Corona virus and schedules..

[actionjackson83]

You want corona virus on your boxes that get to you? It can survive in the outside on objects for 9 days. Just saying!

[mmk123]

I think we also have to think about how long it takes for something to get from China to the US. Most imported items are shipped on a boat and then get stuck in customs for a while. So depending on the ship date to the time it gets into your hands could be almost a month

[built2shred]

Originally Posted by mmk123

I think we also have to think about how long it takes for something to get from China to the US. Most imported items are shipped on a boat and then get stuck in customs for a while. So depending on the ship date to the time it gets into your hands could be almost a month

Unless your an XM collector and you end up with the $300 3 day air shipping

[mmk123]

Originally Posted by built2shred

Unless your an XM collector and you end up with the $300 3 day air shipping

well according to my friend who is an oncology nurse she said that certain viruses can be killed with bleach wipes. Not sure if you would want to wipe your box, art box and statue down with a Lemon scented Clorox wipe though.

[PacMan3000]

Nice to finally see other people talking about this. Although I'm in no way panicked about the virus living on a packed statue or box (and still being alive once it gets to you), I'd be lying if the thought of it didn't give me considerable pause.

I'm finding myself in a bit of a holding pattern for what to do for statues expected to arrive soon. Part of me wants to be 100% rational about it all (if viruses easily came in boxes, there'd be no humanity left), but the other part of me is struggling due to everything still being relatively new, on-going, and seemingly spreading.

I honestly don't quite know what to do.

[built2shred]

Put it in a 9-day garage quarantine...

[Silas Loki]

While the situation in China is dire (whether you believe the media or not), I hope this situation gives companies a moment to reflect on their production strategies.

In the bike industry, because of the US / China trade war, a lot of smaller boutique companies brought production back to their home countries. I hope this situation causes a similar rethink in the collectibles sector.

I'm not suggesting that "made in country x" will be better than China, but I'd like to see more of these statues made in limited quantities, with higher value, made in-house by the same artists responsible for the prototypes we so often see.

Suggesting such a thing 2 months ago would have been ridiculous, but in the wake of something as devastating as the Coronavirus, such a thing doesn't seem so far fetched.

[built2shred]

Originally Posted by Silas Loki

While the situation in China is dire (whether you believe the media or not), I hope this situation gives companies a moment to reflect on their production strategies.

In the bike industry, because of the US / China trade war, a lot of smaller boutique companies brought production back to their home countries. I hope this situation causes a similar rethink in the collectibles sector.

I'm not suggesting that "made in country x" will be better than China, but I'd like to see more of these statues made in limited quantities, with higher value, made in-house by the same artists responsible for the prototypes we so often see.

Suggesting such a thing 2 months ago would have been ridiculous, but in the wake of something as devastating as the Coronavirus, such a thing doesn't seem so far fetched.

They'll just move production to other countries with cheap labor...

[Silas Loki]

Originally Posted by built2shred

They'll just move production to other countries with cheap labor...

It depends on how damaging and long lasting this situation is. If the impact is big enough, they may decide they're better off "in house".....not to mention how this move would allow them to scale up pricing and it would be an immediate PR boost.

In the short term they may search out alternative secondary "support" manufacturing locations - but this seems unlikely given the scale and type of manufacturing we're talking about.

OR, they may just ask consumers to suck it up, accept the delays and carry on like nothing happened - I guess sadly, this is the more probable outcome.

[Python]

Originally Posted by built2shred

I wonder how long the virus can live on surfaces if someone infected sneezes on your statue before boxing it up to ship to you...

"The viruses generally cannot survive for more than a few hours on surfaces outside a human host, but people can pick up a coronavirus from a contaminated surface for a short window of time, Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the Center for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said during a CDC news conference in early 2020. Scientists don't yet know how long the novel coronavirus can survive outside a host."

https://www.livescience.com/what-are-coronaviruses.html