The plushies have all been delivered to my storage unit! We have 111 boxes total of all of our freaky little friends.
Our storage unit is looking a little chaotic, and my god is it hot in there, but it gets the job done! The boxes were stacked nicely, but we unfortunately had to go spelunking for the embroidered patches. (They were at the very bottom in the back…)
After unloading the truck, I enlisted the help of my dear friend to start packing the inserts into their bags. My friend and I spent 12 hours overall, but we managed to get over 500 orders packed! Now all that’s left is to start pulling the plushes and get them shipped off.
After the whole wire fraud debacle, I unfortunately did not have the budget to go all out on the packaging. However, I love to be extra, so I figured these lil specimen bags would be a silly little way to pull the whole package together!
Careful not to get infected.
I had two events scheduled this month, but I’ve cancelled both of them in order to focus my energies on packing orders.
Now for further transparency, my storage unit is unfortunately located an hour and a half away from my house. Due to my remote location, there would have been an additional $1500 remote delivery fee if I were to have had them shipped directly to my home. I am going to try to get out to my unit as much as possible and spend the whole day out there packing orders. However, my son is in school at the moment, so I will be scheduling around needing to drop him off and pick him up.
Please know that the Hurtsies are my main priority right now, but I do need to divide my attentions between the BackerKit and my shop in order to continue making an income. When I put my mind to it, I can get a lot done, but it is also just me and a handful of willing friends working on the fulfillment! Even though the plushes are here and fulfillment is chugging along, it may still take a few months to get everything out. (But how awesome would it be to get everything out in time for Halloween? 😫 A bunny can dream!)
I am currently looking for fulfillment services to help me with my EU & UK orders. If I cannot find a service, I will refund any orders that cannot be fulfilled. However, that’s the worst case scenario.
I’ve had many people ask if there will be extras! I fully expect to have extras of nearly everything, but I will not be posting any extras for sale until after fulfillment is completed. I need to make sure that I have enough for orders and account for any B-grades that may pop up.
Please be patient with me and understand that the initial fulfillment takes priority!
If you are local to Knoxville and would like to arrange for a local pickup, please contact me via email to discuss a meet-up location! (I will not be meeting anyone at my unit for my own safety.)
As always, thank you SO much for y’all’s patience with me during this project. I have fulfilled many preorders and never have I expected that something like this could happen. Even when I have had some shenanigans occur, I’ve still managed to pull it off without much delay. It’s going to take a long time for me to recover from this project, but I’m still incredibly thankful that I’m able to see this project to the end.
