We\u2019ve paid for all the remaining printing of Total War and all the supplies needed to shrink-wrap and box the game. We are still working on the money needed to ship the preordered games. Shipment of the first complete game triggers a clock for repayment of our investors. We need to be able to ship the preorder in its entirety in a window as small as possible and then quickly ship to stores.<\/p>\n
The fire sale continues to move us closer to the money needed to ship the games. We mailed another 2500 flyers out to a new \u2018gamer\u2019 mailing list over the last week and that has already shown good results. We have managed to ship out all Fire Sale orders quickly (within 1-2 days of order receipt) and have received a number of repeat orders that were welcome.<\/p>\n
We worked with the printer and reduced the final bill for the printing by about 15% . We\u2019ve also mailed out a number of items that were originally ordered for shipment with Total War, but shipping them early actually saves money overall as it means Total War (now by itself) can go in a much lower cost flat-rate box. We also managed to recycle about 300 cardboard boxes to be used as shippers for the game that shaved some more off the shipping bill.<\/p>\n
The Fire Sale remains the primary means to raise the money needed to ship the game. The sale will remain open until the first game of Total War ships, or through July 31, 2013, whichever comes first. Prices will never be this low again. The fire sale has been a lifesaver after the fire completely burned through our budget.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve verified the majority of the Total War preorder addresses after a number of problems with an email merge program and some problems with our ISP that were not finally resolved until a few days ago. If you have a pre-pub for Total War and I have not received a confirmation email response, I \u2018ll presume you didn\u2019t get the original email and will be resending it. If you still haven\u2019t heard anything from me by middle of week, drop me an email.<\/p>\n
The updated Fire Sale list can be seen at the HMSFireSale8 link below. Changes to the list are highlighted. The price for War of Resistance, for TEM photocopies, and the TEM Bundle Pack have gone down (our photocopy place now gives us a better deal). You can now bundle the various Counter Storage Box Deals with single games (not just with Game Bundles) and save some on the shipping. The Accessory Counter Sheet-1 (the one with odds and DRM markers), the blank 1\/2\u201d hexsheets, and the East Front Mapsets are close to selling out. People have asked about availability of the old ETO and Europa Nuts & Bolts newsletters and we now list those.<\/p>\n
For the current and final version of the Fire Sale see the HMSFireSaleFinal\u00a0link under the HMS News – July 18, 2013 entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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