![]() ![]() Rather, this is them having encountered higher production costs due to increased costs of shipping product and parts during production. That sort of thing is fairly common, and is a big reason why a lot of projects, and especially board games, do not collect shipping fees as part of the Kickstarter but instead use Backerkit or Pledgebox to collect actual shipping costs right before actually sending the products out. ![]() ![]() I think it bears explicitly stressing, this is not a case of them saying "we initially charged 60 bucks for shipping from our warehouse to your door but it turns out that it's actually going to cost us twice that, so we're asking you to pay additional shipping fees." It is for better or worse part of the nature of kickstarter. ![]() Is it a bad look to have to ask customers for more money because of the sharp increases in production and shipping, yes, but you can come back from a bad look, you can't necessarily come back from absorbing all of those extra costs. I personally backed the vampire one and grabbed my $25 card pack without much complaint, but I was also quite aware of how much costs have increased before that post for a lot of shipping and production related things.Īka my thoughts are it's a crappy situation, but I really don't blame the company for doing this. which is far from great, but even non overseas shipping has gone up a ton. I will say Vampire handled it a bit better though, as they realized they had a problem, and created a small set of cards, nothing amazing, but something unique to add that wouldn't cost them much for people to add to their pledge to cover the new cost, and they are at least giving the local pick up option. While it sucks that their options are basically pay more for something you already paid for or not get what you bought the other choice is ruining their company outright. The situation sucks, but when they projected things they couldn't have expected the costs to go up as much as they did and in general the companies can't just eat the extra costs and it's quite a lot of extra costs. ![]()
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