The final Celeste Chick Plush update!
Phew... that was a bit chaotic. To start, this ended up being our most popular physical prize, so a lot of people were trying to get it as soon as everything became available. A few people were upset that their event submissions weren't approved in time, but believe me, we already had
too many people going for these prizes anyway. We were not expecting all submissions to be approved immediately, which was the purpose for having a set date in the first place. Unfortunately, we only have limited stock of all of our physical/offline prizes. Next time we may price all of them a bit higher to help decrease the Black Friday-esque mad dash!
As some people pointed out, the Shop may have been loading weird because of the constant refreshes. Until it finally let 6... and then another 3 users buy it. This should be expected with these high demand items and eventually some users are the lucky ones.
So why did 9 end up selling instead of the originally announced 6? Essentially, they were all purchased very quickly at the same time that I was trying to remove "available soon" from the description and the item listing got confused. Whoops!
I originally announced that we may have to refund the last three people to purchase one. Then I announced that we would look into it. Fortunately, thanks to
@Laudine,
we can provide the original Celeste Chick Plush to all 9 buyers! I would also like to make a clarification about this plush because my original description of it was missing an important detail. As I'm sure many of you noticed, it's not just a Celeste Plush, but a Celeste
Chick Plush, which Laudine had custom-made based on the collectible she created for the 2020 Fair.
This is an important distinction because, not only is it more special, but if you're sad that you missed out on getting one of these prizes, Laudine will actually be selling them on Etsy in the future! Also, don't forget we're still selling Celeste Chick Plush raffle tickets and we'll give one more away from that.
Hopefully this addresses all of the questions and concerns regarding this prize!