Samples have finally been fully approved a couple weeks back, and the finish date is hopefully soon-approaching!!
I am also sending this out to all projects, so the preorder store is linked here!Commenting below this update is open to everyone, please let me know if you have any questions regarding preorders!
Here are also finished pics of my guillotines!! They are all 100% done with production!!
The red colorway was specifically intended to be a very very dark "hot pink" rather than a true red, because the black plating behind stones makes them a bit more cool-toned. It's something really evident with my lab opal jewelry. I personally think this came out great, and I hope others agree! It matches the stone well and still looks very red without being a costumey bright shade!
For other sample and pin photos, please check out the previous update here!!
On the subject of surveys:
Our current deadline for filling them out is October 21st. We will then lock and charge 48hrs later, on October 23rd. I will have to quality control to both of our standards and all that...so we are on track for beginning fulfillment sometime in November...we hope. I do already have all their add-ons sent to me from Japan by CC, so that part is good to go!
Additional survey info:
For those who did not see all the debacles involved with production, the majority of Chocolat Chaud's new pieces are unfortunately unavailable as preorder or survey options because they had to be upgraded to silver, which is way more expensive. As a result, they can no longer afford to offer them at the campaign price points and quantity ordered had to be dramatically reduced. Collar pin sets are available in limited qty!
For that reason, the vitrail pieces with pink CZ had to be abandoned and instead refunded as credit, because only 1 order of each pink style was not enough to get them produced at that price point.
That issue with the steel not maintaining the necessary details and having to upgrade is also why we could not afford to get the huggy earrings or black cats made, unfortunately.
Last sourcing issue: the Cœur de Chat obsidian beads have been replaced with black agate, but the quality and appearance are the same!
Currently, I'm getting all 16 gauge cat paw septum rings remade. They will have to ship to me after this campaign's jewelry, because it took much longer than anticipated for me to be able to afford it. Each one has 10 opals, and I have to pay for those out of pocket. However, the manufacturer is paying for the metal of the rings and new mold themselves since the QC issues I've been emailed about were due to a major issue on their end and not mine. Anyway, unfortunately that means I had to credit backers for those items...I didn't want to string you along for however many months the remakes take. You can get something else in exchange using that credit, or negotiate a refund (my email address is [email protected]) if affected. The faux (clip-on) cat paw septum rings are not affected.
Some new-to-this-campaign add-ons are available! These include seconds pin grab bags of my monster girl designs, a set listing for both metal colors produced of the porcelain bat, in-hand bandage photos, shoelaces, and more! These are also in the preorder store!
I added more thorn pin sets too, because I finally found the formerly-misplaced stash of the extra purple pins I have!
Backers of paw or bat pendant necklaces can choose between either an 18" or 22" chain.
Merch that is sold out from the live campaign is marked as hidden and cannot be ordered, that applies to merch designed by either of us.
Technically, the survey is what's fully funding the white/black, red/black, and purple/black guillotine colorways, which is why I got a very small qty of them produced. This is mostly because there were so many errored pledges during the initial payment period. But they already exist now, so no pressure - even if only 1 person gets one of those, you WILL receive it!
Guillotines will raise to $80 when sold in-stock after this campaign! I only wanted to raise to $75 but this rapid inflation is making life very hard for everyone, I am really sorry.
Once surveys are charged, stickers will be ordered and will be here before the fulfillment begins!
Shipping info
As everyone now knows, fuel prices are jumping up and down literally daily. So unfortunately, compared to my usual 8oz incremental pricing, I have had to increase shipping cost overall and switch to 4oz incremental pricing.
Lesser-known issue is this:
I got that email at 10pm on the 1st of October lol so I didn't even have any time to try to get ahead of those changes, which began earlier that day. This is all very frustrating but entirely out of my hands. For anyone in the US charged over ~$10 in shipping though, I should be able to automatically upgrade you to priority mail if things don't get even worse (🤞), depending on region.
I really meant to finish up the last ~hr of work necessary to finish up the survey over a week ago, when I sent out the 2nd gacha market's survey, but I wound up in the ER. The pain issue has not fully resolved itself and is ongoing, though I now diagnostically know more about what's going on there. However, I entered the ER only bleeding internally (cysts), but exited it bleeding pretty profusely from my arm (very over-eager vein where my IV port was!). I had to go back in and get patched up. So I think my RBC are still replenishing, given my frequent anemia, as I kept falling asleep against my will more often than usual the past week. I'm finally back to experiencing sleep attacks at only (my) normal frequency so I was awake enough to be able to finish it. 🙇♀️
Almost all POT payments have gone through at this point, so the majority of pending payments are the ones that errored during the campaign runtime. If you are someone who wanted to fix your payment during the survey, please make sure your payment info is correct 🙏 Thank you so much, we're so excited that these Chocolat Chaud pieces finally have momentum, that the guillotines are done, and to have a clearer timeline!!
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