Hiya everyone! We’re back to update you all on fulfillment progress! We are perfectly on schedule to finish the remaining shipments this month, thank you so much for your patience for those who ordered items from this campaign that had delayed manufacturing.
The good news is:
Any remaining orders will be packaged up in the next 3 days! Shipping will continue into next week, and then fulfillment will be COMPLETE! Stay tuned to receive your tracking number to your email soon!
To our Canadian backers:
Your orders may be delayed shipping, as the Canadian postal service has been on strike for the past 3 weeks and is still going strong. It seems like now mail is starting to resume, but I wanted to let you know in case you’re in Canada and have not yet received your package!
Wrapping things up: After fulfillment is complete, we’ll be listing the remaining stock to our shops in case you missed out on any items. We do have a small number of spider varsities left!
That’s all for this quick update in regards to our campaign! If you have any further questions about your order or need to contact us, remember the best place to do so (since we check it the most often) is to our email [email protected]!
Extra: Bonus update for those curious what we are up to outside of this campaign!!! We are really excited to announce we are starting to partner up with other indie animation studios to produce their merchandise and fulfill their orders! This way indie studios will be able to sustainably support themselves financially, be able to hire artists to help them, and they don’t need to worry about taking time off animating to pack orders since we’ll be the ones handling it. (As a bonus note, we will be fulfilling future campaigns faster than ever!! We are finally able to afford hiring on a team to help us pack orders, it’s something we’ve talked about before but are finally able to comfortably do)
I’d love if you checked out our first collaboration with Studio Flimpo coming soon, there’s some super cute stuff coming out (my fav is the varsity haha) and please do follow the pre-launch page so we know people want to support this kind of thing!
When will my varsity jacket ship? Finally we have received the varsity jackets today!!! The shipment arrived a bit later than expected, so varsity jacket orders will ship from today -> October.
I didn’t order the jacket, where is my order? Orders without jackets are still shipping as well! Our printer totally broke on us so we couldn’t print labels for a minute, but that’s been resolved and we are catching back up. Don’t worry if you haven’t received it yet, but if you need it by a certain date (for example birthday, moving, going on vacation) please contact us and we will do our best to have it reach you in time. Thanks so much for your understanding through the delays, we are working hard every day to get these out to you! Thank you to everyone who has shared photos of receiving their orders as well!!! It’s super cool to see :D
I moved addresses! What can I do to receive my order? If you ended up moving after the address lock and are still waiting on your order, please contact [email protected] and we will make sure you receive your items at your new address!
If you have any other questions, those can be directed to our support email as well! As a reminder, we do not get notified from Backerkit comments or discussion posts so it is best to contact us directly on email. Please contact: [email protected] Tracking numberswill be sent out automatically as soon as your order ships!
After the long wait, many sample changes, and delays later…. Our manufacturer has just sent us the final product photos for the spider varsity jackets! The white outline looks great, I’m so glad we made that change!
Manufacturing has also been completed so the jackets are on their way to us now! As soon as we receive them, we can finally ship the rest of the orders. Thanks everyone for waiting along with us on these, we wanted to make sure they were perfect before moving into their production so they took a little longer than expected. Orders with the jacket will be going out from the very tail end of August and carry out until September!
Besides that, fulfillment is going well and we are shipping all the orders that didn’t get the jacket still. As always, remember you can contact us [email protected] if you had any questions. I’ll be answering some emails now, bye until next update!
Hi everyone! Fullfillment is going well, we are about 1/4th of the way through all the orders! We are exactly on schedule shipping the orders from July - August. The spider jacket is still experiencing delays, but as soon as they're finished I'll update you on the timeline of their shipment. Besides that though, most of you should see a tracking number emailed to you by the end of August! If you are unexpectibly moving addresses or need help with your order, remember you can always contact [email protected] and we will help you out. The leather beetle backpacks and snail wallets have just arrived at the beginning of this week, so those will start shipping this monday. Want to see us packing your orders? We have just started streaming on twitch, so come catch us if you get the chance! We are on just about every day, and when we're not packing we're working on our animated series! https://www.twitch.tv/chimerabunny
Spider Varsity Jacket update: We FINALLY fixed the embroidery on the back to have both a black and white outline!! Apologies for such a long wait, the manufacturer mis-interpreted some changes so it had to go through a couple more rounds of revisions than intended. We are still waiting on a final product photo... But besides that production goes well! This photo showcases the new look, but of course the black rectangle will be filled in like the original. When I have photos of a completed jacket there will be another new update! (I'm hoping by tomorrow!)
While we are still waiting on a couple items, we are going to begin shipping and fulfilling the orders that we can early. Cards have just been charged for shipping, however we will be going through and refunding/canceling orders to the EU since we are still unable to ship there due to GPSR laws.
Addresses will be locking soon after, so please double check your address! Orders will be going out soon after they lock, and shipping from now - the next few months. If you need help, contact [email protected] and we will reply back as soon as we can! Shipping overseas: The beetle backpack + snail wallet are finished with production and are on their way to us! The cardigans have also finished production
Spider varsity jackets: still in production, orders with this item will have a delayed shipment time
As most production is wrapping up, we are now going to lock orders! Please double check your addresses and make any final changes at this time. (If your order has already locked but you need to edit something, please email us [email protected])
Half of the plushies just arrived to us and the cardigans are on their way now! We should have the majority of inventory ready to ship by next month, at which point we will start locking addresses and charging cards for shipping.
Update on all products:
Cardigans - finished, shipping from overseas (ahead of schedule) Snail Wallet and Beetle Backpack - production has just began, estimated to be finished in 3 months (1 month behind schedule) Plushies and plush bags - Finished! Remainder are shipping overseas (ahead of schedule) Enamel pins - Completed production, they look amazing!! (Ahead of schedule) Spider Varsity Jacket - 15 days for the final sample, and 2 months after that for production to finish. (On schedule)
Anything not mentioned here has also been finished and is ready to ship. We will start shipping the orders that we can in about a month or so, and keep updating for shipments on orders with delays.
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What else are we up to?
Outside of wrapping up this campaign, we have all sorts of stuff in the works! Right now, we have a pre-order running for our fossil hoodie design: sample photos coming soon! https://chimerabunny.com/products/pre-order-fossil-hoodie
There will be a free pin exclusive to returning backers as a thank you for your continued support! (Won’t reveal the design just yet, but I think beetle fans will like it 👀)
Is there an update on how many orders have been completed, shipped, and to be shipped? Two months have passed since non-jacket orders were supposed to have shipped. Others noted in the comments on the latest update, people aren't receiving tracking information, suggesting shipping hasn't started for many orders. A broad update would be appreciated instead of relying on individuals to contact you and pull you away to look into their specific order (especially since a lot of people are reporting no response).
This is all extremely concerning as another project launches. I've seen this too many times where new projects are used to fund earlier projects. These practices are effectively a Ponzi scheme where "investors" (backers) are "paid" with the pre-selected goods instead of money. I'm not saying that's happening here but it should be easy to see why people might perceive it that way.
Well, after our beetle bags disappeared into the international mail system never to be seen again, I confess I was not holding out hope for the Jacket to arrive.
But surprise surprise it did arrive a few minutes ago!
It is beautifully made, thick lining and lovely feel, but disappointingly too small for either myself or my daughter. I was hoping that at least 1 button would close but no.
So out of nearly $300 in support across two separate pledges, we got the sum total of a lady bug coin purse and the tarantula key chain plush to enjoy.
Disappointing from that aspect, but the items are well made and very cute.
I hope everyone else has better luck that we did!
Hiya everyone! We’re back to update you all on fulfillment progress! We are perfectly on schedule to finish the remaining shipments this month, thank you so much for your patience for those who ordered items from this campaign that had delayed manufacturing.
The good news is:
Any remaining orders will be packaged up in the next 3 days! Shipping will continue into next week, and then fulfillment will be COMPLETE! Stay tuned to receive your tracking number to your email soon!
To our Canadian backers:
Your orders may be delayed shipping, as the Canadian postal service has been on strike for the past 3 weeks and is still going strong. It seems like now mail is starting to resume, but I wanted to let you know in case you’re in Canada and have not yet received your package!
Wrapping things up: After fulfillment is complete, we’ll be listing the remaining stock to our shops in case you missed out on any items. We do have a small number of spider varsities left!
That’s all for this quick update in regards to our campaign! If you have any further questions about your order or need to contact us, remember the best place to do so (since we check it the most often) is to our email [email protected]!
Extra: Bonus update for those curious what we are up to outside of this campaign!!! We are really excited to announce we are starting to partner up with other indie animation studios to produce their merchandise and fulfill their orders! This way indie studios will be able to sustainably support themselves financially, be able to hire artists to help them, and they don’t need to worry about taking time off animating to pack orders since we’ll be the ones handling it. (As a bonus note, we will be fulfilling future campaigns faster than ever!! We are finally able to afford hiring on a team to help us pack orders, it’s something we’ve talked about before but are finally able to comfortably do)
I’d love if you checked out our first collaboration with Studio Flimpo coming soon, there’s some super cute stuff coming out (my fav is the varsity haha) and please do follow the pre-launch page so we know people want to support this kind of thing!
