A much needed update
Just wanted to update about the last few boards. We are in the last 40 now, which is great progress. I'm glad we've been able to get so many out to you guys over the last few months and I can finally say we're in the final stretch now. Cerakote boards are with the person koting them, still waiting, no major update there. It sucks but right now we're just waiting more.
I also wanted to touch on the timeline of this final stretch and what has been happening. It has been a tough few months for me and my family, we're still trying to find some sense of normalcy but right now there are still some pretty major stressors that are keeping us from rushing to finish these last few boards. It sucks and I'm sorry as I have been so many times during this group buy, but for the time being, major progress on my side as far as getting these last boards out quickly is not going to be happening for at least a few weeks. I say me and my family because they are the ones who have helped me with all of this, in fact it's been my mother and I who have packed and sent out all of these boards. She sacrificed her own free time to help me pack and ship and I'm so grateful she had because if I had done this alone it would have taken much longer. Because of that, this whole group buy has been a stressor on my family and I don't really know why I'm sharing that but it just felt necessary to mentally re-frame all the help they've given me at the moment. I never really bargained for as many boards as there ended up being in this group buy and because of my own ignorance and stupidity it ended up being a much larger emotional and time investment than I ever thought it would be. So I guess the lesson learned there is there is always more work than you expect and having someone like a vendor to help you run a group buy is truly invaluable. Not that anyone here really gives a **** what I think about running group buys surely, but maybe someone logging on here to laugh at this whole situation and has plans for a group buy could see this whole situation and think harder before trying to do something of this scale without enough planning. I never could have accounted for everything that's gone on with the world, in my life and with this group buy in the time that it has been ongoing and I don't want support or pity or anything like that (since I don't deserve it in this case, circumstances just kept piling up), it just feels like I need to get off my chest the toll that it's had on me personally I suppose. I want to get these last boards out and finally conclude this thing just as much as you all. I know it's taken too long and for that I'll always feel terrible.
Also to address a rumor someone mentioned to me in a rude message, no I am not waiting on new boards to be made. I don't even know where a rumor like that would have come from. Besides being logistically impossible to sneak another run of boards into the ridiculous supply chain at the moment, there is no money to do so. Any money from this gb paid for the manufacture of the boards and their shipping.
Also for those few of you in Russia, please let me know an alternative address to send your board to since USPS won't let me send directly to you anymore and one of the ones I sent a few months ago was just returned to me. Maybe using a different service would help? As I'm uneducated on the current available shipping option situation any help from you guys would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for any nice messages and those people that have reached out to let me know you enjoyed your board.
We'll finish soon.
