TAF and widebody pfs? Did hell just freeze over?
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Quoted from Blackjacker:At some point you have to trust that your customers aren't complete shitbags, and I appreciate CPR's efforts to find a middle ground in this process. If you click through, you'll see they ask for your name/phone/address/email/qty in your request email.
Part of the problem with the last few underselling pf's was... not that much interest in the titles. I mean, how many people want to put an $800 pf into a $500 game.
Runs like high speed did well because it was a popular title. Cpr will have no problem selling TAF's, Elviras, etc.
Being "sold out" is odd, I wonder if multiple companies are making these. Besides mirco, who is making pf's?
Quoted from Stu:Correct, for this particular title we (CPR) are splitting the run with PPS, so once we received the amount of PF's we are allowed to sell the balance will go to PPS. Any of the customers that we can not serve will be forwarded off to PPS.....
Is there an overall # of pf's to be made or just cpr can make 200?
Quoted from KevinCPR:Without getting into too much internal detail - this TAF run is a rare rare exception.
CPR preordering would normally be open-ended, and IS indeed to get our precise build count when it comes production time. Absolutely.
But - This TAF run was fixed in number from the get-go. (That number is indeed private, and will remain private as Stu said) Reason being, it is a run that was brought back from the brink of death. IPB was going to run these at the end of 2014. Then a sharp turn in their plans... We all know what happened to IPB. So the TAF run died.
Now all those gameboard panels, the inserts, the artwork, the third party licensing packages, and the Williams approval - everything that IPB had lined up (and unfortunately lost), have been torch-passed to us.
So CPR is going to rescue what was the former "late 2014 IPB run".
There IS a cap on this particular run (set by the IPB supplies load). We will stop taking preorders and close the inbox when the run is spoken for. There are still plenty of slots left. It's not a small run. But right now, all the "CPR" slots are spoken for. They filled in about 10 hours. Anyone preordering at this point is falling into the PPS slot spots. Same playfields. Same run. They'll just ship from two different locations.
So the preorder inbox is still there, taking promises as normal. Nothing changes. But this one will have a cap where we have to stop taking preorders at some point. Weird, I know. But now you all can understand why it can't just go onto infinity. This run is resting in a ready-go state. It's only down to who is going to be their owners...
Which is great news, because this means the TAF run won't even come CLOSE to an 18-month window.
More like a third of that !
KEVIN
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Are you making the entire run and only directly selling X or are you only making the ones you are going to sell directly?
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