Dan liked it, too.rizzo wrote: Fri Oct 30, 2020 1:43 am sigh seth everman adopted a cat and phil liked his post and honestly... with this and pj's cat and jimmy's puppy? if dan and phil don't get a fuzzy creature of their own soon, i might combust.
I'm pretty much always on the side of 'a little extra communication never hurt no one' but working for a small business, I do get it. While I mostly don't do customer service, I did for a while over the summer which is our busy season and we had so many backorders (although we do most production in house) my boss was like 'we don't have the person time to reach out to people nor any decent timeline to give anyone, so only answer if they reach out to us first' lmao. We also produce over 5,000 different parts though, so I feel like IRL should be able to do a better job than us.alittledizzy wrote: Fri Oct 30, 2020 11:45 pm It's a quiet day, so I'm double posting.
The Phil candle is back on in stock on the website - and I also got my candle shipping confirmation today.
I saw a bunch of other people also did in the last couple of days. The candlemaker posted on instagram I think three days ago that the second batch from the collab was being picked up that day so... I'm guessing that's not a coincidence? And what happened is that the first batch sold out before the site reflected it, and everyone's that ordered then got bumped to this restock batch and whatever was left from that batch after all the orders were shipped out reflect what's available on other website now.
I think that's fair enough, tbh, that they ran out of stock. But I do really wish IRL had maybe just shot out a quick email to everyone they knew wouldn't get theirs shipped right away to give the heads up. I just... wish so much was better about their merch business. I support and applaud them for being a small business (particularly the actual day to day employees, moreso than those two dudes at the top of the food chain there) during a time when small businesses are struggling. But there are just so many things that slip between the cracks with them and it's so frustrating.
Thank you so much for this info and the links! So interesting! I love seeing how things are made. I have the water bottle and I was wondering if the print on just mine was slightly imperfect or if they all were. I think they were probably made by hydro dipping based on the design also covering the bottom. IDB is just so cool with everyone contributing their knowledge based on their interests and experiences! I learn so much and thoroughly enjoy it here!inanerat wrote: Sat Oct 31, 2020 12:37 am
Because I'm a big nerd and instagram serves me up machining and production videos on my explore page, I saw a video the other day of printing designs on water bottles and it made me think of Phil's one. I think it's probably hydro dip printed or sublimation printed, but I'm not sure. Hydro dip makes sense since it's a design that covers the whole bottle, but sublimation makes a lot more sense since it's not a repeated pattern and the design is (I assume) in the same place on every bottle. Does anyone have one? I'd be curious to see it (the website pictures aren't great).
If anyone is curious or desperately bored in this week's content drought, here's a video of hydro dipping/water transfer printing on waterbottles https://youtu.be/3aLe5qOZoxM, dye sublimation on waterbottles https://youtu.be/HWW1WZWQX-s and a bonus inkjet printing on a waterbottle with darude sandstorm unironically(?) in the background https://youtu.be/bgTwHeHZIgs
Yeah - you said what I meant even better than I did. I'm not really upset with the delay, I would rather them be supporting other small businesses with sourcing their products (like the candle and the hot chocolate) and that just takes longer, plus general pandemic related slowness - yeah, I definitely get it. It's just when it's things like this where they clearly had to wait for a second batch to be made to fulfill a large number of orders already placed that a quick update somewhere wouldn't go amiss.madzilla84 wrote: Sat Oct 31, 2020 11:31 am My candle-containing order hasn’t shipped yet - some of my friends who ordered the shirt or candle had theirs ship this week so I can only assume the hold up is the hot chocolate? I don’t necessarily expect individual communication about delays because as said above, that’s too much overhead for a small-ish business, but I think it’d be good to get general updates about item delays etc, like they did with the masks which also held up some orders going out. I know they’re probably having issues of their own with being able to have less people working in the warehouse etc, so I expect things to sometimes be slower, but it wouldn’t hurt to update the product page or put out a quick tweet if an item isn’t going to ship when they thought it would.
Oh my god that is the WORST trick your brain could play on you.liola wrote: Sat Oct 31, 2020 4:26 pm I've been convinced all day that we're waiting for a dnpg video that Phil suddenly announced last night except I just now realized I think I dreamed it
Ok, with the combination of dizzy willing Cornelia content into existence and this comment from yesterday I'm beginning to get suspicious.... what semi-cursed magical powers do you have??alittledizzy wrote: Fri Oct 30, 2020 3:54 pm And that evaluation better end in something furry that woofs and I don't mean one of them in a fursuit.
... brb honing whatever skill this is into a joint video...inanerat wrote: Sat Oct 31, 2020 10:48 pmOk, with the combination of dizzy willing Cornelia content into existence and this comment from yesterday I'm beginning to get suspicious.... what semi-cursed magical powers do you have??alittledizzy wrote: Fri Oct 30, 2020 3:54 pm And that evaluation better end in something furry that woofs and I don't mean one of them in a fursuit.
I'll do some timestamps later but I would just like to say getting a better look at how that room is laid out has really calmed me. Also sorry to people on moving hill, you must be getting a bit tired up there.
Get settled in just in time to decorate for Christmas.
am i the only one who doesn't get this? what does "dan if... etc" mean?
He edited his fpf to be crying, so the joke is that if trump wins it will come true, i guess.laurenbacall wrote: Sun Nov 01, 2020 5:23 pmam i the only one who doesn't get this? what does "dan if... etc" mean?
