Glad the money is going to a great cause, too bad I missed out on the hats again
even w/ the glimmer of hope, found out that the sticker on the hat was wrong and the hat actually wansn't my size. Feels bad man.
Happened to me too...I squeeze my head in that gat every time I wear it.
Initially, we wanted to develop fitted hats because that just seemed to be the most authentic and high quality offering, and the one that we felt best reflected our fellow members' requests.
While many people do consider fitted caps to be a more premium offering than a snapback, the truth of the matter is that snapbacks address some significant issues. Order fulfillment is kind of a nightmare for a release like this - especially as you scale up. A "one size fits all" product requires less organization and effort to stock and ship, and customers don't have the same worry when it comes to sizing.
That same versatility allows you to change hairstyles without changing hats - which is something we've heard more and more of this time around.
With a limited release, we can't accept exchanges for different fitted cap sizes, and turnaround time is such that each release takes months to come together.
We're not giving up on the NT fitted, but, in the short term, I think a snapback is a more realistic option.
Don't ask me for the details yet, because there are far too many moving parts right now. It's too early to discuss future releases other than to reassure everyone that, because it's important to so many of you, it's something that we feel is worth fighting for.
can't believe people pulled the chargeback scam on a charitable cause.
@Methodical Management is their anyway to link the scammers to their NT account because whose to say they wouldn't scam users on here... or else where?
Great work and I'm happy we raised that much
Since the caps weren't sold on NikeTalk, there isn't much information to go on. You didn't have to be a NikeTalk member to purchase the product.
It's been so far since the release that I'm not sure how much data we'd have available - and I'd say their eager to move on.
$3,000 is more than we raised with the initial release, but it was not - for a number of reasons - double the initial donation even though we made twice as many. The caps themselves became more expensive, for example, as did the process of shipping them all out.
Clearly Paypal was a vulnerability in this case. Lots of people like to have that option for various reasons, but that convenience comes at a cost. Obviously nobody expected nearly one in ten caps to be essentially stolen, but we'll learn from it and move on.
I can honestly say we made our best effort to raise as much as we could for the EJI and to satisfy as many NikeTalk members as we could. We made the most caps our partners would allow. We added a very modest price increase to offset increased product costs, dampen resale value, and improve the yield to charity. We held a giveaway contest. We ran a sizing survey to tailor the release to those most interested. We had far fewer people who wanted a cap come away empty handed this time than last.
I ordered custom hats from new era directly from one of their reps for our baseball team a few years ago and there was only a 24 hat minimum. They let you design it up and down, obviously at a charge for extra things you add.
Any reason as to why the minimum is 144?
The problem is that we're not making these for the company softball team, we're making them for resale. That's not something you can get from the arm of New Era that brings in blanks and does small batch embroidery. We didn't buy blanks and get them custom embroidered. These were made by New Era for Cap City, which is a different animal.
In our case, the 144 minimum was something that was relevant to the first release - but not this one. This time, we were concerned with how
many we could reasonably order - not how few.
As crazy as this release was with a total of 240 some caps in the online inventory system, imagine what it would've been like with 40 something caps in the online inventory system. Then imagine if 10 or so of those 40 orders wound up being fraudulent. At a certain point, it's not worth it to anybody. It's a nightmare for the people selling it. It's a nightmare for the people buying it. It raises less money for charity than offering signature badges.
Though we will not be able to sell caps through ecapcity.com next time around, we do still have some options available and some really great people have stepped up to offer their help. I can't comment on any ongoing discussions, but I'm confident enough in what we've been able to do thus far that I can safely promise that - somehow, someway - we will succeed in making NT caps available at some point, and
possibly by the end of this year. 
even w/ the glimmer of hope, found out that the sticker on the hat was wrong and the hat actually wansn't my size. Feels bad man.
Methodical Management
I'm not trying to argue or prove you wrong, just trying to get some clarity. What's the difference between hats for a "company softball team" vs hats made for ecapcity? 
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