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Project Update: HHW Tarot: Missing America | Orders Sent to Fulfillment!!
I have submit nearly every order from this project to be fulfilled. In fact, there are:
9 people who have not submit their surveys, and...
13 people whose cards have errored out and need to be looked at, replaced, or cleared with their bank.
The other 437 folks on this project have had their orders either merged down into the other projects to be fulfilled (350), or have had their order send to the fulfillment team directly (87).
What Happens Now?
US & Canada
Then, US and Canadian orders will go into a shipping container to travel the high seas over to America. That will take approximately 24 days. It will make port, take a couple days to clear, then go on a truck to our warehouse, and from the warehouse, all packages will go straight into USPS to get to backers.
At that time (entering USPS), you will all get emails that your orders are on the way to you with tracking numbers!
This process will take about 40-45 days starting from today, meaning backers in the US and Canada will see their orders around August 11th-30th. Though it's possible pieces of the journey may go faster, it's unlikely they will go slower.
International Backers
While US and Canadian orders are making their journey overseas, the backers throughout the rest of the world, from South America to Africa, from Australia to Asia, and also yes, even Europe, will see their orders shipping directly from China.
Backers will variably get emails with tracking numbers either when your package leaves China or when it arrives in your country!
While this will vary by country and distance from China, this process will take roughly 20-40 days starting from today, meaning International backers will see their orders as soon as early to mid July and as late as early August.
The Final Timers
Once US & Canadian orders hit US shores, the timer will begin for people who have not gotten their surveys done or shipping paid for. This will be a 30 day final chance for people to get their surveys in or shipping handled. If the 30 days passes and anyone has not gotten their survey in, their order will be cancelled, and their pledge will be considered a donation to the campaign's success. This was shared in the project's Terms and Conditions since launch day of the project.
Similarly, everyone who did have their orders shipped will have 45 days from when it is marked as having arrived to contact New Titan Print about any missing items or shipments with your order. If we surpass that deadline, we will no longer handle any missing or damaged shipments, or missing items from shipments. So please open your package right when it arrives to check the contents, and when you receive your tracking number by email, be sure to give it a look. Thank you.
How to contact New Titan: [email protected]
How Do I Know if Mine is Fulfilling?
If it says "Fulfilled" as its status, then you are taken care of. If it says anything else, then you need to take care of either your survey, or your listed card that is not able to charge for shipping.
You can also follow this link below to check!
https://the-hot-housewives-misamer.backerkit.com/
Mine is labeled with a note that says "Consolidated" but I have a $10-40+ credit. What's that?
Because of how tax/VAT/GST are added to orders on Backerkit, even consolidated orders were tagged with taxes and fees. To make sure we didn't charge you those (since they will instead be charged on your consolidated order on another project), we just gave a blanket $50 credit to anyone whose orders were consolidated. You don't actually have extra money to get paid back, we just did that to avoid accidentally charging you more.
Do You Have a Question?
[email protected]
Always happy to help with whatever I can!
7DA
your publishing goblin
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Project Update: Shipping Charges Received | Incoming
I know it was just a few days ago I said we were all delayed and I had no information. Well, I got information! And the shipping charges.
Setting up Taxes, Tariffs, and VAT and the like has been a whole thing. But it is done. So now you can see the shipping cost on your order for it to be shipped, then the other fees based on your country separately.
Of note: Canadian and US orders are paying for the ocean freight and US tariffs (and related costs), as they are landing in the US before going out places. Canada folks, it was cheaper/faster for us to do it this way in the end, rather than sending to Canada straight from China.
Now What?
(PublishingGoblin (at) gmail (dot) com)
Next week, I'll be handing orders over to the fulfillment folks for shipping to start!
Stragglers
If you're unsure about your survey-- just log in to Backerkit and check your surveys in your account.
Or put your email address you used for the pledge in at:
https://the-hot-housewives-misamer.backerkit.com/
ps,
if you had your orders merged at any time, I did so by closing out one of your pledges (marking it fulfilled/Shipped) and moving your items to the other pledge. Because your order is still technically there (even tho it's marked shipped!), it did get tagged with VAT, taxes, or Tariffs. So those "closed" orders now say they are underpaid/have a pending charge. But we will only be charging orders that aren't marked Shipped, so you'll never be charged for those.
Backerkit's system just automatedly assigned the tax/tariffs based on percentages to everyone's orders, so there was no way to avoid that, apparently!
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Project Update: Update on the Ongoing Shipping Delay
May 13th, I said in a couple days, I'd have shipping added and then we would charge it.
Then May 23rd I said the fulfillment company asked for 2 more days, so we would be adding shipping charges shortly. I put out an update to that effect.
June 1st, they reached out telling me they needed answers on a couple items on the spreadsheet they were confused by. I answered within 4 hours. They replied 40 minutes later to confirm that they understood.
June 9th, I asked what's going on. It's been another week. I thought we'd have this in hand 2 weeks ago.
June 15th, I asked what's going on. We're 3 weeks late and this is not exactly making me look great to my backers right now.
June 16th, I got a reply on a different email from them. I asked if we had information on the main thing I'm worried about. I was replied to 3 minutes later and told "Yes, I am writing replies to other emails. Should send out shortly."
I thought shortly meant the same day. Yesterday I emailed to say as much.
I've still not had a reply, nor have I been given any information on the delay, what a real timetable looks like, or when to expect information.
I don't like making updates if I don't have information, but it looks like we're already a month+ past when I said we would have shipping charges on orders. So I owe you at least an "I don't know" update, which is the kind of update I avoid sending out.
I Always Update...
The company has all of the items for the Misery Tarot, Hot Housewives Tarot, and the Oracle Dice campaigns.
So everything is in limbo.
If you need to update your address-- email me at PublishingGoblin (at) gmail (dot) com.
If you don't know what your address is on the project, check in your backerkit survey first before emailing.
Fingers crossed we get moving soon,
7DA
your pub gob
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Project Update: Slight Shipping Charge Delay
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Project Update: Housewives, Let's Get Moving | Shipping Charges Soon, FAQ
- May 18th: All items are assembled. I submit final spreadsheets for your orders and addresses to get shipping costs.
- May 25th: Shipping charges applied to your orders, charged 2 days later.
- June 5th: International shipping starts to go out.
- June 10th: All US Orders are packed and heading to the states.
- July 20th: All orders expected to be in the mail or in hand.
For the US, they will be packed at once in June and travel to the US by boat. Then we will see them ship out directly into the USPS system from there. That means it'll all be in hand by early-August at the latest in the US.
FAQ
If you're unsure where you'll be, please have it shipped to a friend or family member who is not moving in that window. Once I lock addresses and give it to our fulfillment team, we cannot adjust addresses for any reason.
*If you backed both Hot Housewives Projects, you'll see one of the surveys is already marked as having been fulfilled, because it was combined with this project's survey. So you should only need to update the original project's survey, as this one should be marked 'fulfilled.'
**If you backed the Misery Tarot and had this combined to that project, you'll find it all collected in that project. So update your address there. If uncertain, just update your address on all three projects where you can.
https://the-hot-housewives-misamer.backerkit.com/
*Some folks noted they had to go into edit their survey mode to see the full cart.*
I have had only one backer reach out to tell me an item was wrong, and it truly was! Of the many others who have reached out, it's all been misunderstandings of where to look. So please check your surveys on each project to see if one has all the items if you're concerned, otherwise we should be good.
Please email me there, and do not instead message me on Tumblr, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Bluesky, or elsewhere. All of those things are very poor ways to contact me. My contact email is shared on every project, on my website, and elsewhere. So please be sure to use it, it's the best way to contact me always!
*Please do not comment on this update, the project, message through kickstarter, and email me all at once. Any one of those things drops me an email and I always respond to my emails, so you don't need to try multiple paths. Just one email will suffice! : )
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