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Roger tweeted last night Kill the Unicorns has shipped from Panda in China.
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Kill the Unicorns pickups have been confirmed and Chinese warehouse already received the games for Asian fulfillment. Boat to the US arrives mid-June and the one to Europe early July. Awaiting confirmation for the one to Australia. Will announce once exact dates are confirmed.
Here is the essence of the update from Morning. The link will also show how cool the game looks.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/morningp...ts/2511079
Updated ETAs
This week we arranged the pick-up of the games and expansions from Panda Games and of the Pigicorn plushes from WinGo Manufacturing. Both are located near Shenzhen and the goods from these 2 factories have to be gathered before being loaded on the boats.
Thus, here is what we got for each shipping zones:
North America
We asked Panda Games to pick-up these games first because we want to avoid the boat to arrive in the US after June 24th. Indeed, customs taxes may raise up to 25%* (instead of 0% before June 24th) after this date.
* In any case, NO extra fees will be asked to the backers if this happens.
We are still waiting for a confirmation for a pick-up on May 20th instead of May 23rd on these quantities that would make us able to have a boat departure on May 25th.
In this case, ETA to Los Angeles port would be June 18th. Otherwise, games will be loaded on the next boat we can get that leaves on June 5th for ETA at the port on June 27th.
As soon as we have the confirmation about this, we will let you know and thus the following timeline will apply:
Between 5 and 10 business days to clear the customs and go to Indiana where our partner's warehouse is located;
Maximum 7 business days at the warehouse for inventory and ordering shipping boxes;
6 business days to prepare and ship orders as they can make 500 orders per day and we have about 3000 in the US;
2 to 4 business days for final deliveries.
Possible ETAs are around July 19th if we can get the first boat and July 29th if we don’t.
This also means that some orders sent on Day 1 or 2 will be delivered before the last ones are shipped on Day 5 and 6.
An exception in made for Canada because Snakes & Lattes is going to handle the fulfillment there. They will pick-up their quantities from the Indiana warehouse during the inventory. ETA for Canada should be very similar.
Europe
We have a confirmed pick-up on May 23rd for these quantities both at Panda factory and WinGo factory.
The goods will be loaded on boats leaving either on June 1st or June 3rd for 33 days of transit. Arrival in France (Le Havre) on July 4th or July 7th and then go to our partner's warehouse near Paris in 3 to 4 business days including customs clearance.
We have the same agreed timeline there:
Maximum 7 business days at the warehouse for inventory and ordering shipping boxes ;
6 business days to prepare and ship orders as they can make 500 orders per day and we also have about 3000 in Europe;
2 to 4 business days for final deliveries.
So, we have a ETA around July 30th.
Australia
Our local Australian partner VR Distribution is going to manage everything from the pick-up to the final deliveries in this zone (Australia + New Zealand).
We do not have a detailed timeline yet like we wrote above, but they told us backers will be delivered within the next 55 net days after the pick-up.
So for a pick-up on May 23rd, ETA is before July 18th
Asia
Quantities to Asia will be picked-up directly at the factory and be sent few kilometer away as our partner's warehouse is also in Shenzhen.
We always have the same terms than Europe and USA with minor change on final deliveries:
Maximum 7 business days at the warehouse for inventory and ordering shipping boxes;
1 to 3 business days to prepare and ship orders as we will ship 530 orders from there to Asia and “Rest of World”;
2 to 10 business days for final deliveries.
ETA is before June 20th.