Editing The Pen Addict 399/transcript (section)

== Kickstarter Update ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Because nobody knows that pen more than them.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, there we go. I mean, it's clearly a specific nib for that pen. At the platinum office, they should know that. Unless you get a note that says, hey, we're out of those. Please accept this exchange. Give me 60 pounds.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Nobody said that. That could well be the case, and I do not doubt that, but I've never, you know.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I feel you're, I got on the customs game this weekend, Myke. Like, I got customs formed for an order I made. You did? Like, this was like a first, yeah. Like, I didn't have to pay anything. I mean, because, I mean, who does that? That's just like a backwards society type of thing. But I got a form. I got a phone call from FedEx that said, hey, you have this fountain pen ink coming, and I need you to sign off on this customs form that it's not poisonous. I'm like, this is dumb, but okay. So, I signed off on the form, and they sent it to me, and there was no additional fees that I have incurred.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, then I don't care about your customs story.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You keep it to yourself.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Only if it costs me, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, that's the only pain in customs.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes, I know. But, like, I've never had to sign off on anything, and I get stuff from Japan all the time. Yes, weird. Very little from Europe, and usually not ink, so, like, the ink was the what threw it off.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Kickstarter update. There is no Kickstarter campaign. This is the update. This one, guys, this one's really, we're really struggling to get this one together. It's a bit more complicated than a lot of our previous campaigns. We're within two weeks of the campaign going live, I think.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I'd say less, but yeah, probably.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We're definitely within two weeks. Tomorrow could be within two weeks. It's not going to be tomorrow.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, true, true, true. It's funny that you said this has been more difficult, and I didn't realize it literally until you said this, but in past campaigns, I've controlled, like, all the manufacturing, essentially.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Which is why it's been easier to do. Yeah. If we needed something, someone needed to be chased, the maximum was me chasing you. Right? That's the difference. Right, right, right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Okay. Now I don't feel so bad, because I feel pretty bad about, I feel really bad about this.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I think one little thing, we'll give it a heads up here, we'll mention it in the campaign.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We're not going to have final artwork of this pen for a while. Like, when we launch the campaign, there will be kind of demo artwork, and honestly, like, it's not going to be difficult to know what the pen's going to look like based on the design that we've chosen, no matter what kind of state you see it in. But it's going to be a bit of time until we get the final, final artwork for this one. It's just something to bear in mind.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. It's a, the design process just takes time. And this one's pretty complicated. And then the approvals process will take time, and then, like, once we sign off on everything, everything's cruising. So there will be a slight leap of faith in backing this project, but I think past history indicates that it will not take too much of a leap, a mental leap for you to consider backing this project once you, you know, see the artwork that we're going to design from.