NEW SHOP, NEW SYSTEM, NEW EVERYTHING!!!!

It's the moment you've been awaiting, the moment we've been working towards for months. We're over the moon to launch an exclusive and unique all-round cannabis experience. Now you can shop seeds, be a part of the global cannabis community and have a wealth of information at your fingertips, all from a single starting point: the Nirvana Weedportal!

In this special edition of our newsletter, we will be introducing the various features of the portal, and filling you in on the fantastic perks that Nirvana customers will be enjoying. But if you're really dying to jump in right away, here are some highlights:

• There's our new shopping area, which has been upgraded to the latest software for speed, safety and shopping convenience: Nirvana Shop.
• A revolutionary new approach to ordering online can be found here: John Doe Seeds, for 100% anonymous seed shopping!
• For our new and improved reward point program, visit our Points FAQ.
• And finally, through Weedportal you can become part of a new cannabis community where your contributions will be rewarded with Points!

We're sure you can't wait to hear more, so scroll down to get the low-down, then visit Nirvana Weedportal to get sky-high!

POINTS ARE BACK! AND BETTER!

We know, we know, we've made you wait a long time for this... But there's one thing we know for sure: you will LOVE our new reward point system! And we're pretty damn sure that there's nothing quite like it available in the whole of cannabusiness - just another reason to order from Nirvana exclusively.

How to earn points
The most common way to earn points in a shop is by spending money in that shop. So at Nirvana Shop, this is one of the ways in which points can be earnt. But it doesn't stop there!

We've decided to offer you more opportunities to earn points in new and exciting ways. What other seed shop would offer you reward points for dating?! Or for posting short messages online?! We would!

For an in-depth guide on how to earn points, please visit our Points FAQ. To the right is a brief overview as well. The different components of Weedportal are explained in the article below this one.

How to spend points
Points earnt on previous sales can be spent right away. Points earnt on the Weedportal sites, such as Weedportal Share, first need to be approved before they are added to your Nirvana account's total.

Once you've collected some points in your Nirvana account, you can start using them to pay for your orders. On the checkout page, you will be given the option to enter the number of points you would like to spend on your order. You can spend all your points at once, or save some for later. Earn enough points, and you will be able to pay for orders in full with just points instead of money!

POINTS PER ACTIVITY

Nirvana Shop

- 5 points for every euro you spend with us
- 50 points for each review you write

Weedportal Share

- 50 points for every uploaded picture
- 100 points for every uploaded video

Weedportal Shitter

- 1 point for every post you write

Weedportal Dating

We're still working on this one, but in future, you'll be able to earn points on Weeddating as well!

How do I join the Weedportal Community?

To join Weedportal Shitter or Share, you can sign up with either one, and you will automatically become a member of the other. Having a Nirvana account DOES NOT automatically give you a Weedportal account!! Please sign up separately. Once you've registered, your points earnt on Weedportal can be transferred to your Nirvana account on request. Weedportal Dating is a separate component of the community, for which you will need to register separately as well.

For your convenience, we suggest you bookmark the Weedportal site, or even set it as your start page, so you have easy access to all components.

What else does Weedportal have to offer?

Weedportal also provides one-click access to the following:

NEWS - news brought to you by CannabisNews.org

HELP DESK - Nirvana's impeccable customer service

KNOWLEDGE BASE - Nirvana's treasure trove of trivia

GROWTH SOLUTIONS - Soiltabs and Germination Kits

NEWSLETTER ARCHIVES - Archive of previous editions

...And much more! We plan to add new sites and functionalities in time, so be sure to check back often.

Please bear in mind that we are still putting the final touches on some of the Weedportal components. Since the technical stuff works, we just couldn't wait to go live so that you can all start earning Points. After all, the Weedportal Community is about having FUN, not about perfection. We appreciate your understanding if we're still tweaking and changing a bit here and there.

WE'RE THE CHILDREN OF THE REEFERLUTION

Okay, so we've been going on about this Nirvana Weedportal, but what is it, and what does it do??

Weedportal Share

For a while, you've been requesting that we create a place where you can upload photos of your Nirvana grows, and we always deliver. On Share, you will be able to upload photos (and videos, too!) of cannabis-related material to your heart's content. Reveal your new grow room set-up, post a tutorial of how to take clones, pester everyone with photos of your baby seedlings, or just share funny pics for the heck of it. Every approved contribution earns you points!

Weedportal Shitter

"Why tweet when you've got weed?" Well, exactly! Ever got so baked you started posting crazy ramblings onto your favourite online networking site? Stop embarrassing yourself to assorted relatives and co-workers, and join an online community where all the other members are just as stoned as you are!

It's Twitter, only Shitter. No deep philosophical thoughts, astute political commentary or uber-hip music recommendations are expected from you - just toke and talk shit! Even better, we'll give you one reward point for every shit message you dump on us - now how's that for a customer reward program?!

Weedportal Dating

Speeddating is sooooo 2009! Weeddating is where it's at. There's no shame in admitting you haven't found that special someone yet, and what better way to meet him or her than through a site about your favourite pastime?

So if the ladies hate your canna-cooking or the boys don't appreciate your 'parfum de cannabis', just join the online dating community and the we(e)dding bells will be ringing in no time! Fill out the appropriately adapted profile pages to find the perfect partner!

Already spoken for? If you'd just like to meet some canna-friendly folks to light up with, but you're tired of standing in alleyways hissing '420's my favourite number, what's yours?' at random passers-by, you are welcome to join too! Weeddating is still a bit of a work in progress, so bear with us. All the same, it already looks like tons of fun: play a game with other members, hang out in chat rooms, send winks to people you like... Have fun!

At Nirvana Shop, we've always been fully aware of the importance of customer privacy. That is why we work with a small, dedicated and trusted team to provide the safest service possible. We handle all sensitive data with the utmost care and discretion, make sure we ship as stealthily as possible and will never disclose any customer information to third parties.

Still, ordering seeds over the internet remains a daunting business to some of our customers. Although we store your information in an account for your own convenience, we've long been wanting to offer an alternative to those customers for whom risk minimization is the number one priority.

The solution? A unique and revolutionary way to order seeds! At John Doe Seeds, you do not need to open an account - in fact, you can't! We will never even know who you are until we receive your order through the post. Even better, because all pages are run in secure mode, you will leave no trace whatsoever. Ordering from John Doe Seeds does not leave a digital trail of any kind - no records that show you have ordered cannabis seeds ANYWHERE! How? Simple!

You select the products you'd like to buy, print out an order form which contains no reference to cannabis seeds whatsoever, send this form plus cash payment to us via snail mail, and we send out the goods - then we destroy the order form, leaving no record of your purchase at all! John Doe is run by exactly the same team as Nirvana Shop, which guarantees that your money and details are safe and your order will be shipped using the best stealth methods.

To order incognito, click here: John Doe Seeds
To read the FAQ and find out more about how the ordering process works, click here: John Doe FAQ

NEW NIRVANA SITE!

With all this commotion surrounding the Nirvana Weedportal and John Doe Seeds, it would be easy to miss that our good old Nirvana-Shop website has also been overhauled! But it has, and we're sure you will like it.

At first sight, it hasn't changed a lot, because most of our work went into making everything run more smoothly behind the scenes. We installed more powerful software to improve your shopping experience and make it safer. Of course your account, if you had one, should still work - no need to re-register! But besides the system upgrade, a few nifty new features are to be found on the new site as well:

• Brand new point system - you've read about it above, you can read even more about it here: Nirvana Points
  
  
• New order status checker - enter your order-ID at the top of the page, and you will be shown the current order status
  
  
• Link exchange - if you own or know a good cannabis-related site, let's exchange links!
  
  
• Newsletter archive - we know you print out each edition, laminate it, and keep it in your safe. But in case you haven't...
  
  
• News feed - on the right of the screen, you can keep yourself updated on the latest cannanews

And finally, to celebrate, there is a brand new addition to our range of Growth Solutions: Flowertabs! Also available in the Ultimate Grow Kit. More about this in our next edition of the newsletter.... watch this space!

So there we are... We can't blame you if you're feeling a bit overwhelmed with all the new fun stuff to try out, but we're sure you will love it all! As you can imagine, a portal of this magnitude takes quite a lot of effort to test, so keep in mind that although we've tested extensively beforehand, there may be occasional glitches and errors. We will continue to work on improving the different site components and working out the kinks - we appreciate your understanding in this regard. Now off you go - start racking up those points and raking in those seeds!

Peace,
The Nirvana Team