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Custom artwork group buy. US/CAN CARDS MOLD (4 Viewers)

SeanGecko said:
Thank you @BGinGA

Tina shared the plan is to get another batch out this weekend as well. The important thing here is to see that we are now in the production and shipping phase.

Tian has shared they hope to get better at streamlining this process as well.
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Legitimate question here, I think probably the question of the whole damn thread. We have what, 80 sets ready order in "GB2"?

I would imagine that folks might be getting together to even put orders through themselves with a couple PCFers. Since you've handled this one and been engaged with Tina, how would you suggest that go? Should we let everyone reach out in their little mini GBs? Should we create a line of communication with Tina and have everyone work through her and be scheduled? Or is she too much of a small operation, and should we get organized on this side and send people through to her as she's ready?

After this obviously you can't do the next one, but just wondered as to your thoughts as you're in the belly of the beast.
 
It's that old saying about good, fast, and cheap you often see in garages. You can have any of the 2 - but not all 3.

Good and fast, it won't be cheap.
Fast and cheap, it won't be good.
Good and cheap, it won't be fast.

We're getting good (full custom with pretty good quality) and cheap (30¢!!). So don't expect fast folks!

Thanks again Sean!
 
BarrieJ3 said:
Legitimate question here, I think probably the question of the whole damn thread. We have what, 80 sets ready order in "GB2"?

I would imagine that folks might be getting together to even put orders through themselves with a couple PCFers. Since you've handled this one and been engaged with Tina, how would you suggest that go? Should we let everyone reach out in their little mini GBs? Should we create a line of communication with Tina and have everyone work through her and be scheduled? Or is she too much of a small operation, and should we get organized on this side and send people through to her as she's ready?

After this obviously you can't do the next one, but just wondered as to your thoughts as you're in the belly of the beast.
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TheDuke said:
It's that old saying about good, fast, and cheap you often see in garages. You can have any of the 2 - but not all 3.

Good and fast, it won't be cheap.
Fast and cheap, it won't be good.
Good and cheap, it won't be fast.

We're getting good (full custom with pretty good quality) and cheap (30¢!!). So don't expect fast folks!

Thanks again Sean!
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Well said. Thanks sean
 
SeanGecko said:
My other thought was a regional reshipper. Lots of dollars saved by having the group buy rather than an individual I saved over $200 this way and that was taking into account only pre covid pricing for shipping.
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That's a pretty good idea -- have chip shipments from China grouped by geography and sent to a designated re-shipper in each region. Spread the load.
 
SeanGecko said:
My other thought was a regional reshipper. Lots of dollars saved by having the group buy rather than an individual I saved over $200 this way and that was taking into account only pre covid pricing for shipping.
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BGinGA said:
That's a pretty good idea -- have chip shipments from China grouped by geography and sent to a designated re-shipper in each region. Spread the load.
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My offer to serve as the Canadian reshipper still stands if it makes logistical sense. ;). (ie. Tina is ok to batch and ship Canadian orders to a Canadian address without additional ship cost or if it's small/minor I'd cover it.)

I think there are 8 or so Canadians and ~7500 chips or so.
 
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But seriously, I think what we're going to see is next one or two GBs will be pretty big. Around this size, possibly bigger if not cut off at a certain level. After that, they are probably going to taper off. Using regional shippers to receive and pass on orders for 5-10 buyers for as long as it makes sense is a great idea. I would volunteer to help with Texas / South Central US for the next GB. Or whatever geographic area makes sense.

In fact, rather than geographic, just determine the number of chips where there is no longer any cost savings to increase the order. I seem to recall that we hit 3 cents a chip pretty early, and it didn't go down any after that point. Maybe around 10-15K chips? I'd have to go back through to find it if Sean doesn't remember. Then if there are 4 or 5 of us who are willing to take a shipment and re-ship, just go down the list. First 15,000 chips committed to ship to volunteer #1. Next 15,000 to volunteer #2, and etc. If I'm shipping out 8-10 orders, it doesn't really matter whether they're going to Texas or New York. Unless they are right in my city for local pickup. Also have the re-shipper be one of the orders in each group, so they get a little savings not having to pay to get their order from a re-shipper.
 
BGinGA said:
Geographic shipping allows for the use of cheaper rate Regional Priority boxes for reshipping..... just sayin'.
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That's cool. I was thinking these were going out in Flat Rate boxes where the cost was the same wherever they were going. But if they are not, then geographic it is!
 
I am not interested in a display case but would gladly chip in a dollar so that Sean can get what he wants. Add it on to my chip shipping costs
 
Himewad said:
What are they? I don’t know what I’m looking at. :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:

Is it a display case? Are those real chips in there? Can you remove them? Can it be any size with any number of holes (assuming they are real chips and removable)?
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@Himewad those are my hundos in there!
@BarrieJ3 should be ordering 50 by himself for his sample collection, no?
 
If those acrylic displays are potentially being added to our chip orders I'd take one too! I was planning on having to make something like that but that is nice and cheap.
 
A few brain thinkin's out loud on a second run with regards to reducing @SeanGecko's admin workload.

  1. I'd scrap samples in a second run. If we're working out of the Pantone list they offer, then that's close enough. I'd say there have been a couple true issues with colours, and besides that everything was fairly predictable. As others have mentioned @ $0.30 per we can't complain tooooo much about colour accuracy. That's a very similar design constraint when building sets. (CPC has 38 colours and we manage, for example)
  2. If a NCC/Clown Motel etc. are run again, we do it with one standard lineup that can be mixed and matched, MAYBE allowing a custom location. There are 8 zillion NCC variations (yeah... that's partially on me :)) and I'm just in total fear that they are going to get mixed up or at the least bog their production down. Printers batch things as much as possible, and all the little differences may get missed due to that.
  3. Maybe we build a Google docs order form to help automate order submission? It is kind of mind blowing that all GB's around here are run by people posting in threads what they want, then the organizer manually inputting orders however they prefer. I think something like that would really cut down on some of the date entry work. I think it would be amazing if the organizer could just have a spreadsheet ready to roll with:
    • name
    • shipping address
    • order particulars ( quantities etc.)
    • a link to the artwork/or selected chips from the mix and match sets.
  4. ??????????????
  5. More chips
 
timinater said:
A few brain thinkin's out loud on a second run with regards to reducing @SeanGecko's admin workload.

  1. I'd scrap samples in a second run. If we're working out of the Pantone list they offer, then that's close enough. I'd say there have been a couple true issues with colours, and besides that everything was fairly predictable. As others have mentioned @ $0.30 per we can't complain tooooo much about colour accuracy. That's a very similar design constraint when building sets. (CPC has 38 colours and we manage, for example)
  2. If a NCC/Clown Motel etc. are run again, we do it with one standard lineup that can be mixed and matched, MAYBE allowing a custom location. There are 8 zillion NCC variations (yeah... that's partially on me :)) and I'm just in total fear that they are going to get mixed up or at the least bog their production down. Printers batch things as much as possible, and all the little differences may get missed due to that.
  3. Maybe we build a Google docs order form to help automate order submission? It is kind of mind blowing that all GB's around here are run by people posting in threads what they want, then the organizer manually inputting orders however they prefer. I think something like that would really cut down on some of the date entry work. I think it would be amazing if the organizer could just have a spreadsheet ready to roll with:
    • name
    • shipping address
    • order particulars ( quantities etc.)
    • a link to the artwork/or selected chips from the mix and match sets.
  4. ??????????????
  5. More chips
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With the multiple orders of NCC sets in this current order, it might be a good idea to ask Tina to mark on each sleeve of wrapped NCC chips the name of the person ordering. Make it easier for Sean during the reship phase to differentiate people's orders of similar chips.
 
timinater said:
A few brain thinkin's out loud on a second run with regards to reducing @SeanGecko's admin workload.

  1. I'd scrap samples in a second run. If we're working out of the Pantone list they offer, then that's close enough. I'd say there have been a couple true issues with colours, and besides that everything was fairly predictable. As others have mentioned @ $0.30 per we can't complain tooooo much about colour accuracy. That's a very similar design constraint when building sets. (CPC has 38 colours and we manage, for example)
  2. If a NCC/Clown Motel etc. are run again, we do it with one standard lineup that can be mixed and matched, MAYBE allowing a custom location. There are 8 zillion NCC variations (yeah... that's partially on me :)) and I'm just in total fear that they are going to get mixed up or at the least bog their production down. Printers batch things as much as possible, and all the little differences may get missed due to that.
  3. Maybe we build a Google docs order form to help automate order submission? It is kind of mind blowing that all GB's around here are run by people posting in threads what they want, then the organizer manually inputting orders however they prefer. I think something like that would really cut down on some of the date entry work. I think it would be amazing if the organizer could just have a spreadsheet ready to roll with:
    • name
    • shipping address
    • order particulars ( quantities etc.)
    • a link to the artwork/or selected chips from the mix and match sets.
  4. ??????????????
  5. More chips
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Is there a way to create a google doc of the Pantone color chart so it's easier for us to pick our colors? If yes, is anyone versed enough in the color chart and google docs to get that going? I think that would be a great start. Also maybe add pictures of everyone's first order designs on that same google doc. I for one have been looking at others chips and wanting to use some of their colors but don't have the energy to comb through the last 20 or so pages of this thread to find them all. It would be great if they were all somewhere that we can easily access.
 
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GetUrShineBox said:
Is there a way to create a google doc of the Pantone color chart so it's easier for us to pick our colors? If yes, is anyone versed enough in the color chart and google docs to get that going? I think that would be a great start. Also maybe add pictures of everyone's first order designs on that same google doc. I for one have been looking at others chips and wanting to use some of there colors but don't have the energy to comb through the last 20 or so pages of this thread to find them all. It would be great if they were all somewhere that we can easily access.
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Yeah having the vendors preferred color list could really expedite the design process and subsequently could make irrelevant the need for samples of every set in a future buy.
 

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