Pagoda World Book - Volume II - Issues 11-20 - OPEN FOR ORDERING!!

[mdsalemi]

Hello!

The ordering is now open.

1. Go here and fill out the form: https://forms.gle/M7DoDDKYhznZPL5h8
2. When you fill out the form completely and properly, click SEND. You'll get a confirmation.
3. Shortly after we receive the form, you'll get a PayPal invoice.
4. Pay the PayPal invoice, and that's it. Your order is in.

Notes:

1. Price for Volume II is USD $79.00 for full paid members. Associate or non-members USD $105.00. See prior note; this Volume II has more than 80 additional pages of content, and thus is larger, heavier and costlier all around than Volume I.
2. Ordering is open until October 8. Yes, that's a shortened 3-week order period. If you want one, order now. Don't put it off, you may be disappointed.
3. Our plan is for books will ship around the end of October.

[Cees Klumper]

Submitted my order, thanks Michael + other volunteers, this is a great initiative!

[Hans2012]

Michael

I just completed my order.  Please let me know if it does not go through for some reason.

Many thanks for your efforts on our behalf.

Best
John

[JamesL]

Michael - I’m happy to be a postman again

[mdsalemi]

22 orders came in overnight. I will get the invoices out today.

The ordering is now open.

1. Go here and fill out the form: https://forms.gle/M7DoDDKYhznZPL5h8
2. When you fill out the form completely and properly, click SEND. You'll get a confirmation.
3. Shortly after we receive the form, you'll get a PayPal invoice.
4. Pay the PayPal invoice, and that's it. Your order is in.

Notes:

1. Price for Volume II is USD $79.00 for full paid members. Associate or non-members USD $105.00. See prior note; this Volume II has more than 80 additional pages of content, and thus is larger, heavier and costlier all around than Volume I.
2. Ordering is open until October 8. Yes, that's a shortened 3-week order period. If you want one, order now. Don't put it off, you may be disappointed.
3. Our plan is for books will ship around the end of October.

[su8pack1]

Thanks, just ordered.

[ScouseJames]

Ordered, can't wait 

[mdsalemi]

Our Admin sent out an email blast this morning (Eastern US Time).
143 orders have come in since opening.
114 invoices have been sent out, and this will continue through the weekend.

[mdsalemi]

If you have ordered, and clicked "SEND" you will get an immediate "thank you for your submission", and that means we received the order.
Please be patient after your order, as it takes some time to hand-generate the PayPal invoices. 220 orders have come in as of Sunday afternoon, and I'm working on the invoices; I'm up to #140
Do not create another order, it only slows me down. After you place an order, a second or duplicate order is cancelled, and I'll send a query to you to find out what you want to do. If you change your mind, I'll cancel an invoice. If you change the quantity, let me know, but please don't sent another order in.

This is a slow, manual process and your patience is needed and appreciated.

[mdsalemi]

All invoices for all orders placed as of now (09:40 EDT 22-September) have been sent out.

Most have been paid. A number are not paid yet. PayPal keeps us informed of all activity related to the invoices. Of those not yet paid, most have not yet been viewed. As soon as you view the invoice, we're notified. Reminders will go out on Friday.

Thank you for those that included their phone number for SMS/Text; there were actually a number of issues that came up and my ability to contact these people was helpful and fast.

If you think you placed an order and have not received an invoice, double check your inbox and spam folders. The invoice comes from PayPal.

Note that once the item ships for USA members you'll get a ship notification from PayPal with the tracking information on it.

We have received a total of 253 orders from around the world...and 253 invoices have been sent out.

For those seeing this for the first time:

The ordering is now open.

1. Go here and fill out the form: https://forms.gle/M7DoDDKYhznZPL5h8
2. When you fill out the form completely and properly, click SEND. You'll get a confirmation.
3. Shortly after we receive the form, you'll get a PayPal invoice.
4. Pay the PayPal invoice, and that's it. Your order is in.

Notes:

1. Price for Volume II is USD $79.00 for full paid members. Associate or non-members USD $105.00. See prior note; this Volume II has more than 80 additional pages of content, and thus is larger, heavier and costlier all around than Volume I.
2. Ordering is open until October 8. Yes, that's a shortened 3-week order period. If you want one, order now. Don't put it off, you may be disappointed.
3. Our plan is for books will ship around the end of October.

[mdsalemi]

Just a reminder that the HARD STOP on orders is as previously noted, October 8. If you don't order by then, you may not be able to get a copy of the book; we won't revisit any leftovers or deal with any requests until after January 1, 2022.

Our "Google Forms" order form is working exceedingly well. A few have seemingly had issues with it, but that's a very small number. Some accidental duplicate orders have come in and they've been dealt with.
Our PayPal invoicing is working well, as usual: most people get the invoice and pay it. For certain we'll have a few issues on that as time goes on, but most invoices are paid. Reminders will go out this weekend, by text message as well as email. The usual issue is people do not get or see their emails...thus getting the invoice can be a challenge.

We're at the point where we are "caught up" on invoicing. 260 orders in so far.

[mdsalemi]

We will have one more email blast about the book on/about October 1 or 2 depending on Admins schedule to execute the task.
Hard stop on orders on October 8; as standard we will print a few extras, but if you don't order in advance (pre-order) you'll have to wait until January to get one.
As of this morning, we have 273 orders, and a few of those are for multiple copies.

For those seeing this for the first time: this book is Volume II, and contains Issues 11-20 of Pagoda World magazine. Volume I, done in June, contained Issues 1-10. (we still have a few of those left over)

Here's how to order:

1. Go here and fill out the form: https://forms.gle/M7DoDDKYhznZPL5h8
2. When you fill out the form completely and properly, click SEND. You'll get a confirmation.
3. Shortly after we receive the form, you'll get a PayPal invoice.
4. Pay the PayPal invoice, and that's it. Your order is in.

Notes:

1. Price for Volume II is USD $79.00 for full paid members. Associate or non-members USD $105.00. See prior note; this Volume II has more than 80 additional pages of content, and thus is larger, heavier and costlier all around than Volume I.
2. Ordering is open until October 8. Yes, that's a shortened 3-week order period. If you want one, order now. Don't put it off, you may be disappointed.
3. Our plan is for books will ship around the end of October.

If you want a Volume I, send me a PM; the order form above is ONLY for Volume II.

[mdsalemi]

Final email blasts (one for Associate members on Friday, the other for full paid members early today) went out.
This morning, final notes will be going out to those who requested the book, were sent an invoice, but the invoice was not paid.
Invoices unpaid as of 8-October will be cancelled. Books will not be ordered for these cancelled invoices, regardless of whether you requested it or not.

The book order will go to the printer on Monday, October 11.

[cth350]

um, I've been away a while, my membership dropped a few years ago and I've only recently rejoined, so what's this book exactly?
-CTH

[MikeSimon]

i assume an e-mail reminding us to order the book has been sent to ALL full members regardless whether you ordered already or not???

[JamesL]

um, I've been away a while, my membership dropped a few years ago and I've only recently rejoined, so what's this book exactly?
-CTH

The clue is in the thread title
Recently the first 10 issues of our Pagoda World magazine were compiled into book form. Really useful for newer members who were not around way back when.
This is volume 2, the next 10 issues

[Pawel66]

i assume an e-mail reminding us to order the book has been sent to ALL full members regardless whether you ordered already or not???

I ordered and I received an e-mail.

[mdsalemi]

i assume an e-mail reminding us to order the book has been sent to ALL full members regardless whether you ordered already or not???

YES. The email blasts go to to the ASSOCIATE MEMBERS list, as of the day that the Admin makes the blast, and the same holds true for FULL MEMBERS. Doesn't matter if you ordered or not. It's a reminder.

If you filled out the order form, and clicked send, you immediately received a FORM SUBMITTED notification.
If that happened, you received a PayPal invoice.
If you received the PayPal invoice, and paid it, you are good to go.

Some people provided incorrect email addresses, so may not have received the PayPal invoice. I cut and paste what YOU provide. If the shipping address is wrong, or your email address is wrong, I have a  hard time trying to sort it out. USA addresses are always verified. If you have an old address on PayPal, it may be an issue. Caught a few of those already...

98% of all orders are filled out correctly, and PayPal goes out correctly and are paid promptly. It's the 2%...

We also have a number of people that seemingly forgot they ordered; forgot they paid, and ordered again. All by mistake. Those were easy catches...

[lreppond]

Thank You Michael and your group of volunteers for stepping up and doing this.  It is greatly appreciated. 

[mdsalemi]

18 out of 355

Now comes the "why are you wasting the time of volunteers" part, I'm afraid.  Eighteen of the 355 invoices sent out up until yesterday have not been paid. I've come across a myriad of issues including incorrect email addresses sent (seriously? seriously...) mismatches between certain addresses in violation of international finance rules, you name it. Unfortunately, these remaining invoices will take a lot of time to deal with. Everyone has received a PayPal invoice according to information YOU provided to us. I'm going through all the unpaid invoices today, and sending personal notes as opposed to ones from PayPal, which may contain erroneous information. I'm providing one more shot to pay the invoice for the book that you requested. If you made a request for a book, and did NOT receive an invoice, contact me immediately. All the requests are on a Google form, and all invoices for same are in the club's PayPal account.

Invoices not paid by close of business EASTERN TIME USA on Friday, October 8 will be cancelled and books not ordered to fulfill these requests. We're not holding up the progress and process for unpaid invoices, we're just cancelling them and moving on.

We MAY have some leftover books (we do order some extra but not a lot) but these will not be considered for sale until 2022.

[mmata]

Hi, I wonder if I pay lots of taxes in Portugal.

I will like very much to buy but don’t know if taxes will be a problem.

Any one knows?

Thanks

[mdsalemi]

There SHOULD be no taxes...

Books for EU will be sent "in bulk" (one package, maybe two) to our friend and member David Robinson in Ireland. Ireland is in EU of course.
Books for all the other EU countries will be dispatched out of Ireland, so these are EU-EU shipments.
We did NOT pay any taxes or customs duties on the import to Ireland of any significance; books and magazines get away "cheap".

So, if you order a book, it isn't shipped directly from USA-->Portugal, but rather Ireland-->Portugal or EU-->EU. There should be no additional taxes once the books arrives at your home.

Maybe our friends in Netherlands, Spain, Germany, etc. who received Volume #1 can tell us if they paid any additional taxes?

[Peter van Es]

No taxes to the Netherlands….

[JamesL]

Same for the UK. Bulk to me then shipped locally via Royal Mail. Not sure what happened to those I shipped to Sth Africa, for example. But in my experience, printed matter doesn’t get taxed.

[mdsalemi]

Just three of the older invoices remain unpaid. There are five others, four of which were sent today, and one yesterday.

The order form will not accept any more orders after 5 PM Eastern time on Friday.

So far 370 orders. A great showing.

We've arranged even more streamlined shipping than the last issue...so things should go quick.