Issue #8 shipping now, update on patrons who didn't update pledge tier (Patreon)

Good morning, Mega Visionaries,

I just wanted to give you a quick update to let you know Issue #8 has now began shipping to all of our patrons. This time around, we're using Stamps.com to purchase the postage, and you will receive an email with your tracking information as the issues are being shipped.

We hope to ship all the issues by the end of the week, but the July 4th federal holiday could delay things a bit.

Patrons who didn't update their pledge tier for this issue

Thanks to all of our patrons who updated their pledge tier ahead of Issue #8 being printed. However, we still had quite a few patrons who didn't update their pledge tier from the last issue. 

To give you a little background, the problem is due to Patreon's policy of not allowing creators to adjust the pricing on tier levels. This meant we were forced to delete the old tiers and create entirely new tiers and ask all of you to subscribe to a new tier. For those who didn't update their tiers, they were charged for the amount they were previously pledged to (ie if you subscribed to the old $7.99 physical subscription tier, you were charged for that amount and not the new $14.99 physical tier). 

What should have happened for the people who didn't update their pledges is that they would have not been charged at all and would not have received any reward. 

We accept responsibility for this annoyance and will ship Issue #8 to all of our current patrons, no matter if they updated their pledge tier in time. We simply ask that those who have yet to update their pledges do so as soon as possible and well before Issue #9 or we will might have to delete your pledges entirely, and we don't want to do that!

Update on Issue #8 digital copies

There are a couple updates we need to make to the digital version to get it finalized to be sent to all our patrons. We will publish a new Patreon post with a link to download the digital copy no later than July 4th.

As a reminder, for this issue and every issue going forward, all patrons who subscribe to the physical issue will get the digital version absolutely free!

So that wraps up this update. As always, if you have any questions, please let us know in the comments below!

Keep the Dream Alive,

Chris Powell
Editor in Chief, Mega Visions Magazine