Mercenaries Kickstarter Discussion 6: the 1st 3rd Star League conversation

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

Not yet.

[ActionButler]

Checked mine this afternoon and it’s still zeroed out.

[Deathknight69]

The question then becomes: How long will we have to pay the shipping ???

[Cyc]

The question then becomes: How long will we have to pay the shipping ???

We don't know yet. Under the original plan/Update 81 sent March 26th they indicated addresses would lock at April 5th and at some shortly stage after that we'd be be able to pay up until April 12th 12am ET when the pledge manger would lock, so about a week or so. But things have changed so no idea if there will be a similar or longer period now.

[I am Belch II]

Still nothing on my end. Im sure once its more right than wrong than before, I would guess a couple of weeks.

[mechasaurus]

Ahead of Mercenaries shipping, I was planning to pick up copies of the 40th anniversary boxes, but I haven't seen hide nor hair of them, yet!  They originally said March/April, but are fast running out of April.  There was a hint in one of the streams that they'd have them for Origins in June, but I haven't heard any updates otherwise.  Anyone heard any news?

[Aresneo]

Ahead of Merecenaries shipping, I was planning to pick up copies of the 40th anniversary boxes, but I haven't seen hide nor hair of them, yet!  They originally said March/April, but are fast running out of April.  There was a hint in one of the streams that they'd have them for Origins in June, but I haven't heard any updates otherwise.  Anyone heard any news?

On the April 16th news stream Rem said that they had just arrived in the warehouse and where being processed. During this weeks stream it was mentioned that they have now made it to distributors and the hold up is Catalyst setting a release date so they arrive at most retailers at the same time.

[Ghaz]

Ahead of Merecenaries shipping, I was planning to pick up copies of the 40th anniversary boxes, but I haven't seen hide nor hair of them, yet!  They originally said March/April, but are fast running out of April.  There was a hint in one of the streams that they'd have them for Origins in June, but I haven't heard any updates otherwise.  Anyone heard any news?

Just what was mentioned in last week's Tuesday Newsday (i.e., they've reached the warehouse and are being processed).

[mechasaurus]

10-4

Thx!

[Wolf72]

Let alone international shipping. We live in hope :)

BTW, anyone seen their shipping appear?

not yet, just checked 1900, 25 April ... all quiet on the front.

[I am Belch II]

Just what was mentioned in last week's Tuesday Newsday (i.e., they've reached the warehouse and are being processed).

If the world shipping wasn't such a cluster right now. We would have all the product months ago.

[SteelRaven]

There will always be a cluster

[ColBosch]

There will always be a cluster

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[Fat Guy]

Nicholas Kerensky, The Remembrance, Stanza 13, Line 24

[veoviscool12]

We don't know yet. Under the original plan/Update 81 sent March 26th they indicated addresses would lock at April 5th and at some shortly stage after that we'd be be able to pay up until April 12th 12am ET when the pledge manger would lock, so about a week or so. But things have changed so no idea if there will be a similar or longer period now.

To clarify a bit further, in Update 85 (where they explained what went wrong), they removed the April 12th deadline completely: "Finally, the April 12th deadline is removed. We will take as long as it needs to fix all issues."

There won't be a new payment deadline until they've fixed all the shipping issues, which will presumably be communicated via a Kickstarter update.

[Kithran]

Have they said how long the deadline will be after the shipping figures are out there - my reason for asking is I'm on holiday from Monday for almost 3 weeks and don't want to have issues because a deadline has been and gone.

[Lorcan Nagle]

Have they said how long the deadline will be after the shipping figures are out there - my reason for asking is I'm on holiday from Monday for almost 3 weeks and don't want to have issues because a deadline has been and gone.

No word on how when the deadline will be.

[thedancingjoker]

Have they said how long the deadline will be after the shipping figures are out there - my reason for asking is I'm on holiday from Monday for almost 3 weeks and don't want to have issues because a deadline has been and gone.

I think the plan was to have the shipping costs up by the weekend, but if that doesn't happen you might want to check on it a couple of times over those 3 weeks, as I could see the shipping window being less than 3 weeks given how close to the hopeful shipping date we are.

[Charistoph]

Yeah, if this weekend's push is good, they'll probably give 2 weeks for the billing submission, at the least.

If it isn't good, then expect it to be pushed accordingly.

[This Ends Tonight]

Given that for a crowdfunding campaign it should never be open for less than two months, they should at least keep it open until QML starts to literally ship. Now's not the time to do another bad job.

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

Leaving it open that long could easily create issues with shipping.

[shivanwurm]

I hope they haven’t run into anymore issues and this is just the amount of workload required.

[DarkISI]

I think the plan was to have the shipping costs up by the weekend, but if that doesn't happen you might want to check on it a couple of times over those 3 weeks, as I could see the shipping window being less than 3 weeks given how close to the hopeful shipping date we are.

It will take Backerkit some time to get the data in. They might have send final numbers to them on Friday, doesn't mean they will show up before Wednesday.

[RabidFox]

I can request a survey from BackerKit and it gives me the option to pay.  Anyone happen to know if I pay, would that get me into the Kickstarter and guarantee me the items?

[Aresneo]

I can request a survey from BackerKit and it gives me the option to pay.  Anyone happen to know if I pay, would that get me into the Kickstarter and guarantee me the items?

On Friday it was confirmed by a Backerkit rep, on the Catalyst discord, that they will cancel any new orders placed from that point forward.

[shivanwurm]

My shipping has shown up! Down from $142 to 68!

[Lorcan Nagle]

My Shipping has also shown up, $100 which is a bit higher than the estimate from the discord call but not horrible

[Charistoph]

Mine is showing a value now, too.  Only a little bit less, but it wasn't much to begin with (Company-level).  Shipping tax dropped a LOT, though.

Hopefully we'll get word when the payment data needs to be updated.

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

Mine showed up, didn't see that much of a drop from the initial price, but I did order the set of Urban Neoprene battlemats as an add-on, so I'm guessing that's the big factor for me.

[Kerfuffin(925)]

Mine dropped from ~300 to 230. Not a big drop