With All Our Hearts, Thank You
As some of our buyers have noticed, there have been refunds being issued through Paypal about our zine; these have not been by accident and we hope youāll listen to our explanation and understand our final decision.
Firstly, some background and explanation: this project was originally hosted by a team of five wonderful mods and they did a splendid job on the zine. However, due to some unforeseen, personal circumstances, several of the original team left prior to the beginning of preorders, leaving only two on the team. As a result, they pulled in extra mod help, resulting in the formation of the new team.
As weāve stated before, we had a rocky start, what with the sudden introduction of the new mods and especially right before a hectic time of orders. This led to the unofficial suspension of the zine, as we tried to figure out what to do behind the scenes, and ultimately resulted in preorders opening and closing more than once (in the Paypal issues we briefly explained here).Ā
With the help of our newest finance mod, we finally managed to get back on track with preorders, but by the time it did, the project had dragged on longer than expected and the amount of interest had slowly dwindled to almost none. With the spotlights and such, we hoped to revive the blog and the interest; however, that also seemed to fail, and when checking the amount of sales, we discovered that even with the extended preorders, we would not be able to break even and pay for all production costs.Ā
Although we hoped to see it finished, it admittedly has left a heavy amount of stress on the mod team. So after much discussion, we haveĀ decided that we release the zine as a free pdf only, hence the Paypal refunds that have been issued out the past two days.Ā
To wrap up, weād like thank everyone for bearing with us through this time and supporting the project, whether from the very beginning or the tail end. Thank you to our buyers and weāre so, so sorry that you couldnāt receive a physical copy of this wonderful zine. Thank you so much for supporting us.
From the bottom of our hearts, we are so, so sorry that it had to end this way. We hoped that we could push through, but it doesnāt seem possible. Please know it is a heavy decision that we debated on for a long time, and we hope that it does not deter you from working with us or supporting our future projects.Ā
Thank you so much everyone. If you have further questions, please donāt hesitate to contact us.
Kiro, Gab, Dave, Mia, and Ally.