About Us

Our mission: to provide the largest number of piggy and coin banks anywhere - and to give you wonderful service.
 
Our Humble Beginnings

cowscowscows combines two careers for Gloria LeBlanc, the owner and founder. After graduating from the University of Washington, Gloria had a career as a buyer at The Bon (the Northwest’s largest department store chain now known as Macy's.) Having identical twins sidetracked her retail career—a career that she loved. Her career as a stockbroker began with Shearson (now Smith Barney) in 1986. It evolved to where she opened up her own office, Los Gatos Securities Investment Advisory, in Los Gatos, CA. But, in order to have a downtown storefront location she had to have retail. Wall Street Gifts was born in 1994 to meet this zoning requirement. In 1996 Wall Street Gifts was launched on the Internet. www.wallstreetgifts.com Thus, Gloria intertwined her money management skills with her first love of buying. In October 2000 she created a second Internet business. She had seen the Cow Parade cows in Chicago and thought they were wonderful! www.cowscowscows.com now includes other cow items as well as Cow Parade. In February 2003 the Trail of Painted Ponies was launched by Westland Giftware and Gloria launched www.ponyponypony.com
The next Internet business launched was this site, www.banksbanksbanks.com, over Labor Day 2003. In 2005 www.bullsbullsbulls.com was linked to Wall Street Gifts. Another offshoot of Wall Street Gifts was www.globesglobesglobes.com which was also launched in 2005. It was totally revamped October 2008. In April 2006 www.gamesandpoker.com was launched. Next came www.inspiremotivate.com and www.loyalfansandalums.com In 2007 we added www.verylargestuffedanimals.com. In 2009 we will add www.eagleseagleseagles.com. In 2007 we did a major re-design of all of the sites to make them more customers friendly.
In 1996 Wall Street Gifts (the mother company) offered 12 items on the Internet and had sales of $8,000. Ten years later, with more web sites, we offered over 3,000 items. Today the number of items surpasses 5,000 on our ten web sites. We've grown!!! And, continue to grow.
You can help us. If you see an error on the site, or think we could provide a better photo. Tell us at service@banksbanksbanks.com  We do our best - but we are human.
We are an Internet business – not a store front. We prefer that you communicate as much as possible via the Internet. You can reach us at CONTACT US – or on-line via Live Chat.  We TRY to respond within 24 hours (during the week). Our hours are 8-4 PM Monday – Friday.

Our Staff

We are a small business which operates out of a warehouse in Chula Vista, 4 miles from the Mexico border. Let me introduce some of our staff:

Chris is our Operations Manager. She processes all orders. Chris is a college student who plans on being a doctor. She is a native of San Diego. If you need to change your order, you can reach Chris at orders@banksbanksbanks.com She arrives at 8 AM Monday -Friday and leaves in the afternoon to attend classes. Others also process orders and can be reached at the same email address
Danielle is our Customer Care Manager. Her job is to make you happy. Danielle is from a town south of St. Louis. Her Navy husband will be deployed in 2009. They were high school sweethearts. Danielle typically works 9-3 PM M-F. You may reach Danielle or others helping with service at service@banksbanksbanks.com
Mike is our in-house web person. That's why if you find an error on our site and call us we can frequently correct the error before you hang up! We TRY to mark items as sold out as soon as we are aware. We're not perfect, but we try. Mike has created all 10 web sites for us.
Rafael is our photo shop specialist. He is an awesome photographer as you can see on the Wall Art page of Wall Street Gifts http://www.wallstreetgifts.com/siteindex.php?req=03&Category=64
Rafael's college degree is in Fine Arts. He does our graphic arts and created the banners for each site.
Robert is our Personalization Manager. He personalizes our banks for us. He is quite creative. He has been an artist for several years and has his paintings shown at 2 galleries in LA. He is also involved with art in Tijuana. You can reach Robert, or our other artists, at artist@banksbanksanks.com He creates some of our artist original piggy banks for us.
Von is our Warehouse Manager. He tries very hard to get your order shipped ASAP so that you will receive it in perfect condition.
You Can Help Us.
We are here for you; but, due to our limited staff it is VERY helpful if you email us rather than phone. During office hours we will respond within 24 hours. We do not work weekends and we are in California.
 
We like Happy Customers :-) and do everything possible to achieve that goal. The rule we abide by is to treat our customers as we would like to be treated. Each customer is very special to us. Without you we would not be successful.