Hi everyone!! This zine should be nearing its end, but it’s dragging out endlessly, so I want to speed up the process and wrap everything up as quickly as possible.
For that, I’ll be clear and transparent about what happened behind the scenes: as you probably gathered from the previous updates I posted on social media, the mod team left. I have no way of gaining access to the email account or the US orders information. I don’t have access to funds of the zine, and none of the mods I contacted (and who replied) has either. The one mod I do know has access doesn’t reply. I’m the last one actively communicating with customers and contributors, but there’s not much I can do.
What does that mean? It means I can’t do anything for US orders. I can’t tell you where your package is, I can’t give you a refund. I’m sorry.
It also means I’m sitting on items I don’t have the funds to ship out, I had to ask customers if they were willing to pay for shipping again so I could send them their package. Some were, some weren’t, some asked me to hold onto their package until they are able to pay for shipping. I’ll keep the 5 packages that are left to be shipped for now, until I talked to the customers and discussed what’s to happen with their package.
I asked contributors the same, and here again, some were willing to pay for shipping, some weren’t, most haven’t gotten back to me yet. Customers paid for their bundles, and while we were supposed to be a for-profit zine, contributors didn’t pay for their bundle. Which is why I’ll only offer to hold onto the customer packages. If you’re a contributor and want your compensation in the form of the full physical bundle, it’s in your interest to contact me! Contact me either via discord, the zine’s twitter or my personal twitter/email. If I don’t hear back from contributors by Dec 8th, I’ll assume you have no interest in your bundle.
Whether customer or contributor, if you’re willing to pay for shipping, get in contact with me to get your stuff (twitter or email)! If you contacted me and I received shipping payment before Dec 8th, I’ll ship it.
What happens to the packages no one contacts me for by Dec 8th, and with the small amount of leftover items? I will put them up to be claimed by anyone who wants them on my personal twitter on Dec 15th when I’ll have a better overview of what is left. I won’t take money for the items as I have no way of giving the profit to contributors, but I also don’t have enough money to pay for shipping out of pocket, so you may claim an item only when willing to pay for its shipping.
For anyone whose package got lost, and any contributor who didn’t get back to me until Dec 8th to get their bundle, this is your second chance to get the items you want!
I plan to close the zine’s twitter and tumblr on Dec 20th! You can still reach me on my personal twitter/email after that, should the need to contact me arise. If you have any more questions or concerns regarding mod team, or packages or what happened, anything - feel free to send me a message, I’ll be transparent about everything and answer as best as I can.
You can contact me via twitter (HapSkyScribbles) or email (hapskyscribbles gmail com).