Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you:
No adverts like this in the forums anymore.
Times and dates in your local timezone.
Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance.
Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely.
Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net.
If you are already a member then feel free to login now.
I'm a little puzzled myself on the colored PVC. I could maybe see the red ones for the Kurita force packs coming with the combat manual, but the Steiner ones are due out until late next year and the Marik ones aren't even on the schedule.
QML has been busy recalculating shipping charges with correct weights, and for backers that previously did not have shipping charges, your shipping will be estimated in a second wave. We will continue to keep you updated on the progress as we move forward!
For any backers concerned with taxes, we're currently exploring how state/regional taxes affect our campaign bundles and how to better optimize this.
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
Especially shipping taxes, and 3rd party "services" charges.
After I got my Clan KS FedEx (I think) sent me an invoice for custom fees that supposedly I had already paid to backerkit. Was FedEx double dipping?
M.
Jenkins: You don't have jurisdiction here!
Smith Jamison: We aren't here, which means when we open up on you and shred your bodies with automatic fire then this will never have happened.
About the Clans: "Those brief outbursts of sense can't hold back the wave of sibko bred, over hormoned sociopaths that they crank out though."
Fair enough on the changes, but they probably should have done this research before releasing the first draft and expecting the backers to point out the finer points of VAT law.
Please excuse any spelling errors. I use a tablet frequently and software keyboards are a pain!
Join our Community & Marketing Director Rem Alternis as she chats with BattleTech Line Developer, Ray Arrastia!
Agenda:
Mercenaries shipping update
Upcoming Events:
Announcing Catalyst at Chupacabracon, May 17 - 19 in Austin, Texas
ACD Games Day: May 22nd - 24th in Madison, Wisconsin
Asmodee Retailer Day: May 30th in Birmingham, UK UK Games Expo: May 31st - June 2nd in Birmingham, UK Asmodee Nordics: June 4th in Copenhagen, Denmark
GamesConCanada: June 14 - 16th in Edmonton, Alberta
Origins Game Fair: June 19 - 23rd in Columbus, Ohio
Randall's Tour:
European Nationals: May 18 - 19th in Barcelona, Spain
English Nationals: May 25-26th in Leeds, UK UK Games Expo
Irish Madness: June 8-9 in Limerick, Ireland
GamesConCanada
Tuesday Newsday:
- The fourth Force Manual will be Invading Clans
- Aces is currently planned to be a series of Campaign Boxes, something slightly larger then a current force pack.
- They are looking at incorporating BattleTech Aces Support into the MechCommander's Handbook
- Development on Aces for Classic has begun but Ray does not know how far along it is.
- A second Ilclan Hotspots book is in planning
- Star League Command Lance and 40th anniversary boxes have reached the warehouse and are being processed.
- Liya doesn't get approval before posting factory videos
- The Colored minis on the Liya channel are for an unannounced product that will be talked about soon, do not expect it to be anything too major.
- Force Manuals are Clan Invasion era because of the success of the Clan Invasion Kickstarter.
- Ray admits to being a Pirate.
- There is supposed to be a big announcement in next weeks stream.
EDIT: Catalyst didn't get the information from QML Friday like they were hoping. They're hoping it get it today but they haven't received it as of yet.
Lorcan Nagle wrote:Rem has just gotten the new shipping date from QML and it doing spot-checks in the CGL Discord. So far only one person outside of the clearly incorrect ones (like Kappas being charged $1) has seen their rates rise and Rem is gonna double-check that. Mine dropped from $190 to $79, for example.
Lorcan Nagle wrote:To be clear, no new shipping fees have been added to Backerkit yet. Rem had literally just gotten the file and was going through it live. We passed over our details and she went and found us in the spreadsheet.
From the CGL Discord:
Results: We spot-checked 77 backers live in the Discord. Of those, only 7 were thought to be inconsistent, either by Rem, or by the backers themselves.
This message was edited 7 times. Last update was at 2024/04/17 14:53:19
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
From Rem on the live feed @ around the 37-to-40-minute mark, most product has reached the hubs, all miniatures and rulebooks are at the hubs, they are still waiting on some of the swag (Patches where specifically mentioned)
Shipping is expected to be posted this week, it will be posted in batches so it won't be up for everyone at the same time.
This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at 2024/04/23 21:57:50
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
Mine was about $100, now down to $92
The tax of $60 on goods was expected. Shipping basically dropped from $40 to $32.
I wasn't going to complain about the postage at all. $40 (about £30?) seems reasonable for what is going to be a rather large package with all those forcepacks. Not necessarily heavy, but very bulky.
I'm just not sure how to pay it? In my backerkit, it states there's a card on file, but no button to actually pay now. Is there a date they take it automatically from a registered card?
Currently most played: Silent Death, Mars Code Aurora, Battletech, Warcrow and Infinity.
My shipping went down to $44 from $55.
On a $180 pledge that’s pretty steep.
I added Alpha Strike tokens and an Objectives box, and that’s it.
I think I’ll just buy from my LGS from now on. There is no savings at all on the KS, and dare I say it’s more expensive. I’m sure my LGS won’t complain about getting more of my business.
New Shadowrun Actual Play: World of Shadows on Six Sides of Gaming!.
Friend of Catalyst, and prolific sci-fi/fantasy writer Kevin J. Anderson has a new Kickstarter launching today!
Author Jennifer Brozek's new Kickstarter: Dear Penpal: Belgium 1980
Holostreets creator, Vector Tridens, launches an aerial combat minis game on Kickstarter: Exit Vector
And now back to waiting to see what my shipping will be...
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
My shipping price went from $160 to $100. Double what I've paid for KS campaigns in recent years. (And no, this one isn't coming with more stuff than the others.)
In retrospect it's borderline psychotic that they originally didn't plan to offer bonuses over retail when the campaign originally dropped. I would have been paying over $9 per 'Mech in the end. Assuming I get my stuff as ordered I'm happy to have backed, but probably wouldn't do another campaign with Catalyst. And I think I might skip buying physical copies of their upcoming books to offset the shipping hit on the Battletech budget.
In the Tuesday Newsday Rem said they're not done tweaking shipping charges and some have reported lower charges afterwards.
At this time, it's best to wait until CGL sends out the update saying all of the shipping charges are out.
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
Mine was a slightly reasonable ~$30, but it also included ~$2 of "State Tax Shipping" which isn't a thing.
So CGL is adding a literal junk fee right when most US regulators are coming out and cracking down on them.
This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2024/05/01 02:44:34
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
Dysartes wrote: Seems like the answer to the question of "Are shipping fees taxable in the US?" is "It's complicated" - and that's after reading that article.
The answer to most any question regarding doing business in America is 'it's complicated'. It really needs to be streamlined.
I vowed to never deal directly with Catalyst again after Clan Invasion. No regrets on that decision. After the way they treated their backers on Shadowrun and Clan Invasion, who needs ‘friends’ like that?
Even though most States claim the right to tax shipping, many actually don't, so of course this appears to be another nut punch by CGL.
As I said before, complain about the S&H to CGL. They listened once, they'll listen again.
Seems it's getting awfully Jeff Ruiz up in here too.
More like states do tax shipping, but sellers don't collect it or report it and states don't pay attention to it. The trend for the last 6 or so years though has been that states and the fed govt are getting more aggressive about collecting taxes owed to them, mainly by going after ecommerce platforms like shopify, paypal, ebay, etc. and putting the onus on them to collect and report the relevant taxes. Would not be surprised in the slightest if this is due to that.
CoALabaer wrote: Wargamers hate two things: the state of the game and change.
so a big "problem" of this KS is that companies should pay taxes but avoided doing it in the past to sell the product cheaper and now the company that pays the taxes gets blamed that they should not do it?
Harry, bring this ring to Narnia or the Sith will take the Enterprise
totalfailure wrote: I vowed to never deal directly with Catalyst again after Clan Invasion. No regrets on that decision. After the way they treated their backers on Shadowrun and Clan Invasion, who needs ‘friends’ like that?
How would you allege they mistreated people on those two KS (I didn't follow them), and what do you think they've done to mistreat anyone in this KS?
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
and see how Catalyst resolves its issues, and handles ‘customer service’. Years after the close and shipping, people were still waiting or got incorrect product. Clan Invasion made a ton of promises to backers, some of which Catalyst
never fulfilled, of just dropped when it was inconvenient for them to have to actually do some work. Now they had every intention of screwing people on shipping for mercenaries, until there was an outcry. The ‘adjustments’ are still a joke. There’s pretty much no reason to back their Kickstarter. It rewards their incompetence, and is minimal at best savings over retail. I’ll deal with less product being made, and the risks borne by Catalyst, instead of me.
This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2024/05/02 12:54:27
Cadre Coronal Afterglow w1;d0;l0 
