Free Shipping Anywhere on the Planet
Posted November 7th, 2008 by Howard Tayler
We’re having a sale at the Schlock Mercenary store. If you spend $100 with us we’ll ship your stuff to you at no charge, no matter where in the world you are.
Many of you residing in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand have justly complained about the high shipping costs. Until now we’ve had no way to address this, short of losing money. But now, with five books in inventory, along with magnets, pins, shirts, and posters, we can go out on a limb and cut into our profits a bit.
How do you want to spend $100? Well… the first four Schlock Mercenary books come to $80. Add the full set of Warning Sign magnets for $20 and you’ve got yourself a fanboy (or fangirl) dream-package, and we’ll ship it to you for free.
Chief among the wonderful things you can buy is Hold On To Your Horses, by Sandra “Not Just The Cartoonist’s Wife” Tayler and Angela Call. This lavishly illustrated book will make a delightful holiday gift for that small, hyperactive, pony-loving person in your life. Niece? Cousin? Daughter? Impulse-control issues? Book her.
We’ve accumulated a few scratch-and-dent Schlock books as well. These are going for roughly 1/3 off. $10 for the $15 books, and $18 for the $25 books. They’re in exceedingly short supply, though (less than 20 of each.)
Finally, we’ve got Writing Excuses CDs for you. Just $10 gets you the complete first season, nine hours of DRM-free podcasts on writing, plotting, editing, re-writing, and letting your characters run away with your story. There’s a lot of bonus material as well, including three essays, an entire book, and a pile of desktop wallpapers.
Supplies for this sale are slightly limited. We only have 150 magnet sets left, and once we’re out we’re not going to be able to get more before the holidays are upon us. We have a mere 100 Writing Excuses CDs on the way, but if we run out I think we can get more quickly. Oh, and we’re also down to our last 800 copies of Under New Management, though I doubt we’ll sell out.
Feel free to prove me wrong, though. You maniacs.
We’re running this sale through December 31st. If you want things in time for Christmas, and they need to cross an ocean to get to you, you should place your order by November 24th.
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November 8th, 2008 at 7:03 am
Does this mean if I hand you a nice shiny $10 bill, you can hand me a Writing Excuses CD?
Please say yes, please say yes, please say yes…
November 8th, 2008 at 7:57 am
@WEKM: Yes, for “sometime next week” values of yes. I hope to have them in hand at DK on Wednesday.
November 8th, 2008 at 10:34 am
dang … and I only found $50 worth of stuff i wanted.
Err … $70, if I used those magnets at work they’d vanish as soon as the engineers found them, so I’d need a set that would be holding up “you touch, you get broken fingers” signs
November 8th, 2008 at 11:18 am
If you get the sticky-backs, they won’t go walking away. :-)
I realize a lot of regular customers already HAVE everything that they want. Mostly I’m trying to
lureumm…baitno, wait… umm… entice? Yeah, ENTICE fans who haven’t bought anything to take the plunge.November 8th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
On a completely unrelated note (since I already have the four books), your mercenarysearch.com site doesn’t seems to work. And the other thing is that I miss your comments regarding the physics of the comic, or completely hilarious histories like the near miss of Europa to New Jersey. Is this tradition lost to the new blogging site?
Oh! And the truly important comment. Congratulations! I’ve recieved the “Teraport Wars” Book and I simply couldn’t put it down. I’ve even recalled two more rules that I had forgotten.
November 8th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Re: Mercenary Strip Search — I’m not the maintainer. It’s a fan site. Sorry!
Re: footnotes — these haven’t been leaping to mind quite the way they used to, but there have been a few in the current storyline. I think. I’ll be adding more for these stories when they hit book format.
Footnotes aren’t a victim of the blog.
November 8th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
ah … and by the way, I’m going to be broke soon, your site was featuring an ad from disney, and disney treasures will soon have 2 things my Other Half wants (Dr. Syn/The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh & The Swamp Fox). $68 later at the book store ….
And if I didn’t get magnets, I couldn’t torture the engineers, and that’s a needful thing, I have to fix their computers.
November 9th, 2008 at 1:27 am
Howard Tayler: Do you know who runs MercStripSearch? (So we
know who to throw things at in order to get the search functional? :) )
hswoolve: _Dr. Syn_ is finally out? It’s about bloody time!
(Patrick McGoohan Fan, I am. :) )
November 9th, 2008 at 6:09 am
November 11th, I’d be doing a happy dance, but I’m having too much fun watching himself do it.
He’s not going to be to happy when i tell him he has to wait until Hannukah to watch it though. (I may relent, I want to see it too)
November 9th, 2008 at 6:45 am
Howard’s scheming has succeeded and he may add a new entry to the “Seven habits of highly effective cartoonists”: “Free International Schlepping”.
Thanks, this Christmas will be a merry one.
kiravuo
November 9th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
csadn - I’ll try to get in touch with the maintainer of the stripsearch site and see if it can be moved to another location.
November 10th, 2008 at 1:32 am
Bookworm: Thanks. And, in keeping with my upbringing, which
included the teaching “never complain unless you have a solution
in mind”: If assistance is needed in getting all the comics transcribed
in short order, I’m game.
November 10th, 2008 at 7:14 am
I can provide transcripts, courtesy of the Schlocker who has been providing them for the archive pages.
November 10th, 2008 at 7:24 am
Speaking of shipping, is there a way to have the package not be delivered to my door but to nearest drop point (or what the word is) ?
November 10th, 2008 at 10:07 am
If you can provide an address for the drop point you want, we can deliver it there. Email schlockmercenary@gmail.com and fire your question directly at Sandra.
November 13th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Why not offer free shipping anywhere in the galaxy? All the buyer needs to do is provide the Earth address of a shipper who serves that part of the galaxy. You might catch a few E.T.’s that way. That could help in world domination, or at least in your step from world domination to galactic domination.
November 22nd, 2008 at 5:02 pm
ARRRGHl. I already have the first 3 :(. theres not enough for me to buy to justify the 100$ :(.