Sorry if I've been quiet again, that's partly because I've been trying to catch up on everything I had to let go while I was fighting fires for a week and partly because there's little to report.
Thanks all for the kind words, but please bear in mind that I'm doing this kind of thing every day on a much bigger scale in my business. So even if it seems a bit out of the ordinary it really isn't. Well, except that in my business I make a margin, which tends to offset the risk.
As for banana republics, I'd have thought with the numbers of serving and ex military people here we wouldn't need to pay cash, we could just pick one and walk away with it...
irate:
Bruce tells me he placed Heinnie's order with the factory the same day I placed the order with him. If he's sent me the invoice I asked for it hasn't reached me yet, but nobody cares about that except possibly Bruce. I imagine he did a credit check before accepting my order. He hasn't yet let me know the weights I've asked for to calculate the postage charges so I'm still unable to give you exact figures.
It seems my Paypal account has a limit on it which is far below the amount which will be needed to cover this group buy. That will be because I don't use it. I'm very comfortable with that and I don't especially want to raise the limit because that keeps the risk lower. So I'll be able to accept Paypal payments from a few of you, for example where you're overseas without a cheque book, but I'll still be asking for cheques from the majority when the time comes that I know how much to ask for.
Tony has replied to me about sending PMs to multiple recipients. Basically the answer is I won't be able to do it. Nobody will. IMHO that's a reall pain in the nether regioins for people doing group buys so over the next few days I'll try to find the time look into some alternatives. There are several that spring to mind, where there's a will there's a way.
For the time being we're just waiting for some goodies from Italy. I'll let you know if anything actually happens of course. When I've figured out how to manage these group buys without the, er, help of the forum I'll post details.
Cheers,
Ged.
