Hey friends! I hope you’re all having a great start to the weekend & the summer continues to go well for you. Thank you to everyone who has gotten their package and messaged or shown us!! It’s a relief to see them in the wild after such a long journey. Also, forgive the hour, this took me like 4.5 hours to write. ;-;
First of all, fulfillment is just about finished for the campaign! We have 3.7% left of ALL orders (including preorders) left to do that are able to be done. We do have a few packages that are being held for some adjusted pin grades that left us short, and those people with impacted packages were already emailed.
As I’ve mentioned with every update: If you HAVE an address change, email it directly ASAP. Please don’t wait for a shipping label! By then, for these packages, it is too late to change in most instances. If you have an issue with a package (arrived damaged, got lost, etc), email it ASAP as well; I insured up to the value of items purchased when I could as a courtesy.
ALL stock is now allocatedand set aside (including standards going into held packages - we’re just awaiting the remakes then we’ll pack them)! That means, we’re clear to do a seconds sale as requested in the vote last update, and we’ve spent a few days just organizing and inventorying what we have available!
DURATION: Aug 2nd, 2024 6PM EST until August 13th, 2024, midnight EST
As voted last time, we’re doing a stock drop of just seconds* of all secondary-beta grades, and a percentage of all alpha grades. I will wait for the next drop for the majority of standards once the last packages with final remakes (noted above) are shipped. As such, the drop will not impact counts for any held items (or buffers for insurance).
Pins, as always, are hand-filled and hand-polished for hard enamel, so perfection is a dream, but not always a reality. I (Mel) grade using the following guidelines, which you may see in the drop since we had so many remakes (with varying flaw levels). Standard, of course, was what I aimed for in all preorder/crowdfunding pins, which were available at a discount.
Standard: Very small things are permissible (such as dust), but generally these are very solid pins without large errors. You will not see underfills, or scratches larger than 3mm in this category.
Standard-LOW: Light errors or bubbling (not in the face area) may be present, but the errors in this case are not noticeable without a bright light.
Secondary-Alpha: Small underfills, issues with the screens, and slightly more obvious scratches/bubbling can be present, and some small breaks in metal. No missing enamel or tarnishing or excessive metal breaks. Texture warping is permissible, if small.
Secondary-Beta: Larger underfills (not large sections) and visible metal breaks are allowed, though not common. Also can include: Texture warping, enamel miscoloring, tarnish, issues impacting facial areas, very VERY small missing enamel, frayed screens, misprinting, etc.
Anything more heinous than that, or a multitude of the listed potential errors in “Secondary-Beta”: c-grade bins they go!
NOTES:
Seconds are being sold at shows; thus, a few of the counts listed are short because (thank god) they have sold to some degree and helped recoup costs. Otherwise, we honestly couldn’t have afforded the remakes this campaign has incurred. We’re still sadly not close to breaking even yet, but it's now less daunting than the original figures we were staring at.
Basil, Nightshade and Moss will each have 15 standard pins available since they had a high initial standard rate and no remakes; all seconds have been consumed by conventions or are being held for them. For people on the hunt for a singular shipment, this is for you.
These are not promises on future stock. Because of insurance on packages and anticipated shipments, we are still holding some standards/standard-lows just in case. They MAY be released at a later date if they’re not needed, I may cycle them into con-stock, or they may be reserved for other things. As of yet, I don’t know the answer. In the “Highest Quality” Column, I tried to place the highest quality I knew, for certain, would eventually be available, assuming no restocks would exist in the future and insurance/buffer pins disappeared and were not added to stock.
THE INVENTORY CHART:
In the Standard Column: “Yes” means there absolutely will be standards. “S-Low” means that there likely will not be near-perfect standards, but “Standard-Low” pins will be available; Alpha means that “Secondary-Alpha” (very good seconds pins) will be available, but nothing in the Standard ranges.
In the “Seconds #” Column: Red means that under 10 exist. Orange is under 20. Green has more than 20.
For any orders placed, I will likely get to them after I return from my next convention mid-month. If you have any shipping-combination requests, I’m happy to do so, just email in the request and I’ll email you a confirm as applicable.
Some photos of some of the crazy packing for ... literally one of every pin lol:
Oops, glare.
If you have questions, it’s fastest to DM on Instagram or message in the pin channels of Alchemy’s Discord! (there is a delay to comment notifications in backerkit of about a day, so if there are drop related questions, I will not see it promptly)
