TiBolt - An American-made Titanium Bolt-action from Brian Fellhoelter at kickstarter

Just fyi...

Elsewhere, Brian posted that he's getting some pushback from kickstarter because they think that he's offering multiples in a single pledge, which is now against a "guideline" (which I'd interpret to be more flexible than a rule, fwiw) set forth since the blog entry that ks is not a store. He actually understood that guideline, and worded the higher tiers in such a way that one could get both the decorated and the simple pen, with the cap or the stylus in one pledge. And they're saying that he needs to fix it or the project will be shut down.

So, for any who pledged for more than 1 TiBolt, those tiers may be removed, and you might have to pledge at a lower level and add more to the pledge to receive another pen (whether or not it's identical to the first one). A message to those at those levels may be given later, so this is just a heads-up.

Gotta figure that, if the pledge levels will need to be changed, then he'd let ya know if any action needs to be taken to recalculate the pledge.

The deal is that Brian was told that his pledge levels for "2 different" and "4 different" pens were prohibited as a result of the new guideline (from the "kickstarter is not a store" blog entry of 20 Sep) that multiples cannot be offered from projects in the "Product Design" or "Hardware" sections (although, you can be a level up in the "Design" category and offer multiples, or even in the "Fashion" group, like the TGT wallet, and offer more than one of the same item). So he was told to get backers in those two categories to pledge at a lower level so that those upper levels could be deleted once they were empty, or the project will be shut down. He described those levels, though, so a person could get a "sensible set" of pens, such as one decorated and one undecorated, or one undecorated with Ti cap, 1 undecorated with stylus, 1 decorated with Ti cap, and 1 decorated with stylus, so there weren't multiples. The 4-pen level has been vacated and removed already.

To hobble the project, ks made it unsearchable from the ks page, so one can only get to the project via a direct link, like that one... And so he decided to have all levels as "sold out" until then. The problem was that, once one backs out of a sold-out level, the notice goes up that 1 of ___ is still available, and for a while (since Friday, iirc), he'd been policing the project to see that, when a backer left the upper levels, then he'd attempt to continue to lower the number available, or something like that.

Anyway, if he can kick the remaining ones out of the top tier, then he will get the project reinstated as fully functional (so it can be searched for from the ks site), and make it so the non-early bird levels will not be marked as sold out. Or, at least, that's my story, and I'm stickin' to it, lol.