Surveys are being sent today at 12pm EST. Please check your email throughout the day for a survey email from BackerKit.

The lockdown for these surveys is January 27th, 2025.

Once surveys are locked down your card will be charged for shipping fees and any add-ons. If for any reason you cannot finish your survey and make your payment by the 27th, no worries. We understand that sometimes life gets in the way, or you might be waiting for a payday, or you need more time to decide. The deadline to guarantee you receive your design choices is February 3rd. If you aren't ready by the 27th, simply don't complete the last step of the survey. The last step of the survey is the confirmation page where you can review all your details and enter in your card details for shipping costs, if you're not ready to submit, just exit the page and you can go back to it later. If you choose to not submit your survey by the 27th, the next charge date won't be until February 3rd, 2025. 

After February 3rd you will still be able to complete and submit your survey, but we may not be able to guarantee that you receive all your design choices. If we run out of one of your chosen designs while packing orders, we will reach out to you to choose a new design. It's very rare that this happens as we usually order more than extra of each pin. It's better to get your survey done sooner, and before Feb 3rd. 

If your original pledge charge failed, or you cancelled it thinking it was fraud, you will still receive a survey. The survey will allow you to make up this failed charge, so you can still receive your rewards.

The purpose of the add-on section is to add extra items you may want shipped with your pledge. Add-ons are entirely optional, if you do not want extra items, please skip this step. Please note that any items added from this add-on section will ship with your pledge level, and not before.

You'll notice that as backers you receive a discounted price on most pin add-ons. 

You will see a few pin designs, stickers, and other items set as stretch goal add-ons. This just means that there is a minimum number of orders we need to meet to manufacturer that item. Some of the stretch goal add-ons were designs that didn't fit with the campaign, or they were too specific, or I just thought of the design after the campaign ended. If we reach the stretch goal quantity you will be charged for that item and it will be included in your order. If we do not reach a stretch goal for a specific item, we first determine whether we can manufacture it anyway, and if we cannot the item is removed from your order and you are not charged for it. 

You will be able to change your shipping address up until the lockdown. After the lock down date, if you need to update your shipping address, please email [email protected], and we can manually update your shipping address. Please let us know as soon as possible that you need to update your address so we can amend the address before your package is sent. If you fail to notify us of an address change, and your package is returned to us, we will ship it again, however, you will have to pay another shipping charge. 

We will post an update for last call address changes before we start shipping packages.

There is a pre-order store for this campaign. The purpose of the pre-order store is to allow anyone who did not pledge to the campaign a chance to order these pins. You can access the pre-order store with this link.

Please note that the pre-order store is separate from your survey. All items in the pre-order store are in the add-ons section of your survey. On occasion backers have confused the pre-order store with their survey and placed a second order by accident. 

If you have any questions regarding your survey or any of the above information, please email us at [email protected]

Cheers,
Liz

Hey everyone,

My surveys were approved by Backerkit so I'll be sending out the smoke test tonight. The smoke test is where we send out just 5% of the surveys and let it run for a bit to ensure there are no major issues with the survey. I typically wait about 12-24 hours before I send out all of the surveys. There's also no way to know who is in the smoke test as it's completely random. 

When I send out all of the surveys I'll send out another update with all the pertinent information. 

In March I'll be launching a new project in collaboration with a few other pin makers. The theme for that project is undecided at the moment. The general direction I've been leaning is a mashup of book readers/bookish themes and the seven deadly sins. 

I'm asking ya'll what kind of themes you want to see. Remember to keep themes on the more general side, for example: "dogs", and not "I only want french bulldog pins".

Keep in mind that the poll only lets you choose one option, and I've left it quite open ended with the "other option" Please feel free to leave your theme suggestions in the comments.

Hey everyone,

The surveys are extremely late, I am aware. I am still working on them and hoping to launch the smoke test by mid next week. To make a long story short, last year my mental health took a dive and I tried multiple times to try and "fix it" the best I could. I was hoping to get it somewhat resolved before 2025, but that just didn't happen. The last year has felt like dragging myself through the day to day, just trying to get through it.
This feeling has kind of extended into completing these surveys, I've really had to just try to drag myself through it. I apologize that the surveys are late, but they are coming, and some items are already in production.

Early Bird Upgrade
Since the surveys are not yet complete, and have not been sent. If you were an Early Bird Backer, and you want to upgrade to an EB tier with more pins, please feel free to email me at [email protected]. In the email please write the name and email associated with the pledge, and what EB tier you'd like to upgrade to. The Eb tiers are (2,3,4,5,6,8, and 10 pins). I can still upgrade from a lower EB tier to a higher one, up until I send out the surveys. 

Hey all, 

This is just an update about the Ink & Enamel Fantasy Romance Surveys, and pre-order store. I know I initially said about two weeks, but I've decided to take my time with the surveys, so it may be another full week. 

The reason I'm taking longer with the surveys is because I want to make sure they're "complete", in that I'm offering all of the add-ons I want to be able to offer. Due to the possibility of Trump's proposed tariffs on imported goods, I want to be able to order all of the products for this campaign, as well as a surge of future products, before January 20th. Many small businesses, especially pin makers, are waiting to see if these tariffs come to fruition, because the majority of enamel pins are imported from China. As of right now, there are no enamel pin factories within North America, nor Europe. The majority of pin and metal working factories are in China, with a very small percentage in other asian countries. 

Soooo.... I don't really know how this will play out until Trump is in office, it's a kind of wait and see situation. Nonetheless, I'm attempting to offer everything I can, in the case that I can no longer put these designs out into the world in the coming years. Please keep in mind that you're in no way obligated to purchase add-on items. However, I will be pricing add-on items at a lower price than the MSRP you'll find on an average day in the Etsy shop. 

Just a reminder that there's currently the last sale of the season going on within the Etsy Shop. You can now get 30% off your order of $20 or more. You can use code LAST30 at checkout or use this link to have the code automatically applied to your order. I can't guarantee that any order will arrive before Christmas due to the volatility of USPS shipping times, however, the current processing time is 1-2 days (including weekend days). I am moving all orders through the month of December out the door as fast as I can.

https://thesnarkycompany.etsy.com?coupon=LAST30