Happy New Year 2011! (you just missed Christmas)

Aug 30, 2010 by Sean

You missed Christmas. It’s all done. There’ll be no tree or gifts and no turkey for you (someone just breathed a sigh of relief)…

…by missing Christmas, I mean you’ve missed Indonesia Export’s Christmas deadline for production orders – if you have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about, the long-story-short is that if you started a production order with us now for shipping by sea, we can not guarantee you would have it in time for Christmas (you can read more details here: Production Deadline Christmas 2010).

We are Open for Business

This does not mean that everyone at Indonesia Export has downed tools and headed off to the beach for long, hot relaxing days in the sun (didn’t that sound tempting?)…

…if anything, it means we’re now busier.

From now until the end of the year, certain catalogue products are no longer available – these include teak furniture, the larger wood carvings, certain of the large stone pieces. This does not mean we’ll refuse your order; what will happen is that if you order those products, we’ll tell you we don’t have time for production but we do have time to go around Bali sourcing similar and alternative pieces from stock.

As you wish (bimsalabim, abracadabra, etcetera, etcetera.)

From this point of the year on, we treat everyone’s order as a wishlist and we limit production / preparation accordingly.

A wishlist is a list of product codes and quantities from our websites or pictures of products with quantities if you’re looking for something from outside our catalogue.

We call it a wishlist so you understand: you can’t always get what you wish for (but we’ll try our very best).

Our job is to go out and find you stock that’s ready to ship or nearly to ready; check pricing; take a photo; send you the pictures and confirm you’re ok with pricing before making the order.

For all Christmas orders, our target is to have your products arriving at your sea port (note: your port, not your door) by November 15th at the very latest. To Europe and the US we’re assuming 5 weeks container shipping from Bali (6 weeks LCL shipping).

So our last Less than Container Load orders will ship out by Friday October 1st.

Our last full container orders will ship out by October 8th.

If you’re not familiar with those shipping options, please go to our notes on shipping cost-effectively:

Shipping from Bali

All of this breaks down to the following:

• We are still open and you can still order products for Christmas.
• For items that require lengthy production lead time, we’ll go out and source alternatives in stock.
• We will do our best to see you get your products in good time but cannot guarantee you will receive your products in good time for Christmas.

If you have any questions, drop us a line.

All the best of the season,

Sean