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Infinite Monkey Pints and Discount Pint Glass 4-Packs (5 comments)

Infinite Monkey Pints and Discount Pint Glass 4-Packs

Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 11:20 PM

First, the bad news. After doing some math on the first few batches of pint glasses I've had to up the price a tiny skoosh.

I've also had to raise the shipping prices (which were already laughably high) after receiving a sobering email regarding the real-world costs of shipping heavy glassware from Melissa, the nice lady who ships your orders to you. We offer our apologies to you all, but especially to our international readers, who are essentially screwed.

Melissa did some research and found a (relatively speaking) super-cheap shipping option for 4-packs of pint glasses. Many of you have been asking for this for weeks and we're happy to finally be able to offer it.

To celebrate, we're offering our new Infinite Monkey Pint Glass (also available in 2-packs and 4-packs) as well as the first Goats Pint Glass Mixed Set, which contains one of each design (or whatever combination of designs you'd like).

This is a pre-order for the monkey pints, they will not ship for at least four weeks, so please allow 5-8 weeks for your pint glasses to arrive.

Be sure to check out all of our pint glasses and discount 4-packs.

UPDATE: After further consultation with Melissa, we've decided to make the new pricing a little less draconian. Single pints are back down one dollar to their original price and I've lowered the price of shipping by a buck also. In addition we've found a good shipping option for 2-packs that have allowed me to lower the cost of shipping by two dollars on those as well.

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Re: Infinite Monkey Pints and Discount Pint Glass (Score: 1)
posted Monday, June 16, 2008 - 12:26 AM (#43310)

USPS priority mail flat-rate boxes - best shipping deal out there. If it fits in the box, weight doesn't matter. The boxes are free, and the post office will come pick them up from you, free. Pay the postage on line and you get a discount.


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Re: Infinite Monkey Pints and Discount Pint Glass (Score: 2)
posted Monday, June 16, 2008 - 04:33 PM (#43318)
In Response to chezelliott (#43310):

That is a fair description of the shipping option we settled on.


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Re: Infinite Monkey Pints and Discount Pint Glass (Score: 1)
posted Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 04:26 AM (#43333)

So, I went to buy one of those four-packs. $32, I noticed, $8 each, which is not bad for actually useful webcomics merchandise.

Then... oh my. Oh my oh my. Forty-two dollars shipping? Forty-two? That brings the price up from a reasonable $32 to a whopping $74!

I think this might be an ideal time to do some mass distributed shipping, Jon. Send them all to someone in, say, Australia, in a single box, which can then be safely shipped at a fair (lower) price around the country. Who? Well, I live in Australia...


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Re: Infinite Monkey Pints and Discount Pint Glass (Score: 2)
posted Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 12:37 PM (#43349)
In Response to gormster (#43333):

Yeah, international shipping on these is ridiculously prohibitive. Unfortunately the solution is a bit more complicated than just sending a box to Australia, I would have to repeat that and keep stock (more stock = $$$) in every region and find folks who were reliable and cheap and even then the price would be higher because we'd have to take into account the shipping cost to get the big boxes there... it becomes a bit of a nightmare.

No clear solution right now but I will keep an eye out for anything promising.


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Re: Infinite Monkey Pints and Discount Pint Glass (Score: 1)
posted Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 04:39 PM (#43353)
In Response to jon (#43318):

And on a totally unrelated topic, I saw where your user icon came from! ROFLMAO.


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