Message aux backers et très grosses promos sur leur store, franchement c’est intéressant.
Dear backers,
Thank you for your patience on this update. Today, we’re sharing our stance and how the tariffs might impact our company’s future.
Many of you are already aware of this situation, but here’s a quick overview for context:
- The tariff war between the U.S. and China has escalated. Tariffs started at 0% in January and have rapidly increased to 10%, 20%, 54%, 104%, 125%, 145%, and 245%.
- Most modern board games are printed in China due to the capabilities to create top quality games at a very low cost. In the supply chain, publishers, distributors, and retailers operate with tight margins.
This is negatively impacting fellow publishers and industry peers. Our heart goes out to them and everyone else in the tabletop industry and community.
Our stance
We owe our success and growth to you, our backers. We’re fortunate to have so many returning backers across our projects, including this one.
We maintain a backer-first mentality because we know our backers have stood by us through difficulties and unforeseen circumstances since 2017.
When global events like this one occur and affect our funded-but-unfulfilled projects, we strive to keep our promises as they were initially presented. That’s why we didn’t charge extra shipping fees when freight costs skyrocketed as a post-Covid result, or why we absorbed VAT for active projects when changes in EU import regulations were announced.
Because of that, many projects have not been profitable for us, but we love what we do for a living, which is possible thanks to you. Our company was built on values and principles, and my business partners and I strive to fulfill our promises, especially to those who have believed in and supported us along the way.
While we are based in Mexico, we are incorporated in the USA and have some distribution and convention presence, plus fantastic relationships with US backers and partners. Our sales in the USA represent about 50% of our income. If tariffs remain, this will hugely impact us and our operations in the USA may cease, much as we don’t want that to happen…
We don’t know the final outcome of the governments’ actions, so this is not a final decision. Instead, we must stay focused on what we can control with a clear mentality:
Our priority remains with our backers; our focus and responsibility is fulfilling your games. We have paused plans for new crowdfunding campaigns (including Pandapalooza expansion for Party Panda Pirates).
At this stage, with 245% tariffs, we don’t plan to impose mandatory additional charges for our US backers in this project.
Instead, here’s an alternative way for members of our community to help us weather this unforeseen storm:
How You Can Help
We have set a store-wide sale for a limited time on ready-to-ship products in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia.