Not to sound insenitive or dick-ish, but 156 lasers in the same shipment?!
Damn, son!
I would file that under "T", for "Tempting Fate".
At the risk of seeming paranoid, I've always refrained from ordering "questionable" items in quantities large enough to generate extra attention (or really hurt if I lose it to customs on either end). Absinthe (back when it was illegal) one bottle at a time out of Switzerland and France, Russian antiquities (it's not exactly legal to export anything over 70-years-old out of Russia) at less than 5 lbs. per parcel, uranium ore samples out of Ukraine at under 100g, and other items "of interest" in miniscule enough amounts that it doesn't even register as a 'blip' on the customs radar in the originating or destination country.
And good luck with the whole reimbursement thing. That's about as likely as Oprah delivering my free two-piece-and-a-biscuit in person.
If it's an issue of customer demand, and you want to save some money with a quantitiy discount so you wait until you've got a lot of orders in, do a little more work on your sales projections so you can order your stock in
advance of purchase and save a little on your shipping. That way, you actually have the lasers on-hand when the order is made and increase your customer satisfaction by shipping the lasers out right away (thereby increasing repeat patronage and word-of-mouth advertising among your client base -- further decreasing any chance of being left with surplus merchandise).
And, if that's not the case, :wtf: do you need 156 lasers for, anyway? Party favors?
