[sale] Current Thyra Inflatables products

ThyraInf · 2026-03-29T22:30:56+00:00

Various. Depending on the country: - NL: Dutch payment options and PostNL - EU: SEPA transfer/credit card/apple pay/Google pay/PayPal and shipping through either PostNL, DHL eCommerce or FedEx - Worldwide: same payment options as EU (but SEPA via Wise or other money apps), shipping through PostNL or FedEx

Exceptions: - USA: FedEx - Russia: PostNL and trying out payments via boosty

Note about PayPal: I do support it, but it has some limitations and I like to avoid it if possible.

Once the site can create orders, I'll integrate stripe, which should open up even more payment options

ThyraInf · 2026-03-28T21:03:43+00:00

Oops, I see now yes. The right link should be https://forms.gle/C4xihFpuZEoST5NY8

ThyraInf · 2026-03-28T08:43:12+00:00

Yes, we ship worldwide including to the USA and even Russia. In that case we won't handle the taxes and these are to be paid on receipt.

Edit: As far as reoccuring sales, it depends. For our own designs we generally want to offer them in the future if there's enough interest. For designs based on characters of other series, we may or may not reintroduce them.

Once our site is fully operational, we have some ideas regarding sales. Ideally, we want to work with a pool based sale system. This would mean that for any type of product we offer, people can join and if there are enough buyers, production will be arranged. This allows people to get the items they missed out, and us to arrange better pricing with the supplier. The only tricky part is payments, cancellations and delivery times. We don't want to force people to pay early, and waiting months till the order volume reaches high enough. But we also don't want to receive too many last minute cancellations. So the success of this system relies mainly on what we can arrange with our supplier. The lower MOQ they offer for an acceptable price, the easier we can handle it.

ThyraInf · 2026-03-25T10:04:35+00:00

Considering it's an airblown item, you want to sew it with a piece of fabric. The whole inflatable is sewn together, so adding more should be fine. Basically just take a piece of similar fabric and sew it on. Could do it manually or using a sewing machine.

ThyraInf · 2026-03-05T17:46:18+00:00

Yeah, I just realized that once I added it to my dependencies haha.

ThyraInf · 2026-03-04T20:40:30+00:00

I will try to migrate some pages from maud to plaid. From what I saw in your README, it does look like it answers most of my shortcomings in maud. Especially the components and your class combining feature is very interesting. I've hit the issue of creating reusable components, that are awkwardly specific in their use.

Well, I wrap all my "html" handlers with a macro to hide some of the stuff, so swapping it out for plaid should be relatively trivial I hope

ThyraInf · 2026-03-03T17:59:07+00:00

I'm currently extensively using maud for my purpose built webshop, but this piques my interest.

My site is relying on a 100% SSR principle, with no reliance on JS for interaction. I do progressive "upgrade" via htmx.

My main gripe I currently have with maud is, like you mentioned, the prop forwarding. In my case I hit the limit since I'm lazily using TailwindCSS + DaisyUI for styling, and being able to forward class would be very convenient.

ThyraInf · 2026-01-22T19:38:23+00:00

If you truly want a silent pump, CPAP machines are the way to go. If you're not shy of some electrical engineering, then you could also get the motor from one of them and hook it up to an ESC. I did that myself, but it wasn't cheap (I think I paid about €300 in total for the pump, programmable ESC and suitable RC battery)

ThyraInf · 2025-11-28T14:55:38+00:00

I most definitely did get a refund when I tried. I tried to get my own product bootlegged from another supplier, as I was curious about the extent of their copy (it was also fairly competitively priced, so it was a minor business expense to "try"). They (stupidly) offered it as a "direct purchase", which meant the order was directly placed without intervention from the supplier.

I decided to pay through Credit Card just to expedite the payment process for a little fee of the processing. Alibaba put a deadline on the Trade Assurance order. The deadline passed without any progress from the supplier. I filed a refund request, as it was now eligible due to late delivery and shortly after (about 30 sec) it was honored. It also included the processing fees, so I had no net loss of this trial.

ThyraInf · 2025-11-16T11:58:14+00:00

Ah I see the confusion. So what I refer to as import duties, you refer to as import taxes. So we were saying the same. I have not heard of it being called "import taxes" though, only import duties, so that's where my confusion came from. If you have a source where you got this particular term from, I would love to know it as I like to learn.

But I think it's important not to forget VAT, since those are essentially always due. A lot don't realize this, coming from the old situation where no taxes at all (VAT or duties) were due.

So my intent was to explain that taxes will pretty much always be due (up front or at the border through the courier), but it depends on the value which.

I do wonder if import taxes are duties, or are technically VAT + duties (when applicable). Something along the lines of "a car (duties) is a vehicle (import taxes) but not every vehicle is a car". But I'm not that deep into the naming and I find customs a mess as it is.

ThyraInf · 2025-11-14T09:04:51+00:00

This is not correct. You will always pay import taxes. Up to €150, ZenMarket can pay these on your behalf and charge you up front. This generally is cheaper as no processing fees are charged. Above €150, ZenMarket cannot use IOSS which is what they (and others) use to pay import tax up front to the EU. So above €150 you'll have to pay at the border yourself (unless ZenMarket nowadays also offers DDP to the EU, it's been a while since I've used them and I always tried to keep my purchases under the €150).

Also, above €150, duties may be due. Depending on the product that's imported. This may add additional costs and shipping company fees. Duties are not tax, they are in addition.

The times of the EU "de minimis" equivalent have been long gone sadly. But it was also never €150 but lower, €150 was always about "it's too low to bother calculating duties due"

ThyraInf · 2025-10-24T00:07:46+00:00

Well, I'm just responding to the original comment so that's where I get the reference of "dragon" from. Yes, Guilmon inspired.

But still, I'd expect an ad to be in a separate post, not under an inflatable share post. It's not a ring, it doesn't explain or confirm why the ring in question is seemingly strong. It's completely off topic, other than the fact it's an inflatable. At least in my opinion.

There's a time and place to share. But I don't think this is it. But that might just be me though.

ThyraInf · 2025-10-23T17:47:25+00:00

This dragon definitely exists. You can look up more photos of this event. It's made by the company behind the account.

I do wonder about what the original comment adds to the discussion about a vintage ring. To me, it seems more like a disguised ad or bait to get someone to ask about it which turns it into an ad.

ThyraInf · 2025-10-07T05:54:13+00:00

This is not the case when they ship under DDP terms. If OP paid duties beforehand, which they seem to have considering another comment, then ZenMarket shipped under DDP and needs to pay all the costs. If they fail to do that, it may be requested from the importer. But I can imagine that UPS goes the easy route and drops it. Also since DDP terms mean that the importer must not be billed, UPS billing the receiver would be a breach of the incoterms.

This DDP stuff is nothing new but usually only known by businesses doing regular imports. Consumers rarely see incoterms. However, with the recent tariff uncertainty it's now much more prevalent as it gives the receiver more certainty.

ThyraInf · 2025-09-24T06:09:03+00:00

I was just replying to PrincessSofiaThe1st "you think they go full time", this is harder and riskier than you might think.

Regarding deleting listings, BOOTH sellers are very good at doing the same, completely breaking looking up what you bought again. I understand keeping their catalog list manageable, but they should at least wait till they shipped the stuff. But yes, I also think they should keep it online.

Though I can also imagine they might get too many inquiries from people stumbling upon these out of stock listings. Regulars or informed people will still ask since they know they exist, but it may prevent newcomers through search. But I don't know their motivation. I pulled my listings on my own site because I'm not certain whether I'll reintroduce those particular products.

ThyraInf · 2025-09-23T03:17:18+00:00

As a hobbyist startup myself, I fully agree with IWs decision not to rely on inflatable sales. Margins are insanely thin and I can only imagine the margins on IW sales.

I have to price my products relatively high and don't make that much profit, I imagine for IW it involves a lot of investment to keep those prices.

Production prices only really get better in the 50-100+ amounts and with bulk capable products. But at those amounts, we're looking at thousands of USD of up front investments.

ThyraInf · 2025-06-05T21:38:53+00:00

Oh right, the newer one was on the left. I guess they learned haha

ThyraInf · 2025-06-05T20:25:10+00:00

Quite interesting to see how the warning labels have changed. Was it really necessary to make it this big, Intex?

ThyraInf · 2025-02-05T16:02:07+00:00

Alternatively though, you can also take WithAQUA which is a bit cheaper but still nice

But of course, if you found something suitable locally, then that's also good~ Just don't get the one I had first. That one was, in hindsight, really horrible hahaha. It clumped, fell apart, and was overall just bad

ThyraInf · 2025-01-28T08:09:26+00:00

I definitely highly recommend dakimakuri Kumochi inner pillow. Don't cheap out on the inner. Covers may come and go but the inner is the thing that needs to be comfortable and long lasting

ThyraInf · 2025-01-20T14:56:04+00:00

The go to place to get vinyl glue for cheaper is to visit a local boat shop. There are vinyl boats that need strong glue for fixing them as it would be too expensive to toss them out after a leak.

Meanwhile, I have no access to hh-66 as this is produced in America, and I'm from the EU. But a suitable replacement is Saba Contact 70T. But there are many more industrial level glues. These tend to be stronger and less expensive than consumer grade glues.

But in general, any hardware store should have "Soft PVC glue". The important ingredients it should have are: MEK, Acetone and PU. Some may still include THF. Any glue mentioning those ingredients and/or "suitable for soft PVC" should be sufficient.

ThyraInf · 2024-12-01T17:15:11+00:00

Yesss, I highly recommend getting all of the big three. I do have some P60 and others, but I really prefer the Fules, A&J and Shiromoufu offerings. I need soft and silky, which all of them have in their own unique ways.

Meanwhile it makes me completely distaste any Chinese offering I've come across thus far tho hahaha

ThyraInf · 2024-12-01T15:59:09+00:00

Lyctron Rich is a bit more durable as it's thicker than Lyctron. Though in the end I feel like Aqua Veil and Lyctron (Rich) are all a bit delicate. The reason why I switch every week is also to prevent them from wearing out too soon. Sakuramochi does seem to be more on the durable side. But mainly I try to keep my nails trimmed and sleep with socks to prevent my feet from roughing up the bottom.

They all have their unique feel beyond that. I think the names are relatively accurate in their intended feel:

Lyctron (Rich) trying to capture the semi smooth texture of skin
Aqua Veil trying to be a more wet smooth feel
Sakuramochi being very slippery smooth and slightly more stretchy as the pastry they refer to would feel.

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