Thank you all for your patience and support as we tackled the last few stages of this project. Since you last heard from us, we opened and closed the leftovers store, shipped all leftovers orders, made the leftovers from the leftovers available to contributors, shipped all those, and finally made the donation to NOAGE and PCRF!
Thank you once again. This was all only possible thanks to you, we hope finally seeing these donations brings you as much joy as it did for us ❤️
Thank you all for your incredible patience as we finish up the shipping part of this project. As we have mentioned before, production took way longer than we had expected which immensely affected our planned shipping timeline. Alas, we are finally near the end of the tunnel!
As we hope most of you know by now, most packages have already been shipped and delivered ❤️ Feel free to tag us in any pics on social media and we'll be sure to share them!
If you made a group order (multiple zines in one order), your package is being sent off this Tuesday. We needed to look for special packaging so they were unfortunately at the bottom of our queue 😅. We will also attempt to send off the packages from a couple of stragglers whose surveys/shipping payments we just recently got on that day.
There are a small number of people whose packages haven’t been shipped yet: backers who never filled their survey (so we don't know where to send the goodies to!) and backers whose payment method bounced. Please check your email, several reminders have been sent through BackerKit.
We also had about a dozen backers who still had shipping fees to be paid. There seemed to be an issue with the surveys being marked as closed. This has now been solved so, unless the card we had on record bounced, these fees have now been charged and we will be trying to get these packages out to the post office as soon as possible.
We've also heard of some packages with missing or damaged goods. In that case, please make sure to reach out to us at [email protected] so we can sort it out!
Finally, what we know a lot of you have been waiting for: digital zines! We will be sending the digital download link later this week, on Saturday, February 21st. This will also be the date we finally lift our exclusivity clause and contributors will be able to share their incredible pieces online! 🎉
That's all for now. We will focus on closing out shipping and making sure everyone got their goodies in proper order before announcing the opening of the leftovers shop, where we will put any remaining stock we have on sale for anyone who may have missed out during the crowdfunding campaign.
First of all we want to give our sincerest apologies about the constant delays, and to thank you all for your incredible patience. We thought we had our estimates figured out after Volume 1, turns out we really didn't. With the upgrade to hardcovers, we opted for a new manufacturer for the zines this time around, and both the production and shipping took much longer that we had originally expected.
But we bring some good news! As mentioned before, we already had all of the merch ready to go. The Santiago charms now all have the correct clasp. Look how cute!
Everyone please give it up for our amazing shipping mod Ara who took on the task of exchanging all of these clasps ❤️
The zines also finally arrived a couple of days ago. With the holidays just around the corner, we haven't had the opportunity to properly check them yet, but we will be starting to package and ship out orders as soon as that's done. We expect to start shipping around early January, potentially sooner (provided there aren't any massive problems with the zines, so everyone please cross your fingers). If you need to update your address due to a move, please email us directly at [email protected] as soon as possible so we can update our info accordingly before packages start going out.
Some of the zines. These are chunky boys!
Once again sorry for the delays and thanks for your patience and understanding. We'll make another update once packages start going out. Until then!
Apologies for the lack of updates, we wanted to be able to have the shipping fees worked out before our next update, which ended up taking longer than expected. We have lot of interesting tidbits to share with you all though!
First of all, shipping fees have now been updated. Overall, international shipping fees have ended up lower than we originally expected, while US fees are a bit higher, here's the breakdown:
US orders under 8oz | $8.00
US orders over 8oz | $14.00
Canadian orders under 8oz | $12.00
Canadian orders between 8-16oz | $15.00
Canadian orders between 16-32oz| $19.00
Canadian orders between 32-64oz | $23.00
Canadian orders over 64oz | $30.00
International orders under 8oz | $15.00
International orders between 8-16oz | $19.00
International orders between 16-32oz | $23.00
International orders between 32-64oz | $30.00
International orders over 64.oz | $39.00
Any order including both zines will be between 20-30oz, which is why we have highlighted that tier. Don't worry about doing any math though, when you head to your survey, it will automatically calculate the weight of your order according to the items in your cart, and charge you accordingly.
You have until December 5th to update your address if needed. After that date, Backerkit will automatically charge shipping fees based on your order and address. You should receive a reminder email with a link to your survey a couple of days before the charge is due. If you still haven't filled out your survey or provided a valid payment method, please do so immediately, as we will be unable to get your order to you otherwise. We have every piece of merchandise except for the zines now, and while we hoped to start shipping bundles out in November, we think it is unlikely we'll be able to with the Thanksgiving holiday next week.
As a note, aside from still waiting for the zines to arrive, we are also waiting for updated clasps for the Santiago charm, as our manufacturer fumbled a bit and send them our way with the wrong clasp. Fear not though, the correct clasps are coming!
And now for the fun part! Take a look at these goodies 😍 (or look away if you don't want to spoil the surprise 😉)
Prints
Standee, buttons, and magnets
Buttons, stickers, and sticker sheet
Bookmarks, tarot card print, stickers, sticker sheet, and postcard
Charm (clasp to updated), buttons, and sticker sheet
That's all for now! Thank you so much for your patience and let us know if you have any questions :)
Thank you for your patience as we quietly work on production behind the scenes. We bring some exciting tidbits as well as some unfortunate news. To start with the most important news, we now estimate shipping to start in mid to late November.
Getting started on production took us a bit longer that we had originally planned for, and we encountered a pretty big roadblock when our selected manufacturer for the zines informed us they would need to check their guidelines when it comes to printing NSFW material 🙃. We are happy to share the situation has been resolved, but this stressful incident added an extra layer of delay which means the zines are just now about to be produced.
Not all news are bummers though! All other merch is right now either in production, on its way to us, or already on our hands. Scroll to the end of this post for a sneak peek at our prints, postcard, and the gorgeous Claudia standee 😍 (or don't! If you want to keep the surprise). Also, for anyone that got the Volume 1 digital zine as an add-on, you should have received a link to the digital download by now. We had set it up to automatically distribute once orders were locked in, but it seems we missed clicking on a button. Our bad and sorry for the delay on getting those to you!
We have most surveys by now, but there are still a handful of backers that have not filled them out yet. Please do so, as we will be unable to fulfill your order otherwise. Similarly, there are a couple of people who have filled the survey but whose cards have bounced back. Please check your emails and update your card as soon as possible.
That's all for now! We will next update you once we are ready to start charging shipping costs, hopefully fairly soon. As always, feel free to reach out to us here or through email if you have any questions or issues. And now, enjoy these sneak peeks ❤️
Prints and postcard
Postcard
Claudia standee
Claudia standee
Plus, an extra sneak peek at the physical mockups of the zines here, since the gif files are too heavy 👀
