Shipping next month!
about 3 years ago
– Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 01:36:26 PM
Hello everyone hope you had a great holiday! I took some time to vacation and havnt been availible so sorry about the delay on this update!
The items are manufactured and are just waiting to be recieved by the freight forwarders. Theres a few countries that have restrictions on magnets so were foguring out the best way to send the items to those countries but it shouldnt be too much of a delay! Ive been told that the items should ship by the end of February at the latest!
About changing your addresses if youve moved, your survey should have a link to the combat lifter contact us page. If not you can use this link. Backerkit handles changing the addresses!
https://combatlifter.backerkit.com/faq#shipping-updates
Excited to get the items to you finally! Its been a journey for me and im sorry that its taken so long! Ill update you when the freight forwarders have recieved all the items and they all officially ship
Almost there
over 3 years ago
– Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 02:12:48 AM
Hello, just wanted to make a quick update regarding where we are.
Firstly, things are going well. The production and sampling is finished. The packaging is finished aswell. Currently were just waiting on confirming shipping!
Shipping is a little bit of an issue because the product contains magnets (i had no idea this was a thing). Because of this we have to take a bit more time to get shipping ready. Also each country has their own rules regarding the shipping of products with magnets and a lot of those rules include no air travel. This means 99% of the products will have to travel by boat and land!
Again, im still figuring it out but wanted to update you exactly what step we are on! Stay tuned for more updates when the shipping issues get solved. After that the product will be sent to our shipping handler and then youll recieve and update to confirm your product has shipped!
New Timeline
over 3 years ago
– Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 05:43:09 AM
Hello, and thanks for your patience, a few of you have been asking for an updated timeline now that we are further into production and I now have a few answers for you. But let's get something out of the way first.
Firstly, the factory that I work with to produce combat lifter is not an exclusive factor to just my project. they work with many other projects and have to respond and make changes and produce products for all of them as well as me. This means that adjustments, responses, and information from them can happen anywhere from within a day, to a month. this makes a timeline really difficult to create without making a disappointing worst-case scenario.
Secondly, About my update frequency. I don't want to sit and update you guys when nothing has happened. I could make an update for each time I ask the factor to reduce the casting by a millimeter, or when the UPC code needs to be rotated 5 degrees, but instead, I want to update you guys when a major milestone has been hit, unfortunately, as outline in the first issue, this can come at random times due to the business of the factory.
With that said, I have a pretty awesome and huge update for you all. I have received the first version of the sample! check it out! this is pretty close to what you will be receiving as backers with only small minor revisions to the packaging and to the product being made from this stage.
THE PACKAGING
I spent a lot of time designing packaging that is simple and clean and really shows off what combat lifter is all about. it's not here to shoot flames at you, or show off how totally radical and wacky it is.
You can see on the back of each piece which is included as well as an example of how to use the tower.
THE PROTECTION
first off let me just say that I've been playing around with the combat lifter pieces and they are virtually unbreakable under normal conditions. I've dropped them, I've tossed them, I've slammed them together and not even a scratch has been made of them. I think you'll be really impressed when they are in your hands about how amazing they feel. however, even though they are pretty hard to break, I made sure to design the protection layer to keep each piece as secure as possible to make sure they arrive at your doorsteps in all their perfection.
The tops and the bottoms of each size are attached to each other.
the 6 5ft extensions are also attached together (3rd row)
THE TIMELINE
So, that being said, there are a couple of changes I need to make to the pieces. specifically how they fit together when they are rotated. I want to make sure its perfect, and if that takes a little bit more factory time, then it has to be done. After that, we will be gearing up for production, and shortly after that, a large pallet of combat lifters will make its way to a distributor to be sent to your doors. As explained at the start of this update, I can't really put a dot on when the factory will finish those updates and get the pallet shipped. all I can really estimate is that within the next 2 months we should be seeing them heading over to distribution where it should only take another 1-2 weeks to get everything delivered. this date is only an estimate and could change drastically depending on the factory side of things, ill keep you updated if there are any major changes in that timeline.
Still waiting
over 3 years ago
– Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 11:50:57 AM
Hello everyone, first off i wanted to say sorry there hasnt been an update but there really hasnt been anything to update you on... Until now!
We're in the final stages of sample production now! And i wanted to share with you the very first look at combat lifter!
I still haven't gotten them in hand, im waiting for some final revisions and then they will send the first sample to be tested. Youll be the first to know as soon as i get them but i wont really have much updates until that happens.
Stay tuned! And as always, adventure on
