It's been three weeks since the Group Buy ended. There haven't been many updates because, there hasn't been much to update you with. Now there is.
Long story short ... I ****ed up.
When working out how much to charge for this group buy, I took the quoted price rounded up to make sure I wouldn't lose money on this GB and then quoted that price to everyone. I missed one crucial step ... accounting for VAT (Value Added Tax) for those of you outside of the EU, VAT for switches is 20%! Which amounts to roughly £3,500 for this order of 96,000 switches. This adds up to £4 per pack of 120, that I should have added to the price of the switches. So rather than being £26 I should have charged £30. The fact of the matter is that I don't just have £3,500 to fix my mistake. If I had it I would, this is mainly sue to the fact that I'll be buying 10,000 switches myself.
My solution to this right now is to offer everyone the chance of paying for the VAT.
You can do so here:
https://opticboards.com/group-buys/silent-black-vatThis £4 will cover the VAT for a single pack of switches.
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**Why did it take 3 weeks to find this out?**
Because there were a literaral myriad of hoops that I had to jump through for the distributor to allow them to send me a pro-former invoice, which came through today. There slow response did not help either, sometimes 6 days between my email and theirs!
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I am so sorry that this Group Buy has turned into such a disaster. I want to get all of you your switches.
I have opened up the GB again, with 50 more packs, which will help greatly if anyoen still wanted to purchase some!
Here:
https://opticboards.com/group-buys/mx-silent-black All participants will receive an email.