Editing The Pen Addict 78/transcript (section)

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' When are we thinking that the first products are going to be going out of the door? I mean, I know it's really early. I mean, I know it's kind of that question like you're not you've not even received a penny and you won't maybe for a little while to go. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. A couple of weeks, a couple of months. I don't know what the time period is. I know that we've spoken about it's like a nebulous time period. Yeah. Yeah. But when do you think you're going to be in a position that you'll be able to start sending stuff out?

'''Jeffrey Bruckwicki:''' So there's kind of two phases. The first phase being really small that we have a 20. Excuse me. A 200 count Brasstown early bird backer.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Better just be 100.

'''Jeffrey Bruckwicki:''' Scroll down. Scroll down. Uh oh. Where is it? 100. 100. 100. You just can't trust this guy for anything. I know. I know. I was pushing. I remember I was pushing for 200 and we're like. Maybe not so much. Because you never know how that, you know, how the manufacturing is going to go. And so we gave those a December 2013 estimated delivery. That's going to be a non-issue. I think we'll ship those in November.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Jeffrey Bruckwicki:''' Probably before Thanksgiving.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Just, you know, because of how this goes and because of the quantities that we are ending up having to do, there's some delays and things like that with getting the pieces for the cases. Like, you know, the zipper and things like that. We have to order such a quantity to fulfill these that they have to make the zipper for us.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And that's something that we just didn't even imagine. It's YKK. You know, it's one of the largest zipper manufacturers in the world, if not the largest. And they have to make, you know, this amount of zipper just for us. And it's going to be, you know, a week or two for them to complete that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. But you're still thinking that January, but like by January, we'll be. Oh, yeah.

'''Jeffrey Bruckwicki:''' Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But that's why we wanted to get started early so we can get past these things like the zipper. You know, as soon as if we waited till the money comes in and then we call YKK and they say we don't have that stock. We're going to have to make it. Well, then I've waited two weeks for the money and then I'm waiting two more weeks for YKK. And that's killing me. So that's why we wanted to go ahead and get everything rolling. And so we might have zippers before I even get money from Kickstarter, you know, to apply to that, to that cost.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I think on the behalf of the backers of which I am one, I want to thank you guys for actually doing that because you didn't have to do that. And you could kind of just be like, sorry, guys, this is what happens. But instead, you've you've put your money where your pencil cases are.

'''Jeffrey Bruckwicki:''' Yeah. I mean, it's important. It's important to us. We want to not just make a great product. You know, we want to give everyone a good experience, you know, working with us, you know, as not co because you're building a customer base.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right.

'''Jeffrey Bruckwicki:''' And yeah, this is going to be a sustainable business. I mean, like I've said it a dozen times on this on this show. This isn't just a Kickstarter company. Right. I mean, we're we're so excited for the next phase already. And actually, Jeff was Jeff brought me prototypes today for new products that, you know, we're looking to launch next year. So we're already starting down that path. So we we have to nail this delivery and this fulfillment for this Kickstarter project. And we're doing everything we can to do that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I mean, you know, talking about the shipping, you do have one really like important order to fulfill that. Right. There's like there's one that has to go, I think, to the night kingdom that apparently is quite important. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think my buddy up in Rippin ordered something. I think.

'''Jeffrey Bruckwicki:''' Yeah. I mean, yeah, that guy. I thought you were talking about the queen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, I mean, yeah, if she ordered something. Just looking at the page as well. I see somebody bought dinner with you.

'''Jeffrey Bruckwicki:''' Yeah. Yeah. We'll see how that works out.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, I mean, it all kicks. I mean, we kind of joked about that. I know. And somebody's actually done it. Yeah.

'''Jeffrey Bruckwicki:''' With you guys. Huh? Who wants to eat dinner with you guys? I know, right? I mean, have you seen us? It's a shame, really.

'''Jeffrey Bruckwicki:''' Maybe we'll just do a Skype dinner. Perfect. We'll like send out an order with like white tablecloth and candles and wine. And we'll just set up a Skype session.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The custom pen case, though, man. That's going to be cool.

'''Jeffrey Bruckwicki:''' That would be cool. And man, the designs we have in our head, too, are just mind boggling. So, yeah. Looking good. Looking good.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Come on. Tell me something. What are you guys working on next? What are we going to get after the pen cases? Come on.

'''Jeffrey Bruckwicki:''' You're putting me on the spot there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I am. I don't want to say. Jeff's holding a knife to you right now, isn't he?

'''Jeffrey Bruckwicki:''' No, no. But, I mean, I think he's on the same page as me. You don't want to say it if it's not going to come true.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You don't need to say it. You can just hint.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. Let me ask this then. Are you looking at products outside of other pen storage facilities?