Pre-order shipping charges?
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Pre-order shipping charges?
Just a heads up, not sure if anyone else noticed this or not. I pre-ordered the Core Rulebook last night and the shipping was $5.00, which was fine. This morning I decided I would go ahead and order the first 3-4 modules also, but as I added each item to the checkout, it would also add another $4 shipping charge. So with 3 modules in the checkout, it also showed $12 for shipping which I assume isn't correct since the shipping table on the pre-order page shows $20-99.00 as a 5.00 shipping charge.
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Re: Pre-order shipping charges?
Received. I'll give Joseph a heads up.
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Re: Pre-order shipping charges?
Believe it or not that's actually right -- it's due to the fact that the books will all ship at different times. I guess I should make that more clear. Once everything is released you can place "one order" and get it shipped "all at once," but as pre-orders they ship individually as they come out, which means multiple packages and hence multiple shipping charges. I'll try to make that more clear...
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Re: Pre-order shipping charges?
Ah. That's really good to know. Funny how it's to our advantage NOT to pre-order.goodmangames wrote:Believe it or not that's actually right -- it's due to the fact that the books will all ship at different times. I guess I should make that more clear. Once everything is released you can place "one order" and get it shipped "all at once," but as pre-orders they ship individually as they come out, which means multiple packages and hence multiple shipping charges. I'll try to make that more clear...
Maybe a "ship all at once" button could be added so that folks could pay early but not get one module until a bunch were ready....
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Re: Pre-order shipping charges?
Two words: Bundle option.
More words: Simply another 'product' that is the first x number of modules for one price and they ship once they're all printed. ...Maybe that's simple...
More words: Simply another 'product' that is the first x number of modules for one price and they ship once they're all printed. ...Maybe that's simple...
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Re: Pre-order shipping charges?
Good call on the bundle option. As long as someone is willing to wait a little bit for the modules to ship together, that will work. I'll work on putting something together...
Re: Pre-order shipping charges?
Another option I've seen is a "ship together" or "ship when available" option at check out. Depending on how your inventory system works, orders that are made with the "ship together" option are removed from available inventory, but the order isn't sent to the warehouse floor until all the items are on the order are in the warehouse. This allows you to not have to manage "bundle" sku's, but it does require good inventory management and a system in place that would allow such a modification.