Marla
CREATOR
29 days ago
Project Update: Plan for USA tariffs, locking orders soon and black shuck final
Hey! just wanted to get a quick post out before locking up orders and getting the pins going.
USA backers, which is the majority of you: I’m sure you’ve been getting numerous messages about this if you backed other pintopia projects. tariffs on chinese items are now up to having I think a 124% tax applied to them which is uh, too much. More than i could ever expect you to cover or both of us to meet in the middle on. I think i mentioned this but sending them from canada doesn’t curtail this, it’s done by manufacture origin not package.
The best plan I could draft up for this situation is i’ll lock orders on the 21st, but will not charge cards for the last addon costs until the pins are in hand later. Then we just continue to keep our fingers crossed that some stability materializes in the time in between. Should it not I’ll be mailing out the canadian and overseas orders and fully refunding pledges from USA. If you want to opt out now give me a shout now or at any point in between and i should be able to take care of it on my end, just send an email explaining you want to cancel with your confirmation # to [email protected]
Black shuck
USA backers, which is the majority of you: I’m sure you’ve been getting numerous messages about this if you backed other pintopia projects. tariffs on chinese items are now up to having I think a 124% tax applied to them which is uh, too much. More than i could ever expect you to cover or both of us to meet in the middle on. I think i mentioned this but sending them from canada doesn’t curtail this, it’s done by manufacture origin not package.
The best plan I could draft up for this situation is i’ll lock orders on the 21st, but will not charge cards for the last addon costs until the pins are in hand later. Then we just continue to keep our fingers crossed that some stability materializes in the time in between. Should it not I’ll be mailing out the canadian and overseas orders and fully refunding pledges from USA. If you want to opt out now give me a shout now or at any point in between and i should be able to take care of it on my end, just send an email explaining you want to cancel with your confirmation # to [email protected]
Black shuck
pretend these images have the red eye gems in them
so the black shuck sampling was a long journey that more or less took me back to where it started- the black shuck final will be the sandblasted finish with bright blue shown here and last update
attached are two other samples that used a different method to get the fill even with the metal around it, but had to sacrifice the inside texture and the colour did this odd thing where it migrated to the edges (you can kind of see it in the dark blue sample)
I want to thank everyone for their patience during the sampling process and my indecisiveness, and i really apologize if you're disappointed by all the compromises I had to make, as I stated above if you need a cancellation I can provide it since these are such strange times.
so the black shuck sampling was a long journey that more or less took me back to where it started- the black shuck final will be the sandblasted finish with bright blue shown here and last update
attached are two other samples that used a different method to get the fill even with the metal around it, but had to sacrifice the inside texture and the colour did this odd thing where it migrated to the edges (you can kind of see it in the dark blue sample)
I want to thank everyone for their patience during the sampling process and my indecisiveness, and i really apologize if you're disappointed by all the compromises I had to make, as I stated above if you need a cancellation I can provide it since these are such strange times.
that said it's really important everyone gets their final decisions in ASAP!! Order locking has been pushed to April 20, so in a week!
After then I'll lock orders and get everything made!
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