Collect 151 Jumbo Booster Information and Chinese Lunar New Year

Happy Lunar New Year - Year of the Snake!
Just a quick update on how the Chinese Lunar New Year effects your Simplified Chinese Collect 151 orders!

If you are not familiar with the Chinese Lunar New Year it is where all of China 'shuts down' for its New Year Celebrations. This happens in 2025 from the dates of 01/23 - 02/10. That means anything needing to come from China - will not - until after 02/10 to as late as 02/17 depending on when specific shipping companies reopen.

01/23/2025 - 'Shut down' starts and shipping completely stops.

02/10/2025 - DHL/UPS Direct shipping opens.

02/17/2025 - Shipping should return by this date for all shipping companies!

Collect 151 Orders: So how does this affect you and your order?
Right now we are getting tracking numbers for our Collect 151 orders from China. This is good! Right now we have SV1 (slim/jumbo) and Magnets on the way!

How is this bad?

Collect 151 distribution for JUMBO booster boxes has had its allocations cut. By more than half. This means that while some jumbo booster boxes orders were fulfilled to Chinese vendors - not all of them were.

We have ours confirmed but they may or may not be in our vendors first wave. We can will not know until closer to 01/23 - 4 days from now - when our order of JUMBOs will ship.

If they are in our vendors first wave they HAVE to be sent out by 01/23 or they will sit with our vendor until the Lunar New Year is over and will ship afterwards (02/10 - 02/17).

Worst case scenario? Second wave of distribution hits MUCH LATER than the end of Lunar New Year. We believe in transparency and wanted to let everyone know the information we had access to as of being told today (1/19/2025).

I have a JUMBO Pre-Order: What do I do? When it gets closer to 01/23 and we have more solid information we can firm up a few things with you but until that information hits (to give more firm 'wait out' options) - here are options we will be making available to you! JUMBO BOOSTER BOX SIMPLIFIED CHINESE COLLECT 151 PRE-ORDERS:

• wait out the delay and it will be shipped to you when it arrives (again closer to 01/23 we will know dates/etc)
• refund your order in full immediately to your original payment source with your confirmationthe ability to 'trade out'.  As an example: if you PRE-ORDERED a Simplified Chinese Jumbo booster box and there is a delay or allocation shortage, you could instead have a 'trade out' of Simplified Chinese Slim booster boxes in a compensated amount.
• store credit added to your account with an additional 5% of your total paid.  Example: if your total bill was $75.66 then your account would be credited $79.44 (75.66 multiplied by 1.05 for your new total).

We know this isn't ideal but we thank each and every one of you for your patience and understanding with this new situation.

We will work with each and every person who has placed a JUMBO PRE-ORDER with our shop! We believe in keeping everyone updated (annoyingly so)!

If you have any questions or concerns please reach out to us via email (support@collectorsalchemy.com), our discord, or any of our social media channels!