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For what it's worth, the most recent Kickstarter update

UPDATE FROM NEW MANAGEMENT:
We will be resuming shipping remaining boxes by Tuesday, January 26th, 2016.

We will be starting the shipping by the lower amount tiers and upwards beginning with addresses in the United States, so that we can get as many boxes out in the quickest amount of time.

We appreciate your backing of this project and would like to extend our apologies for the delay of receiving our product.

If you have any questions, please post them to the Kick starter page and we will promptly respond to your questions.

That was followed, for me at least, by the message:

Please update your mailing address.

We ask for your patience on this our process and thank you for your support. Once we ship your order we have fulfilled our obligation to the Kickstarter project.

If we receive a returned order we will contact you through Kickstarter and hold the box for 90 days. You have the option to pay for shipping within the 90 day period. The 90 days starts when we receive the order back from the USPS. After the end of the 90 days, we will not hold the box/boxes.

We will be finishing all US domestic shipping before international shipping.

-New Management

Guess all the packages will somehow end up being returned to them and no one will contact them in the 90 days, but they will have fulfilled their obligation ;-)

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
I didn't know of this kickstarter until now, but it mostly seemed decent for the price.

A 40 model tray costs $45 for 5 from Battlefoam, so if someone says they'll sell you 4 trays and a box to put them in for $30 that's not a bad deal.

That's the problem, though - someone without experience or very well known, promising something that seems to be too good of a deal to sustain... those are the projects that always give me goosebumps / make me nervous. Obviously, hindsight is 20/20 here... but a lot of times the best deals on Kickstarters are also the riskiest (unless through an established company, such as CMON, if you like their stuff).

It's good that they say they'll resume shipping, but the "New Management" (in all caps!) stuff seems pretty fake... here's hoping you guys get something for all the trouble =/

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 Grot 6 wrote:
So..

A kickstarter for a ... Box.

Send me your munnies, I'll send you... a... BOX!!!

a stretch goal will be a bag with a smiley face in marker....

second stretch will be the marker I used to make the smiley face.

I didn't know of this kickstarter until now, but it mostly seemed decent for the price.

A 40 model tray costs $45 for 5 from Battlefoam, so if someone says they'll sell you 4 trays and a box to put them in for $30 that's not a bad deal.

Yea it was a bad deal. Having to deal with the delays and possibly being ripped of of your money, pretty bad deal IMO. Maybe if the guy would have charged more he could have fulfilled the orders.

I've read that the number one thing kickstarter producers underestimate is how hard it will be for them to deal with Chinese manufacturers. When I was following the updates for this project it was very obvious to me that Mims had no experience with China, or with manufacturing at all, and that was such a clear red flag that at least I reduced my pledge to the smallest box on offer, and only one of them. Obviously, I wish I had just cancelled altogether, but at least I'm not out as much as some people are.

 solkan wrote:
For what it's worth, the most recent Kickstarter update

UPDATE FROM NEW MANAGEMENT:
We will be resuming shipping remaining boxes by Tuesday, January 26th, 2016.

We will be starting the shipping by the lower amount tiers and upwards beginning with addresses in the United States, so that we can get as many boxes out in the quickest amount of time.

We appreciate your backing of this project and would like to extend our apologies for the delay of receiving our product.

If you have any questions, please post them to the Kick starter page and we will promptly respond to your questions.

That was followed, for me at least, by the message:

Please update your mailing address.

We ask for your patience on this our process and thank you for your support. Once we ship your order we have fulfilled our obligation to the Kickstarter project.

If we receive a returned order we will contact you through Kickstarter and hold the box for 90 days. You have the option to pay for shipping within the 90 day period. The 90 days starts when we receive the order back from the USPS. After the end of the 90 days, we will not hold the box/boxes.

We will be finishing all US domestic shipping before international shipping.

-New Management

I suspect they may have gotten a message from KS in response to the project being reported after Robert announced he was washing his hands of it. I guess we'll see if any boxes actually show up.

In the interest of fairness, I'll say that my box has shown up, though Mims still had nothing to do with it. A guy called Eric Christiansen has been fulfilling the orders and, as far as I know, everybody is getting their stuff.

Yeah, my box showed up a couple weeks ago as well. Rather nice actually. It's a shame Mims fouled it up so miserably as I would definitely have bought more of them.

This makes me hopeful that I will actually get my boxes.