Reply To: BattleTech: Mercenaries – CGL does a shipping booboo? Internet rages!

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It’s outrageous that crowdfunding takes your pledge money before you know how much shipping is, but that’s how crowdfunding *should* work to minimize risk. You don’t gain much from a creator not charging higher shipping if the result is that the creator runs out of funds for the project because backers refused to or didn’t pay the unexpected costs of shipping. I had at least two or four KS deliver *nothing* because of the sudden rise of shipping costs contributing to other mistakes the creator did with backer money. In reality, a creator should charge shipping prices when they can get a guarantee from the shipper what prices are, but, during CoVid, shipping prices could change every *hour*.

Anyway, back to the $1 pledge. While such a pledge won’t contribute to SG’s, you’re at least protecting yourself from a shipping price you disagree with. I really don’t know how internationals manage not just shipping costs, but VAT and customs fees. I would have switched to 3D printing long ago.