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BFCM dilemma (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by Total_Horror_3650@alien.top to c/entrepreneur@indiehackers.space

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Hello dear folks,
I have an unfortunate situation on my hands.
In September, we had a preorder of a product that was set to ship in October. This was delayed until November, and will now be shipping right before the BFCM holiday (around the 20th). The customers have been nice and understanding of why the delay happened and not a single one has asked for a refund/ cancellation (around 400 orders), but naturally they are a bit irritated by the delay.
The problem is, we want to do a BFCM sale. This sale would bring the price of the products they purchased via preorder and waited 2 months for down by about 25%. As the shipping has been delayed, the preorders will ship just days before the sale goes live (24th), and the preorders will not have arrived before the sale starts.
This means that we would announce the sale just about the same day as we send out the last preorders.
I am forecasting that this will bring some disappointment and anger from the people who preordered, who waited long and paid full price and will not even have received their products many days before those who get the reduced price during BFCM.
We cannot afford to reimburse the difference to those who ask.
Should we just skip BFCM wholly to nurture our existing customers (many are returning customers) or go ahead with the sale?

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[–] Clogish@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Assuming you still don't have the product in hand, there's no way I would be running a black friday sale at the same time you *hope* to be shipping to your pre-order customers.

That's a recipe for 400 extremely unhappy customers, when your first customers should be the most delighted ambassadors for your product and company. They're already cutting you slack for the delay - don't make them feel like idiots on top of this.