![]() Bohatys out of pocket costs sit at $5,702. The stickers raised approximately $3,980 for the designer and the campaign. I had assumed we'd receive less $14 contributions and many more $5 contributions from a greater number of backers.” My gut tells me that this is more of an issue with backers reading KS updates vs not being interested in helping. The average contribution ended up being $20,” says Bohaty, “Only 20% of our 1,100 backers contributed to help offset the freight and shipping increase. Only two contributions were less than $14. “I was very surprised at the number of contributions for amounts over $14. The real costs of the stickers to Bohaty can’t fully be known as neither the time and effort that went into the sticker design and time spend managing orders was not tracks – the raw cost for production was $1.22 however. Of those who backed the game, 217 paid $14 or more for the stickers – becoming a ‘Necromolds Champion’. ![]() Bohaty asked backers to buy a totally newly designer holographic sticker for $14 to fund this additional expenditure. Necromolds finished its campaign with 1,100 backers – with an increased additional shipping cost of $9,682.40. The designer was extremely open to sharing his costs and the impact on him and his game. Necromolds is on its way to backers this month, and we reached out to Bohaty to discuss how the extra funding went. The designer’s response was to do a savvy, Kickstartery thing, and create an additional incentive for those who would be able to pay a little bit extra and help cover the costs – in the form of Necromolds Champions Holographic stickers. UK import costs were compounded by the withdrawal from the EU, creating a jump in costs of 522%.įor a creator putting together their first ‘big’ game – this was a huge sum of money. Some, like Clint Bohaty, the designer of Necromolds, laid it all out for backers – shipping for the game about smashing your opponent’s play-dough monsters increased nearly $10,000. The email, or Kickstart update explained to you the stark reality for board game publishers and creators across the world – the cost of getting you this game has changed in the last 16 months, and they need some help. It’s from a Kickstarter that actually finished in 2019, before we entered into the ‘new normal’ of lockdowns, masks and an increased layman interest in shipping and freight. Then we could have avoided the increasing congestion we now see - but of course then carriers would be critizised for keeping capacity artifically low which in turn would create an even larger upwards price pressure.Īlso, the added capacity in the Pacific comes with the “price” that capacity is pulled out of other trades around the world causing shippers elsewhere to experience blank sailings and escalating freight rates.You’ve probably had the email already, in some form. ![]() Hypothetically, the carriers could have refrained from injecting this much new capacity into the Pacific. Cranking up vessel capacity does not automatically create added capacity related to ports, trucks, chassis, rail, warehouses etc. The injection of large amounts of vessel capacity into the Pacific trade is a factor in the rapidly escalating congestion problems on the US West Coast. Hence it is clear that given the appropriate market conditions it is certainly feasible to see added competition to the alliance structures.īut whereas the injection of added capacity into a trade where demand is booming appears to be the right thing to do, it has some clear negative side-effects. Non-alliance services in this trade now account for more capacity than either the 2M or THE alliances. ![]() Data from Sea-Intelligence shows that the number of non-alliance services in the Pacific trade to the USWC has more than doubled now compared to before the pandemic. Here is a very good example from the Transpacific of the exact opposite. There has been increasing criticism that carrier consolidation has led to some sort of de-facto collusion due to the dominant position of the alliances. Another good example of the complexities of the current market.
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