Thank you all SO MUCH again for all the love and support since we launched! I'm having a great time working on this project thanks to all of you!
With that said, it's finally time to reveal the FINAL pin design -- the Backer Voted pin! Drumroll please... your winner is the Progress Pride Flag!
By an INCREDIBLY close margin once again, yeesh! Y'all almost had a SECOND tie!
As a cherry on top, though, I have the design ready for you all NOW! Here it is!
I do have one more exciting announcement -- I will be vending at a VIRTUAL con this weekend that all of you are welcome to attend for FREE! It takes place on Discord via the Spots application -- for more information, you can check out THIS TikTok. It's so cool and I'm excited to be part of a really cool emerging option for artists to get their stuff in front of folks!
Here's a sneak peak at my booth:
I hope to see you all there! I'll also be streaming on Twitch from 1-5pm CST!
I WAS all prepared to start sorting pins and making the sets, but either there was a mistake made in manufacturing or in shipping.
For the end pins - sliver crescent moons - I have only gold and no silver. For the center pins, I have silver tops and gold bottoms (none of the reverse).
I've sent an email to my rep to see if I'm just waiting on another shipment or if something hinky happened. I'm including email screenshots for transparency.
I am so heckin sorry for yet another delay. I'm working as diligently as possible to get this sorted.
A small note, due to an error within the BackerKit system, some of you may recieve your packages without your collaboration pins since they were already prepared for packaging before I was able to get it sorted.
I ran this campaign as close to cost as I possibly could to ensure I could try to accommodate as many flags as possible. I ordered the exact amount of rewards I needed due to this. However, I have had to put in another order with my manu for the remaining rewards not origionally calculated by the automatic reward system on the back end.
If you're missing any rewards, please contact me immediately! The rest of the rewards are already in production. Additional shipping is at no cost to you; just let me know if things are missing.
I wanted to pop in and let you all know that the following pins should be shipping to me within the next week or so:
-Reverie: Lesbian, Aro, MLM, and Polyam
-Blossom
-Frolic: Ace, Pan, and Demi
-Paw Print Collab Pin
The rest of the pins have been re-plated and are either currently getting screen printed or checked by my rep. She needs to double check a few thousand pins between my pins and the others that got affected, so it’s going a little slower than usual.
Updated Shipping Timeline:
Once I receive the pins that are set to ship to me next week, I’ll get them out the door asap to corresponding backers, so I’ll be locking addresses for those on Friday, July 17th.
Thank you all so much for your patience during this. I had hoped to get these out to you all a lot sooner, so I apologize for the extra wait. I’ll pop in again when more pins are completed and are on their way!
Firstly, I would like to apologise for any confusion that went on with your surveys! I added the free birthday sticker to everyone's orders so I wouldn't forget to include it, but that messed up the surveys a little, so it was saying they were unfinished, even though they were locked.
I had to manually go through everyone to fix the issue, but they should all be sorted now!
If it says your survey isn't finished, simply click through the survey again and confirm everything and it should fix the issue. if theres any other issues, please let me know and I will try and get it sorted for you.
There's also been some big changes to EU shipping, thanks to new regulations. This only affects countries in the European Union and not non-union countries. Important note to EU buyers: If you are in the European Union, there are new changes that have just come into effect; the sales tax will now need to be included when we charge shipping (which is 17-27% of the total value of the items depending where you live) alongside an additional duty and handling fee, which will be included in your shipping as well. The additional tariff wont be added until we are ready to ship.
this is a very new change and we will keep you informed if it changes.
European Union shipping estimate: £14-16 + sales tax
Sadly, this increase is nothing I can do about and may result in us not being able to ship to the EU in the future, but only time will tell.
Finally: we are still waiting on the last pin. -I contacted the manu a few weeks ago and they said it would be a high priority but still don't have any news on when it'll be shipped to us.
we are in the process of shipping all the unaffected orders from the other campaign (mythological beasts) and Ill post another update, hopefully in just a few weeks to let you know when the last pride pin has arrived and we are about to charge shipping.
Despite my best efforts, I am still working on fulfilling my new goal is to finish before the end of July, with emphasis on shooting for the second/third week. At the end of the day, I am just one person who works a full-time job and works on my side business, dreaming of it one day be my all. Sometimes my close friends or family give me a little help, but most of the time it's just me. Getting up a whole hour earlier to get things prepped so when I get home from my full-time job I can immediately get into doing more fulfillment. Plus, I was out of town the last two weekends in a row. This is just to explain myself, for those curious.
Thank you, everyone, for understanding and continued support!
Title says all - addresses have been locked and I will be getting the remainder of orders out this week. If you need to change your address PLEASE e-mail, comment below, or reach out via social media ASAP so I can unlock your survey and allow you to make that change.
Thank you all for your patience - I am excited to get these rewards out to everyone finally!!
