Un-American Activities

 
I am halfing prices for all False Machine books held outside the U.S.A.

This discount will last until sales the the U.S. are re-started, OR until the end of the year, whichever comes first.

(This is to keep my sales up so I can at least keep paying my storage costs.)

The new prices for everyone outside America will be;

• Golden Duck - £5 to £2.50
• DCO - £35 to £17.50
• DBS - £25 to £12.50
• Gackling Moon - £25 to £12.50
• Gawain and the Green Knight - £15 to £7.50
• Speak, False Machine - £35 to £17.50

(most) False Machine sales to the U.S.A. are paused

 Sales to the U.S.A. for the majority of False Machine Products are on pause.

(Silent Titans is the one exception - it is stored in the U.S.A. and sales are still active.)

This is not exactly my decision, my fulfilment company, Spiral Galaxy Games, won't currently ship to the U.S.

The main problem is the uncertainty of how the Tariffs will be actioned. To get a parcel to you my fulfilment company needs to interface with their delivery company, who go through customs and interface with USPD. Since its unclear if, where and how tariffs will be charged in this process, and if USPD even has the capacity to deal with the charges, everything is up in the air till this is resolved.

There are a couple of possible solutions;

A DDP Route 

We eventually work out a way for a 'Delivery, Duty Paid' service from the U.K. This will mean Americans paying more I am afraid.

A Mysterious DDU Route. 

'Delivery, Duty Unpaid'. There are currently only vague rumours about this but it would involved parcels being held in the U.K. while Tariffs and Taxes are charged directly to the end customer. This sounds like a nightmare but nightmares sometimes come true.

I Ship Pallets to America.

I manage to establish a U.S. Hub. This would mean shipping over several pallets worth of goods, probably about six pallets, and paying taxes on those, which would not be cheap at all. However, though expensive, it would be a sane long-term solution and would reduce and simplify relative postage for U.S. Customers.

Printed Matter Exemption

There is also talk of 'Printed Matter' being exempt from the Tariffs. Problem is no one is sure what will and won't count and if/how this will be actioned.

 

I will keep everyone informed as things develop!

The False Parcels Store is BACK UP

GOOD NEWS:

You can now combine postage for DCO - Remastered, Gawain and the Green Knight and A Night at the Golden Duck.

More packing protection added to secure orders from rain damage and the hatred of an uncaring world.

U.K., U.S. and WorldWide options are now tracked.

CAPITALISM!!!

BAD NEWS:

LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE.

Basically prices are up to a crazed extent. There are a few reasons for this;

Our initial postage prices were too low. We lost quite a bit of money on that.
Charges from many nations, especially the U.S. have been raised. (This is the main one).
Service charged added by fulfilment people after initial honeymoon period.

The result is that for our parcel sizes its the same price to sent stuff in the U.K. tracked and un-tracked, so you are getting tracked. For the U.S. its actually cheaper to send it tracked, and this hopefully means we will have less stuff going missing. For many nations Worldwide, if we don't send it tracked, it might not get there at all.

Europe.. You get un-tracked.. BECAUSE, it costs you a lot less and we (I) am pretty sure it will get there even un-tracked because you are a CIVILISED PEOPLE.

(We are working on getting the prices for ordering Golden Duck on its own down, still waiting to hear back from fulfilment)

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