I had to post up about JTC and my Boba Fett order.
I received a cancelled email just like the original person last saturday afternoon around 1:30pm or so. And just like the other person that posted, I also told his wife that I bought and paid for my 10 books on the 9th, not the 10th that her time stamp showed. After forwarding her the paypal receipt, she apologized within 2 hours, and said that she would in fact ship out my comics. I was happy about that to say the least.
Unfortunately, as of this moment, my order on JTC's site still says : Order #31** was placed on April 10, 2015 and is currently Refunded. I emailed her this past monday and yesterday, and have NOT received a reply yet. I checked my paypal, and no refund either. Obviously I would prefer my books, but to not even reply to your customer's email is a big no-no.
I'm going to chime in and give my opinion on him selling these comics. Awesome idea, and awesome for the actual artist to get paid for a great idea.
But.............the big problem to me is the actual shipping part. Let's say he only sold 1,000 comics as he said he thought he originally would. Let me even go as far as 300 people bought 2 copies each, 10 people bought 10 each, 10 people bought 20 each, and 4 people bought 25 each. Boom!!! That's 324 packages to ship out. That's a lot of boxes, and a lot of info to keep track of. Multiply that times 4 almost and jeez, no wonder there's all these issues.
Communication is so important when you sell online. You wanted to sell something online to make extra money, cool, now be responsible and take care of the communications at least. You can't have people waiting days or weeks without a simple reply.
He knew what was sold weeks ago, why not have everything already packaged up and ready to ship. I guarantee everybody that it would've been a lot smoother than the shipping disaster he's going thru now. When he posted that picture of all those boxes in his room, maybe he thought it was cool, personally I thought it was embarassing. How can you sell this many comics in advance and not be even partially ready??? He knew what was sold people!!!
To me the biggest issue was why wasn't he prepared when he knew what was sold. Instead, he got greedy, and was more concerned with selling them for 60- instead of worrying about his customers that already paid him weeks earlier for something that half of us don't even know if we'll get at this point.
Thank you for reading my rant, and good luck to all of us, I honestly am still holding hope that we'll get our comics. Preferably this year.