Texas Ace Group buy goals
While I ended up in charge of the original giggles project it was not up to my standards in many ways. I intend to use this Group buy as a model for how I want any future group buys I run to go. Now I am not saying it will be perfect but I hope for things to go much more smoothly then the GT group buy.
Goals for my group buys include:
- Clear and accurate descriptions / goals for the item BEFORE announcing. We all saw what happened with the GT when too many details were left to be figured out later. 6 months of a deadlocked project as people got burnt out fighting about things that ultimately didn’t matter. Plus a lot of hurt feelings.
We are a family here, there is no reason to encourage arguments.
- Fast turn around times, My goal is 3 months from start to shipment. - I can’t do another year long, life eating, 80+ hour weeks, hundreds of messages a day group buy.
This does mean that my group buys will be started later in the development cycle and there will not be as much time for people to find out about them but if everyone works together to spread the word it should still allow most everyone to get in on the group buy that wants to while keeping the endless waiting to a minimum. This is not a hard limit of 3 months, just a goal, it could be more, it should be less.
- A sample of the product has been tested before the group buy goes live Preferably by myself. Barring a full sample test at the very least all the individual parts are tested or mundane enough to not need to be tested (like springs for example).
This is to minimize the issues and allow some specs and numbers to be known before people start signing up. I want people to know what they are signing up for with my group buys. Now I am sure over time there will have to be exceptions to this but this is a goal.
- The group buy is for a discount on the product, not first dibs unless otherwise stated - The amount of issues that trying to make sure that the first lights off the line went exclusively to group buy members caused was not worth the hassle, it easily caused 30-50% of the issues in the early days of the GT group buy.
We will still get the majority of the first items off the line of course but it is not exclusive to this group buy. Anyone that wants to pay retail pricing for the product to get it faster from another source is welcome to do so if that option is available.
Some other items worth noting about my Group buys:
- All of the BLF Rules are strictly enforced in my group buys. So no cussing, no fighting, ect…
- Please help your fellow BLF members with questions and educating them as they ask the same things over and over again.
Lets face it, we will hear the same questions hundreds and hundreds of times by the time this thread is over. No complaining about it or just saying “search”. Instead I ask for everyone’s help in educating new comers and helping to answer their questions. Yes there will be a lot of repeat questions, if we spread out the answers among a bunch of us hopefully no one person will go mad answering them.
Remember that when jumping into a long thread it may seem like second nature to those of us in the thread but to new comers they don’t know which way is up. Most do not have the time to read through the thread and figure out what is happening either. Even I generally ask for an update in new to me group buy threads, so I am not going to judge others for doing the same thing.
That said:
- Please help me keep the 1st posts of this thread updated with the latest and most up to date information. It is super easy to forget to update the OP but this is the single most important thing to keep updated.
Only updates that effect the project long term need to be posted in the OP but if anyone sees something that should be added, please let me know. There will be a place for quotes of important information along with pictures, reviews and other information in one of the first posts. Please contact one of the Team members to help us keep it updated.
Also any good pictures or reviews should be posted to the OP as well, so please save them and send them or point them out to a team member!
