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will you still receive your order if you request a refund?

If you receive your refund, no.

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Our fundraiser storefront is now open on our BigCartel! We are featuring a large collection of merchandise donated from many generous contributors in the fandom, and you will also be able to make a monetary donation if you wish. LINK: https://akeshuzine.bigcartel.com

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Important Announcement

Hello! We have an important announcement regarding this project that can be seen here: https://twitter.com/akeshuzine/status/1540123546030026752?s=20&t=OrOi0cTN_C2sWfniptdtUg

Despite this incident, those that have not received their orders yet will still be getting them! We are in the process of raising funds in order to pay for postage to make that possible. If you would like a refund, details have been provided in the document.

Our fundraiser storefront will be opening TODAY, Saturday June 25th at 5PM EST.

Thank you!

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I’m so sorry to hear about what happened regarding the zine’s funds and wanted to ask if it’s still possible to purchase the digital version of the project? ❤️

Thank you for your support! We intend on opening a fundraiser shop on our BigCartel in the next couple of days.

An email will be sent out with further details about our fundraiser. If you have not already been keeping up with announcements from [email protected], you may sign up here.

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Hello! Will those on the mailing list be sent a link to the new esty for the fundraiser when that opens?

Yes. An email announcement will be sent out to everyone when our fundraiser store opens.

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Ree, our former head mod, has recently confessed to spending the remaining $27.6k CAD of zine funds on personal use. Ree has been entirely removed from the project.

The full statement can be read here.

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i missed the chance to preorder this and was wondering if you will open to sell it again? 😭

We will have our leftover sales up once our current orders are all processed, thank you!

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📬MAILING LIST📬

If you did not receive the Foil Notice email from [email protected], and you could not find it in any of the clutter or spam folders, there is a possibility that Etsy did not provide to us your email address! If this is the case, please sign up for our mailing list.

We apologize for any trouble this may have caused and will do our best to make sure future email announcements reach you.

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❗❗FOIL NOTICE❗❗

As of MAY 12, 2022, an email has been sent out regarding our upcoming changes to the physical zine. If you have not yet received your bundle, please make sure to read through our announcement.

If you did not receive an email and you cannot find it in any of the clutter or spam folders, there is a possibility that Etsy did not provide to us your email address. If this is the case, please sign up for our mailing list.

Keep reading for a transcript of our email below:

Due to the huge amount of unsellable zines sent to us by Mixam, we are reprinting SHOWTIME in order to fulfil our remaining orders.

In order to ensure we have enough money for shipping out all remaining bundles and compensating our contributors, our reprint will not have foil on the cover.

If your order has not yet shipped and you would like foil cover, please fill out our form by May 25, 2022 and we will do our best to accommodate your request. This will be first come first serve.

If we cannot fulfill your request for foil, you will be notified via email before it is taken to the post office.

Why is this happening?

We understand that this is disappointing news, but by removing foil, we aim to prevent any future issues with the quality of our zines, along with the expenses that come with it.

Our original supplier, Mixam, sent us an alarmingly high amount of zines that were unsellable. Many of them had covers that were entirely whited out, and the majority of the rest had missing or misplaced foil to a drastic degree. Our original shipping moderator did not check for the quality of these zines - nor did they alert the rest of the mods of the situation - until the new shipping mods took over, meaning that these issues went under our radar for months.

We are changing our supplier to Smartpress, which is what our moderators used to manufacture zines in the past with little to no issues. The turnaround time for production is around 14 days, meaning that there should not be a drastic delay for the zines to arrive to our new shipping moderator's house.

However, ordering zines from Smartpress with gold foil will be almost twice as expensive as ordering without foil. For convenience, price comparisons are recorded in this spreadsheet.

Unfortunately, shipping stock to the new shipping moderators has taken a large toll on our budgeting and we determined that ordering foiled zines from our new supplier would most likely put us in the financial red. This is a risk we must avoid.

SHOWTIME's gold foiling was originally a surprise add-on to celebrate meeting a milestone in sales during preorders. At this point in time, we can no longer afford what was supposed to be our stretch goal. You may access our financial spreadsheet for more information.

We thank you for your patience as we navigate through the current chaos. For more consistent updates on our shipping status, please follow our Twitter.

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when can we order the psychical again

Hello! Leftover sales will be held once all packages have been sent out! Thank you for your interest!

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as of right now, is the shipping schedule still accurate? im moving in late april and want to make sure i get my zine

Hello! Our shipping moderator's father sadly unexpectedly passed away, so we've taken on two additional shipping mods to allow her time to mourn. For an address change, please email [email protected] with your order number and new address! Thank you for your patience!

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Is there any chance of extra zines being sold?

Hi! We will be having leftover sales once all our current orders have shipped out and arrived.

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Hi!! Is there a way for us to check the tracking of our package?

Hello! If you purchased the tracked shipping option you should be able to, yes! If you chose untracked shipping that unfortunately isn't possible.

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✨ Zine Update ✨

Please read the thread below for full update details.

TLDR; Merch orders are shipping today!

We have a new schedule to ensure packaging stays on track.

Our currently packing rate has been adjusted to 150 zines/week.

We deeply apologize for the large delay in getting the merch orders shipped. We promised they would go out in September and failed to uphold that. The disappointment and frustration you feel is understandable. We hope now that the packages are finally shipped, they arrive safely.

Below is our updated shipping schedule. Our shipping mod will be packaging and mailing out orders at a pace of 150 zines per week. Should there be no unforeseen delays, everything will be in the mail by early April and hopefully in many customers hands.

From now on, we won't be able to facilitate any new address changes. Unfortunately, we cannot offer refunds at this time as all the merch has already been bought. Thank you for your time!

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December 17th Update

The zines have finally arrived! We are currently undergoing quality checks, individually checking each zine to ensure it's up to our standards. Please keep an eye on your email inbox as we will be double checking we have the correct shipping address on file for your order.

Thank you so much for your patience thus far and we eagerly anticipate delivering SHOWTIME to your hands.

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Update 24/11/2021

After persistent updates, we finally have news from our zine manufacturer. They told us there was a delay in the promised turnaround time due to holiday rush——despite us putting in the order in months ago——and failed to notify us of that delay until we started hounding them for updates.

We deeply apologize to everyone for the severe setback and are doing our best to remain open and transparent about issues at all times. It has been a struggle to work with this manufacturer, but we hope that when the books finally arrive, everything can be sent out the door as soon as possible.

The new projected timeline that our supplier gave us estimates the books arriving at our shipping mod's house late next week. We will continue to post updates as we have them.

We are ever thankful for your patience, and promise to be as communicative through the process as we can be.

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Hi everyone! A small update on our end: the zine manufacturer has been having some trouble with the order so we're working closely with them to resolve it and get the zines to us as soon as possible, but it might take a while.

The good news is that we're only waiting on one more shipping supply before we can start packing merch-only bundles! Looking forward to showing you all pictures of that once they come in!

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