HI all
The plan has evolved a lot since starting out as a Canadian based GB. To summarize, chips will land in the US as it is much more cost effective for everyone.
@Raphmivey will collect chip and first leg shipping costs.
@Pinesol13 will collect reshipping costs and reship. I will send out random instructional messages after drinking a bottle of vino.
The shipping quote for Canada was $1600 by air or $800 by sea, 45 days. The shipping quote for USA was $450 by sea (and apparently shorter ride). Given the difference and price and time delay + the additional 14% taxes if it lands in Canada, going the US route was a no brainer so
@Pinesol13 will be our re-shipper in the USA
What we need next.
- Everyone now has a tab in the shared doc with their name on it. Fill in your denominations and chip counts. @Raphmivey has built in some beautiful formulas that will calculate costs/weight. Tinker with your numbers for now, I’ll warn everyone before final numbers are needed and I lock editing. We intend to give these spreadsheets to Tina to breakdown everyone’s individual order
- Artwork. Please submit your artwork to me, if you’ve already sent it to @Raphmivey don’t sweat it, he’s forwarded to me. My email address is on page 1 of the shared doc. If you don’t have a designer, please hustle. Nobody wants to be the last one in the pool.
- After we get the artwork submitted and verified by Tina, we’ll have to pay before they make the chips. I’ll give a couple warnings on the thread to the tune of “final chip counts due in 24hrs” followed shortly by “pay up”. @Raphmivey ‘s contact info is on P1 of the shared doc as well. We’ll use the google doc to communicate pricing. At some point around here I will make the doc un-editable so everyone’s info is locked in. As a relative newb to international money transfers, I suggest looking into your process now, so when the time comes you can just do it.
- Payment goes to Tina and production starts
- We wait
- We wait
- We get proof of life shots from Tina
- Order ships
- We wait
- We wait
- @Pinesol13 receives delivery and we shift our frustration to him
- We wait
- Reships go out and shortly after we flood the Mail Pron thread
Somewhere between step 1-10 we each figure out the best shipping option for the 2nd leg of the journey, and send
@Pinesol13 the appropriate amount of money. Please estimate high, you don’t want an over weight package holding you up, trust me. His email/money transfer information will be on P1 of the doc. With all of that said, keep in mind he’s doing us all a solid, Flat rate boxes are easy. I urge you all to go this route unless there are huge savings in another route.
Per #1, the spreadsheets have some formula built in. The numbers may fluctuate a touch. Example, the exchange rate is fluid, it will be updated to the rate we are being given at purchase time. The rate appears to be good for about a week.
Additionally, it looks like there is a transaction fee that will be applied to
@Raphmivey at the time of purchase using credit card. He’s going to look for a way around it, but as it is it’s $156 CAD. We we are going to add $10 each to everyone’s initial payment. This money will be used to cover the transaction fee. Any leftover (or all of it if we find a loophole) will be transferred to
@Pinesol13 and used to knock everyone’s reshipping costs down. We’re doing this rather than risking
@Raphmivey having to ask everyone for a 2nd payment of $10. It is already accounted for on the spreadsheet.
Sorry for the long winded message, the intent is so everyone can back to one place for info. I was buzzed when I started it (last night) now I’m just groggy.