🇪🇺 Notice regarding EU shipments:

As someone of you may already have heard, there's a lot of information (and panic) being shared online regarding a law that comes into effect starting August 12th (PPWR and EPR). To keep it very short: it affects shipments within the EU that requires business (including micro/small businesses) to - as far as we know - pay an fee for every individual EU country we want to ship to. What this means is that it is possible to get faced with a hefty fine if we don't register within these countries which can range from €100 - 400 per country plus some countries requiring a legal representative which is an additional cost on top of that.

As you can imagine, this sounds ridiculous and not sustainable long-term since this basically goes against the free trade market that we're used to. In other words, shipping to the USA would now be a lot easier for me than to ship within my own continent, union, even my own country.

What does this mean? I shipped as many remaining pending pledges within the EU today that I am able to send at this moment and I'll be sending out shipment notifications soon. Starting tomorrow, I'll be pausing shipments within the EU indefinitely until more clear and precise information is available.

There's currently open feedback available on the European Commission site (with already 2800+ feedback entries submitted since August 6th) which you can click on here if this is of interest.

It seems like the past two years are full of laws and decisions that actively seem to want to bring down the micro- and small businesses and it's frankly exhausting to keep up with everything. The USA recently opened up for me, only to get hit around a month-ish later being unable to ship within the EU... when does it end, I wonder. 😵‍💫

🇺🇸  USA Reminder: "How can I get my rewards earlier? Can I opt to pay for the tariffs so I can receive my rewards sooner?"

Absolutely! Since tariff costs have increased since July 24th, it's been a massive dent in my fulfillment plans since I'll be paying for these costs out of pocket  on top of also compensating for the upgraded shipping costs that is mandatory in order to be able to ship out the pledges.

This means that shipping will take much longer than anticipated for USA backers, so unless you're fine with covering these extra expenses so you can get your rewards sooner, unfortunately I'm going to have to ask you to wait a bit longer since I cannot guarantee when I'll be able to ship them out. 🥲

If you don't mind covering the tariff costs, send me an email and I'll send a screenshot with the exact amount that needs to be paid. We can discuss it further from there.

If you sent me an email but I haven't responded, please feel free to send a follow-up because I've noticed that some emails ended up in my spam folder for some reason. I'll be keeping a close eye on that from now on so I don't miss any further emails!