Posted: May 5th 2004, 11:56 pm
If we do go the fulfillment route, i am willing to have 100-200 shipped to my cramped office (full of DVDs) and people in NY can pick them up without having to pay s&h.
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Justin at AU wrote:Thank You Kenny.
Well it was much easier than i expected, just dropped the files in access and ran a query. I now have a list of everyone who ordered the set and who has received their bonus disks, and if they cancelled, and if they refused shipment of the bonus disk and lunch box, which did happen a few times I guess from a couple boxes I found around the warehous ethat said return to sender and had the bonus and lunchbox inside.
Nice Work.Justin at AU wrote:Did manage to scape together 5 pallets of toys for Toys 4 Tots. A nice anonymous donation from a dying company.
phelix wrote:I can see from this thread that I (and others in my predicament) are going to be screwed again. I cancelled my order but never received a refund. The lists Justin is compiling will probably show where I cancelled but have no record of whether or not I actualy received a refund. I am owed either $118 or a complete set, and from what I'm hearing, it sounds like I won't get either.
Justin, very few people got refunds. You should assume nobody did and compile your lists accordingly.
Jason R wrote:Just a quick update.
I received a letter from American Entertainment Group, the parent company of AU.com authorizing me to have the lunchboxes and DVDs moved and agreeing to hold me and my agents harmless. Also stating that these items belong to the people who paid for them and that AU had no claim to them. It also stated that these materials are not evidence in criminal proceedings against Ross Rojek.
Asked the FBI for something in writing, but the best they could give me was their word. The word of the FBI is good enough for me.
At about 4 PM EST, Jetxpressmail, a fulfillment company brought their forklift and truck to the AU warehouse and picked up the bonus items.
At about 4 PM EST, I also received a complete list of those who ordered these materials and who (supposedly) received bonus materials. It will never be possible to find everyone with spam filters and changed email addressed, but I will do the best I can, and try to leave enough time for people to claim their items.
For approximately $8 US, those the USA will be able to pay for S&H to receive their bonus items. (this is for a 1 lb 13 oz package). The markup by Jetexpress is approximately $2, and includes picking the items up from AU, storage at Jetexpres, and pick, pack and ship.
Could have saved some $ by using volunteers, but I believe that this will be a much more efficient way to go. After so much dicking around by Ross and AU, I don't want to add to the torture.
The cost to international customers who are owed these items will be the cost to your country plus the same markup. We are only starting with US because it is easiest to ship items when they are all very close in price --being identical items, that's the case here.
One more thing, I originally considered that if there are unclaimed bonus items, I might try to couple them with DVD sets to hold a fundraiser to partially reimburse people who were ripped off by AU (or who paid s&h for these bonus items). As of now, I am leaning against this idea. While I want to get these items to the people who made them possible, I don't want to get myself into the habit of letting Ross Rojek off the hook for his financial debts.
Anyway, I will have more information next week.
I will be leaving this message forum to post on new forum dedicated to getting bonus materials to people. The address is http://www.anotheruniversesucks.org/forum and it will be up sometime this weekend.
If this issue affects you, I look forward to seeing you there.
Jason