A little update with the medal ordering process. At the beginning of this year, I was very uncertain about how to do the order process for this years medals. When I first organized the orders for the Dark Knight medals in 2014, there were about 15 orders, and doing all of the calculations, and order tracking on spreadsheets worked, but it was time consuming. It worked for tracking the small batch of orders. Our membership, and the demand for our club medals has grown quite a bit over the past few years. Last year there were about 50 different orders, and it was very hard to track and inefficient. It was also somewhat nerve wrecking to collect over $15,000 and have about $2500 in orders that were never paid for in the end. If the trend stays the way it has been over the last few years, we will probably have 60-65 different orders. The pricing and spreadsheet calculations, are getting really hard to keep correct. Tracking amounts ordered, who paid, shipping addresses, and doing it with pre-ordering is not a reliable process for the amount of orders that we have now. I asked Daniel Carr if he would be willing to handle the orders this year. He said that he is not opposed to handling the sales and distribution of the 2019 medals for us. This leads to a couple questions:
1) How important is it to our membership to make sure only our members can order 2019 medals.
-my thoughts are as follows, it is nice to have them available only to our members, but I really don't mind collectors who like our medals being able to purchase them. Those who buy them and would like to join the castle for more than just a medal would come for the right reasons. Those who just want the medal wouldn't just join for the medal.
This is the response from Daniel in the email:
"I am not opposed to handling the sales and distribution of the 2019 KotCT medals.
If, for example, I were to list the various 2019 KotCT products on my shopping cart site,
how would it be regulated so that only KotCT members could order, or does that not really matter
(let anyone order) ?"
Me personally, I would think it would be best to keep things as simple as possible, and just let anyone order through Daniels Moonlight Mint shopping cart when the medals are ready. I am very grateful that Daniel is willing to take care of the sales and distribution of this years medals.
2) As far as design goes for this years medals, the main contender seems to be a witch. I think the Arthurian Sorceress Morgana may be a good fit and match to our medals, especially the Merlin medal. She could be a beautiful, sexy, and powerful sorceress, rather than an ugly witch. It would be nice to do another incuse design, sort of like a pair for the Merlin design from a few years ago. Maybe with some swirling spell power coming from her hands. What do you think?
