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Or, if you want to keep it at $25 keep including the dice for the AAA.org pre-order, just please give us the option of paying up front. I’m sorry if it comes off as rude or if it seems that I’m trying to haggle openly, I just feel this approach is better for everyone including FMG.
I’ve been looking at your various posts on the subject of pre-ordering to try to make sure I understand the financial model you’re proposing. I think I see what you’re suggesting, but it raises a number of questions.
At the moment, one national set is being offered on pre-order, before it’s in stock. Once it’s in stock, it will be available by conventional order. Presumably the same will happen as each subsequent set is produced, with each set becoming available for purchase and delivery individually. (How long it will take to get to the completion of the last set is unclear at this point, but that’s a different issue.)
If I understand your posts correctly, the alternative model you’re proposing assumes that once all the sets are finished, FMG will offer an alternate option to purchase all the sets as a single package at a discounted price. Where does that assumption come from? Did Jeremy mention something along these lines at some point? (I don’t recall his doing so, but I may have missed it.)
Let’s say for the moment, however, that Jeremy does plan to offer all the sets as a single discounted package once all the sets are available. Your post which says “Why not charge once then ship once when the collection is complete?” seems to indicate that you don’t expect to receive the package until all the sets are complete. In other words, regardless of whether you pre-order a whole package now or whether you wait until all the sets are ready (at which point, under your assumption, Jeremy will offer a package-deal purchase option), you’ll still have to wait until all the sets are complete before you receive anything. So I don’t understand what difference it would make to pre-order a full package now as opposed to ordering it later. The only possible advantage – and I think this is perhaps the real point of your model – would be if people who pre-ordered a full package now would be charged a lot less money than the people who waited until all the sets were completed before ordering a full package. In other words: if we regard the current option of ordering the sets individually as the standard price, and if we assume that there will be an option to order a full package at the time of completion at a discounted price, what you seem to be proposing is that an additional discount (a discount on the already-discounted full package) should be offered to people who pre-order the full package right now. Is that the case?
