The story of Fabulous Firepits

We set up Fabulous Firepits in the middle of the pandemic in July 2020 with the goal of building fire pits that lasted and the expectation that, as a business, we'd last too. Sadly we recently took the decision to scale down and possibly close the business.
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We have faced a plethora of challenges since we started the business. We've seen steel prices rise by 300%. We've seen paint prices rise by 20%.  We've seen our marketing costs rise by over 400%.  Availability of welding gas and paint has also left us unable to make fire pits at times adding to stress levels and costs.

But there have been many positives on this journey. We have fulfilled the dream of building high quality fire pits that last and we sold over 700 in our 1.5 years of trading. I have personally fulfilled a dream of running a D2C (Direct to Consumer) business with personalisation of the product at it's core.  We sold over £250k worth of fire pits, impressive for less than 2 years of trading. We have many satisfied customers and a very very small number of returns. (I could count them on one hand.) ​

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