Garry is (and always will be) the man. Have fun in Europe!

Also available for pre-sale on Thinkgeek: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/ijgi/

That's a great point. Pre-order merchants regularly run over their initial production timelines. A pre-order platform like Celery https://www.trycelery.com/ solves this problem by allowing the merchant to accept a credit card without charging it until the product is ready to ship

The FTC rules are clear, and pro-consumer. The software being shown isn't. Notice the example image in the article, with "Your card will be charged immediately" in small type in light grey on a dark grey background. That probably violates the FTC's "clear and conspicuous" rule on shipment representations.

Here's the FTC's Mail Order Rule:

http://www.business.ftc.gov/documents/bus02-business-guide-m...

This spells out what has to happen when a seller can't deliver on time. There are time limits. Extensions on delivery times require the buyer's explicit consent. If the buyer doesn't do that, a full refund is required. Without the buyer asking for it.

Responsibility to comply with the rule falls on the "seller", the "person soliciting the order". If another party actually ships the product, and they screw up, that's the seller's problem, not the buyer's. So you don't want to set up a platform where you take orders for a third party and give them the money up front. If the stuff isn't delivered, you, the platform operator as seller, have to pay out refunds.

The template was inspired by the minamalist checkout flow that Coin used for their pre-order launch

Yes, absolutely. You can email [email protected] if you need any help getting it setup

Founder of Celery here. We launched Plastc's pre-order campaign with this template: plastc.com

congrats guys!

Celery (YC'12): San Francisco, CA trycelery.com

Celery is building the next-generation of e-commerce. Today's modern merchants build their e-commerce business by starting with pre-orders. Our pre-order platform is used by hardware startups (Pebble, Lockitron) and innovative brands. We're well-funded by YC, SV Angel, Max Levchin and other top investors and offer competitive salary plus generous equity. Celery is based in the SOMA district of San Francisco.

We're looking for full stack developers and growth engineers. Our codebase is micro-service oriented with a separate API server, dashboard app, and shop app. On the backend (API) we use node with express and backbone. On the frontend we use backbone and a custom knockoutjs inspired model-view binding system. We use MongoDB and PostgreSQL databases.

We value engineers who can work at all levels of our stack, but have a particular passion for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, a deep awareness of cross-browser compatibility issues, and a good sense of design and UX.

Please include one or more of the following (resume, github, side projects, linkedin, stack overflow profile) to [email protected]

Bonus if you include a link to your favorite crowdfunded project (Kickstarter, Indiegogo or other) and explain why

Julia and the Zidisha team are awesome. Their customer support and product experience rival those of the best internet startups :)

celery co-founder here. interested to hear about your next product! we'd be happy to help

How do you guys handle chargebacks? I've been considering doing a run of "physical" dogecoins but as everyone knows cryptocurrencies are a huge market for credit card fraud.

Cool. I'll sign up and check things out (my email is in profile). Our biggest pain point currently (besides having to charge cards right away) is that most online stores do not understand how shipping regions work in the US and around the world and require us to enter tons of duplicate data. Happy to chat about that particular problem with you so you can get it right ;)

Edit: yeah, your shipping UI is not awesome either :)

Thanks for that feedback. Definitely interested in your thoughts on how shipping should work, will follow up over email