Hope you're all having a good weekend (and Happy Father's Day to anyone who is celebrating).
I just wanted to let you know that if your shipping charge has successfully went through, then your order has shipped! There are still a few outstanding CC charges to run, and a few of your still haven't filled out your survey. If anyone is having any problems with that, please feel free to reach out to me if you need your survey (or to BackerKit if you're having CC problems).
I'd like to get your pins to you, so please take care of that by the end of the month at the latest, or I reserve the right to assume your pledge was a donation (as per the FAQ's).
Thanks again for the support and if you haven't already, please fill out your survey!!
The pins have landed!! See them in their witchtacularness below! I figured I'd share the image since the bottom feathers on the ravens ended up a little darker than I had planned, and they filled the moons with a layer of clear epoxy, which I think looks really nice but was a bit unexpected.
Anyway, if anyone wants to edit their orders, please know that you have until Sunday evening (PT) to change your pin selection, update your shipping address, or add on any pins (nudge nudge) before I lock the orders on Monday morning. Once I do that, your cards will be charged for the shipping and any post-campaign add-ons.
I'll also be closing the pre-order store on Monday, so if you know anyone that missed out, you can send them here before then.
Thanks again and otherwise have a great weekend!
Cheers, Rick
PS - For anyone in the LA area- I'll be at Leviathan: Ouroboros, a goth night of performances and vending. Come say hello!
I just wanted to let you all know that surveys have gone out! Let me know if you have any questions (or can't find them), and thank you again for all of your patience!
I really appreciate your patience with this one. Honestly, going straight into this campaign after having to evacuate for a week due to the LA fires was pretty rough, and it was a lot to get caught up, and running my next campaign so soon after pushed this back a lot. So I'm sorry for deprioritizing this.
That said, with the tariff window open, I've been in contact with my factory and we're a GO on production.
ALSO - I spoke with the backer (who wants to remain anonymous) who pledged for the custom pins, and they've requested that the pin they want to get into production is the Evil Moon/Killing Moon pins.
They've also agreed to let me offer them to YOU as part of the campaign, meaning if you were hoping these pins were unlocked, your wish has come true.
I've also done the maths enough and bit the bullet and decided to put the familiar variants into production. So
the Asp, Nevermore, and Tuxedo familiar variants will also be showing up in your pin selection.
This does mean that there are now more than 9 pins available, so if you'd like to add those on to your surveys, you most definitely can.
And that brings me to: SURVEYS!!
I've submitted all the backend stuff (which got delayed as I was waiting to see if I could swing the variants), so I should get approval to send out surveys hopefully by the end of the week. At that point, BackerKit has me do a "smoke test" where surveys get sent out to a small percentage of you. Once they (and I) have confirmed everything is working the way that they should, I can then send it out to everyone.
Who gets surveys early is totally random, so I can't play favorites here, but everyone should hopefully get their surveys by early next week.
As a friendly reminder, you were not charged shipping upon pledging, so you will be charged now. I'm keeping surveys open until June 9th to give y'all ample time to get the survey, forget about it, be reminded, and then fill them out :D
Anyway, thank you again for all the support and patience and understanding, and I can't wait to get these pins out to you!
So as you likely have heard from so many other crowdfunding campaigns - the tariffs on China (now 145%..absolutely ridiculous) are impacting me, but I'm currently working with my manufacturer to figure out the best way forward here.
As of now, with the tariffs unlikely to increase (although let's be honest, who knows), I'm still going to make the pins and there will NOT be any price increases. If tariffs rise again, it's all sort of up in the air, but at least now it's likely to at least cap at this point.
As it stands, I'm still unsure whether or not it makes sense to do the familiar variants - which is sort of holding up me sending out surveys. Regardless, it's likely a waiting game to see if the US changes its mind for whatever random reason, and I'll be keeping you updated as soon as I know more.
Anyway, so sorry for all the delays - I expected things to speed up quickly after I finished the Cult Crafter campaign, buuuuuut, huge economic swings = delays.
Thanks again for your patience, and I hope to have better news and more updates next week.
