Not much to report, getting a lot of clerical stuff on CHALLENGE COIN CRITTERS and shop inventory done this week.
We're sitting at 82% survey completion right now, which is decent, but definitely low for this stage in the game. If you're getting this email, make sure you picked your dogs (and dog accomplice re-offenders).
80% is usually considered a good margin to get accurate order numbers, but I prefer 85% - especially for stickers..
But, hey, 80% gives me enough to tell you guys what our top 5 pins ordered are. It's time for some fun numbers, to break up all the boring-ass technical and text heavy updates recently.
Disturbing the peace HOUNDS is our #1 pin, at 58 right now. That's... not what I expected! Do you all just have fond memories of hounds, or, just, vibe with the noisy chaos of these two? Either way, they have a nice lead on all the other dogs.
Our #2, the Impersonating an officer GERMAN SHEPHERD, is who I was figuring would take top spot. He's sitting at 49.
We have a tie for #3. These little bundles of joy were picked up by 33 backers, which is the age of most malteses I've ran into. This is the Gang violence LITTLE WHITE DOGS, and the Stalking BORDER COLLIE. I wonder which of them can rack up more blotter mentions in a week?
#4 is the Speeding GREYHOUND. Guess he still wasn't fast enough to get to #1. What a waste of a ticket and court appearance. Oh well, the Greyhound has 27 pins ordered.
Our Property damage PIT BULL is #5. Not surprising, these guys represent the majority of mixed breed and rescue dogs in my US customer base, and I don't doubt a lot of you guys have some door eating horror stories. He's got 23 pins going to criminal enablers around the world.
If you missed the campaign and wanna sway these numbers, the Preorder Store is still open. Normal surveys and preorders will both be open until September 20th.
As usual, if you're one of my 10 failed charges, you have until October 30th. This goes for both initial campaign pledges, and addons + shipping. You know the drill by now, get that fixed, or you forfeit your pledge - including any freebies.
I'm going to give things a little longer before I get the pin and sticker orders in, but, we have a very good idea of where we're sitting.
The quieter good news, is that, we will be remaking a few runs of CRITTER CRIMES' pins. I mentioned this a couple times, but, we did not have enough A grades to stock the HUSTLE for a few critters. Part of DOG CRIMES funds will be going to fixing this, and making sure I have enough retail stock for shows.
The Fox, Alligator and Sparkledog will be getting new runs with the new factory. Most importantly, the Dragon will be getting a completely corrected artwork, and all existing stock will be moved to B-grades.
There's some more technical shit about what's happening that I'll drop with CHALLENGE COIN CRITTERS' next update, but, long story short, this is gonna be part of a slower process of moving all of my more popular designs to new factories so I can order them as needed.
Right now, knock on wood, we are possibly looking to be a little ahead of schedule. I won't jinx it like C3 and say when, but, if I can get an order in by the end of this month, we could have a refreshingly quick project. DOG CRIMES will have relatively few pins to grade and no combined shipping, so, once they're here, we're gonna have 'em out in under a month.
Thanks for dealing with the radio silence. Hope to have something new for you guys when we hit 85% surveys. If you're holding that up, go deal with it!
