I’ve finished painting the block dice and giving notice of when the order thread will be going up. I will post this on the forum on
Friday the 24th August at 21:00 server time, the thread will be open for 48 hours, after which I will ask the admins to lock it.
The cost is £13.50 per set of 3 dice with £5 of that going to the site. On top of that there will be postage depending on where you live. Please note I can only accept payment via paypal.
P&P charges are as follows:
UK – £1.50
Europe - £3.00
Zone 1 - £3.50
Zone 2 - £4.00
(see the
Royal Mail website for details of which countries are counted as Europe, Zone 1 and 2)
I have a total of 102 sets to sell, broken down as follows.
40 sets of Black opaque - Painted
21 sets of Blue pearl – white (unpainted)
20 sets of White pearl - painted
21 sets of Purple pearl – white (unpainted)
This will work the same as the previous
two years where you post your order of preference, and the country you want the dice posted to. Also add if you’d only want 1 set and if you are not fussed about what colour you get add that too, that may avoid some people missing out.
Please only post your order in that thread. If you make a mistake then rather than adding a 2nd post, edit it instead, if this is after the deadline then send me a PM. The
information thread will remain open for comments and questions.
A couple of examples are below.
Black Opaque
Blue Pearl
Location - UK
Notes - 1 set only
In this instance the person just wants a single set and is only interested in black or blue. If they posted very early I would skip over them were there a second set of dice being allocation. However if they posted late they may miss out if all the black and blue dice are already spoken for.
White Pearl
Purple Pearl
Blue Pearl
Location Canada
Notes - Any colour is fine
This person hasn’t imposed a limit on the number of dice so could get 2+ sets if they are early. They also are fine with any of the colour listed, in that case they may be given a blue or purple set even if white are still available should it allow me to help someone else get a set.
I don’t know how popular these will be, so can’t really say about the likelihood of getting more than 1 set. To compare to previous years, around 80-90 coaches placed orders which meant only a handful got 2 sets and some missed out as they only wanted specific colours.
After the 48 hours expire I will go through the posts and allocate the dice with the aim of getting as many people their top choices as I can.
I’ll then create a google docs spreadsheet again that everyone can see. This will help minimise the chances of making mistakes. This will be updated and colour coded to show the status of each order.
I’ll leave it a day or 2 to allow people to check for errors and then will send out invoices to everyone via the Fumbbl PM system. They will have a week to pay, that will also be the time to let me know if there are any errors or special requirements such as combining postage with other people.
Should anyone not pay within the week then I’ll put up their dice in the information thread with a very short amount of time to pay for them.
After that I will post the dice out in batches during my lunch break, the spreadsheet will be updated when this happens and I’ll send you a confirmation PM as well.
I have a small amount of spares that can be used to replace any dice lost in the post. If I have not heard from a coach 2 weeks (UK), 4 weeks (Europe) or 6 weeks (elsewhere) after posting the dice I will assume they arrived ok. Any spares not used as replacement will be put up on e-bay as auctions.
If your dice did get lost and the time has passed then get in touch anyway, I will still be able to refund your money.
Any questions please direct them to the Information thread or PM me. Just to note I will be on holiday from the 14th-21st September, so will take longer to reply than usual.
I’ll also try to post updates on
twitter,
TFF and
facebook, though the main focus will be here as these are Fumbbl dice.