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He only uses Driller. I was thinking maybe a shot glass since he does pound shots, but at the same time Iā€™m not sure I want to fuel his drinking. Need help. His bday is in 1 week.

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over 2 years ago - /u/Robert_GSG - Direct link

Originally posted by Syrzan

Depends on where OP is from....

If he is from europe which considering that he posted this at 7am GMT or 1m eastern US... i would not even bother considering buying the lootbug.

The transportation to europe costs more than the actual plushie and then you have to pay a toll fee in addition (which in most countries is the item price + the transport fee and then the % of toll you buy from that).

If i go from my country that would be 25$ Plushie + 27,98$ shipping cost.

Those 52,98$ will now be the number with wich the toll fee is calculated, adding a splendid 11$ to it.

Total cost for a lootbug plush to europe: 63+$

Which again begs the question u/GSG_Jacob, u/Soren_GSG, u/Robert_GSG why a daenish dev company with a swedish publisher outsourced that stuff to the states and basically screwing fellow europeans over with it.

Please for the love of Karl don't do this with the boardgame....

Well, since you ask: Several reasons, foremost of which is 1) cost, 2) quality, and 3) ease of procurement. Merch is expensive to produce and ship, unless you're selling very large quantities of it - for a small fish like us, making merch is not something we do to make money - it is simply not an option.

The American merch market is huge, well-established, and relatively easy to get into. We quickly found a partner there that could get us up and running with minimal time spent on our side - time we'd rather be devoting to the game itself.

At the same time we're actively looking into options for getting EU-based merch going. We have just not yet found a setup that fits our particular needs. But that definitely doesn't mean it won't be coming. Question is just how and when.

In short: the present option was pretty much "we can have SOME merch, based in the states, or we can have no merch at all". We chose the former.