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08-07-2017, 06:18 PM | #11 |
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Probably be a while yet which is a bit disheartening. Seems it got to him and some pages were discolored or on wrong paper or something so they went back. Should have had them by now, but better right than hurried I guess.
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08-07-2017, 08:57 PM | #12 |
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The latest news that I am aware of came out on July 21, 2017 from Jim Marshall. I haven’t heard yet if Rising Sun Comics has made any progress yet…
"Hey everybody, Sorry for the (latest) delays, I'll give you a full account in just a sec - the good news is that the books have been printed and are enroute, due to arrive within the week. That's the short version. The long version is like this; At the nth hour I noticed that my printers quote was for matt paper. Having just spent a year taking thousands of hi-res photographs and compiling 300 pages of HD graphics, this was an absolute no. I dug out all of my old e-mails and sure enough, my original request for a quote clearly asked for gloss paper. However it cut no ice with the printer, who wanted an additional £1000. I told them where to go with that. I'm just glad I caught it in time before I wasted everybody's money. After all of the delays and promises I really didn't want to come on here and say the whole thing was in jeopardy, so I cast about frantically trying to find a new printer. Thankfully Hawk Sanders at Rising Sun comics saved the day for everyone by stepping up. This meant moving production from the UK to China, and put Rising Sun in charge of distribution, not my original plan at all, but needs must. It also meant that all communications became far more complicated. Hawk and I can only Skype once per week, so any questions for the Chinese printers had to go from me to him to them, and so on. Invariably China have taken weeks to respond to anything. The other problem was that we had to raise enough money to meet the minimum order (my original costings were done as print-on-demand), which was why I did the 30-day countdown drive. We were supposed to shut up shop and go to print on day 30, but it took four months to receive my proof copy! But it finally arrived and I posted on here immediately, I fixed the weak pages and sent the replacement files and then placed the order. I was told delivery time would be 8-10 days. It later transpired that was an error in translation, and should have read 8-10 days production time! The next hurdle was getting the books from China to the USA. Air fare was an additional $2500 which I didn't have. It took another fortnight just to receive the sea shipping quote (a much better $390). So everything was paid for straight away, it's been out of my hands for weeks now. I've spent the last six weeks waiting on a tracking quote, which is why I was holding fire on posting here, so I could give you all a definite date. I never did get the tracking quote, but have heard today that our order will be arriving at the docks next week! It'll take a couple of days for Rising Sun to process all of the orders, then everything will be shipped out by tracked courier. I shall endeavour to keep you posted every step of the way. Of course this means that the remainder of the order will be with Rising Sun in the US instead of with BFTB in the UK, but one problem at a time...! Please can you join me in sending Hawk an enormous 'THANK YOU!!!'? He's been an absolute star and wants nothing more than to help the project succeed. We all owe him a beer! What's that saying about best laid plans? I'm surprised I still have my hair. Thanks, Jim."
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08-08-2017, 10:52 AM | #13 |
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Should be arriving any day then right?
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08-08-2017, 06:24 PM | #14 |
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Hey, I'm curious where/how you got this -- did this get emailed to you? I'm curious because I ordered the Guide, but never heard a peep after that.
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08-08-2017, 06:37 PM | #15 |
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It was in the kickstarter update. I didn't do the kick, I ordered in April but yeah...I followed on Twitter just to try to get updates but unless you were in on the kick you didn't get any notifications.
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08-08-2017, 07:06 PM | #16 |
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Gotcha, thanks.
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08-20-2017, 09:54 AM | #17 |
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I paid for a copy back in April. He just sent me a scan of the shipping manifest after I asked for a refund. It's from August 10th, but there is no mention about it on his BFTB Facebook page which I've been following since I bought the book.
He also says that no copies have been mailed yet. I have no idea how Rising Sun is handling deliveries in the U.S. |
08-20-2017, 10:06 AM | #18 |
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I'm about to ask for a refund too. Communication is not his strong suite. He keeps saying next few weeks since April.
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08-20-2017, 10:30 AM | #19 |
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Quote:
I tried to be civil about it beforehand but he freaked out anyway, claiming that money for his Facebook account had been frozen and that I had caused him all sorts of problems. Something to do with the Bombardier figure he released earlier. So I cancelled the request after he'd sent the shipping manifest scan. I just wanted my money back after waiting several months for the book to ship out. The whole experience has soured me on his projects and I won't be supporting him in the future. I don't need this kind of nonsense in my life at my age. |
08-20-2017, 10:38 AM | #20 |
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Thanks Clutch. I'll give him til sept 1. If it isn't in my hand I will file. He stretched the facts over and over and this is rediculous. All he had to do was give us continuous updates.
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