[info] Pre-order of Rain’s 6th album for overseas fans (excluding Japan). That be us!
— Cloud cover by: Stephe, Managing Editor ^@@^
Please see the notice below, posted on The Cloud English Talk Board by overseas Cloudmaster huhuhuhu on 12/20.
Terri and I have to discuss whether or not we can handle a group bulk order at this time, seeing as it is the holidays and we are trying like crazy to wade through all the updates on Rain’s extensive activities, official Cloud activities, emails and social media questions, Rain’s holiday scrapbook and Cloud USA business behind the scenes, and holiday stuff and daily responsibilities for our families.
(See, it won’t just be a matter of the ordering, it will also include packaging every single album up and shipping them separately to you, and a good bit of accounting for monies.)
We should be having a powwow about it sometime this evening so that y’all will know how to proceed ASAP. Thanks for your patience. ^@@^
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Pre-Order of Rain’s 6th Album for Overseas Fans (excluding Japan)
As the Cloud Executive has mentioned in her post, we want to help all overseas fans who may have difficulty in purchasing Rain’s 6th album scheduled to be released on 6 January 2014.
There is no limit on the quantity (in fact the more the better) and we also encourage group purchase (bulk order per fan club etc.)
Please send your pre-order to the following email address:
raincloudworld@gmail.com
SUBJECT: Pre Order of Rain’s 6th album
CONTENT:
Name
Email address
Country
Delivery address
Contact telephone no.
Quantity
We don’t know the price of the album yet. Please also bear in mind the shipping cost and remittance fees when you submit your pre-order. We will do our best to find an easy, cost effective way to help overseas fans purchase the album. As we would like to have as an accurate count on the quantity as possible, we hope once you have submitted your request you will commit to it.
Let’s all do our utmost to make it the No. 1 selling album. This would be our best gift to Rain!
— huhuhuhu
Cloud USA 
If there is still time and we are doing a group purchase I would like to be added to the list. I will send an email on the quantity and my mailing address. Thank you so very much.
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Maria,
Hi.
Unfortunately, we aren’t doing a group purchase now from North America, because the album is available to all of us online. It just makes no sense to do that at this point. Even Heidi and The Cloud agreed.
I just posted about that, actually.
Terri :-}
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I just read it all, Thank you. You did a super job explaining it all so thoroughly and very easy to follow. I have already preordered my CD and sent it my donation to The Cloud. I still have to do the membership with Soribada. I will be supporting Rain with new music purchases and where it counts towards the rising of the charts. So excited to hear it and look forward to his performances .
I would be interested in the poster as I see Kpopmart price does not include the poster. I will look around at the other sites as well.
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Tonicny,
I’ve been looking for the poster too, but I haven’t seen it for sale anywhere yet. If you find it, please do let us know.
Terri :-}
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A bulk order?…….Yes, I would like to be included on the bulk order list. Since this will take place after the holidays, it will give us some “breathing room”…..This I can do!
*SMILES*…………………………….
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Cool, Bialamode. Adding you to our list…
Terri :-}
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Please,count me one in bulk order,
let me know how do I pay for it ,
I am in california
Thank you so much for making easy for us !
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Super, Suhe! You are now on our list.
We will regroup after the Christmas Holiday and get the details of the project ready for you all.
More to follow…
Terri :-}
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Terri,
Please count me in for the pre-order – I guess that makes me #3. Thank you!
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Please count me for the pre-order, Rain’s new album
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Okay, Ria. I’ve got you on the list.
Everyone, please send your contact information and shipping address to letitrain@cloudusa.org, if you would like to be included. We will likely use our PayPal account for album purchases. I think that is the simplest way for us to handle the accounting.
Terri :-}
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Terri,
Just sent you an email with order information. If you did not receive it, please let me know (computer issues).
Thanks!
Liz
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Liz,
I got it. Thank you.
Terri :-}
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Terri,
I send an email last night at raincloudworld@gmail.com, is it okay or I send another one on letitrain@cloudusa.org
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Ria,
I don’t know who raincloudworld@gmail.com is. That is NOT Cloud USA’s e-mail address. Cloud USA’s e-mail addresses are:
letitrain@cloudusa.org
terri@cloudusa.org
stephe@cloudusa.org
You can find our contact information here:
http://cloudusa.org/about.html
and on the home page of our WordPress blog here (sidebar, scroll down): https://cloudusa.wordpress.com/
And on our “About Cloud USA” page on WordPress here (sidebar, scroll down):
https://cloudusa.wordpress.com/about/
Terri :-}
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okay
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Terri,
i sent my information, terri@cloudusa.org
sorry for the wrong sent
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Okay, cool. Thanks, Ria.
Terri :-}
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Hi girls! 😀 A friend and I want to buy Rain’s new album. We would like to order with you so I will give her the information.
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Okay, Mari. Send us your info via e-mail.
Terri :-}
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Clouds,
(Stephe or I will be doing a post about this later…in the meantime)
I know we all want to order a “physical” album, and that is going to happen. However, getting those albums to us is going to take some time, as all purchases do coming from Asia.
Yesterday we were informed that purchases of Rain’s album from http://kpop.soribada.com/En/ WILL count towards the music charts (and for music shows) in South Korea. What that means is that any purchases made on that site will be reflected in Rain’s official numbers during his comeback. That is really REALLY good news both for Rain and for us fans who just can’t wait to hear Rain’s new music and who don’t want to “pirate” it.
So.
We would like to encourage ALL of you–every single one of you–to do both: download an album from soribada AND purchase a physical album.
Why? Because his official numbers matter–a LOT. And we are his fans. And as his fans, we should care about his official numbers–a LOT.
Please, PLEASE refrain from pirating any of Rain’s new songs and order a digital copy from Soribada instead.
Terri :-}
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So that must be like iTunes? Cool! So this whole time I was complaining about him getting on iTunes and they had something similar this whole time?😳 Also I’ve already send my order via email and received a response. Otherwise I’d love to be in on a bulk order. Idk if I still can?
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Yes, it is very similar to iTunes. However, it is a subscription-based service, which means you have to buy “points” and use those to download music. I’ve been a member off and off for a few years now, but I don’t always buy a subscription if there’s not any music I want there.
But it’s a handy site if you love K-Pop. Which I do. (Go figure. :-P)
Terri :-}
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Oh great !! Thanks for that information. I have sent my preorder email already for a few copies as I am in Australia. But this is great that we can also download. The more support we can give Rain as it is his first comeback since the army !
My friend also finally helped me track down Rain’s 5th album, Rainism (Korean version) so my collection is now complete !! I was so thrilled. I literally danced circles around my friend…haha (^_^).
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Hi Terri,
I have a couple of questions to make sure I understand the Soribada site correctly. When you buy a membership from them it is only for the one month, correct? They don’t charge you each month for this membershp automatically, you have to renew it ? If you don’t use it all, or don’t renew, do you lose what is left in your account? Confusing to me…it would be so much easier for technologically challenged people such as myself if it were like Itunes. LOL!
Thanks so much!
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Liz,
I know, right? I don’t know why they make it so complicated.
Yes, your membership is only good for a month unless you set up your account to renew automatically. You can do that if you want. Sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t, depending on how many songs I think I will be purchasing in the next month.
If you don’t use the points you purchase each month before the next due date, then you will lose them–unless there is less than .49 cents in your account. If there are .49 cents or less in it, then those points will roll over.
So, of course you have to weigh your options carefully. As for me, I don’t usually use the auto-renewal. Instead, I just usually think about which artists are going to make a comeback in the next month, and I try to buy as many points as I predict I will use.
I don’t think I’ve ever lost any points, but I also never buy too many points at one time.
Hopefully, that helps.
Terri :-}
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Stephe,
Question – so I am doing this correctly. Do I send my pre-order request to the Cloud site now, or wait to see if Cloud USA is going to be able to do a bulk order? I understand completely if you are unable to do so – you ladies are extremely busy, I just want to make sure I don’t miss my opportunity to pre-order. Thanks so much.
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Liz,
Cloud USA HAS decided to do a bulk order for our members. We are currently working out all the details with The Cloud. We will announce the project just as soon as we get it all together. Hopefully, in a few days.
How many of you would like to participate in a bulk order with us? I do need a headcount.
I’m one. Stephe is two. Just let us know in the comments here.
Terri :-}
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^_^ you’re quite welcome
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Stephe and Terri, you are really straight from the heart, very, very, very much appreciated.
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Thanks much, RaRa.^^
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SWEET! 😃
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Ok, Rain ZEPP goods (soon to pay), Pre-order album (soon to pay), membership re-up (soon to pay), Christmas 5 days away…….all within the month of December??
*SIGH*……………………………………………………..
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This is a bit much? I agree. But membership it’s due in December too??? That’s just too much! This is Christmas!
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Well, it’s been mentioned that they wanted to do the 9th Cloud registration sometime this month too. I don’t believe I’m breaking protocol by saying that as that info. has been made public. I just know that when the new membership drive happens in earnest, fees will be involved. I’m not complaining really, because supporting Bi is something I try to do, but man all in one month.
How can I not pre-order Honey Love’s album. I’m like damn Bi you making me want too much, too close together. You are in Korea dude. One last hurdle they need to conquer is getting him some U.S. based distributors to sell his wares. It would be so much easier for his U.S. fans.
Still love you “snookums” (*hugs and smooches*) BUT……..geez!
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The thing that gives me hope concerning 9th Cloud is that the fee this term is going to be reduced (we paid $55. for Cloud 8, but hey, it went a long way in supporting Rain’s activities these past 3 years). That’s going to help me out a lot. Whew.
I am so not Ms. Moneybags, but the last six months Cloud- and CloudUSA-wise you would think I was.
Stephe ^@@^
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Lucky newbies then. Hey, I don’t expect any of this stuff to be free…just reasonable in terms of time (from MY perspective). I do get what’s reasonable to some may be different for others. I’m just expressing my thoughts out loud, per usual. I’m far from Ms. Moneybags too. We’ve been playing lotto tickets this week like Nobody’s business. Real talk. *SMILES*
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This is why I stay frustrated and have very little Rain merchandise to show for my almost 4 years of fangirling. I’m the type of person who likes to know up front the “how” of how I will be able to purchase something, etc. I do realize everyone is working behind the scenes very hard to make that happen and I have ALWAYS been appreciative……But……
These are the things somebody like me likes to know Before I make a purchase. (1) The price (2) The particulars on how to purchase. In other words, what method of payment is available to me up front (ex: Visa, MC, AmExp, Cash, Money Order, etc.)…(3) Then the instructions on how to purchase from that particular foreign entity.
Knowing all the particulars up front first help a person like me make the best decision for myself and my pocketbook. Some people don’t care, it’s sign up first figure out the rest later. I don’t like to do business like that. Never have. Maybe I’m alone in how I think and I know I’m in the minority now, especially when it comes to making any type of complaint about anything Bi related, but these are the kinds of things they need to know. That’s if they want to continue to make things easier for JiHoon to make his transition on this side of the ocean. I agree things have grown by leaps and bounds from where it was a few years ago, but there’s still a ways to go. If they can conquer this hurdle for people like me, I will be buying all kinds of Rain “ish.”
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You’re not the only person who thinks like this, not by a long shot. And there is nothing wrong with the way you think.
S.
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Thank you for that my friend. Makes me feel better I tell ya. *SMILES*…………….
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Keep us updated with price.
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I want to know the price
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Me too, Ria. We don’t know the price yet.
Terri :-}
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Thanks for the info.
Terri and Stephe, do you guys ever sleep?
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It would be nice if I could just plug myself into a socket and recharge while I’m awake, LOL! That would do me a world of good.
I imagine you’ve got lots of snow right about now!
Stephe ^@@^
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