Virginia's Best was recently invited to join the Amazon Gourmet Food category by an Amazon sales VP, but when we tried to sign up a few months later, we found that the Gourmet Food category is closed to new applications. Amazon.com is no longer accepting new vendors in their Gourmet Food category.

They have a new Grocery category and are concentrating on…

NEW YORK TIMES, OP-ED CONTRIBUTORS; The War as We Saw It

By BUDDHIKA JAYAMAHA, WESLEY D. SMITH, JEREMY ROEBUCK, OMAR MORA, EDWARD SANDMEIER, YANCE T. GRAY AND JEREMY A. MURPHY
Published: August 19, 2007
Baghdad

VIEWED from Iraq at the tail end of a 15-month deployment, the political debate in Washington is indeed surreal. Counterinsurgency is, by…

Cavalier sounds like a great deal for those of us who might want to escape the tyranny of Verizon's overlords. You do get a lot of good features in one package for no "extra" charges, but beware!

The price they quote of $24.95 per month neglects to mention that the fees and taxes they so glibly gloss over amount to more than 50% of that amount. Therefore,…

Ever heard of whosarat.com? Neither had I, until today when I heard about it on the news. Appearantly, some dope dealer turned against his cohorts and caused them to be locked up in jail. For revenge, the dealer guy put up a website that exposes "snitches" and has even gone so far as to post notices in neighborhoods where they live.

Obviously, this is…

Where do our products come from? Here and there... everywhere! Like every major cataloger, we do not make all the products we sell. This is true of even the most well known catalogs, like Williams Sonoma, Dean and Deluca, Harry and David, etc. The balance between sources varies from one to the other, but none of them make everything themselves.

The…

That would be me, Tom, the guy that runs this business. I know it's hard to believe, but this "vast empire" was created and is run by one person. For a small business, our websites have more features than the average site, almost as many as big sites, like Amazon. That's because I am also a programmer of some considerable talent (biased?). Every page and…

Welcome to the VBCG Blog ... I am starting this "web log" to help open a better dialog with our customers, and also to provide more information about our products and our company. I hope you find this as interesting as I do.

I won't bore you with the detailed history of the company. Let it suffice to say that we started in 2001 and have been through one…