Thank you so much for supporting our Pin Quest Campaign- The Stories of the Zodiacats! Our campaign is successfully funded with 162 backers and all stretched goals are unlocked! Thanks again for supporting our project!
Quick Review Of Our Timeline
July 2 - Campaign ended 🎉 Week of July 13 -Surveys send out End of July - Lock orders. Production begins October - Receives pins Nov - Dec 2026 - Rewards send out
As recommended by backerkit, we are going to wait two weeks from campaign end day before we send out our backer's survey. But as usual, I might cheat a little bit and send out our smoke test earlier. The purpose of the smoke test is to send out the backer's surveys to a small group (5%) of backers first, so that if there are any issues, we can fix it before everyone gets their survey. If you are one of the chosen one for the smoke test, please have it completed as soon as you can, and if you found any issues with it, please reach out to me via email at [email protected], as this will be the fastest way to get a hold of me.
Shipping Fee
Just a quick reminder that shipping fee has not been collected yet. Instead it will be collected later, when we are almost ready to ship out your rewards.
Canadian Backers If you order 1-3 pins, shipping will be $5 CAD (no tracking). Tracking upgrade is available as an add-on ($10 CAD) in the pledge manager. If you order 4+ pins (approx. 60g), shipping will be $15 CAD. Please note that I am currently using weight to determine how much shipping is going to be, so if you order 10 mini pins, your shipping will still show up as $5 (no tracking), as the weight will still be less than 60g. I will do a final check before I ship out your order, and if I happen to notice that shipping fee is incorrect, I will manually add the $10 shipping upgrade fee in the pledge manager for you. Thank you for your understanding.
US backers In addition to the shipping fees, I will also need to collect tariff in the pledge manager, and remit it to the US government via my shipper when I ship out your rewards. Having said that, tariff fee is not added to the pledge manager for now, but will be added when we are almost ready to ship out your rewards. This is to avoid any confusion in case tariff rate changes from now until fulfillment date, which had happened to my previous campaigns. I am just trying out this new approach in the hope that things will not be as confusing. Finally, I am hoping to use a 3PL (third party logistic) service in the US to ship out all of US rewards. I am currently working with them for my last backerkit campaign, Kitties' Space Dream. As long as everything goes smooth with them for that campaign, then for sure we will be using them again for this project. I will send out an update if there are any changes. In the meantime, please feel free to let me know if you have any questions.
