Chronicle Collectibles Gone?
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KoBE
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Anything good?
amadeusw
Active Member
I'm in the same boat
I have two pre-orders with them and haven't heard anything about a refund. But in the past when I was having trouble getting a refund, I emailed Partial.ly about it and they must have said something to Chronicle because the refund came through the next day.
I really hope it isn’t so, but I’ve requested a refund from partial ly.
Also, not all of their items are listed as sold out.
Here is the email that went out earlier this month:
The post COVID world has been a challenging year for most families and businesses across the country. It is a daily struggle to cope with the ever changing business landscape and EVERY product has and continues to experience pandemic related delays. There remains a backlog of product waiting to leave overseas ports, there are still delays entering US ports, and there are even domestic related shipping delays once items have cleared customs. Many facilities both domestic and overseas continue to be faced with government related restrictions to operation; we all experience this in our daily lives. Our in-house team has experienced staff shortages in the midst of increased workflow related to the delays. The pandemic continues to impact every facet of our business, but in spite of these difficulties, we've continued to produce and deliver items where possible, some even during lockdown:
As many of you have noticed, we've been unusually quiet on social media over the past few weeks. Like many US businesses, we lost a number of employees earlier in the year whose personal situations were of course better served drawing unemployment as opposed to returning to work from lockdown. We've also had to unfortunately scale back on office staff as we've waited on government assistance that was extended to small businesses as the economy was essentially shut down and slowly recovered. This has created a situation where we don't currently have the personnel in house to maintain a constant presence on social media, and we are still overwhelmed with correspondence from customers who understandably are looking for updates. Coming out of lockdown, our remaining in-house personnel were, and continue, to pull double and triple duty to pick up the slack left by these vacancies and the daily challenges this new global situation presents.
One of the things we noticed while trying to do daily social media posts and weekly live broadcasts was that it significantly increased the amount of redundant correspondence we were receiving. Regardless of how many times we shared the same information across various communication channels, we were still overwhelmed with inquiries about subjects that were addressed elsewhere, often numerous times. Given the personnel shortages, we have decided to focus our in-house efforts on actual completion of items currently in production as opposed to daily and weekly social media interactions that was resulting in more questions being asked than it was answering. Moving forward, we'll be posting production and shipping updates via a monthly newsletter, and save social media posts for major news announcements. We hope that this will allow us to strike a balance between keeping everyone informed as production and shipping updates slowly come in, while freeing up our staff's time to focus on addressing the ongoing challenges in completing production of current items and future product launches.
We love hearing from our customers and fostering that relationship, but we continue to be overwhelmed by correspondence. Please understand that sending multiple emails to our support address does not result in your inquiry being answered any faster, in fact it creates a totally separate and duplicate help ticket that further bogs down the system and delays our teams ability to respond. Due to the staff shortages mentioned above, social media inquiries do not necessarily reach team members that can help you, as anyone that we have helping out on those channels typically are not in house and do not have access to your customer records or are up to date on production and shipping information. Your best option continues to be contacting us via support@chroniclecollectibles.com, where we are working through the overwhelming correspondence as quickly as we are able to. Be sure to include all relevant information in your email, as opposed to a simple question of 'can someone help me'; if we have all of your information up front and details on your question, it helps us in more quickly addressing your question. Please also understand that, again, ALL items have experienced delays, and it is impossible for us to contact every single customer who has an outstanding order every time another delay occurs. We simply don't have the bandwidth, and are trying to focus our time on actually getting these items completed. We will provide updates when we know there is a change in the production or shipping situation via our newsletter.
These have been and continue to be difficult and challenging times for everyone. We're still here and still working hard to create the collectibles you love and look forward to when the global business situation returns to a sense of normalcy. We greatly appreciate your ongoing patience, understanding and support, and we look forward to sharing with you news about items currently in production and future items yet to be announced!
Also, not all of their items are listed as sold out.
Here is the email that went out earlier this month:
The post COVID world has been a challenging year for most families and businesses across the country. It is a daily struggle to cope with the ever changing business landscape and EVERY product has and continues to experience pandemic related delays. There remains a backlog of product waiting to leave overseas ports, there are still delays entering US ports, and there are even domestic related shipping delays once items have cleared customs. Many facilities both domestic and overseas continue to be faced with government related restrictions to operation; we all experience this in our daily lives. Our in-house team has experienced staff shortages in the midst of increased workflow related to the delays. The pandemic continues to impact every facet of our business, but in spite of these difficulties, we've continued to produce and deliver items where possible, some even during lockdown:
- Star Trek Cats
- John Wick Arabic Blood Oath Marker
- Mandalorian Helmet (Two Waves of shipping)
- Raptor Hatchling
- Terminator Genisys Endo Bust
- Jurassic World Baby Blue
- Jurassic World Indominus Rex
As many of you have noticed, we've been unusually quiet on social media over the past few weeks. Like many US businesses, we lost a number of employees earlier in the year whose personal situations were of course better served drawing unemployment as opposed to returning to work from lockdown. We've also had to unfortunately scale back on office staff as we've waited on government assistance that was extended to small businesses as the economy was essentially shut down and slowly recovered. This has created a situation where we don't currently have the personnel in house to maintain a constant presence on social media, and we are still overwhelmed with correspondence from customers who understandably are looking for updates. Coming out of lockdown, our remaining in-house personnel were, and continue, to pull double and triple duty to pick up the slack left by these vacancies and the daily challenges this new global situation presents.
One of the things we noticed while trying to do daily social media posts and weekly live broadcasts was that it significantly increased the amount of redundant correspondence we were receiving. Regardless of how many times we shared the same information across various communication channels, we were still overwhelmed with inquiries about subjects that were addressed elsewhere, often numerous times. Given the personnel shortages, we have decided to focus our in-house efforts on actual completion of items currently in production as opposed to daily and weekly social media interactions that was resulting in more questions being asked than it was answering. Moving forward, we'll be posting production and shipping updates via a monthly newsletter, and save social media posts for major news announcements. We hope that this will allow us to strike a balance between keeping everyone informed as production and shipping updates slowly come in, while freeing up our staff's time to focus on addressing the ongoing challenges in completing production of current items and future product launches.
We love hearing from our customers and fostering that relationship, but we continue to be overwhelmed by correspondence. Please understand that sending multiple emails to our support address does not result in your inquiry being answered any faster, in fact it creates a totally separate and duplicate help ticket that further bogs down the system and delays our teams ability to respond. Due to the staff shortages mentioned above, social media inquiries do not necessarily reach team members that can help you, as anyone that we have helping out on those channels typically are not in house and do not have access to your customer records or are up to date on production and shipping information. Your best option continues to be contacting us via support@chroniclecollectibles.com, where we are working through the overwhelming correspondence as quickly as we are able to. Be sure to include all relevant information in your email, as opposed to a simple question of 'can someone help me'; if we have all of your information up front and details on your question, it helps us in more quickly addressing your question. Please also understand that, again, ALL items have experienced delays, and it is impossible for us to contact every single customer who has an outstanding order every time another delay occurs. We simply don't have the bandwidth, and are trying to focus our time on actually getting these items completed. We will provide updates when we know there is a change in the production or shipping situation via our newsletter.
These have been and continue to be difficult and challenging times for everyone. We're still here and still working hard to create the collectibles you love and look forward to when the global business situation returns to a sense of normalcy. We greatly appreciate your ongoing patience, understanding and support, and we look forward to sharing with you news about items currently in production and future items yet to be announced!
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I have been reading up and I think we are all screwed. Partial.ly does not give refunds, per their response. Chronicle FB and other talk on various forums shows the company is gone. Their after hours cancellation of all orders is pretty indicative hat no one is there anymore. Been through that with companies I worked for before, where all bad news is on a friday after hours.
I will try, like everyone else to get through tomorrow but I bet my money is gone. Not as much as many others have paid, but still it sucks.
I will try, like everyone else to get through tomorrow but I bet my money is gone. Not as much as many others have paid, but still it sucks.
Exactly, this reminds me a little of Icons.
I hate it for members here who are left out in the cold
I hate it for members here who are left out in the cold
DocNewborn
Well-Known Member
Their eBay account is currently selling some "charity" items. They had roughly half a dozen "trade show display" Terror Dog busts, for instance. By sheer dumb luck, I snagged the last one with both sets of interchangeable horns included, but none of them had functional light-up eyes. It arrived two days after I made payment, and I hooked up a nine volt battery to the wires attached to the eyes, and they lit up.
Within hours of the last Terror Dog bust selling, I heard this 'preorders cancelled' news from a friend on Facebook. Seems like these might not have been from trade shows after all, they might have just been the last few unfinished items sitting on the workbench.
Makes me even more glad I put in an offer while I did.
Alex
Within hours of the last Terror Dog bust selling, I heard this 'preorders cancelled' news from a friend on Facebook. Seems like these might not have been from trade shows after all, they might have just been the last few unfinished items sitting on the workbench.
Makes me even more glad I put in an offer while I did.
Alex
Yet another replica company bites the dust. Why are these always handled so sloppily? Icons, MR, Prop Shop, etc.
KoBE
Active Member
Master Replicas Groups has filed for bankruptcy
I was shocked to find out that their website it still up with products for sale. They filed Chapter 11 Bankruptcy and I believe that allows them to remain open and doing business, they just need to restructure the debt. If they fail to handle running things, a court appointed person could be...
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Master Replicas Groups has filed for bankruptcy
I was shocked to find out that their website it still up with products for sale. They filed Chapter 11 Bankruptcy and I believe that allows them to remain open and doing business, they just need to restructure the debt. If they fail to handle running things, a court appointed person could be...
I saw that as well. I meant the original MR when Corgi took it over but the same applies to the newer MRG.
KoBE
Active Member
Didn’t realize they were two separate entities
Yea the original MR was around from 2001-2007. The newest MRG was only around a year or two and apparently has already gone under.
