Hi Everyone!

Sorry for the quiet pause. My stepfather died and I needed to travel out of state for the funeral. Now that I'm back, I wanted to address something that has recently been brought up. There are backers asking why they aren't able to pick "Gin" the black and blue dragon as one of their main pins.

They're asking because they can see that we UNLOCKED Gin in the survey. The reason Gin is not listed as a dragon you an select in the main group of 14, is because we didn't manage to keep Gin UNLOCKED during the LIVE campaign. The LIVE campaign is the time between when the campaign starts and when it ends.
 
Beginning June 10th - Ending June 26th

What we UNLOCKED by June 26th: 

What we didn't UNLOCK by June 26th:

Anything not UNLOCKED, was added to the survey as an "addition" provided we have enough orders to pay for them. Anything added as an "addition", cannot be manually added to the list of 14 UNLOCKED pins that you can currently choose from. This would mess up the survey for everyone because it messes with how the survey is set up. I wouldn't even know how to code that in at this point, and I am NOT a coder. T__T It is not something that I can do or make happen. This is also the reason why I added in the description that you have a choice of what is UNLOCKED during the LIVE campaign in hopes that this would help with any confusion.

If you have "Extra" funds you are welcome to use that to add Gin or any pin in the "Additional/Pre-Order" section. There are pins that have not been unlocked yet. Depending on how much is raised/available, we may be able to UNLOCK some of them, but pins like the Cookie dragon that only has 5 backers, will most likely not make it. 
If you have added Cookie or any of the others, you do not need to take any action. If we're not going to have it made, you will not be charged for that specific pin. It will drop off of your order once I charge cards at the end of this month. 

Hope this helped. 

-Ashley

Hi Everyone!

We still have 21 failed card charges for the Toothy Maws dragons.

$17,774 collected (405 pledges)

$1,386 failed (21 pledges)

If you are already updating, or in the middle of updating your card information, this check-in isn't directed towards you. <3   

Also, I've just sent out the surveys! Anyone who isn't a backer already can pre-order here:
https://the-toothy-maws.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

You'll have until the end of this month to get them in, but I advise everyone to do them early since this is also where we lose another handful of backers. I won't charge any cards until after July 31st. And I'll send out a 2 day warning before locking down the orders. 

-Ashley

Hi Everyone!

Just a small update. We have a 40 failed card charges.

$17,055 collected (387 pledges)

$2,170 failed (40 pledges)

If you are already updating, or in the middle of updating your card information, this check-in isn't directed towards you. Thank you for being on top of it. <3 

Anyone else who may be having issues with your payment, please update your card information. Dropping out before the campaign ends is totally valid, and circumstances change within a 2 week period, but once the campaign ends, and those numbers become permanently affixed to the front page of the campaign, failed card charges effect the whole project. 

The funds that aren't collected, are not replaced by Backerkit. I had a backer assume this once, so I'm just putting it on the record that Backerkit helps to remind you about your unfulfilled pledge, but it is not their responsibility to supplement what we're losing from failed pledges. 

The current $17,055 does not all go to the pins, shipping materials, and stickers. This amount has fees taken out for use of Backerkit's platform, and then the card charging fees also come out. So what we are currently missing in failed charges, would have been close to what all of those fees will amount to. 

I hope that at the end of the day, some of the 40 backers are not pledging to unlock a pin, in hopes of later coming back to see if there are extras that they can purchase in the Etsy shop instead of contributing now. When we can't afford to make extras, because we currently lack the funding, we can only make enough for the actual pledges. And with the current inflation issues, it is very rare that I can reorder for more pins once I run out. 

-Ashley

Thank you everyone for an amazing campaign! We unlocked so many already, and don't worry if your favorite wasn't unlocked. We have a second chance during the survey/pre-order! 

Backerkit will do its thing by collecting pledges, and this process will take about 14 days. They encourage us to not send out surveys until after this period of time, or at least they did...so I'm going to multitask behind the scenes in the meantime to get the survey ready to send out.  

If your pledge does not process, they will reach out to you via email to let you know for at least a week. Please, please, please update as soon as possible. The less backer pledges that we lose, the less we'll need to unlock Gin during our second chance. There are usually at least 10 backers who ghost my campaigns each time lol. I'll let you know how close we are to gathering all the pledges in a couple days. 


Again, thank you for helping this project take flight! 

-Ashley