is the only way to get 100 moonstones (say, within a week) for a custom apparel token by buying the beginner bundle? theres no way i can justify spending $10 on digital wolves with my budget but adhd is so real and grinding for these shards and bone pastes is killing meeee

You can hold pre orders for your custom apparel design, and use those funds on the token, that's what I do...just ask around see if people wanna pre order a copy

@Cealygosa
that's such a good idea, thanks so much! i'll sketch some ideas out and post an interest check :)

@nabo I'd suggest posting a full, ready to submit design (you can show it on 1 wolf pose while you work on the others) & to make your CA for all wolf poses - this maximizes the marketing potential and will make it much more likely to get pre-orders (many artists also offer a small discount of 5-20 ms, depending on final pricing to encourage people to buy before they submit)

@lissajo

awesome advice, thankyou so much! how would giving a discount to specific users work? would they just pay for the item from the shop in full and i somehow send them back the agreed upon discount afterwards, or??

@nabo when people pre-order, they send you the MS first so you can buy your CAT! when you go to submit your CA for approval, it will ask you how many copies you want to keep! If you had 3 pre-orders and your wanted to keep 1 for yourself, you would say you want to keep 4. This will put 1 in the shop for public purchase. When your CA is approved, you just send the pre-orders to the people who already paid in a message :)

edit: for pre-orders most people ask for payment when they are ready to submit the CA - they give a short window of either "when I sell X amount of pre-orders, then i will ask for payment" just so people arent paying and waiting weeks before its even ready to submit

@lissajo
ahh i see! i posted this before i figured out how to message/trade with people haha, that makes a lot more sense. thanks so much for your help!