he experienced a huge increase in demand towards the end of last year and could not cope with all the new orders, hence he shut his site down. I believe he is very low or out of stock on many items due to the extra orders. In an email i got today he said he is looking to be back up and running fully in 20 to 30 days. i guess he he could not complete the orders he was getting then it makes sense. I have an order still owed from last year, he has said its been shipped, i live in the UK so i expect a wait, fingers crossed it gets sorted!