They called me today asking for my SSN for the importation of a package from Peru. I think I'm on their most wanted list now. Andeanart wrote me back and said that 18 shipped already.
So the good news is they are on their way across the border!
The bad news is that there are only 18 of em.
Ok, you guys have been really generous and truly are a cool bunch of slingers. Yeah Rob's on the list too. So I'm going to do the math and put down the #'s to prevent you all from fighting about who gets to be, "the coolest sling dude in the heap." The actual #'s are pretty complex if you care to follow the history (and my reasoning.) Otherwise just go straight to the bold fonts for the final verdict.
Whipartist ordered 3 and then changed his (my) order to 1 when he saw how much the per unit cost was rising as he added slings to the shopping cart.
David_T ordered 5
Archeorob's order was for 9, between him and his brother. The rest of us are suspicious that they are planning a giant hunting expedition without telling us about it
Mgreenfield ordered 2.
JeffH ordered 3 slings.
So I ordered 18 slings for all of us.... I don't know why I didn't order 20? I think it happened when I cut my own order down to 1 sling instead of 3. I think I did that twice or something? So in my very ordering I ordered 2 slings under what I needed to. I gave up my sling when I saw my mistake, and so we are 1 sling under at this point.
From there:
John Santos posted that he wants 2 slings
And Chris posted that he wants 2 slings.
That comes to 23 slings demand. An impossible order to fill with 18 slings.
But to be fair, both John and Chris ordered their slings after I had already ordered for the group. Thus though we are helping them out, we can only go so far. I think it's fair to get them 1 sling each.
That brings the demand down to 21.
We need to fill in 3 slings worth then. And you guys helped me out with that. The coolest sling dudes in the heap- Mgreenfield, David_T and Archeorob, have all volunteered to help me out by lowering their order quantities. I guess this must make Rob's giant hunting expedition a bit more dangerous. But he's apparently tuff enough to handle it. Either that or else his brother's a really big guy?
Sooooooo! Here are the final orders.
David_T gets 3 slings. He generously gave up 2 slings to help out John and Chris. He gets the Coolest Sling Dude in The Heap Award! Thanks David
Archeorob's gets 8 slings. I was worried his brother might not make it back from his giant hunt so I left him with 8 slings, just incase.
Mgreenfield gets 2 slings. He was so generous in being willing to give up 1 of his 2 slings, but I don't have the heart to cut him short.
JeffH gets 3 slings.
John Santos gets 1 sling
Chris gets 1 sling.
That's 18 slings! We're ok!
When the slings arrive, I will post some nice pictures of them in this thread! At that point I will contact all of you individually about payment (by either paypal, money order, or personal check.) and your shipping address. I'll ship via priority mail with delivery confirmation. I've been selling bullwhips and holsters for a long time so this part I'm pretty professional with. Well that was fun to write. I'm starting to get pretty excited to see the slings!!! I first started this journey many months ago. I didn't even know if I'd be successful back then, but it sure does look like I now am. This makes me go down in the History books as the first mass* importer of Peruvian slings into the USA, ever!
*If 18 counts as "mass."
Is their a Guiness record for this sort of thing?
HeeeeeHaaaaa! Ben