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  • The issue in terms of effort and time isn't the putting it on a shop and selling it.

    It's:

    • Talking to a factory who speak broken English, and I speak no Italian.
    • Finalising details with said factory
    • Dealing with the Summer shutdowns (you aren't getting caps until October now)
    • Receiving delivery
    • Putting hundreds of caps in envelopes, posting them, tracking delivery failures, handling returns (expect 2-3% defect rate)
    • Manually distributing caps to compass beers over 2-3 weeks (because there's always people who don't turn up when they say they will).

    The act of designing them, putting them on the shop and pre-selling them, handling the stock control, ensuring money is received, accounted for, paid to the manufacturer or covers postage & packing... is actually not a big deal compared to manufacturing and distribution.

  • Which is a fair set of points.

    However, we've kind of stalled at the design point which is another step further back and we continue to have no caps.

    If the decision is taken to do another run of the original design then we can start working through those details with people who have the willingness and capacity to undertake them.

    If we don't go ahead with that then new caps look as likely this year as they do next year and all those details will still need to be resolved. Pre-orders will facilitate the next steps and, as long as expectations are properly managed, then an October delivery isn't an issue. We talk all year round about the summer caps.

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