The lovely BLISS Soaps up on Broadway says it has recently fallen victim to a con artist. Here’s the scoop from the latest BLISS e-mail newsletter sent out today:

BLISS Soaps has unfortunately fallen victim to a fraudulent business deal. Many local customers may recall a large soap, lotion, facemask and eye cream order that we were working on as they came to visit the store. The order was made, delivered and distributed to the Cruise-line executives ahead of schedule. Emperors Essentials, the company that commissioned BLISS Soaps to fulfill this contract fraudulently reversed ALL of the payments that were made to us. . . The devastating to BLISS Soaps came at such a time that we may not recover the funds in time to maintain operations.

However, there is good news:

In an effort to make this a win-win situation for both of us, we are offering this 4 day only Internet, call-in and walk-in special in an attempt to earn pre holiday revenue.

All orders over $50.00 will be doubled and the next 5 future orders over $50.00 will be given a $15.00 credit.

All orders received in the next 4 days will be filed and a VERY special future offer will be offered to you in our Dec E-mail.

ALL orders place in the next 4 days EVEN orders under $50.00 will be given the Special December offer.

To call in your orders, please call 1-206-322-SOAP 7 days 4-10 Pacific Time Internet orders, please only order 1/2 of what you would like as we will simply double the order received.

So if you’re looking for some good holiday gifts, for you or anyone else, and want to support a local business, this would be the time!

Editor’s note: We’re attempting to get Emperor’s Essentials side of this but have not yet heard back. The phone numbers on their web site ‘Contact Us’ are both no longer in service and the person who answered the phone from this listing we found for the company’s Gig Harbor address hung up after learning he was talking to a reporter. “We’re not interested,” he said.