Pre-order terms
The pre-order terms, in plain English.
Written to be read by a director rather than by a lawyer. Nothing here is left out to make it shorter: it is short because a pre-order for a book is a simple thing, and the complicated parts of it are the ones you are entitled to see.
These terms apply to every pre-order of the first edition of Judgment Capital taken through this site. You accept them when you continue to the card page.
The offer itself
The editions, the prices and the two charges are set out on the pre-order page. These terms govern them.
1 · Who you are buying from
The seller is SIA “TerraNext”, a limited liability company registered in Latvia, registration number 40203700622, VAT number LV40203700622, registered at Pulkveža Brieža iela 2–5, Rīga, LV-1010, Latvia. It is the company that takes the payment, prints the book and posts it to you, and it is the party you have a contract with. It trades as Judgment Capital for this book, which is the name you will see on the payment page and on your card statement.
The book is written by Oksana Sivokobilska and Alex Blumentals. They are the authors, not the seller — but you can reach either of them directly, and for anything to do with an order the fastest route is alex@judgmentcapital.org. There is no ticket queue behind that address.
2 · What you are buying
A numbered copy of the first printing of Judgment Capital, in hardcover, in English, sent from Riga. Three editions are offered, and each price below is the whole price of that edition.
| Edition | Copies | Deposit today | Balance at dispatch | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The First Edition | 1 | €24.50 | €24.50 | €49 |
| The First Edition, signed | 1 | €39.50 | €39.50 | €79 |
| The Board Set | 10 | €195 | €195 | €390 |
Prices include delivery to the EU, the UK, the United States and Canada. The price shown includes VAT, and nothing further is due on delivery. The cover design shown on this site is provisional; the text, the extent and the format are not. If anything about the physical book changes materially before it is printed, we will tell you before we charge the balance, and you may cancel for a full refund at that point.
3 · The deposit and the balance
You pay a deposit when you order, and the balance when the book is dispatched. The deposit is part of the price, not an addition to it, and the two charges together come to the total in the table above. Your card statement will show them as a deposit and a balance against the same order.
The balance is charged on the day your copy leaves us. If the card we hold cannot be charged, we will write to you, hold your number, and give you a reasonable time to settle it another way. If it is not settled, we cancel the order and refund the deposit.
We take a deposit rather than the full price on purpose. It is the structure the card networks permit for goods that are not yet in hand, and it keeps your protection with your card issuer alive across the whole of the wait rather than letting it run down while you have nothing.
4 · When it arrives, and what happens if it does not
We undertake to deliver by 28 February 2027. If we have not delivered by then, we refund you automatically, without your having to ask.
That date is the delivery time expressly agreed for your order. It replaces the thirty-day default that would otherwise apply to a consumer sale, and it is the date everything else in these terms is measured from.
Automatically means what it says. We do not wait to be chased, we do not ask for a reason, and we do not require you to return anything you never received. The refund goes back to the card that paid, for both the deposit and the balance if the balance has been taken by then.
We expect to deliver well before that date. We have deliberately not named an earlier one, because the publishing route is not yet settled and a date we cannot control is not a date worth giving you.
In short
Delivered by 28 February 2027, or refunded.
No claim to file, no form to complete, no correspondence required.
5 · Changing your mind
You have fourteen days to withdraw from the purchase without giving any reason. Because you are buying a physical book, that period runs from the day you — or someone you have named to receive it — take possession of the book. It does not run from the day you order, which means the whole of the wait plus a fortnight is yours.
Two things sit outside it, and we would rather say which than let you find out at the worst moment. A signed copy is inscribed with the dedication you write at checkout, which makes it a book made for you and no one else; the law treats such a copy as personalised, and it cannot be returned once it has reached you. The Board Set is a purchase by an organisation rather than a consumer, and the fourteen days are a consumer’s right. If you are an individual buying a board set for yourself, tell us and we will treat it as a consumer purchase.
Everything else keeps the right in full, and nothing about a copy being numbered or a printing being limited takes it away.
Before dispatch, you may cancel at any time and we return the deposit in full. There is nothing to send back and nothing to pay.
To withdraw, tell us in any clear statement — an email to alex@judgmentcapital.org saying you have changed your mind is enough. You do not have to give a reason and we will not ask for one. Sending the notice before the fourteen days are up is what counts, not when it reaches us.
If you would rather use the statutory form, this is it, and copying it into an email is enough:
To SIA TerraNext, Pulkveža Brieža iela 2–5, Rīga, LV-1010, Latvia — alex@judgmentcapital.org:
I hereby give notice that I withdraw from my contract of sale of the following goods:
Ordered on [date] / received on [date]
Name of consumer:
Address of consumer:
Date:
We refund everything you paid within fourteen days of being told, to the same card. If the book has already reached you, send it back within fourteen days of telling us; the cost of returning it is yours, and we may reduce the refund if the book has been handled more than you would handle a book in a shop. If it arrived damaged or wrong, none of that applies — write to us and we deal with it at our cost.
6 · If a publisher signs the book
The manuscript is with agents and presses. If one of them takes the book, your order stands exactly as it is: you receive the numbered first edition you paid for, at the price you paid, direct from us. A trade edition appearing later, at whatever price a publisher sets, changes nothing about your copy.
If a publisher’s schedule would push your delivery past 28 February 2027, we will not let the date slip quietly. We will write to you before that happens, tell you the new date, and you may either keep your place or take the refund. If we have failed to tell you and the date passes, the automatic refund in section 4 applies regardless.
7 · Delivery, tax and duties
Delivery is included in the price to the EU, the UK, the United States and Canada, sent tracked. Anywhere else, write to us before ordering and we will quote the real postage rather than surprise you with it afterwards.
For buyers in the European Union, the price shown is the final price. The price shown includes VAT, and nothing further is due on delivery. Outside the EU, your own customs authority may charge import duty or local tax on delivery; that charge is set by your government, not by us, and we cannot waive it. The United States is the exception — those parcels are sent duty paid, so nothing is asked of you on arrival.
Risk in the book passes to you when it is delivered to you or to someone you have named. If a parcel goes missing in the post, that is ours to sort out, not yours.
8 · Refunds, and how to ask
Write to alex@judgmentcapital.org with the name or email you ordered under. You do not need an order number, and you do not need a reason. We answer refund requests ourselves, within two working days.
Every refund goes back to the card that paid, and covers what you have actually paid at that point — the deposit alone if the balance has not been taken, or both charges if it has. Refunds are issued within fourteen days of the request and typically appear within a few working days after that, depending on your bank.
If the book arrives damaged, incomplete or not as described, you keep your statutory rights in full, including repair, replacement or a refund. Nothing in these terms reduces them.
9 · Your data
To take and fulfil an order we hold your name, your email address, your delivery address, the edition you chose, and the identifiers our payment processor gives us. We never see or hold your card details: the card page is Stripe’s, and it stays theirs.
We use that information to deliver the book, to write to you about your order, and to keep the accounting records Latvian law requires us to keep. We do not sell it, rent it or share it beyond the processors that print, post and take payment. The full account is in the privacy notice.
10 · Law, and if something goes wrong
These terms are governed by Latvian law, and the courts of Riga have jurisdiction. If you are buying as a consumer, that does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer rules of your own country of residence, and it does not stop you bringing a claim where you live.
Tell us first. Almost everything is fixable by one email, and both authors read that inbox. If we cannot resolve it between us, consumers may complain to the Latvian Consumer Rights Protection Centre — the Patērētāju tiesību aizsardzības centrs — or to the equivalent authority in their own country.
Last reviewed 25 August 2026. If we change these terms, the version that applies to your order is the one published on the day you placed it, and we will send you a copy on request.