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

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I have been stung more than once by shipping costs up to 1/3 of the price of the items itself. The problem with kickstarters is often they are not clear on the shipping at the time or later just ramp up the costs. I accept it is a difficult area, but some of these companies are not small and they already supply retail stores across the world. Those retail stores in some cases offer free shipping or at least make use of the local shipping like the postal service. I struggle to understand these companies who deal with shipping to retail have so much isssue ?

At this point the benefits of backing any kickstarter coming to retail seems almost pointless. You know it will end up in the stores, likely at a some discount or nearly the same as the kickstarter price.

I nearly backed same Fireforge models but decided against it. The difference in price per a box to the retail was just 2 pounds. But the kick starter delivery was 10 pounds so it turned out more expensive to back the kickstarter. Because I got free delivery retail.

You know the worse aspect is that I bought them at retail months ago and they still have people who backed the kick starter that they have not shipped to.

I struggle to see what backing a kickstarter is offering for the customer because it is not value for money, you lack and consumer protection an in some cases creates a stress you dont need.