Almost Everything Must GO: The Epic AFP/Dolls Merch Sale + extra patron discount code (Patreon)

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HALLO LOVES! 

TL;DR:

• There is a huge deep discount merch sale on all things! Some stuff is 80% off because we just gotta get rid of it.
  
• There is some merch (mostly old, limited, amazing stuff we found while cleaning out my office) that is ONLY available to patrons.
  
• Patrons get an EXTRA additional discount (and the code is below)!
  
• The sale will last ONE MONTH, and ends on MAY 9th.

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Quick, hi human....Greetings from Waiheke.

Things here are good, I'm about to settle into a weekend of doing MOM things. It's Ash's annual "school fair" this weekend and I am doing wholesome things like baking muffins, getting a ukulele ready to auction off, going through which of his old books we can sell at the library table, and GETTING MY COSTUME READY. Will we manage to make it to the new Peter Rabbit Movie with all these thing to do? I do not know. My friends: Who AM I. Meanwhile, life in New Zealand with no covid continues to fill me with awe and gratitude as my friends the globe over stay in various forms of lockdown and limited ability to do things like school fairs. I dunno. I'm just trying to stay grateful AF.

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I'm coming at your with a MASSIVE, EPIC, MERCH SALE that the whole global team has been working on for MONTHS now. We have SO MUCH OLD STUFF TO GET RID OF AND WE ARE TRYING TO DO IT ALL AT ONE TIME! Call it Spring Cleaning. Or call it "We are Marie Kondo-ing the hell out of our merch-land."

These hundreds of boxes of old merch are sparking NO JOY FOR US. But perhaps they will spark joy for you. Maybe a vintage Amanda Palmer or Dresden Dolls poster at a 80% discount is gonna SPARK INSTANT JOY WITHIN YOU.

Merch piles up. 

Especially when I tour and we manufacture shirts and posters and bags and stuff based on GUESSING. I often wind up printing 5,000 of a thing, and we sell 3,500 of that thing. Then the other 1,500 of that thing sits in the merch warehouse, lonely and dejected, especially as shiny new merch comes to take its place. We often lightly discount stuff to try to move it along, but once every blue moon, we do a GIANT FIRE SALE to just clear everything OUT to make room for the future.  

So: starting TODAY: almost EVERYTHING is on DEEP DISCOUNT, including a lot of the new tour merch from There Will Be No Intermission, on both the AFP and Dresden Dolls US and UK stores.

Because of the epic New York office move, we've also uncovered some old, weird gems from past eras, so the AFP stores are stocked with a whole bunch of t-shirts from the past 10 years of AFP tour history....reduced by up to 80%. We just gotta get ridda this stuff.

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Now, the juicy part, which is why this post is STRICTLY PATRON ONLY (please do not share):

In addition the mark downs on the UK and US AFP stores, ALL PATRONS - EVEN BRAND NEW PATRONS - GET AN EXTRA 10% OFF THE ALREADY DISCOUNTED PRICE ON THE AFP STORES! If you have a friend that's been holding out to join the patreon, let them know that now is a good time to join.

And, to sweeten the deal, for the first time EVER, we've also created a whole PATRON-ONLY boutique section of both the US and UK AFP stores. Details below.

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HERE'S HOW IT ALL WORKS:

The mark downs are live on the AFP and Dresden Dolls UK/US stores right now.

STEP ONE, VISIT THE MERCH STORES AND PICK OUT YOUR GOODIES!!!!

WE ARE SORRY THERE ARE SO MANY LINKS AND STORES. SOMEDAY WHEN WE ARE AS BIG AS AMAZON.COM WE WILL HAVE ONLY ONE STORE. BUT WE ARE SMALL SO BEAR WITH US!!!!!! Obviously, you can order from wherever you want, but shipping will get expensive, so we suggest you shop from wherever is closest!

We made a handy linktree that directs to all the stores that are part of this sales:
https://linktr.ee/AFPxDolls

Or, if you prefer direct links:

THE AFP MERCH SHOPS:

US based store: https://shop.amandapalmer.net

Patron-only Boutique (US): https://shop.amandapalmer.net/collections/patron-only
password: PATRONMERCH2021


UK based store: https://ukshop.amandapalmer.net

Patron-only Boutique (UK): https://ukshop.amandapalmer.net/collections/patronboutique
password: PATRONMERCH2021


THE DRESDEN DOLLS MERCH SHOPS:

US-based store: https://shop.dresdendolls.com

UK-based store: https://ukshop.dresdendolls.com

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A few notes:

• The AFP store sale is in the UK and US store only, the "There Will Be No Intermission" items in the Australian store are not part of the sale (sorry folks. We're trying to unload old merch and special gems, the Australian store only has new album items).
  
• ALL STORES WILL SHIP WORLDWIDE, they're just called the "US store" or the "UK store" because that's where they are located, indicating where the items you order will ship from.
  
• The patron perks such as the additional discount and the patron-only boutique pertain to the AFP shops ONLY, and NOT to The Dresden Dolls shops.
  
• The items in the patron-only boutique shops will vary in the UK from the items in the US boutique depending on which location the special items are located in. For example, the US store will have the items we just uncovered from our New York office move. The UK store has two offerings - some copies of rare "There Will Be No Intermission" limited patron edition pressed on blue vinyl and the patron-only enamel pin. Check each store to see what they're offering! Scroll down below to see images of what each store has in stock at time of their launch. Quantities on the boutique items are very limited, once they sell out they are gone forever.
  
• The AFP merch shops and The Dresden Dolls merch shops are two separate shops and two different points of purchase. Unfortunately at this time you cannot combine shopping carts between AFP and Dolls stores, which means if you want to buy a shirt from the AFP US store and the Dolls US store, you'll have to make two separate transactions with two separate shipping costs. This is something I really, really would like to change in the future, but for now, it's gotta be that way. The Dolls' site itself is LONG OVERDUE for a revamp anyway, so this is top on the list of web clean-up we want sorted.
  
• The UK shops and the US shops are also different points of purchase and carts cannot be combined between the international stores, this is because the shops are operated independently from each other. Our merch queen Alex handles the UK shops....from setting the site, to adding inventory all the way to physically mailing out the parcels, whereas our US shops are maintained by a merch team that we work closely with that uses a different operation with their own warehouse.
  
• The storewide sales, along with the additional patron discount to the AFP shops, will last for a month and ends on May 9th.
  

STEP TWO: USE YOUR SPECIAL PATRON DISCOUNT CODE TO GET AN ADDITIONAL 10% OFF THE US/UK AFP STORES

The password to access the patron-only boutique:
PATRONMERCH2021

The discount code for patrons to use at check out, to get an additional 10% off the store:
PATRONMERCH2021

All caps! All capital letters! Use them. These two codes are the same so that you can easily cut and paste. PLEASE DO NOT SHARE this code with anyone outside the patreon. Do the right thing. THANK YOU. 

Patreon has a new feature called "promo codes" that lets creators add promo codes or discount codes to patrons' reward tiers. We're going to try this feature out so that you can have this discount code easily accessible in your patreon pledge information. The code will also show up for new patrons who just signup. You may get an email from Patreon notifying you of the promo code being added to your tier shortly after this patreon post goes out.

NERDY: Let us know in the comments how you like this and if the feature works well. If it's a good experience for you we can use it again the future, if it's the pits, then we won't use it again. 

Hayley, Alex and I will be reading the comments, so hit us with feedback and questions. If you have urgent questions about the store you can email patronhelp@amandapalmer.net and Hayley and Alex will steer you to the right place.

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MORE ABOUT THE PATRON-ONLY "BOUTIQUE ITEMS"

This will be a special little corner boutique that contains the super-rare, sought-after, limited edition THINGS, for patrons only.

Who Killed Amanda Palmer: A Collection of Photographic Evidence hard cover book with stories by Neil and tons of photographs of me...well, dead. Originally released in 2009. Available in the US boutique only.

Things that go for hundreds of dollars on eBay, like the Who Killed Amanda Palmer hardcover photobook I made with Neil Gaiman (yes, that guy!), and soon we'll have the Evelyn Evelyn graphic novel up on the site (both of these books have been out of print for years, and we've uncovered just a handful from the New York office and publishers). The "Amanda Palmer Plays the Popular Hits of Radiohead On Her Magical Ukulele" CDs (previously only available at the merch booth on tour in Europe, never online), and Kickstarter-exclusive editions of An Evening With Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer. 

You Got Me Singing picture disc record with my dad. This album was the first physical music I released through patreon and this picture disc edition has only ever been offered to patrons. Originally released in 2016. Available in the US boutique only.

This is the Kickstarted edition of An Evening With Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer, a four disc collection of stories, poems, and music that recorded live on our joint tour in the Pacific Northwest in 2010. This edition was only available to Kickstarter backers. Available in the US boutique only.

Look at how beautiful the gatefold digipak is:

Amanda Palmer Performs The Popular Hits of Radiohead on Her Magical Ukulele compact disc. Originally pressed on limited edition vinyl that sold out FAST, I printed CDs to sell on tour in Europe in 2011, for the first time I'm offering them for sale on the shop to patrons-only. Available in the US boutique only.

The Art of Asking abridged audio book on vinyl. It has an alternate book cover as the album art. Limited quantities were made and once these are gone, they are gone from the store. You may be able to find one out in the wild somewhere on shelf of a bookstore, but not many were made. Available in the US boutique only.

There Will Be No Intermission artbook in limited edition patron-only hard cover. This was offered a pre-sale item to patrons-only. I printed some extra copies to give as gifts to the people who worked on the book and the album, and we unearthed some extra copies that we can now offer to any patrons who missed the originally sale. Once these sell out, they are gone for ever. The hardcover patron edition features a different cover image from the softcover edition previously sold on tour and on my site. Available in the US boutique only.

The limited edition patron-only blue pressing of There Will Be No Intermission. This blue vinyl pressing has only ever been available to patrons and was released as a pre-order when I announced the record, so if you missed it, you missed it. Until now. We have a few extras in BOTH the US and the UK boutique shops.

Designed by Alfredo Richner, this pin was first available to patrons on the There Will Be No Intermission tour and was then added to the website merch stores. We're adding these to the patron-only boutique in BOTH the US and UK stores.

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I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU READ THIS FAR!

One last thing!

We're going to send out a newsletter blast to my email list, and to the Dresden Dolls email list announcing the sale in a few days, so if you're not already on the email lists, sign up, and forward it along to friends who may want in on this merch extravaganza. It's also always a good idea to be on the email lists in case patreon ever crashes and I need to get ahold of you. Do it for mama:  

JOIN THE AFP EMAIL LIST: http://amandapalmer.net/emaillist

JOIN THE DRESDEN DOLLS EMAIL LIST: http://dresdendolls.com/emaillist

*Important note* these are, indeed, two separate email lists. We re-launched the Dolls list a couple years ago as a separate list from the AFP one, so make sure you're signed up to BOTH if you want to be truly amazing. If you don't know if you're on either list, sign up anyway; the system will know and it won't send you a duplicate email.

Love.

AFP

------THE NEVER-ENDING AS ALWAYS---------

1. if you are a patron and new to my work, don’t forget your patronage allows you access to ALL of my patreon releases to date. HERE is the link to download my latest big solo record, “There Will Be No Intermission”, and HERE is a link to download the PDF of the art/essay book that goes with it.

2. if you’re a patron reading this post via an email notification, please click through to comment on this post. at the very least, if you’ve read it, indicate that by using the heart symbol. that's always nice for me to see, so i know who's reading.

3. see All the Things (over 150 of them) i've made so far on patreon:

http://amandapalmer.net/things

4. JOIN THE SHADOWBOX COMMUNITY FORUM, find your people, and discuss everything: https://forum.theshadowbox.net/

5. new to my music and TOTALLY OVERWHELMED? TAKE A WALK THROUGH AMANDALANDA….we made a basic list of my greatest hits n stuff (at least up until a few years ago, this desperately needs updating) on this lovely page: http://amandalanda.amandapalmer.net/

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