Updates/info for synecdochic's BPAL decanting

Chaos Theory: shipped (for pickup tomorrow) and closed.

* As part of making sure that I didn't botch things up and send identical decants to people who asked for different decants and vice versa, the signup post has now been edited to number each of the bottles that were sent. So you can see who else got decants from the same bottle, by looking up the number on the signup post. (I have never been so thrilled to get to the end of the bags and realize I had exactly the right count in all the bags.)

* Each of the decants is labelled with the number of the bottle it came out of. I tried to make my handwriting as clear as possible.

* If you ordered half bottles: all the half bottles wound up being converted to 3 decants, because these bottles came so ridiculously full and I needed something to keep the leftovers in! I exercised more care than usual when packing: all the 3-decants-for-a-half-bottle are lined up next to each other.

* Because of the above point: I have leftovers of literally everything except the ones where I needed to snarf a single decant out of a full bottle somebody ordered. (And thanks again to vicki_rae for letting me!) So, if you absolutely fall in love with something you got a decant of, ask me: I might be willing to part with the leftovers.

My office smells like everything under the sun right now, heh.

The Chaos Theory bottles arrived today! (And on first sniff, I don't think we got any duds -- there are a few that aren't to my taste, but nothing that made me recoil. Heh.)

I have a houseguest this week, but will try to get things decanted and packed up for shipping Friday.

We are out of town 6/22 to 6/27 (next Monday through Saturday) -- I forgot to mention that in the signups. If the Chaos Theory package arrives from the Lab during that week, we do have somebody bringing in the mail so it won't be sitting on the sweltering porch! But obviously I will not be able to decant immediately.

According to the forums, they're shipping around 6/2 to 6/3 right now, and our order was 6/7. So, I don't think it'll ship before we leave. But I'll get it decanted and sent out as soon as I can once we get back!

I am ONLY doing Chaos Theory, not the Lunacy. (Lunacies have been more trouble than they're worth for the past few rounds.) For those who are a bit fuzzy about how this works: Chaos Theory is a thing where Beth makes every bottle of perfume unique, and there are no notes listed (other than, in this case, a perfume category) and no records kept of the recipe. You pays your money, you takes your chances.

Warning: I will be slow to update the 'taken' list. Just keep signing up, I'll catch up in the wee hours.

This circle will operate under standard policies, with the following variables:

DECANT COST: $4/decant, $11.50/HB, $23/FB
SHIPPING COST: $3 US shipping; for 1-5 decants $7.16 international shipping; for 6+ decants or any half bottles/bottles, $8 to Canada, $10 to anywhere else.
MINIMUM TO ORDER A BOTTLE: 2/6 slots filled
ORDER WILL BE PLACED: Afternoon/evening of Saturday 6 Jun BUT
SIGNUPS MAY TEMPORARILY CLOSE: Evening of Friday 5 Jun
HALF BOTTLES/FULL BOTTLES/RIDE-ALONGS: No add-ons/ride-alongs for this one, because it's going to be a bit of a logistics nightmare to make sure everything gets labeled and that everyone gets what they wanted. I'll do half bottles, but half bottles are still operating under "fucking leaky dram bottles" rules, with a twist for the fact that each of these is essentially a single bottle of a single scent: if the bottle your half bottle is assigned to (see below caveat) fills up entirely, I'll give you the Lab bottle for it, otherwise you will get it in three decant vials.

SPECIAL NOTES ABOUT SELECTION: Okay, this is tough, since it's a Chaos Theory. Here's how I'm going to do the signups: You sign up for how many decants/bottles/half bottles you want for each of the 'categories'. You can sign up for multiple decants of each 'category'. If you do, you MUST specify if you want all your decants to come out of the same bottle (the same scent) or if you want all your decants to come out of different bottles (different scents). If I have more signups from 'different bottles' than I have bottles I'm ordering, or I can't rebalance the signups to make it work out, I'll offer people the option of taking more slots or dropping extra decants. This is why signups will temporarily close Friday night while I shuffle things. (If I don't need to do the shuffling, I won't close signups.)

THE WAY I WANT YOUR SIGNUPS:
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In other words: signups on the same line mean "same bottle", signups on another line for the same scent means "different bottles". You can list as many different bottles from the same category as you want. If I don't have enough different bottles to fill those orders when it all shakes out, I'll let you choose from another category that I do have slots in, or drop the decant.

IF YOU DO NOT USE THE ABOVE FORMAT FOR LISTING YOUR SIGNUPS, I WILL NOT GUESS WHAT YOU MEANT AND I WILL NOT GUARANTEE IF YOU GET SAME/DIFFERENT BOTTLES. Some of you don't copy/paste the signup template (probably because you're on mobile?) and sometimes I have to guess what you mean. I'm not doing that this time. If you don't use the above format, and you order multiple decants from the same category, you will get either same bottle or different bottle depending on how I need to balance the signups.

Phew.

Name/Username: PayPal email address: US or international shipping: Link to wishlist (if any): Please sign me up for (SEE ABOVE FOR INSTRUCTIONS):

SPECIAL CAVEAT: The signups as listed in the below lists are not necessarily going to be the way that you get your actual decants. In other words, if Alice is on the list as being in the same bottle as Bob, Alice and Bob are not going to necessarily get the same scent. I will label all the decants the way the Lab labels them: with the Roman numbers on the bottle.

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