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Game Toppers 2.0 - The Ultimate Gaming Accessory

Created by Game Toppers LLC

Upgrading your gaming experience with Quality, Affordable, Portable Game Toppers with Thematic Game Mats & Accessories.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Game Toppers 2.0 backers Last update on our KS 3.0
almost 3 years ago – Wed, May 19, 2021 at 01:45:28 AM

Greetings game Topper 2.0 backers!

If you haven't seen, we are on Kickstarter again and having an amazing campaign with new mats, new Leg kits, new dining/Gaming covers and accessories!


Greetings Game Topper Nation!!!

ONLY 45 hours left! I thought I'd put out an update. I've been up since 5AM as I was excited to join a group of fine folks (Sarah, Conor and Steven) at Board Game BBQ in Australia! What a fun group!! Their show drops Wed night 7PM CDT. Secret: I made an oath! Check them out.

  • NEWS:

We have a live Q & A #10 with BJ Shea WED 2:30 PM CDT.

BJ is a now backer who I met at Pax unplugged. Then I found out he is syndicated talk show host!

BJ had me on his show a few weeks ago and what a joy he is! Join us for the last Campaign Q & A # 10

  • The Big Push!!!

I think we still have some big things to push for...

Check out all our 45 unlocked Stretch Goals.

There is some significant savings here! Big goals, big savings!!!

I feel like a wind up doll...Thanks you so much! Pull: Thank you so much Pull: Thanks you so much!

I just want you all to know how grateful I am for all you help, encouraging words and wonderful friendship!

Have a great night all!!!!!

Burky and team!

It's almost here!!!! Game Toppers 3.0
almost 3 years ago – Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:55:53 PM

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Greetings Game Topper Nation!

So it's almost here!!!! We are so excited! Tuesday, April 20th, 11 Am CDT we launch! This campaign is the culmination of over a years worth of work and development! I have painstakingly worked to make sure our products continue to live up to our reputation of quality and implemented procedures to insure a good fulfillment. 

First, I want to thank you all for your amazing support! Our company really would be nothing with you. Game Topper Nation has become a family to us. This community means a lot to me, and I think you have come to know that about me and our team. This isn't just business. It's more. It's relationship and I'm so grateful for you. Your support and help has allowed us to continue to innovate and get better. I'm believing this will be the best campaign yet. We have a lot planned!

Here is a preview video of our product and some new innovations, new mats, and new accessories.

This campaign has a lot of Stretch Goals that I hope to unlock that are specially designed to be like a loyalty reward by giving big savings on certain bundles that would normally not be doable outside a platform like this. 

Prices have been going up at every turn and I have agonized and worked more angles than you 'll ever know to be able to keep my packages accessible without sacrificing quality. I think we have come up with some stuff that is going to be very exciting.


Any help you can give us by signal boosting our posts when you see them in other groups would be much appreciated! it really makes a big difference.

Thanks again!!!  

Burky and team!

PS.

We have a bunch of new media folks joining the Game Topper Team. Here are a couple of them to preview. 

Australia shipments, EU Overstock, and clearance sale
about 3 years ago – Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 10:25:08 PM

Greetings Game Topper Nation!!!

We hope you are all well! Wow, a new year! 

NEWS:

  • We are very excited about an amazing amount of ne items for the next Kickstarter currently scheduled for late March/early April. It is going to amazing!
  • We launched our new E-commerce store powered by Shopify just after Thanksgiving. This provides a much better user experience. We are putting together a clearance page of some older inventory and items we will be retiring.
  • We are moving through our existing inventory very quickly and only have a few Watson, Holmes, and Adler Acrylic covers left.

Australia Update:

We were informed Tuesday that the order is being prepared to go out from our fulfillment partners.

Quote from them: 

"Currently arranging for pickup. All orders should be out by this week. Time frame I'm getting is 3-5 business days for most areas. Tracking is being sent to the backers generated by the carrier when the articles are picked up and scanned in. We will also have a summary of the tracking numbers by backer to you with a link to the tracking website and carrier for each article."


Unfortunately due to Covid and many uncertainties we did not stock very much overstock in Australia,

After these orders are received approx. 5-10 days then we will let you know of the very few items that will be left for sale. (we sent a few extra items for service related issues).


EU Fulfillment:

We have successfully fulfilled the EU and has gone exceptionally well with our fulfillment partner. Cost have been higher than expected due to unforeseen Covid related delays and increases.

We have successfully fulfilled the EU and has gone exceptionally well with our fulfillment partner. Cost have been higher than expected due to unforeseen Covid related delays and increases.


We have successfully fulfilled the EU and has gone exceptionally well with our fulfillment partner. Cost have been higher than expected due to unforeseen Covid related delays and increases.


Sale items:

We have a very limited amount of overstock available for sale. Sorry, first come, first served and these are the only configuration we can fulfill with. I have included the prices VAT included for ease.

 See charts and shipping fees below. The UK will need to add an Exra 10 percent now because of Brexit.

We expect this to move very fast as  have already send many emails with this info. Please email me directly Via [email protected].

All payments will be made individually through Paypal.



  Thank you all! your support and kindness has been amazing!!! i very excited about the future and continuing to improve and go to the next Level in upgrading everyone's gaming experience!
               As always if you need any support help Please email Josiah at [email protected] or you can reach out to me at [email protected]
               All our best!
               Burky and team.



 

Near final Fulfillment update 10-12-20
over 3 years ago – Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 07:47:16 PM

Greetings Game Topper Nation

I must offer a bit of an apology for the delay in this update. I am very committed to answer every individual question via social media, email or KS, (no small task) but putting out these larger updates in the middle of my workload is always a bit harder. Honestly, the biggest problem for me is, there is always a large amount of information I am gathering or waiting on others to provide so I can be accurate. I respond to questions pretty rapid fire to keep up and give people the best current info, but don’t want to ever come off as dismissing anyone’s concerns or not appear empathetic.

I think I’m an ok communicator, but writing is not my best gift. Trust me, I so very much appreciate each and every one of you! You have been so understanding during these trying times.  My heart is full of gratitude. Our team works tirelessly to get these great gaming upgrades out as soon as we can. You can ask my team and family that I agonize over any delays and always have my top priority taking care of our backers.

That all said, I have a bunch of good news!!!!


Fulfillment update:

All USA and Canada orders have been fulfilled! This is such a herculean task in normal times. Then throw Covid on top of it! We were way ahead of schedule fulfilling over 1500 domestic “mat only” pledges 4 months ahead of schedule. We had half of the standard toppers sent out a couple months ahead of scheduled and were on track to exceed expectations. Then Covid hit. This affected our supply chain and manufactures experienced severe complications. That had a cascading effect.  We continued to persevere and do lots of modulating. This was very challenging and proved very costly, but thankfully we persevered and we finished most domestic orders by Aug and Canada right after that.

All of our new domestic orders now ship in 2-3 business days. (See international post KS sales info below.)

If you want to order in Canada, we still have a pretty good situation if we ship a pallet at a time to keep the shipping in line with our KS shipping prices. A topper package generally cost $225.00 shipping, duty, and tax inc. We now add $25.00 post KS surcharge for our extra fees we incur. We actually are still subsidizing a bit of the cost. If you want expedited shipping to Canada (meaning not waiting for a pallet each few weeks) we can ship direct to our fulfillment center for an additional $75.00. An extra $10.00 added to a game mat or small package order.

What’s new?

We are planning on launching our new E-commerce store November 20th. We just mad a new rewet of our website. there is a online product catalog now.  https://www.gametoppersllc.com/products.html 

Many of the Stretch Goals and some of the bundle pricing are going to go away or change.


As a customer Loyalty gesture we want to let you all know that if you want any of our limited supply  items, like the Rail Bundles, Leaf Extension Bundles, Dice Tower Bundles, mat racks, acrylic covers and especially the Double Mat Bundles (which are a tremendous savings with discounted shipping and mat storage bags included) you will have one week to take advantage of these special prices  through the Late Pledge Manager. Shhh... don't tell anyone... Some great Christmas ideas.

Rail bundles
Leaf extensions
double mat bundles

We are also going to retire a few mostly older items on a special clearance page of the new e-commerce store and will give you a head ups so you can take advantage of them first. A few  Waverly gen 1 rails, gen 1 Mycroft bags, some Wood cup holders etc.

EU

The container has arrived at our fulfilment partner in Germany and is being shipped as you read this.

It was a very large order (over 200 orders) and should take about 10 days to handle the full order. If you are European backer you should receive a tracking email. Most of the small packages appeared to be going out first and now the larger topper packages are shipping. Many have said that the tracking info has been in peoples spam folders, so that would be a good thing to check. If you do not receive a tracking email by November 20th please let us know and we can do some research for you. So far everything has been going smoothly.

Due to Covid-19 restrictions and not being able to attend the UK Games Expo and The Essen Spiel, it has really hindered our opportunity to market well in Europe. With the uncertainty of travel, we had to make a very difficult call and limit the amount of overstock product we are keeping in Germany this go around. Also, Brexit is providing us uncertainty for 2021.


Future EU Sales:

We have a few Watson, Holmes, Adler and Mycroft and just a couple of mats styles and a small amount of extra accessories and cup holders that we will make available for sale after everyone has successfully received their products. Our products have been  very thoughtfully engineered  with heavy duty packaging and the large units are being shipped on pallets giving further protection so we do not expect problems, but nonetheless we took some precautions.

We will update when these are available. If you are in the UK, now would be a good time to take advantage of those when they become available before the end of the year or an additional VAT charge will occur. Next year’s Kickstarter we will need to ship directly to the UK me thinks.

Any product that has to be shipped from the USA is very expensive. Typically a mat is $60-$80 and a Topper $600.00 to $700 due to the size and weight. Shipping in bulk like we did was a huge win to save everyone money on that front.


Australia:

This has been a horrible challenge do to shipping congestion lack of containers and logistic problems.

When we priced our 20 ft container last year to make Australia available we were quoted $2000.00. I padded it to $2500.00 in my business plan. Now this shipment us costing us over $5800.00.

We shipped out all the pallets a couple of weeks ago, but the shipment  has been delayed due to congestion we are told.  The good news is that it expected to be loaded on the ship this Friday and arrive in Sidney  Dec 10th-14th, then sent to our logistics partner, Aetherworks. The now so good news is, that Aetherworks closes for the holiday season Dec 18th. It does not seem optimistic that it will clear customs and arrive at Aetherworks in time for Christmas shipping. I will keep you in the loop if anything happens that would change this, but for now I would expect that it would be after the holidays. I’m so sorry for those of you that have so patiently waited. We worked hard to push at every step, but it’s just very challenging right now.


Future Sales in Australia:

This is very similar decision we made like Germany for our overstock.

We have a few Watson, Holmes, and Mycroft and just a couple of mats styles and a small amount of extra accessories and cup holders that we will make available for sale after everyone has successfully received their products. Any product that has to be shipped from the USA is very expensive. Typically a mat is $80 and a Topper $600.00 to $800 due to the size and weight.

We will update when these are available.

Lastly,

Whew! We are currently working full steam ahead on the next Kickstarter campaign scheduled for Feb/ March with Next fall 2021 fulfillment. The creativity and energy is coming back to me.  New Mats, new accessories and some other exciting offerings that is going to blow everyone’s mind!!!

Here is a sneak peak of one of our new mats called the great wall by the amazing Vincent Dutrait. Much more to come……super pumped!!!

The Great Wall- ancient Asia mat.

We love you all and are very thankful for all of your support and kind encouragement during this time.

If you have any concerns you can reach me at [email protected] or [email protected]

Josiah, Joseph, Joan and myself all wish you the best of health, safety and peace.

Happy holidays to you!

Burky

Canada tracking and EU /Australia shipments
over 3 years ago – Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 12:02:13 AM

Greetings Game Topper Nation!

I hope you are all well and are enjoying some gaming! I wanted to give a couple quick updates.

As of today 9-22-20 The Canada orders have all gone out From pick and Pack..Check spam if you do not get tracking.

NOTE:

 The tracking numbers from Pick and Pack are to notify you that packages are coming your way. We have had several emails of concern that the right items are coming and that the descriptions are not showing the complete contents. Have no worries, our package have specific packing solutions within the box they were designed to ship in safely. This was thought through a long time ago to save people money on shipping. Some items must be in a separate package due to size and weight, So it is possible you may see multiple packages. The tracking fields are very limited an could never include full order descriptions. Rest assured our team goes through a double check of every order that goes our from our facility. Pick and Pack simply put a label on the packages we have completed for final leg delivery.

I just want to put everyone at ease. Our failure rate on picked orders has been extremely low do to our due diligence QC processes. We are human and can make mistakes, but if we do please let us know at [email protected] and you can have confidence we will make it right very quickly. Thanks much everyone for your understanding.

Future Canada shipping: 

Can I still buy Game topper products in Canada? 

Yes, we have a very good situation here. We can still ship to Canada at our advertised rates with this exception. We are planing on doing a shipment at the end of each month (or earlier if 1 pallet is filled) starting OCT 30th (or sooner) and Nov 30th (or sooner)  and possible DEC 15th. (...if demand is there for a bulk shipment of at least one pallet) The reason for this is to get a better bulk rate shipping to our partner and  to avoid extra handling charges. There is a one time $50 per pallet fee even for one item. So while it takes longer it saves on shipping.

This means that our normal 2-3 Domestic USA would not apply, meaning depending on when you order is placed and when the order goes out will determine your wait time. Another option is...

Canadian Expedited shipping only:

We can ship individual packages immediately with a expedited surcharge. Cost will increase by $25.00 for a small packages like mats and dice towers.  $75.00 additional for Topper order.

Eu Shipment:

The order is all packed and waiting for the container to arrive for shipment. We think it will be here Thursday. Shipping is more congested than we have seen in quite some time so this is not a perfect science. We are told about 25 days shipping, about a week customs clearance and delivery to our logistics partner in Germany and the 7 -10 days final leg journey depending on distance from Germany.

Part of the EU order ready for Shrink and container packing.

Can I still buy Game topper products in the EU?

Yes, but we will have a very limited amount of product for this KS left in Germany after fulfillment. (Just enough to handle any service or delivery damage) After everyone gets their pledges we will then allow orders from the excess inventory to sell. This will be limited items about 6-8 toppers total and a few mats and accessories.

After this inventory is exhausted Shipping from the USA will be at a much higher price making mostly undo-able. However, we will be coming back to KS next year and again offer these combined discounted shipping solutions

Australia:

We will start packing this segment this week, and expect to be done by the end of next week and then will become a consolidated pickup to Australia with Aetherworks Logistics. We expect by the end of Oct Early November product should be near your home. You still have a few days to order if you are in Australia.

Can I still buy Game topper products in the Australia?

Yes, but we will have a very limited amount of product for this KS left in Australia after fulfillment. (Just enough to handle any service or delivery damage) After everyone gets their pledges we will then allow orders from the excess inventory to sell. This will be limited items about 3-4 toppers total and a few mats and accessories.

After this inventory is exhausted Shipping from the USA will be at a much higher price making mostly undo-able. However, we will be coming back to KS next year and again offer these combined discounted shipping solutions

Going forward:

We are neck deep in plans for our next Kickstarter with exciting new mats, new backward compatible accessory ideas, and some stuff I can't even talk about yet that will blow everyone's minds! We will keep you posted. 

We are also looking at retiring some of our gen one accessories, storage bags, waverly rails and 2 mm mats. We are going to do a Loyalty Sale to our backers. This will not be most of our main products, Not toppers.  Just a bunch of left over and some seconds. Stay Tuned!

Thanks again everyone!!!

Please let us know if you have any concerns or help!

[email protected] or [email protected]

Burky and Team