At the time, about 75 percent of our sales were coming from inventoried product. If it wasn’t for our decision to start carrying inventory, our gross merchandise sales in 2002 would have been $8 million instead of $32 million. For 2003, we were projecting sales to double, with about 25 percent of our overall sales coming from our drop ship business. The drop ship business was easy money. We didn’t have to carry inventory so we didn’t have any inventory risk or cash-flow problems with that part of the business. But we had plenty of customer service challenges.
