The Yard Bazaar goes out to anyone who asks for it. The Patio Club is the version with the door closed behind it — the people who get things first, pay less to have them shipped, and hear about the stuff that is nearly gone while it is still here.
It is free. There is no card, no points, no tier to climb. You put in an email address and you are in.
What you actually get
Free shipping from $50
Everyone else pays $6.95 until their cart passes $75. Members cross the line at $50, with the code PATIOCLUB, as often as they like. On a string of lights and a firewood rack, that is the whole shipping charge gone.
Two days before anyone else
New listings go to members 48 hours before they appear in the collections. On the things that sell out — fryer kits in November, fire pits in January — two days is the difference between buying it and reading that it is gone.
The nearly-gone list
I keep a running note of what we are down to single or double digits on. Members see it before it goes in the newsletter. No countdown timers, no invented urgency — just the real number.
Back in stock, told properly
Ask about anything that is sold out and you get one email on the day it lands. Not a drip campaign. One email, about the thing you asked about.
$25 off, every quarter
A member code worth $25 off an order of $150 or more, once per member per quarter, every quarter, for as long as you are in. This quarter it is CLUBFALL and it runs to December 31. It stacks with your free shipping.
The Yard Bazaar
Every issue, first. What is worth buying this month, what is not, what the weather is about to do to your yard, and the occasional admission that I killed another fern.
Join
One field. You can leave any time, from the bottom of any email.
Using your codes
Both member codes are tied to your membership rather than printed on the internet, so check out with the same email address you joined with and they will work. If you have an account with us, just sign in.
PATIOCLUB — free shipping on any order of $50 or more. Use it as often as you want.
CLUBFALL — $25 off an order of $150 or more, once, any time before December 31. A new one lands each quarter.
The two work together. The quarterly code does not stack on top of a sitewide sale, though — during one of those, use whichever is worth more to you. I would rather say that plainly than have you find out at the checkout.
Honest answers
Is this just a newsletter with a name?
No — the shipping threshold, the quarterly $25 and the 48-hour window are real differences a non-member does not get. But I am not going to pretend it is a loyalty program. It is a short list of useful things, and it is free.
How often will you email me?
The Yard Bazaar is roughly every two to three weeks. Member notes are rarer than that. If a month goes by with nothing worth saying, you will hear nothing.
What is Portico Goods?
An outdoor-living shop out of Tampa Bay. Fire pits and fire tables, patio furniture, grills and smokers, raised beds, chicken coops and dog houses — a tight range, chosen one piece at a time, with the sizes and the real prices written plainly on every page. If it would not go in my own yard, it does not go on the site.