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  1. The following is not connected to the Temporary Closure. It was planned before that happened.
     
    The Future of Elhiem.com
    Due to rising costs in production and shipping (high prices and lots and lots of time filling out forms). Changes in Paypal practices (removing funds while disputes are dragging on). I have had to make the sad conclusion Elhiem can no longer operate as my primary income as it has for years.
     
    I ran a couple ofd sales since December and while they were hugely successful, the runing costs compared to sale price ended up only being marginaly benificial. If you count the hours of extra work getting orders picked and the time spent in post offices, it really wasnt sustainable :(
     
    Its alot of work to run Elhiem and the profits are no longer able to sustain the effort.
     
    I have accepted a full time job elsewhere and Elhiem will return to a part time hobby status for the foreseeable future.
     
    Elhiem will continue to run and have ranges added, however the slow turn around of orders will probably get worse until I can balance the work.
     
    One possible idea is to raise prices to their current day realistic level and true post costs, another is to only open for sales at weekends. Another is to only sell 3d models for a while. Maybe, maybe not. I'll try and keep prices down and will review the work / profit for the next few months.
     
    I just thought you guys should know what's going on.
     
    I would like to thank everyone for their support and purchases and the last 2 months sales (and talking to other figure company's I'm not alone,) I know everyone is feeling the pinch as inflation is crippling us all.
    Hopefully, things improve soon.
     
    New stuff is still worked on and will be released, Im about to release quite a few figures hopefully tomorrow,
    Matt
  2. Bad News.
    As of 6th April 2024 we are closing Elhiem shop TEMPORARILY. It will reopen when the below is resolved. Unfortunately we are in the hands of the iternation shipping and customs.
    We have a Paypal dispute going on for a big order due to our slow service (very big order) it is posted and enroute.
    Paypal have effectively removed the money in dispute from our account effectively removing all of our working capital and put us in to huge debt.
    This is not the customers fault, its a lot of money and it has taken a long time to pick it.
    Elhiem is not in financial trouble, it is just in a  very unpleasant situation where we have done the work and are waiting on payment.
    The reality is though, we can no longer operate until the money is released. We used up the last of our metal making the order and cannot buy more. We cannot refund any orders as we are called as in debt. Even if we had our usual level of orders it would take weeks to clear the paypal debt. Which is why we cannot also just move money to clear the debt until it is cleared (yes it is that big of a debt). We cannot even post out any existing orders as we are over drawn.
    However, we will get any outstanding orders completed :) I have trays of castings that I will melt down to complete these and pay out of my own pocket to cover postage.
    Hopefully this will be resolved  quickly as we have new releases in the molds!
  3. The next planned releases will be the US medic WW2 set (as long as the medic is castable).

    More Iranians for the Iran Iraq war :

    Iran 80's
    >x4 Kneeling Riflemen with G3's
    >+1 extra RPG-7 guy.
    >x3 Tank crew halves
    >x4 dismounted tank crew (not too sure on weapons)
    >2 man weapon team (1 with SVD, one with Strela, may have used Stingers but cannot confirm)
    >MMG team (1 prone feeding Ammo with G3, 1 kneeling wit G3 and Ammo boxes, 1 prone Gunner with MG3, 1 Alternate Gunner with FM MAG)

    Hopefully some new V2A dystopian road warriors/villans.

    Two new T2K personalities

    The next VOTE PLA chinese. Which I'll most likely digitise the PLA metals as well as the Vote expansion.

    As always, we are always working on other stuff!