www.4Boysgear.com, should like our products. Wishing you all a wonderful day!


Friday, December 12, 2014

UNDERWEAR, JEWELRY, ACCESSORIES & MORE

4Boys Gear not only produces its own brand of designer underwear and swim wear, but in early 2014, we introduced a new collection of men's accessories that we feel are ideal for the MODERN URBAN MALE. Over the nest coming day, we will be showing you some of the collection, from 4Boys Gear made products to samples from the hundreds of unique items that we are currently selling. Today, we will be showing you a few classic designs of men's Stainless Steel Jewelry. Yes, we have our own Jewelry collection, and we hope you enjoy it. Most pieces are 1/2 to 2/3 less in price than at your local major department store.






Great items for personal use, or as a gift. Prices on the above items range from US$10.00 to US$39.00.

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

ROCKWOOD UNDERWEAR


We have developed a wonderful co-marketing agreement with the fine people at ROCKWOOD Undergrear. They produce a fine garment, using excellent fabric (mainly pure brushed cotton), and their prices are very competitive. The average price for any of their BOXER BRIEFS, as seen above are appox. $15. a pair at our store. Come and have a visit. We welcome your patronage. www.4Boysgear.com

CUSTOMER SERVICE. WE SMALL RETAILER'S HAVE WHAT IT TAKES.

We wanted to talk a little bit about customer service in today's modern retail setting. This topic came to light "en masse" the other day, when one of our real life "4Boys" started to receive malicious emails masked as "delivery notices" from Target Stores.

Most of us well remember the 2013 Christmas shopping fiasco when 30+ million people had their identity stolen via a hacking attack at Target Stores. Not only was it worrying to their millions of customers, but it also has a major impact on their holiday sales, as people were afraid to return to the stores, as they hard prior to the attack. Not to mention that Target tried to cover it up, to secure their holiday sales, and profits.

So, when one of our 4Boys started to receive these emails in his inbox, he was concerned that someone might have his information, and also that Target Stores should be concerned about new attacks, and hacking this holiday season. He was simply assuming they had taken extra precautions to assist their customers with these privacy issues this year.

So, with every good intention, he used Google to find the Contact Us phone number of Target Stores to report the continued phishing emails, and to advise them of this new potential threat.

THESE IS NO DIRECT NUMBER AT TARGET STORES FOR CONSUMERS TO REPORT HACKING, PHISHING, or other MALICIOUS web problems associated with Target Stores.  Even after 30+ million people had their information stolen from them, via Target Stores credit card processing system.

So, he had to use their general information phone number only to put on hold for over one hour, and having to listen to annoying announcements about Gift Cards, Sales, Promotions, Deals, Discounts, etc. Every crap piece of junk verbal spam they could fill on their "on-hold" announcements was there to be heard over and over again. Not even some decent crappy elevator music. After an our hour, he decided to simply give up. What he was hoping for, was to report this email issue, and even find out if Target Stores had a ready security department in place to assist its customers. Sometimes, and this is true for most banks, if you receive some malicious email, you can forward it to the bank (Bank of America has one, since I have used it before), and they will try to find he source and close it down before it can be abused. This is important especially for older people, who easily walk into these email traps quite easily. My Mother for example !!

So, with all that in mind, he emailed them, and told them of his concern. He had to fill out forms, and contact information, and answer why he was contacting them. As though, it is important why a customer contacts a retailer. But, in fairness, they are a big chain store and certain matters should be addressed by different departments. Within a day he received a generic letter about how sorry there were about his shopping experience, although he had never been in the store. Then they proceeded to tell him if he would email them the malicious email, they would be grateful. However, they did not send a return address to send this email. Then, they politely said thank you for shopping at target, and wished him a Happy Holiday.

Why do we write about this... Small Mom & Pop on-line retailers spend piles of money, adding badges proving their security, and that it is safe to shop at their store. These badges of trust cost small web stores many hundred's, if not thousand's of dollars per year, per store. Yet, the public hardly ever hears about hacking attacks at smaller web stores, as most of us are protected by the hosting company that services our web sites. We hope you will take a minute and give a look to small web stores, of every type, and for every product. We all work hard everyday. And if a customer has a problem, you can usually get satisfaction from us all within hours. We small retailers cant afford to lose a good customer by ignoring their needs or inquires. And if we left them on hold for hours at a time, we doubt they would buy from us again.

Our 4Boy got another email from Target Stores after 48 hours, 1 hour on hold, and 2 emails from him to them, asking for assistance. They asked him to send the email, which he had given up on, and deleted. So thank you Target Stores. There will be many more decent citizens, some old, some young, who will open this malicious email, and by doing so, will have a less happy holiday, then is suggested in your useless letters, or on-hold telephone announcements. At 4Boys Gear, we answer all requests, and try to do our best to make our customers shopping experience as positive, pleasant and safe as possible.

Friday, December 5, 2014

PRICE PRICES SHIPPING & FREE SHIPPING TO ALL U.S.A. MILITARY INSTALLATIONS

Enjoy $1.00 flat shipping to all locations within the U.S.A. And as always, free shipping to ALL U.S. Military Installations worldwide. Just cover the cost of the packing materials, and your product will be sent. We will pay all the postage.


Tuesday, December 2, 2014

THE NEW 4BOYS GEAR

We have recently received some wonderful feedback in regards to the re-launching of our new www.4Boysgear.com web store. Friends and customers of the company who have known us since 2007, remember our old web store as a location to buy 4Boys Gear underwear and swim wear. That has not gone away. We will be launching our 2015 line of designer underwear and swimwear after the new year. But what we wanted to achieve in our new web store was a vast variety of products that would appeal to the MODERN URBAN MALE, both in the Untied States, and around the world. We have found over 400 items that we now sell, and our shipments are as diverse as our new product base. Shipments in the last week have been dispatched to South Africa, Mexico, Argentina, Japan, South Korea, Chile, Columbia, and the Philippines. We are very glad for this. We had wanted to attract guys from all over the world with a variety of products, from Underwear, and Gym Wear, to Jewelry, Casual Wear, Home Accessories, and many other products. In the New year, we will continue to find new brands, and feature them along with ours, giving our customers a great shopping experience. As part of that, we hope that everyone can appreciate that we look for items that are "cool", but also very affordable to a vast number of our customers. As many of you know, it is not as easy for certain people in other countries to afford products that can seem relatively competitive in the U.S.A, the U.K., Canada, and many other European, and even some Asian countries. So, when we look at a product, we try very hard to offer a range of prices that will appeal to many people from many lands. That makes our web store a truly international store, and over the coming days, weeks, and months, you will continue to see us adding new items and brands that may seem inexpensive to some, but very competitive in price to others. If you see an item at our store and it seems inexpensive, we hope that nobody will confuse that with low quality. We strive every day to work with quality suppliers, and factories. They produce for us quality goods that we are proud to sell. We has wanted some additional lines for the holiday season, but we simply could no get them in time to upload and have on hand to fill our orders. Even our line of 4Boys Gear garments was not ready, so we decided to wait, and not rush the process. Rushing a garment through production, will always lead to flaws, and poor quality. We also had a few lines of casual shirts, and other products that were simply not ready to sell for the holidays. We hope that everyone who visits our site will see that we have put together a unique and diverse range of products to buy for personal use, or a as a gift. If anyone who like to suggest products that will enhance your shopping experience with us, please leave us a comment on our Home Page. We hope that is this a terrific holiday season to all our many fans, customers, and friends. www.4Boysgear.com

Saturday, November 29, 2014

WHY AMERICAN MEN WEAR DESIGNER UNDERWEAR

Interestingly, the reason men buy designer underwear today is for a very simple reason, and it involves a change in our social fabric. Historically, men (and women) in the U.S.A. and most of western Europe would leave their homes after a shower, dressing and having their first cup of coffee. They would leave their homes, and return home mush as they had left them earlier that morning. This has been the normal for over 50 years now. But, in the late 1990's and growing steadily through the 2000's, and 2010's, the American and western European males life style has changed to include undressing, multiple times a day. There was a time when men left the home, and returned by 6:00 p.m; single or married. But, over the last 25 years, men now have included new activities that have made those past social "norms" outdated. The modern urban male, may get undressed at least two times a day, before returning home and undressing again. The popularity of the fitness gym, has given men the need to undress. To change from their street clothes to gym/work out attire. Additionally, the popularity of high end Spa's, and Massage therapy locations, again force the modern western man to undress, and then dress again. All of this in one day. This does not even include doctors visits, or even amateur sports teams practice sessions,etc. Along with the social change in male behavior, the advent and growth of the designer underwear industry, along with massive new product introductions to support these activities has blossomed. A 30 year old man going to the gym, or to a day spa, will have to undress, and prepare for his activity. The man of today prefers to look good, is trying to take care of himself, and is also naturally always trying to be "the peacock" with the most impressive feathers, in hopes of attracting a mate. it is built in genetics, and cannot be helped. So, it is no wonder that so many men are now willing and wanting to spend money on undergarments, that only 25 years ago, were considered a commodity, since no one would ever see the item, except for the wearer, this is the answer. Almost all men remember their Mother's telling them to always wear clean underwear, in case you are stricken down, and taken to the emergency room. That is ingrained in our social fiber. So it stands to reason that men will invest in a collection of undergarments that will be seen, and that will attract, and will impress others. All the while, making themselves feel good about themselves and boosting their self ego. Ask yourself a simple question. If you were on stage, addressing a group of people, would you want to wear a modern fashionable silk tie, or a clip-on paisley tie, with gravy stains. If you answer the modern silk tie, then you have answered why men want to look good in front of others even in a gym locker room, or a during a basic physical examination. The explosion of fashionable mens undergarments is in response to our changing social dynamics. So, what was considered silly, gay, or trashy some years back, is not quite the fashion, and I feel that this trend will remain for some time to come. So, buy a pair of colorful, sexy, charming, fun, exciting underwear, and feel over-dressed, while being undressed.