15th puzzle auction and next puzzle release

We have put three puzzles, Ring Case (2nd grade), miniature version and 2nd grade Unbalanced 6 Board Burr up for auction on eBay! A half of the sales of the puzzle will be donated to the AWLQ (Animal Welfare League Queensland) to save stray and surrendered pets.

We initially planned to release Ring Case in early December because its production had been almost completed. Why we have changed our mind is that if we release our puzzle product in this season before Christmas, often delivery takes a lot longer than usual and occasionally the parcel can go missing. Those parcels are usually found at a customs office or your neighbor's door, though. We don't want to have such problems and issues especially when we release puzzle products that can attract many puzzle enthusiasts.

Yes, one of our new products is a sequential discovery puzzle box that is intended to hold a finger ring inside. We will release product versions of Ring Case and Unbalanced 6 Board Burr on the morning of 26th December at 07:00 Brisbane time. Then we can dispatch the majority of the parcels on Friday 27th and Monday 30th. The parcels will definitely be delivered to you before Valentine's day and you can use Ring Case as a gift to your beloved person. We don't mind if you keep the container by just offering its contents.

Unbalanced 6 Board Burr is a level 16 burr that has unique features thanks to the two different combined thickness pieces. The contrast of the color of our original plywood is nice as well.

The total packaging weight of the two new puzzles fits in a 500 g bracket and since we always give an AU $5.00 discount per parcel for international shipments, the shipping cost would be reasonably cheap. (There is usually a big jump in shipping costs between 500 g and 1 kg and two 500 g parcels can be cheaper than one 1 kg parcel depending on the destination country and region.)

We hope you enjoy our last puzzle products of 2019.
May this wonderful time of Christmas and New Year fill your life with happiness and puzzles.

The 14th Auction Results and the site issue

Hi everyone!

We had put up four Grooved 6 Board Burr #4; two second grades and two test pine versions on eBay auction. The results are as follows.

Grooved 6 Board Burr #4 (Pine, test version, 1 of 2) AUD 71.00
Grooved 6 Board Burr #4 (Pine, test version, 2 of 2) AUD 81.00
Grooved 6 Board Burr #4 (2nd grade, 1 of 2) AUD 67.00
Grooved 6 Board Burr #4 (2nd grade, 2 of 2) AUD 71.00

The total sales amount was AUD 290.00.
As we promised, we donated AUD 145.00 to Save The Bilby Fund yesterday morning. Here is the receipt.

Probably, bilbies are not well known like kangaroos or koalas, so I will write a little about them. The bilby is a nocturnal, long-eared marsupial and is native to Australia. The non-native species like foxes and cats threaten bilbies and they are endangered animals. I will paste the video of bilbies below.

By the way, we have released two of our new products soon after the auction. But one of the plugins that was installed on our web shopping system caused conflict and made our customers' orders impossible. Lots of emails came in telling that they couldn't place orders on our website. It was too late when we recognized the issue and we needed to solve the issue as soon as possible.

Juno re-installed the troublesome plugin, but it was no luck. He gave up using the existing plugin and looked for an alternative one, installed it to the system and re-entered the configuration for the shipping zones and shipping boxes one by one.

It took about 74 minutes to fix the issue and we believe that some European customers who were waiting for the release might have shortened their sleep. So, we have learned something, and we will be more careful when we release our next puzzle products.

G6BB#4 and Loopy L Cube #2

As we have informed before, our eBay auction ended, and shortly after it ended, we started selling our two new kinds of puzzles, Grooved 6 Board Burr #4 and Loopy L Cube #2 on our Pluredro Shop.

We have started selling these new puzzles early in the morning in Australian eastern standard time because this time is the most reasonable and fair for most puzzle collectors in the world who don't want to miss the release.
Thanks, Juno, for getting up early in the morning.

Grooved 6 Board Burr #4 and Loopy L Cube #2 are both quite difficult and these puzzles are waiting for the serious puzzle solvers' challenge!

We will notify you the results of the auction later.