I'm really glad everyone is liking their new units! That said, let me answer some questions:
Largo_W wrote:
Is there a status update? Or, is it perhaps possible to select an option "Ship via Exodus Wars" and just split the order in the UK? Which... leaves all the hard work to Exodus Wars...
OK - so here's what's up. While some of you have your orders, there are a few others who do not and SCP is also waiting on their first shipment. The reason for this is the massive amounts of casting involved in filling the order AND switching casters right in the middle of the madness.
So basically, I placed all of the pre-orders and the caster got cracking. He worked his tail off for two weeks and sent me everything he had made so far (not ALL of the pre-orders, but what he had done to that point). I then started shipping out orders in the order I got them. So if you have yours already, you were among the first to get your orders in...Thanks!
Since then, the caster has been plugging away to fill the rest of the pre-orders. Throw in a turkey holiday and things get postponed for a while, but he's back on it. In the middle of all this - my old stock runs low, and SCP needs their stuff - which includes a bunch of old stock and new. At this point I asked my old caster to send me a bunch of my old stock. I got a message back saying they wanted to raise my rates AGAIN. I said forget it, and spent a few hundred dollars sending ALL of my old molds to the new guy....see the problem?
So this new caster is filling NEW stock, and now he's also filling all of my OLD stock requests. And because of the holiday deals, requested numbers keep raising on a daily basis! So what I have done is this -
1. I have temporarily removed the in stock quantities from the store - mainly because EVERYTHING is out of stock at the moment.
2. I take the order numbers, and update them daily with the caster. He will bust his hump getting these made as quickly as possible.
3. Every Wednesday, he packs up everything he has managed to make, and sends them to me.
4. I should get the shipment each Friday - At which point I insert a coffee IV drip and fill orders all night long until the stock runs out again.
5. I go to the post office every Saturday morning and send everything out.
So if you haven't got your pre-orders yet, you will very soon. The next shipment arrives on Friday, and each Friday after that until things level out. As for SCP - their older stock order is in this next shipment also - so it will be sent out Saturday as well. So my guess is that it won't be long.
Inquisitor_Alanius wrote:
a) Do you do gift certificates so I can point family and friends at your site without terrifying them?
b) will the sisterhood (wave 6a) be available before Xmas (even pre-order)?
So - on top of all of that - this new caster has the Masters made for wave 6A - the guy is a machine. And from what I hear, he only needs to get approval before his crew start making production molds for them. So they may be ready for pre-orders THIS MONTH. I'm not sure if they will be shipping this month though - we'll see how it goes.
Gift certificates huh? As with the holiday sales and discounts, I haven't done that before - but it doesn't mean I can't. Let me check into it.
Long story short - this is the busiest I've been in my whole life
I still work my day job - and Onslaught is like a baby who has grown at a tremendous rate and demands more and more attention. But it's been an awesome ride so far!
customers wait Im sure since they know you are a one man company..
