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

Hi Everyone!

We have 24 hrs left before the LIVE campaign ends! We have a few more dragons that could potentially unlock before it closes, and Gin is already $578 away from UNLOCKING. It would be amazing if we can get any of these additional pins but honestly, I'm already floored and grateful that we managed to unlock so many already. <3