The best organic, sustainable, innovative, top quality, designer socks return as no-shows. No pairing. No wasting. No showing.
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Dear Backer,
The following update is a bit long - but it is very important that you read it.
We did it. We are one of the most successful sock campaigns ever on Kickstarter. We have raised €165.975 ($198.514). We are absolutely speechless. When we first came up with the idea for SOLOSOCKS, people laughed at us, several investors rejected us, and nobody believed in us. Look where we are now. Thanks to you.
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Stretch-goals
We passed €125.000 which means that we will provide all of you with an exclusive LIFETIME DISCOUNT on SOLOSOCKS™. We will send you a discount code that you can use on our website along with your socks. This code can be used anytime and will give you a 20% discount on all SOLOSOCKS™.
WE ALSO REACHED THE FINAL STRETCHGOAL. A lot of you guys mentioned that you were unhappy with the nature of the stretch goals being “add-ons”. We're currently in talks with several different producers regarding the washbags. We're doing what we can to find the best solution. We'll keep you all updated! Thank you for all of your support. It's truly amazing to see people being passionate about a product that you have worked hard for.
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SUPER IMPORTANT PRE-SURVEY!!!!
We've created a "PRE-SURVEY" to find out what you guys want - this is important for our communication with producers!.
Please note that this is not your final order - We expect to send the final survey later this month.
PLEASE LET US KNOW WHAT YOU PLAN TO ORDER >>> HERE <<<
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Update on Production
We want to be completely transparent in our communication. To be honest, we didn’t think that we were going to raise nearly this much for our project. We just had a long talk with our producers, and due to this huge demand, our production might be a little delayed. We tried to do anything to avoid this. We read that 75% of very successful Kickstarter campaigns had delayed delivery. We wanted to be an exception, but our producers cannot work harder they currently are. We expect that we can deliver the majority of the socks next month (which is what we promised), but with this many backers, we’ve had to increase the production A LOT!
This being said, we will of course deliver! We have delivered on all our campaigns - and this one won’t be different. SOLOSOCKS™ are produced with the state of the art Italian Lonati machines with 200 needles - the highest quality you can achieve with socks! Therefore, there is also some lead time on our production. We are looking forward to ship the World's Best Summer Socks!
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What happens now?
Your pledges will now be charged from your credit cards. In about 14 days we will receive the money from Kickstarter, send out the final (real) survey where you can make your order and make the final plans with our producers. We’ll of course keep you updated all along the way! If you have any questions at all, feel free to message us directly on Kickstarter. We check messages every day and strive to get back to you as soon as possible.
Want to order more SOLOSOCKS?
Once we send out the real survey, you will be able to claim some extra socks. Until then, we’ll be on pre-order here.
A thousand thank-yous from the SOLOSOCKS team!
We'll be back with another update soon!
Best regards,
The SOLOSOCKS™ Team
Dear backer,
We have taken all your comments regarding stretch goals into consideration - we do our best to let you guys be a part of the project.
To show our appreciation of your support, we will introduce a mid-term stretch goal:
When the campaign reaches €125.000 we will give all backers a lifetime discount on all products on our website www.solosocks.dk!
Let's see if we can make it to 1250%!
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Winners of Competition
The winners of our recent competition are:
- *Name* (*backer number / instagram name*)
- Valerie Nicolas (soleil_31)
- David Drysdale (dbld8013)
- Huwie Hoang (huwieh2o)
- Ada Oprea (ada_medana)
- Megan (meged21)
- Vincent Hanuse (vin100h)
- Markuss J. Roziņš (mrozins)
- Jens Behrend (jens.behrend)
- Fabiano Lourenço (fabianolferreira)
- Marta Montojo (marta_montojo)
- Frank McKinney (#361)
- Jen Dorothy (#332)
- Guido Drueen (#868)
- Agnes Liou (#1092)
- Jeff Wampach (#1492)
- Paul Hopkins (#1150)
- Maria (#1902)
- Annina Sommer (#2377)
- Jade Ngyuen (#2624)
- Troy Udall (#2843)
Congratulations guys! We will sneak in an extra pack of SOLOSOCKS in your shipment.
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Clarification of Previous Stretch Goal
With your pledges you are supporting a bunch of hardworking people who wish to build a sustainable business to bring high quality, organic and innovative solutions to the world.
We hope you understand that if an agile start-up is to survive, it wouldn’t be wise to give away 3000 laundry bags - even though we’d love to and you deserve it. We have just donated 700 socks to kids in need, and it’s just the beginning. We’ll continue those kinds of actions as soon as our budgets allows it.
IF we achieve €150.000 we will ship a FREE bag to those backers who guessed “laundry, washing, or travel bags” along with your orders. Otherwise the bag will be a low price optional choice for those who wish to.
We have learned from this and we definitely take your feedback into consideration for future campaigns and stretch goals! Please do not hesitate to let us know if you have any questions or comments.
We do our outmost to create high quality and sustainable products. So we can’t wait shipping them to you, and make you a happy supporter.
Best regards,
The SOLOSOCKS No-Shows Team
Dear Backer,
The 150.000€ stretch goal will be revealed on our Kickstarter feed soon.
And, it is, of course, an organic durable laundry bag!
Now you can better take care of your solos. Amazing that so many had got it right. We have registered all who had a correct guess before this update and they will get their rewards with their orders.
Some of you had guessed a storage box. Well, SOLOSOCKS’ recyclable packaging is actually a storage box. You will love it.
Remember if you have different styles you can attach the boxes to each other and place them in your drawer.
@Tom van der Spek, dear friend, you got it spot on again☺.
@Tim Lucier, you can always purchase the other styles at our Webshop www.URU.DK. You will also have the option in the final survey to choose them as add-on once the campaign is ended.
@Markuss, Great idea, thanks!
Best regards,
The SOLOSOCKS No-Show Team
Dear backer,
Hooray! We did it! 1000% funded. There's a lot information in this update, so please read it through!
Thanks to you we will donate 700 socks to refugee children in need. We're in contact with the Danish Red Cross and we plan to deliver them shortly after the campaign ends. We will of course provide pictures!
And to celebrate! We'd decided to do something completely crazy! We're giving a away an extra pack of SOLOSOCKS to 20 of our backers! All you have to do, is participate in our Instagram giveaway. It's super simple:
1. Go to our latest post on Instagram (click here)!
2. Like the picture
3. Tag 3 friends who need SOLOSOCKS
4. Follow @solo.socks
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The winners of the last competition
The lucky winners of the last competition are
Seojin Felix Kim
Sara Lamoglia
Habe Jakub
Congratulations! Free SOLOSOCKS to you. We'll send them with your order
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The next stretch goal
We'll reveal the next stretch goal with the next update.
It's something that you can actually use for your SOLOSOCKS!
Everyone who guesses correctly will receive one for free!
Simply comment this update.
Best wishes,
The SOLOSOCKS No-Shows Team