Edit Sorry to anyone that was trying to pay with an AmEx, my account was temporarily suspended, that has been resolved now and payments should be able to be accepted from AmEx in the next 20 minutes.
Just a reminder that tomorrow is the last day to pre-order your FA Joy in 6ml, 30ml or 4oz+ size for this group buy. Come midnight Thursday, we will be closed to additional orders.
I have some good news and some bad news regarding the order. Good news is that it doesn't have to come from Italy, it'll instead ship from FlavourArt's new North American facility. This is what we had hoped for.
Unfortunately, the discounts from retail pricing on FA North America don't start until $1000 order size versus the 200 euro starting point for IT orders. Also still have to pay international shipping (slightly lower but still high) as the new FA NA facility is in Canada. Lastly, the order has to be processed manually from this facility so it's about a one week turnaround time from order until it ships I'm told.
Order will be placed first thing Friday morning as I have a strong feeling I'll have to send a wire transfer to pay for it if they are using the same payment processor on these orders as the Italian based orders.
I'm expecting to have the product delivered to me on or around July 20th, so orders should start shipping from me the next day. At this point, we have ~2 liters so it may take me ~2 days to break it all down and get it out depending on other orders moving through GGG at the time.
I'll see where final costs line up, if I've got some margin, I'll include a 6ml of Awesome Apple Pie for everyone, if I don't, I won't (it won't be much margin regardless as no discount).
Any questions ask away.
7/14/15 - No additional orders at this time
I personally would like to donate my share of the margin to buy you a beer for putting this together for us. Thanks, friend.
If you do end up getting that beer, I'd appreciate you taking a pic of you 'cheers'ing me with it.
Fuck it, for $12, why not. Sounds like a great additive.
It better be with the way everyone has been raving about it. I have some ideas as well I'll be throwing up as soon as I have a chance to start playing with it.
I've only seen a couple things about it, what do you think it'd play well with?
Primarily bakery flavors to add an awesome amount of sweetness. It won't be the forefront in 99% of recipes you see it in but it will be an essential ingredient any time you see it used.
I have a few ideas I want to play with that'll go against the grain trying to make it to the forefront of certain recipes but that's going to take some time and a lot of effort I fear.
In the mean time, adding it to some complex cake/cereal mixtures I think could be excellent.
I still haven't tried it myself, for all I know it could be way over-hyped, but I doubt it.
I've never seen a flavor get so much hype haha. I really hope this is good. We've needed a good sugary flavor that isn't meringue for forever.
Would that 6ml be a flavoring concentrate, or ready to vape juice?
Concentrate to be used @ ~12.5%