Alright y’all...so...listen...it’s taken WAY longer than I expected...but my second set of cards is almost here and this is the one I really wanted to release first, but timing was just a bit off.
Long story short - the original manufacturer I worked with for the #824pack vastly underestimated the first project, so they quoted me nearly 3x the price for the second project. Granted, it was a ton of work and extremely complex, and I was damn serious about doing it right. So...what they asked for wasn’t exactly crazy, but If you remember correctly, I didn’t make any money on the #824pack...so that means this next quote would have put me in a significant hole from the get-go. We went back and forth and finally, I realized I just had to find someone else. And...being that I’ve got no income coming in (stay at home dad of two little boys), I had to find another solution.
I hit the (proverbial) pavement again and expanded my search terms. One of the manufacturers I contacted sent me pics of their factory (above) and I realized...f*ck...this is going to be more difficult than I originally thought.
Eventually...near the end of September I found another supplier. The sales agent I worked for really didn’t pay much attention to the project specs (even though I told him to review it several times before sending me a quote) and he estimated it’d take them 10 days. Setback after setback and we’re running through our final QC of the end product (today). It’s now been nearly 150 days since we started this project and we finally have it wrapped up. And now...the hard work begins :)
This set...it feels a bit late (I would have loved to have these available for stocking stuffers)...but...the stories I told with this next set are MY own stories. I truly felt like I wrote the first chapter of my ‘sneaker book’ with this set...more videos and pics coming sooner than you think…the #tssdunkydunks have almost landed...