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iscariot:

Probably going to, I've never done kickstarter before.  How's that work?  They hold the $$ until it's done?

iscariot:

Nevermind....it's going to take 6 days to run them and 4 days to get them sent over to us.  Unless I had everyone confirm within 24 hours then it's not worth doing, plus I have to drag them back to the US.

Generic Eric:


--- Quote from: iscariot on July 16, 2014, 09:21:58 am ---Nevermind....it's going to take 6 days to run them and 4 days to get them sent over to us.  Unless I had everyone confirm within 24 hours then it's not worth doing, plus I have to drag them back to the US.

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If I remember correctly, this isn't the first trip you mentioned.  I wouldn't be so quick to throw in in the towel.  As it stands now, I wouldn't commit with out knowing how much I was committing to.

Maybe next time?

iscariot:

This is probably the last trip for at least 5 years.  I was thinking about kickstarter but the problem is that 30,000 tokens weighs around 250 pounds.  That's going to add LOTS of costs to ordering these things.  I figure I could do a kickstarter but ti would add probably 2 cents to each token.

JDFan:


--- Quote from: iscariot on July 16, 2014, 09:21:58 am ---Nevermind....it's going to take 6 days to run them and 4 days to get them sent over to us.  Unless I had everyone confirm within 24 hours then it's not worth doing, plus I have to drag them back to the US.

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--- Quote from: iscariot on July 16, 2014, 09:52:26 am ---This is probably the last trip for at least 5 years.  I was thinking about kickstarter but the problem is that 30,000 tokens weighs around 250 pounds.  That's going to add LOTS of costs to ordering these things.  I figure I could do a kickstarter but ti would add probably 2 cents to each token.

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Ah well was a good idea anyway and it would probably add more than that by the time they are repackaged and remailed in individual 4 -8 lb. packages (4 lbs per 500 tokens +\-)  :cheers:

Seems to be the norm -- the main problem with getting custom tokens made is the Qty minimums and the weight of the tokens for shipping really adds to the cost quickly and what starts out to be 3 or 4 cents a piece in QTY, winds up around the 20 - 30 cent mark by the time they are delivered and getting a concensus of a design together when dealing with the number of people needed for a run of 30K tokens is difficult to agree upon.

I think a Kickstarter is a good idea since that would allow the funds to be in place before having to commit to the production run and yet would also mean that participants are not actually out any funds before the production is funded so no chance of sending the funds never to receive the tokens - problem being that would mean not being able to use any artwork from the old games unless specific permission was obtained from the copyright holders which is a real hard thing to do.

Also running it as a Kickstarter would mean someone would have to do all the legwork to get the actual costs nailed down so that it could be detailed and follow through with packaging and sending out the rewards etc. etc. which would be a considerable amount of time to invest with little return. (which is probably why so few BYOAC tokens have actually made it to print and why they run $27 for 100 tokens.)  :dunno




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