If you ordered pre-order Dining On A Dime Cookbooks from our preordering sale, this message is for you:
MOST RECENT UPDATE: DECEMBER 11, 2021
We received the first shipment of books on Thursday afternoon and worked extra hard to get out all the orders we could between then and Saturday. We managed to ship 2/3 of all of the pre-orders that have been waiting! Wohoo!!!
If you ordered a Dining On A Dime volume 2, they are still on the way, but we are scheduled to receive them Monday or Tuesday and will be shipping the rest of the orders as soon as they arrive!
We hope to have shipped all of the orders by the middle of this coming week and we will keep posting updates here!
MOST RECENT UPDATE: DECEMBER 8, 2021
We were just advised that we will be receiving the first shipment of books TOMORROW!!!
Assuming we do actually receive them tomorrow, we will begin shipping orders right away! We will ship in the order the orders were placed.
Though we can’t be sure you will receive them by Christmas, we will be working overtime to ship the available books without delay. We currently expect to be able to ship all pre-orders by the end of next week.
If you ordered before Nov. 1, you should receive your books in late December.
If you ordered after Nov. 1, you may receive your books in late December, but it might be early January.
Check back here if you would like updates as we will be posting updates here as soon as we receive them.
Thanks! Tawra
MOST RECENT UPDATE: DECEMBER 3, 2021
GREAT NEWS!! Yesterday, we were notified to expect to begin receiving books in our warehouse at the end of next week (around December 10th). We will be receiving multiple shipments over 2 weeks.
This means we will be shipping books beginning next week (around December 10th and into the week of December 13th).
As soon as we receive them, we will be shipping all pre-orders in the order they were placed. Though we can’t be sure you will receive them by Christmas, we will be shipping the books without delay.
If you ordered before Nov. 1, you should receive your books in late December.
If you ordered after Nov. 1, you may receive your books in late December, but it might be early January. We will be shipping books as soon as we receive them in the order the orders were placed.
Check back here if you would like updates as we will be posting updates here as soon as we receive them.
Thanks! Tawra
PREVIOUS UPDATE
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We received an update from our shipper about the status of the books. As you probably know, our books have been stuck in the Seattle port for months as part of the “Supply Chain” problem.
It now appears the books will NOT arrive in time for you to receive them by Christmas.
The shipper is now estimating that *WE* should receive the books in our warehouse between 12/14 – 12/21 on the **first** shipment we will receive and they added “for now”.
We will ship the books as soon as we receive them, but it is unclear when that will be.
So what this means is:
If you ordered before Nov. 1, you “might” get your books around mid-January.
If you ordered after Nov. 1, you will most likely get your books closer to February – “hopefully”.
It is *possible* the books may suddenly be released sooner, but we are estimating the above to try to be totally transparent about the progress.
We are very sorry for the delay. We are very frustrated about this and have not seen anything like this supply chain meltdown in 22 years of book publishing.
Yes, I would drive to Seattle myself with a Uhaul and get the books but I would most likely end up in jail for throwing a fit on the port and insisting that they free our books. Jail might not be a bad thing if we could get a big enough media blitz out of it and it DID get our books released from their bondage but my kids would probably be slightly upset if mom was in jail for Christmas so alas… we just sit and wait for them to have mercy on us and free our books from their bondage. :-)
So once again… If these dates are too late for you, please feel free to ask us for a refund. These books were supposed to be here in September and we had NO IDEA what a mess this would be!
So sorry for the big mess with the orders!
Mike and Tawra