Hello and welcome to B&V Traders website and store.

3/5/08

Well, it's convention time again! Cold Wars runs from March 6- 9. All orders placed during this time will be processed on Monday the 10th. Hope to see you there.

12/20/07

The site search problem has been fixed. We have added a new vendor, Gale Force 9. They produce templates, bases and terrain for a variety of games (B5, SST, Pirates, FoW to list a few). We hope to get caught up over the holidays on entering stock onto the system. As always we have a backlog. So if you don't see an item you need just email us.

11/30/07

Ok we are experincing technical difficulties with the site. Due to the recent server move the search via manufacturer function and a few other items no longer work. I had hoped to have it working tonight but that is not going to happen. I hope to be back strong by Monday. If you have any questions or want to order an item but can't find it on the site please email us. Thanks

11/8/07

We will be at the HMGS-E Fall In con this weekend. Dealer hall again! Woot!! All orders will be processed as soon as we get back. Thanks.

7/9/07

Just to let you know, we will be in the dealer hall at Historicon this year!! Woohoo!! So orders placed during the week of July 23rd will be processed after our triumphant return from the con. Historicon runs from Thursday, July 26th to Sunday July 29th. For more information go to the website: www.historicon.org

6/25/07

Ok, I need to address some shipping stuff due to the crazy new USPS changes to international shipping. Firstly there is no surface shipping, it is all done via air now. The USPS has made several new categories for shipping. Secondly packaging rules and the pricing for them have changed. This means our standard methods are not working anymore (new rate example: using international priority mail, taking 6-10 day delivery for an avg size package of 1-2 pounds is costing $20+). Because our shopping cart does not differentiate between domestic and international shipping, we need all of our international customers to email us prior to paying (you can save the order by checking the check/money order payment method). This is so we can determine the best way to ship the minis. The cheapest way to ship international may not be the best since there is no tracking on the packages and the delivery time is listed as "varies".
The following link will allow you to calculate the postage rates and check out the new rules from the links on the page. For weight estimates use 5 oz per mini and roughly 2 oz for packaging/box.
http://www.usps.com/tools/calculatepostage/welcome.htm?from=home&page=0061calculatepostage
As always if you have any questions just let us know.

Thanks
Mike

5/7/07

The Paypal account issue has been resolved. Thanks for all your patience while we were FUBAR'ed.

5/2/07

Well, Cold Wars was interesting with the snow. We did pretty good but attendance was down so we didn't sell as much as I'd hoped. We hit Ravencon which is in Richmond. That was a hoot. Did way better there than expected. On the downside we are having problems with Paypal. Our account is being frozen and I know exactly where the problem lies but cannot get a rep from account appeals to talk to me. So for awhile BVT will have to use my personal account. Everyone please email if you have any questions or concerns.

3/14/07

We are working hard to bring some of our planned expansion plans to fruition. We do our first test at Cold Wars 07 this week. If you are attending we are booth 24 in the dealer hall, so stop by and see us. So if you place an order on the 15th - 18th we will ship asap after we return home.

1/25/07

There is an error in the "contact us" button in the information section of the store front. If you use this to contcact us it goes through all the motions and then sends the email somewhere. I am at a loss as to where it goes but it doesn't got our aol account or our server. So if you want to contact us email us at BVTraders@aol.com. Sorry for the inconvenience.

1/11/07

Well December was extremely busy. Dave Welling has left us for personal reasons. So it is down to Chuck and I. On top of that I had the flu along with the entire Varney clan. So for most of December the house was sick. Not really conducive to working on the site. In the mean time we have had some used BT mini updates and changes in our expansion plans. I won't say much because the last time I put something down it never happened. We can say that we are going into historicals (WW2 15mm), starship combat games and possibly some 28mm figures (scifi and fantasy). As always we can take requests for items not on the site. If we can get the item then you don't pay until we get said item in and ready to ship out to you. That's all for now.

11/3/06

It took awhile but we seem to have gotten all the site errors corrected. We are also back on track with our used stock updates for battletech. Hopefully I'll be keeping the news page current with monthly reports as opposed to um, whenever. Going to Fall-In next week so orders received from 11/9 to 11/12 won't get processed until 11/13. Will have more updates to the stock post convention.

8/22/06

Well it has been a very busy summer. The site was down due to hackers the last few weeks. Now that it the server side has been fixed we are having osCommerce issues. I hope to have them sorted out by tomorrow night.

Please email us with any questions or requests you have.

5/11/06

Ok, been awhile. We will have a bunch of new vehicles on the site by tomorrow night. I'm hoping to get some clan mechs up next week as well. You also may have noticed the Cold Navy ships are in stock now. We have a limited stock due to a local run on the minis. Look for more from Xtreme Hobby and new stuff from Talon Games by the end of the month.

2/22/06

We have always had the ability to get a plethora of other product lines from our distributor but usually they are orderred as specials or for trades. We here at BVT are expanding our site to carry other products. The companies we are looking into are as follows: Amarillo Design Bureau (Star Trek ships), Mongoose Publishing (Starship Troopers, Babylon 5 Wars), Reaper Minis (CAV, Fantasy minis), Old Glory Corp (historicals), Xtreme Hobby (Cold Navy space ships) and X-acto (tools). This expansion will take place over the course of this winter and spring. The additions will be in no particular order though I think Xtreme Hobby items will be first. So if you don't see the products you are looking for or if you would like to suggest an item/manufacturer please email us.