[MERGED] Bones II Shipping Excitement/Wave

[Darsc Zacal]

Tell me about it.

 

3 years ago when I first started backing kickstarter projects, the Canadian dollar was worth more than the US dollar.

Now I'm looking at it hovering around 80cents compared to the US.

That 20% difference really adds up when you start adding international shipping, taxes, and customs fees.

Its a big reason why I haven't backed some recent ks projects I would have liked to.

 

Edit: also still waiting for my wave 1 ROW Bones shipment.

[Sabith]

So I saw people getting signed thank-you cards in their shipments.  Were those only included for the first few thousand boxes?  A lot of the pictures I saw posted at the start had cards, and lately I haven't seen any.

[Laoke]

So I saw people getting signed thank-you cards in their shipments.  Were those only included for the first few thousand boxes?  A lot of the pictures I saw posted at the start had cards, and lately I haven't seen any.

 

I had one in both my Wave 1, and my Wave 6 ROW shipment.

[Dan Goodchild]

I had one in my wave 1 ROW and my wife had one in her wave 10 ROW.

[Damenace]

Our tax meter starts counting on anything above 22 euro's... But they always add 13 euro handling fee to make sure they don't lose money! So I'd rather have evrything in one go... :p

[Godfather Punk]

 

Belgium     03/02/2015     7:07 P.M.     Package cleared by foreign customs office

I think I will [email protected] on Friday. Well, work at least until I've been to the post office.

[ub3r_n3rd]

My tracking still says it's ready for pickup. I wonder if the weather being so bad that UPS hasn't even gotten to reaper to pick up?

[Wirelizard]

After sitting very still in Bensonville/Chicago since Feb 20th, we have movement!

 

Canada 03/02/2015 4:02 P.M. Package cleared by foreign customs office

03/02/2015 3:57 P.M. Package arrived at foreign customs office

03/02/2015 3:57 P.M. Package processed by international carrier

CHICAGO, IL, United States 02/20/2015 2:45 P.M. Shipment Acceptance at international carrier

02/20/2015 12:00 P.M. Electronic Shipment Information Received for Package by international carrier

Bensenville, IL, United States 02/20/2015 5:07 A.M. Package processed by UPS Mail Innovations origin facility

Bensenville, IL, United States 02/19/2015 7:38 A.M. Package received for processing by UPS Mail Innovations

 

My Bones might in fact now be in the right country, or at least on a plane heading to the right country? Customs probably opened the box and had a quick game or three with my collection, then forgot about them for a while before stuffing them back in a box and kind of taping it back up...

 

Oh, and my total order weight is apparently... 1.2lbs. Do I win some sort of prize for smallest order mentioned so far?

[Vortex Rikers]

Toronto, Canada here. Just the basic core set with no bells and whistles came to somewhere around $130 for which I was not slapped with customs or any additional fees. It arrived on Monday and passing it over once noticed no obvious issues, but I'll have to do a proper head count later.

Very happy thus far! Bones 1 was great fun and I'm really glad Bones 2 isn't afraid to pull any punches either. I even got a signed card from the Reaper staff. <3

[araziel]

Bones here, arrived at PO now, bye :D

 

EDIT:

"Packed by Ladystorm", thanks! :P

Edited March 3, 2015 by araziel

[Damenace]

My bones were packed by Blake! Ah well, I got a pretty thankyou card with all the reaper staff forumites on there. :)

[Marvin]

My tracking still says it's ready for pickup. I wonder if the weather being so bad that UPS hasn't even gotten to reaper to pick up?

Same here. They should've had no problem getting there by now, so I'm hoping it's just a tracker delay.

[cloudshaper2k]

I e-mailed Reaper about this a couple of days ago because my tracking number hasn't updated either. They say UPS has picked up all the containers. So, UPS hasn't scanned anything from our container yet.

[Cranky Dog]

Tell me about it.

 

3 years ago when I first started backing kickstarter projects, the Canadian dollar was worth more than the US dollar.

Now I'm looking at it hovering around 80cents compared to the US.

That 20% difference really adds up when you start adding international shipping, taxes, and customs fees.

Its a big reason why I haven't backed some recent ks projects I would have liked to.

 

Edit: also still waiting for my wave 1 ROW Bones shipment.

^This^

It's been while since we've reached the point where it just doesn't feel like it's worth to back a lot of projects. Just for Bones 2, the shipping + GST/HST + handling fees, with the current exchange rate, are worth 32.5% of the grand total of what we payed.

 

Nearly a third of the cost is shipping!

 

I should be VERY angry. But then this happened (sorry for the supersized cellphone quality):

 

There was much rejoicing        (once the sticker shock passed ).

 

Seriously, was it just as expensive for Reaper during Bones 1? I remember that it did cost them a bundle too.

Edited March 3, 2015 by Cranky Dog

[mistergreenwood]

Nice loot! Still waiting on mine, wave1, Canada 😢