Bottlehead Kit Shipping Status

 

In an effort to give our customers as much information as possible about the particular product they are interested in we have devised this shipping status chart. We attempt to update this status report for our products often. There are just two of us handling day to day operations of shipping, packing, parts prep, receiving and inventory control. Thus the average time from order to shipment is around 4 weeks plus or minus a couple weeks.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2022 were record sales days for us, and for that we are most grateful! We received the equivalent of three months worth of orders in a single weekend. Please understand that we are working as quickly as possible to process your orders, and that it will take a few weeks to get through them all. Some later orders may have exceeded our inventory estimates and they may be delayed a bit while we wait for more parts to be made. It is our goal to have the majority of orders shipped by year’s end.

Over the past year we have been experiencing delays in receiving transformers, tubes and various other parts from a few of our vendors and we have attempted to increase our parts inventory wherever it is practical. We will do our best to note part delays and the ETA of the parts on this page. Very occasionally you can get lucky and the wait will be shorter if we are packing a certain kit and we end up with extra inventory, and during the summer months the wait can be a bit less than winter. But most often for the past 27 years we have been playing catch-up with orders. So it is usually the most expeditious to get your order in the queue soon rather than waiting to see if we will have a kit in stock. We tend to ship smaller items like replacement parts in batches, once or twice a week.