ANDPIERRES (Nicholas King)
CREATOR
23 days ago
Project Update: IMPORTANT UPDATE for marine & tangerine bat backers
hello everyone! I hope youre all having a great week -- while my manufacturer has been break for the lunar new year, ive been busy behind the scenes working on administrative & logistical things!
as I've been tallying up final order quantities for ordering the batpacks, I've encountered an issue that I wanted to run past you guys, my backers, and see what you all thought about it -- I want to be not just transparent, but also as fair as possible!
the long & short of it is that as much as I personally love marine bat and tangerine bat, they haven't been getting a lot of love compared to the other designs. they're both lagging behind considerably in orders, and I'm talking WAY behind. for reference, my minimum order quantity per design is 100, and between both tangerine bat & marine bat combined (so, at minimum, a 200 bag order), they've been sold 33 times.
33 out of 200 is a lot of excess stock, and if these designs arent selling well now, I'm unsure how well they will sell in my regular shop, in wholesale, etc. it would be a waste of materials, as well, which I could be using to make more of the popular designs so people can buy them in the future.
but, ultimately, this is a mistake I made by not having designs unlock in a way where backers could choose the designs they like best -- and I've certainly learned my lesson! so if I have to eat the cost of the excess stock, so be it.
however, I wanted to first ask how people felt about a different solution: cutting the marine bat & tangerine bat designs and having people pick a new design instead.
obviously this would come with the option of a refund instead, if you were deadset on that design! and, as a bonus, since the respective matching head pins of both tangerine & marine bat will still be made, backers who make the switch will get an extra bat head pin of the original design they chose as an apology for the trouble!
what do you all think? would you guys prefer that I keep all the designs, or would you be open to switching to another design instead? again, this isn't something I'd want to do without knowing if it's okay with ya'll first, so please do let me know 🥹
as always, thank you so much for all the support & i'm very interested in hearing what you guys think!
as I've been tallying up final order quantities for ordering the batpacks, I've encountered an issue that I wanted to run past you guys, my backers, and see what you all thought about it -- I want to be not just transparent, but also as fair as possible!
the long & short of it is that as much as I personally love marine bat and tangerine bat, they haven't been getting a lot of love compared to the other designs. they're both lagging behind considerably in orders, and I'm talking WAY behind. for reference, my minimum order quantity per design is 100, and between both tangerine bat & marine bat combined (so, at minimum, a 200 bag order), they've been sold 33 times.
33 out of 200 is a lot of excess stock, and if these designs arent selling well now, I'm unsure how well they will sell in my regular shop, in wholesale, etc. it would be a waste of materials, as well, which I could be using to make more of the popular designs so people can buy them in the future.
but, ultimately, this is a mistake I made by not having designs unlock in a way where backers could choose the designs they like best -- and I've certainly learned my lesson! so if I have to eat the cost of the excess stock, so be it.
however, I wanted to first ask how people felt about a different solution: cutting the marine bat & tangerine bat designs and having people pick a new design instead.
obviously this would come with the option of a refund instead, if you were deadset on that design! and, as a bonus, since the respective matching head pins of both tangerine & marine bat will still be made, backers who make the switch will get an extra bat head pin of the original design they chose as an apology for the trouble!
what do you all think? would you guys prefer that I keep all the designs, or would you be open to switching to another design instead? again, this isn't something I'd want to do without knowing if it's okay with ya'll first, so please do let me know 🥹
as always, thank you so much for all the support & i'm very interested in hearing what you guys think!
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