Teaser -- There will be a big announcement on Thanksgiving afternoon ... Stay tuned!!!

By Alex Chobot (Alendrel) on Tuesday, November 23, 2021 - 11:35 pm: Edit

AndroWar Kickstarter with a pledge level where a Dominator or variant is named after you.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, November 24, 2021 - 12:10 am: Edit

Jean combined her marketing job and Leanna's operations job and created the Trick or Treat sale last month and has something interesting for this month.

By Alex Chobot (Alendrel) on Wednesday, November 24, 2021 - 01:36 am: Edit

Mind already blown.

Should I get two...

By Mike Erickson (Mike_Erickson) on Wednesday, November 24, 2021 - 07:41 am: Edit

>> AndroWar Kickstarter with a pledge level where a Dominator or variant is named after you.

URL please!

--Mike

By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Wednesday, November 24, 2021 - 10:31 am: Edit

Sorry, but all guesses thus far are not correct ...

By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Wednesday, November 24, 2021 - 10:34 am: Edit

Not the big announcement but ... you asked for it.

All individual Federation Commander ship cards (even the bonus cards!) are now available. Each has a note for which title(s) it is in.

Pick yours up here: https://www.starfleetstore.com/individual-ship-cards-c-9_20/

By Alex Chobot (Alendrel) on Wednesday, November 24, 2021 - 11:15 am: Edit

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By Eddie E Crutchfield (Librarian101) on Wednesday, November 24, 2021 - 02:35 pm: Edit

The Turkey survived the mini will be available immediately.

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Wednesday, November 24, 2021 - 05:46 pm: Edit

Have a good Thanksgiving one and all.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, November 25, 2021 - 05:58 am: Edit

Happy Thanksgiving!

By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Thursday, November 25, 2021 - 07:43 pm: Edit

Welcome to the SFU Sale!

Have you ever wanted to give a friend an introduction to your favorite game?
Do you want to try a game other than your favorite?
(Or maybe you just want to give yourself a copy - we won't rat you out!)

Then the "Welcome to the SFU" Sale is for you. Starting now, it runs through December 6, 2021. All the introductions to the games are on sale. These include A Call to Arms: Star Fleet, Book 1.2, Federation & Empire 2010 (including the Large Print Edition), Federation Commander: Klingon Border, Federation Commander: Romulan Border, GURPS Prime Directive 2020 (the combined set and volume 1), Prime Directive PD20M and its supplement, Star Fleet Battles: Basic Set, Star Fleet Battle Force, Star Fleet Marines: Assault, and Starmada: Klingon Armada Unity.

Stock up on some fantastic presents! (Yes, if you give it to yourself, it is indeed a present!)

Get all these direct from ADB: https://www.starfleetstore.com/

By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Sunday, November 28, 2021 - 12:08 pm: Edit

Shapeways is doing Cyber Monday. 10% off with the code CYBER2021

Enjoy!

https://www.shapeways.com/shops/amarillo-design-bureau-inc

By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Tuesday, November 30, 2021 - 10:06 am: Edit

Shapeways has extended their sale through December 1 at 3 am EST. So get your ships now! Battleships would be a good choice! Or fill out your 7000 Scale fleets.

Want a list of the ships? Go toward the end of the Text Catalog and you'll find a list of ships by scale and empire, along with links to the ships: http://www.starfleetgames.com/documents/Text%20Catalog.pdf

Or browse for cool ships:
https://www.shapeways.com/shops/amarillo-design-bureau-inc

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Friday, December 24, 2021 - 02:52 pm: Edit

To one and all. We here at ADB, inc, wish you the joy of the season, from SVC, Leaana, Odin, Thor, Steve Petrick, Jean, Al, Wolfe, Mike, and Simone.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, December 24, 2021 - 07:11 pm: Edit

Merry Christmas

By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Tuesday, January 04, 2022 - 08:38 pm: Edit

ATTENTION CALIFORNIA AND MICHIGAN CUSTOMERS

In California and in Michigan, UPS has started adding large surcharges ($19 or more!) that we cannot absorb. As a result, we can only use USPS shipping to those states at this time. If you live in those states and accidentally choose UPS, we will ship by USPS and refund the difference.

Thank you for your understanding.

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Wednesday, January 05, 2022 - 04:55 pm: Edit

Thats great, I hope more business owners refuse to buckle to pass along ridiculous fees. If the majority bend and accept the fees (or simply pass them along to customers). Those few who stand up for their customers will suffer. If there is some solidarity those fees may go away (absorbed through other means).

I tend to use USPS anyway but occasionally Big Brown or FedEx.

By Mike West (Mjwest) on Wednesday, January 05, 2022 - 05:15 pm: Edit

Out of random curiosity, what is the stated reason for adding the large surcharge, particularly since it is aimed at just two states?

(Please, I am NOT looking for a discussion on whether the "reason" is an actual reason, or if it even makes any sense. I am just wondering what the stated justification is.)

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, January 05, 2022 - 06:58 pm: Edit

It seems to be a surcharge for residential delivery. It's more efficient to deliver lots of packages to a business. They seem to be trying to force people to sign up to get their packages at one of the mailbox stores.

By Daniel Glenn Knipfer (Dgknipfer) on Wednesday, January 05, 2022 - 11:27 pm: Edit

UPS has a tendency to take stuff to the USPS when they're overloaded, and just dump it on Uncle Sam to deliver. We had three packages sent by UPS that flagged as delivered the day before our regular postal person delivered them.

No doubt they try to charge those postal fees to somebody when they decide not to do the delivery themselves.

By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Wednesday, January 05, 2022 - 11:53 pm: Edit

I've looked at the fees. UPS refuses to explain the fees to Stamps.com, which simply charges us for them. We don't know in advance which packages will get these fees. I just cannot justify paying $20 for a package that may only have $20 of items in it. It is a good way to go out of business quickly.

By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Thursday, January 06, 2022 - 10:46 pm: Edit

USPS has upped the price for shipping again. We had to match them, choosing the price for a priority mail flat rate medium box.

As always, I check to see if we can get it to you cheaper and refund any excess funds.

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Friday, January 07, 2022 - 03:49 pm: Edit

This may be a dumb Q (as I feel like you would have thought of this already) but is DHL an option in your area? They do both International and Continental shipping. They are a lesser known company that the highly marketed UPS/FE peeps.

By Mike Dowd (Mike_Dowd) on Saturday, January 08, 2022 - 02:58 am: Edit

I get shipments from my partwork model kit subscription where the sender uses DHL.

I've been following the tracking very closely, and all they do is pick it up from Ft. Lauderdale, truck it to Jamaica NY and dump in USPS's lap for the remainder to the west coast of Canada.

I somehow doubt that DHL would be any better than USPS.