Great White Games/Pinnacle Entertainment Group

The Dread Polack · Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 2:01 pm Post subject:

I have been working in warehousing for a while now, and that is absolutely true. Once a business has it worked out how much shipping they typically do, they settle into a crew and schedule to accomodate that. When surprise large orders come in, or when a sale gets more response than expected, that's when things get delayed. I worked as a temp in a large medical supplies warehouse that was closing in a year. There were 100+ of us when I started, about 120+ during "fiscal quarter end", and there were about 10 of us with barely anything to do on the day it closed.

I'm not sure what Reaper's warehouse looks like, but calling up the local industrial temp service and asking for a couple dozen order pickers, and telling FedEx to send over 2 trucks a day for the next couple weeks isn't at all a hard thing to make happen. When you consider that the vast majority of this is identical Vampire-level packages, plus odds & ends, I think they can probably do a more a few hundred orders a day. That should take them less than a month.

JackMann · Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 3:14 am Post subject:

They've also talked about doing it in two waves to help keep the amount of space needed down.

Getting the figures made in time shouldn't be an issue. While Bones is new to Reaper, the factory in China has been working with this equipment for years. Work on this scale is apparently not uncommon for them.

The big bogeyman Reaper has no control over is customs, which could create unexpected delays.

EDIT: Clint, if you like, I could pick up an extra vampire level, and you can toss me the money for it when the figures arrive.

coyote6 · Seasoned Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 117

For what it's worth, they are going to be setting up their own pledge manager on their site, as they think the options would be a little too much for the Kickstarter survey system. It sounds like you will be able to use that pledge manager to add even more stuff, and pay via PayPal.
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JackMann · Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 7:49 am Post subject:

Other Mike · Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:59 am Post subject:

The Dread Polack · Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 1:22 pm Post subject:

So far, I haven't seen anything about being able to increase your contribution, although I have no reason to doubt that is true. I probably won't do this, since I really don't need to spend more than the $250 I already am.

According to the FAQ, if you contributed at the Vampire level, you can also opt to forego your Sophie mini and instead take $25 worth of add-ons. I am not really a Reaper collector (I have no Sophies yet), so I might opt for this. On the other hand, this is a unique Sophie for the Kickstarter event. One day, I can tell my grandkids about it and show them the mini on my shelf; just not the nekkid one, though.

Other Mike · Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 3:30 pm Post subject:

The Dread Polack · Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 11:57 am Post subject:

They just sent out an email clarifying things, and this was mentioned.

Well, I'm excited for March. I hope they are able to ship everything as expected. I'm sure there will be some issues, as there always is.