BPAL - decant circle

[telophase]

Going by my previous poll, I've got six people besides myself interested in getting a full set of ten imps from the Descent into the Maelstrom decant circle I'm thinking of running. If I get two more people I can afford to order two full sets of the DitM and then offer the extra imps individually, since there should be about 1.5-2 imps/bottle left over.

ETA: One more! I just need one more person! Come on! You know you want to! It's closed! Unless someone decides they don't want to do it after all!



9 people @ $35/each is $315. Two sets plus shipping to me is $312.50, and I think the remaining imps at $3.50 each would cover up the costs of the imp vials, decanting supplies, and shipping out to everyone (especially since I know not all of them will sell. :D) (ETA: the cost breakdown is here. Shipping from the Lab to me is $12.50 for 1 or 2 sets. I figured I'd probably share out empty bottles and freebie imps equally to the set-buyers, although I have no idea what I'd do with the two Imps of the Perverse; probably pull names out of a hat to see who got 'em.)

This is the list so far:

1. telophase
2. plasticchimera
3. bpggle
4. jonquil
5. marith
6. mscongeniality
7. matildarose
8. eridan
9. greenapple2004

So ... I'm looking for two one zero more people. :D Otherwise it'll just be one set and a first-come, first-served policy for those imps.

Comments

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

I know a couple of people who like BPAL, should I pass this along to my friends list and see if they are interested?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Sure. I am currently reserving one of the two spots until I hear back from kintail if he's interested, but one's clearly open at the moment. :D

The extra imps will be available after I get them and decant them all out; I just don't want to offer them unless I know how many there will be. (I don't want any more than 9 people, just so I can have more than one imp of each scent left over, since there's several people who wanted to buy individual ones.)

I'm going to put in an order on Tuesday, March 14th, since that's the full moon and the Lunacy blend will be vailable, plus whatever other spiffy extras they might think of putting up, and it'll be easier on me overall to put in one big order. XD Which means I'll want the funds before Tuesday, because I can't afford to pay for three people's orders and wait for them to reimburse me later.

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

Right-o. The funds shouldn't be a problem (at least not this month).

I'll go ahead and put the entry up, then.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

:D I wanted to make that clear up front to anyone interested - there are times when I can afford to wait, but at the moment, what money I've got I want to spend on ALL ME MY MINE!!!!!!!! XD

[kintail.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks for holding a spot for me... I'm sorry I didn't get back to you earlier about it (been sooo disorganized).

I did finally get around to taking a look at the descriptions, and I'm not interested enough in most of them (and some of them I'm sure I won't like), and I haven't been feeling up to doing any BPAL testing for a while now anyway, so I'll sit this one out -- but thanks for saving a chance for me!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Sure thing! :D

Oh - the Lunacy going on sale next month is Dragon Moon, FYI. I suspect you'd want to know that. XD

[kintail.livejournal.com]

*does the sudden startled "really I wasn't asleep" routine* EH? WHAT? EH?

Ahem. *^_^*

*goes to look up details*

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Hee. Yeah, on the April full moon, it'll be up - I poked around the BPAL forums until I found the list of future Lunacies, but have already lost the URL. This month is Peony Moon, which I reserve judgement on until I see the description, but with the Chinese theme, I predict that tea and/or bamboo will be in it.

I probably won't get the Dragon Moon in April, since I expect it'll have dragon's blood in it which, sadly, does not work for me.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Ah - found it:

2006
January: Holiday Moon / Available December 15
February: Budding Moon / Available January 14
March: Sleepy Moon / Available February 13
April: Peony Moon / Available March 14
May: Dragon Moon / Available April 13
June: Lotus Moon / Available May 13
July: Hungry Ghost Moon / Available June 11

[kintail.livejournal.com]

Ah, thank you! I hadn't managed to find any mention of it yet, but I was still looking.

About how early before going on sale do descriptions actually go up?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

They go up when it goes on sale, actually. :D Which is theoretically midnight California time, but in practice is usually 2 or 3 AM California time. Last month the site crashed for several hours immediately thereafter, but the descriptions got posted to alchemylab and bpalanonymous shortly after they went live, so if it goes down for a while again, I'd suggest checking there.

And the BPAL site seems exceptionally prone to caching errors, so force reloads often when you're waiting for the update. :) bpal_excathedra usually has an announcement as soon as it goes live, but they don't post the description there.

[kintail.livejournal.com]

Ahh, okay. Last time I thought you got the description a bit before you actually ordered it, I misunderstood.

*makes a little note on calendar*

[telophase.livejournal.com]

A couple of months ago they had some problems and kept the order window open longer than 24 hours; that might be what you're thinking of. :D

[eridan.livejournal.com]

Friend of Ms. Congeniality - and I am SO in.

If there's still space, i mean. let me know.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Sure! You're #8. :D Once I get the #9 spot confirmed, I'll contact everyone with my Paypal address, and I'll send the order in on Tuesday.

[eridan.livejournal.com]

Woot and yea verily!

I am totally looking forward to this.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Woo, the generic cut-and-pasted notice I've been sending poeple, pasted ehre 'cause I'm too lazy to retype it:

Spamming completely unrelated LJ posts to remind you that at one point you expressed willingness to drop $35 on a set of BPAL decants for Descent into the Maelstrom. If you still want to, then you can Paypal it to telophase14 at gmail dot com (if you use credit-card Paypal, it's sfolse at cepheid.org) and all will be right and good with the universe. If you have second thoughts (or need to do something other than Paypal), please let me know ASAP. I'm planning on putting the order in on Tuesday, when this month's Lunacy blend goes live. Thanks! :)

[rabican.livejournal.com]

I have no money this month, so I shall pass, but have fun! :D

[greenapple2004.livejournal.com]

I'm in! Is there still space?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yes! Whee! I have my 9 now! Provided the others still want to do it! Whee!!!!! I shall get back to everyone in the next day or two with the Paypal address to use - the one I think you used last time is a premium account and will take a chunk out of every transaction, but I've got another account that won't, so I want to use that. :)

[greenapple2004.livejournal.com]

Sounds good! Justlemme know. :-) Eeee! Yummy smells!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Woo, the generic cut-and-pasted notice I've been sending poeple, pasted ehre 'cause I'm too lazy to retype it:

Spamming completely unrelated LJ posts to remind you that at one point you expressed willingness to drop $35 on a set of BPAL decants for Descent into the Maelstrom. If you still want to, then you can Paypal it to telophase14 at gmail dot com (if you use credit-card Paypal, it's sfolse at cepheid.org) and all will be right and good with the universe. If you have second thoughts (or need to do something other than Paypal), please let me know ASAP. I'm planning on putting the order in on Tuesday, when this month's Lunacy blend goes live. Thanks! :)