Hey friends!! ^_^

Since we're super close to the last stretch goal, I've decided to go ahead and unlock the Pink ita bag! 🩷🎉✨

All day yesterday, we were sitting about 1-2 bag pledges away from unlocking the Pink color variant. So I decided to cover the rest so we could officially unlock all 4 ita bag colors at the end of Bag Bazaar!! 🥳 

Thank you so much for the incredible support and for sharing the campaign with your friends 🥰🙏🏼 I'm super excited to get all these new bags to their forever homes!! 😻

📣 Reminder: Bag Bazaar ends later TONIGHT! June 2nd @10pm EST~‼️

We did it!! 🩶 The Gray/Black gaming ita bag has officially been unlocked!! 🎉

Thank you all so much for the incredible support and excitement for this campaign!! It means so much seeing our little community come together to make something incredible 🥰

I'm so excited about this new color, my inner goth dreams are coming true lol 🖤🔮 This is basically what I'm imagining people wearing with this new goth style bag at conventions 🥰🤘🏼

I've seen pledges fluctuating a little bit back and forth this past week, so I’d love to keep this momentum going strong so we can safely keep this new gray color unlocked! 🩶 Not only that, but it would be amazing to push for the final goal: the pink ita bag!! 💖✨

✨ Here's the best part about unlocking this bag!! ✨
I did the math and we only need about 25 more ita bag pledges to unlock all 4 bag colors!! That means we are *soooo* incredibly close to unlocking the last pink bag together in the last week of Bag Bazaar 😻

Please help share the link below with all your loved ones~

🎮 Gamer friends & family
👜 Ita bag collectors
✨ Convention friends
💖 Pin communities
📲 Facebook, Instagram, other social media, Discord servers, anywhere online really! ^_^

Thank you again for making Bag Bazaar such an amazing experience!! 💖 I'm thinking if we reach the final pink bag goal, new holographic insert colors will unlock next?? 🙊✨ Until the next update~ 

💟 Jess~

Wow!! I can't believe how successful the first day of Bag Bazaar was!! 😻

✨ Let's look at the highlights of day one! ✨
➡️ 1st bag unlocked in 3 hours! 🏆
➡️ 2nd bag unlocked less than 24 hours from launch! 🚀

Thank you for all of your support on the 1st day!! 🎉 We unlocked BOTH the (Red/Blue) and the (Blue/Green) ita bag color variants together as a community!! I can't thank you all enough 🙏🏼

Since the Early Bird period has officially ended, I’ve now added the Surfing Turtle Early Bird pin into the Add-on Shop!

This add-on is best for anyone who:

(The 2 Surfing Turtle pins for reference~)

I’m super excited about these colors, especially the gray goth style!! 🖤🩶 

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If you didn't see these options, I snuck in the Mega Bundle tier today! This upgraded tier includes (2) Regular pins, (2) XL pins, and (2) Mini pins of your choice!

➡️ With the fully customizable Create-A-Bag Tier, you can change pretty much any color inside and out! We can even customize your (2) insert colors if you so choose~

➡️ Early bird rewards are linked through your original backer timestamp on the backend, not necessarily by which pledge tier you picked! The pledge tiers are labeled "Early Bird" mostly for the price differences! 😊

So if you want to upgrade your Pledge Tier later, your Early Bird freebies are still safely linked to your account! ^_^ 💖✨


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Thank you all again for the incredible support during the Bag Bazaar launch!! 👜🚀 

86% of you have filled out your surveys, which gives me enough information to send things into production. Based on these orders, I'm placing an order for ~150% of the orders submitted. This will easily cover anyone who hasn't filled out a survey, and leave a good amount of stock for conventions next year.

If you're one of the six people who have surveys and haven't filled them out yet - You still can. Locking surveys does not remove the ability to fill them out. It makes it so filled out surveys cannot be changed. (So I have a reliable, unchanging order count.)

If you're a pay over time backer, your survey will trigger ~48 hours after your last payment is made. As above, locking surveys does not lock you out. Your survey will still trigger, and you can still fill out your survey when it does.

Locking orders does not lock addresses. If you need to update your address between now and fulfillment, you should be able to do so without issue.

My bag factory rep estimates production can take up to 90 days. Pin production typically takes 4 - 6 weeks. As the numbers are backer based and not order based, I've already submitted orders for stickers and keychains for the collab rewards. 

This is the waiting period. I will post updates either a) every other month (every 6-8 weeks) or b) when I have something to report - whichever comes first. 

If you have an errored payment, please do address that. This will hinder you getting what you pledged for.

As always, if you need to reach out, the most reliable mode of communication is email: admin/@/arledgecomics.com

Until next update.

Hey witchy friends!

Just wanted to give y'all a heads up that the smoke tests for the survey have been sent. For those of you who don't know, the smoke test phase is when 5% of backers in each pledge level receive the survey first to make sure the survey is functioning smoothly and there are no errors. 

This ain't my first rodeo, so I don't expect there to be many issues, if any. Once I get a decent amount of the smoke test surveys back, I will send out surveys to all other backers, so please keep an eye on your email over the next 24-48 hours to make sure you don't miss it. :)

As a reminder, POT backers WILL NOT receive their surveys until their pledges are paid in full. If you are a POT backer, you will not get your survey until 48 hours after your final payment goes through.

That's it for now, happy survey-ing!

Cheers,
Rain

Hey witchy friends!

Just a heads up that I've now sent all the surveys out! Please fill them out as soon as possible to prevent unnecessary delays in getting items ordered. 💜

As a reminder, POT Backers will not receive their survey until their order has been paid in full. 

However, I have now emailed all POT backers a pre-survey to fill out so I can get your choices and include them in my item counts. Please fill this out in the meantime! But please remember that you still have to fill out your official BackerKit survey once you've paid in full and you receive it.

That's all for now! 

Cheers,
Rain

Hello everyone!

Sending a notice out to let you all know that The smoke tests for surveys have gone out! I’m hoping to send out the surveys in full in a few days from now if the smokes go off cleanly!

I also wanted to remind everyone that we’ve got about 26 orders that still need to be remedied for error of some variety! If you can fix em up It will help me significantly as the quantities failed puts us on the edge of keeping tiers open or needing to close them off😰


Also I have been made aware of some
Shipping price issues showing up on the end of pins? I apologize for that and know that it should be showing up at 8$ and bags should be between 18-25$ depending on your add ons! 


Please please continue to reach out to me if you notice this not being accurate!

Also I’m going through pirate ship on these boxes and these are the rough quotes I’m being shown for the big bag boxes!

Good evening/good morning!

I’m excited to share a quick prototype preview of the cardholder that was just sent to me! Reminder that the bits put down with paper will be totally embroidered on the cardholder vs the embossing and embroidery line on the bags. 

I am really happyI got a preview for these before we drop the surveys! It’s a nice way to show it off for those who may have been on the fence!