The Marketing Solutions Strategy Specialists here at strongsmell.com would like to apologize for a bit of improperly-evaluated content that found its way onto our mega-server earlier last week.

Despite repeated assurances from our content partners that Sweet Wheat Tweet: an experimental interactive fiction in six parts would provide our members with unprecedented opportunities for chats and e-shopping, we appear to have been sold a bill of goods.

In truth, SWT added very little to the already-robust strongsmell.com shopping experience; the immense traffic it generated put such a strain on our commerce engines that the typical user had to wait a full two minutes for order fulfilment. This is unacceptable, and we know it. And we owe you all an apology.

It's you -- the hardworking men and women who trust strongsmell.com to deliver the goods, products and services that the other sites can't -- who butter our bread, and it's you who've made our little startup one of the brightest stars of the Information Economy. When we let you down, we don't just lose a sale. We betray our roots.

We'd like to try to win back your confidence with a special, limited-time offer. Starting today, The first 1,000 people to sign up for membership at my.strongsmell.com will qualify to win a thirty-minute shopping spree with the strongsmell.com catalogue (and, we promise, lighting-quick response times) absolutely free of charge.

To those of you who logged off in disappointment, we're sorry. To those who stuck by, we thank you. And to all of you who are still new to strongsmell.com, we invite you to stick around.

Change is gonna do us good.