Editing The Pen Addict 298/transcript (section)

== Kickstarter Campaign ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' So for the very last time in 2018, we will promote, plug, talk about our Kickstarter campaign. Basically, if you're not listening to this show on Wednesday the 7th of March, you're probably too late now. The campaign ends in, like, 20-something hours from when we're recording this. We have eclipsed the most money we have ever raised. The campaign is currently at $29,836 with 657 backers, which is just superb. Very, very, very, very excited about that, obviously. So thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who is making this year's trips a dead set. We're very, very excited to be doing both Atlanta and Toronto with our stop in New York in the middle, and we're really confident you're going to love the things that we provide for you, the rewards. So thanks so much to everybody that has participated. Probably the next that you will hear from us about this, unless something wild happens in the next 12 hours, will be as we run up to Atlanta in April. So we're really excited. In my journal, I keep writing down every few days in my What Am I Excited About heading, the Atlanta Pen Show. I'm really getting the feeling. Like, I want to, I feel like I need to travel anyway right now, and Atlanta being next, I'm really pumped for it. Like, just as we were starting today, I was thinking to myself, what pens will I take this year? Yeah. So yeah, I'm really, really excited. So thank you to everyone who has made this happen for us again.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep, and thanks for me too. This is really awesome and amazing that you guys allow us to do this every year and support us. And, you know, we hope we bring you some fun along the way. I think it's pretty locked in now, so we feel real good about what's upcoming the rest of the year. And once the project closes, like Myke said, as we get towards Atlanta, I'll post updates, because I'll probably have some manufacturing updates by then. Maybe in the first month or so after the project, getting the pens ordered, getting the cases ordered, and then we'll have notes for the Atlanta show for those of you who are attending.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, we'll have notes on how to get, you know, your ticket for the live show and things like that. So more to come, but most importantly, thank you to everyone who supported it. And one quick last note, I did send out, I forgot to do it on Monday, I did send out a backers update on how to add the pins, exactly the PIN pins, to an existing pledge if you want an extra set. So the details are in that note, so look for that in your email or on the project itself.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep, because there are some, like, intricacies about shipping and stuff like that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it's not super clear, so I tried to make it as clear as possible in the little notes, so go check that out if you're interested. Thank you, mate.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So my sailor, my pink love, has had just a real journey through customs. This is normal. This one has been a little bit more involved than usual in that, like, it arrived in the UK six days ago and has gone in and out of customs twice now.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I would lose my mind. Yeah. I would be besides myself. I guess you're used to it at this point. This one has been... This is all half for you, but...

'''Myke Hurley:''' This one has been a little bit trickier than usual because, like, it was put into customs and it told me that customs were raised on it five days ago. Then nothing was arriving. I wasn't getting a letter because they send you a letter so you can pay it. I wish you could just, like, go in online and pay it straight away. But no, you have to wait for the letter to give you the code that you need because with the amount... Like, you have to wait for the letter to come with the amount because you have to manually type the amount into the Royal Mail website. It's so dumb. Really, I just wanted to say, like, oh, customs charge. I just press a button and pay it and then it can get it delivered straight away. But that's not how it works.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So it went into customs. It says it got released from customs four days later. So I was like, great. Like, this was yesterday. I'm like, it's coming. I'm going to get it. Like, they've revised the customs. And then today, like 11 a.m., it says awaiting payment of customs charges again. So I think today the letter is being generated now for me to get it out of customs, which I'm hoping will arrive tomorrow. If it arrives tomorrow, I might be able to get it on Friday or otherwise it's going to be Monday. But it's on the way. I'm very excited, especially because some people have been receiving theirs. It really frustrates me that people in America have already got theirs, like, considering that, like, I don't feel like it. Anyway, it doesn't matter. But the Nibsmith, our good friend, the Nibsmith. Dan. Dan. Dan, that's it. I always go. My mind says Matt for everyone. I don't know why it does that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You know a lot of Matt's.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All of these, all the website names are too similar, right? So they get mixed up in my brain. But anyway, Dan has posted some wonderful pictures of his pink love, which has only made me more and more excited because it looks incredible.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it does. And I know our listeners can't wait until, like, our fourth week in a row talking about this pen.