- December 17th, 2022, 8:17 am#4975341
So do we know if the order count on Haslab is a combination of Haslab and Zavi orders or were they kept separate?
PetroMan wrote: ↑December 16th, 2022, 9:32 pmOoh ok. Interesting. Yeah the way I thought of this Zavvi company was some sort of middle man where they were just placing orders through different Haslab accounts or something. Sort of like an Amazon merchant but doing the pre orders for you. But you say it’s like they have an official agreement with Hasbro? So Zavi was just essentially the European arm(non UK) of the Haslab project?RichardLess wrote: I wonder what the shipping process is like for these. For those who went thru Zavvi does it go from Manufactureer, to Zavi warehouse HQ then on to Customer? Because isn’t Zavi essentially the middleman on this?I think the part you are missing is that Zavi is Hasbro's official authorized partner that offers the crowdfunding campaign to European customers. Again, if you look up previous Haslab projects they have all played out this way. Europe gets theirs about a month before the US. The only reasonable explanation for that is the cargo ship comes through the Suez canal, drops cargo at European ports, then crosses the Atlantic and drops cargo at American ports. Hasbro would have no control over that without massively increasing the shipping costs to the customers.
I figure things would go directly from Manufacturers——>to Customer but maybe not. Or possibly Manufacturer to Hasbro HQ to Zavi to Customers. I don’t know how that would work. But with those of us who backed the project via Haslab whatever scenario occurred, just remove Zavi from that chain.
I would also bet good money that the vast majority of backers are not paying attention anywhere near as closely as the handful of us on this forum are and have no clue that this is even going on right now. Why would some Hasbro exec make a decision to inform us of something they themselves are likely only seeing as a single line item as part of an entire cargo manifest? Said exec would have no reason to even know we are aware of this let alone discussing it.
(On as semi-related note, my wife wanted to know why I was humming the Oompa Loompa song so your previous reference wound up being double funny.)
So do we know if the order count on Haslab is a combination of Haslab and Zavi orders or were they kept separate?