madmagician wrote:
I have been travelling for several weeks straight and missed the change to Pre-Order. I am honestly good with however we can encourage you to keep new models coming.
Pre-order and pre-funding both are fine in my book!.
I have abandoned the pre-order funding project as it was just causing to much uncertainty instead I will be launching a separate regular pre-orders page on my site. All models on that page will be at a certain stage in the production process either at the 3D printers or at the mould making stage readying for production.
This set up will assuage any worry for the customer that they won't get their models as they will already be heading towards production. There was much concern with the funder idea that backers may not see their models if the funding level was not achieved whilst this would not have been the case as I would have guaranteed delivery it was none the less a big stumbling block for some people. Hence the change of plan and having a normal pre-order set up instead.
All models up for pre-order will see production and will be shipped to customers at the earliest opportunity upon arrival of the actual casting. Over all from pre-order's stage to castings on the shelves should be around two months maybe a little more. This is due to the multiple stages required to get the actual models which apart from the 3D design stage also includes being in a average of a four weeks queue for printing and another four to six weeks queue for moulding and casting plus travelling time of the items. So two months is probably going to be the shortest time between pre-orders and shipments to customers.
Two other things here are,
1. All pre-orders are required to be done as separate orders from regular in stock item orders for paperwork and shipping charges reasons. So please don't pre-order anything in with a regular order.
2. The prices quoted for pre-orders will be subject to change once the models go on general sale. All prices shown are a best guess based on current similar models in the range as until I get them moulded I have no solid costs per mould spin to base my figures on. So the price of these models may well go up upon release or they could go down slightly too it will depend on production castings charges.
So there you have it plan B what do you think?
Those people will engage when there are actual models to ore order and not before. So run some model ideas up the flagpole and see what sticks?
don't overload people with additional polls and what not.
