New Variant Ratios on TFAW

DC FOC is entered on Sunday night. Initial numbers are put in Friday and then Sunday things are increased/finalized. Not sure when they put the majority of incentives up, though.

Customer service is likely closedā€¦

In the past Monday, the day of foc, at least for marvel incentives. Maybe this wonā€™t change anything in when they go up.

CS and most other office based staff is off on weekends. Purchasing someone will usually log on Sunday for a few hours to finalize DC numbers.

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Yeah, thatā€™s what my hunch was. Even Amazon has customer service set hours and look how big they are. Most companies donā€™t do customer service on the weekends.

Sorry I said Friday, but I meant Saturday. DC locks Saturday night at midnight PT.

Marvel/the rest locks Sunday at midnight now. So I assume everything will lock with DC now On Saturday night.

Mehā€¦doesnā€™t have the same cachet as the allocation meme

Yeah but still necessary I thinkā€¦

Appreciate the info. Will be trial and error for the first few goā€™s I guess. Thanks.

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Contact customer service.

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Donā€™t bother paying for the extra shipping, imo. Itā€™s going to be late regardless.

I donā€™t have a choice

They could fit my order in a $20 prepaid priority box every month but instead force me to pay for 2 day fed ex at 4x the price because I live in Hawaii even though last I checked USPS delivers to Hawaii.

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I can only imagine. Their cheapest shipping is always like $20 for me, when it should be half that.

Contact customer service please. Letā€™s get back on topic of New Variant Ratios.

2 day shipping stuff SHOULD still ship relatively fast. Thereā€™s a separate express printer for orders with expedted/express shipping options that gets top priority each day. If itā€™s been that long for a 2 day fedex I would contact CS for sure because it sounds like it might have gotten missed or got stuck in the printing queue or something.

Flat rate things donā€™t work well with the shipping system we have from what Iā€™ve heard. The dimensions provided for comics arenā€™t always right, and picking a priority flat rate option for pre-orders couldnā€™t work because if it goes over the size then thereā€™s issues.

Improving the shipping methods/system/choices is near the top of the list for things weā€™re working on after some of the current warehouse issues/improvements. Likely going away from very specific rate table pre-order selections (like FedEx 2 Day) and just offering options for things like ā€œEconomy (5-10 business days) / Expedited (2-4 business days) / Overnightā€ and giving more freedom to the people packing to pick the most sensible option that works for that speed.

Iā€™ve never had a order take more than 3 days to process with 2 day shipping until now.

Definitely sounds like a printer issue or something that happened with the physical packing slip, then. PM me the order number and I can at least send that to the warehouse and let them know to check if it printed right.