The people managing this Crowdfunder campaign are all ANNOBIKE backers and we are not in this to make money, but purely to get our ANNOBIKES delivered.

The Managers are three enthusiastic, positive-thinking, members of an Seven-member ANNOBIKE Fundraising committee, who have joined forces in a Facebook Messenger group.
Simon Benham (England)
Midan Zemanic (Denmark)
Corneilius Pierce* (Scotland) *fb aka Osha Hoorsir.

We formed the Messenger chat group due to many concerns and poor communication regarding our bikes. This group consists of Simon, Midan, Corneilius, Rachel Bell (Scotand), Trevor George (England), Joseph Ho (USA), Bjarne Sørensen (Denmark) and Jonathan Møller Nielsen (Denmark).

We are a good group of heads from differing backgrounds, with the goal of raising independent funds to top up the shortfall that was allocated to ship our bikes home. The shortfall has ocurred because of the massive effects and after-effects of Covid-19 had on production. This is based on the shipping quote of €32,000 at time of this campaign’s launch. We will stick to that target regardless of any changes in quote nearer the time of booking to keep this simple, as it should be the project founder’s responsibility to round that up if needed.

We aim to encourage fellow backers to pledge their support in raising this sum, as currently it will be the only way we will receive our ANNOBIKES.

In theory, if every backer pledges €85 for each ANNOBIKE ordered, we would easily reach our target. This €85 will include the small charges from FundRazr, PayPal fees and exchange rates.
Though we totally understand that not everyone is in the position to do so, some of us are willing to pledge more. And these things can get exciting toward the end, as every small donation counts and it all adds up.

Trust is the main issue here (and also the thing that has burned us all for the last two years) so we feel that this independent campaign, run by the backers for the backers is the best and only way forward.

Using this platform, no funds will be released to anyone other than the platform based savings pot (created here and tied to PayPal).
If we meet our target, ANNOBIKE can then book the shipping, and forward us the invoice with payment reference, and we make the payment direct to Shipping Line, totally independent of ANNOBIKE, with the receipt made out to us.

For security, if we don’t make our target by the deadline, we can either;
(a) Extend the deadline and put bigger efforts in, maybe look into “perks”
(b) Refund every pledge, and go back to square one, with poor communication from ANNOBIKE, and the very real risk of losing our bikes completely.

Essentially, this is all we have left to do, as we can’t sit and wait any longer.

The shortfall is due to the rising costs through the pandemic, the supply chain becoming very expensive, and the rising cost of each individual bike going beyond the original budget.
With so many backers at the very start taking advantage of the very low incentive price, this pushed the build cost of bikes purchased at the end of the campaign to be twice the amount, which has swallowed all of the available funds.

As of now, the bikes have been built as shown in the images, and are waiting to be shipped and are currently being charged extra for storage until they are shipped.
With this in mind, we want to make this a vigorous and short campaign to raise funds to ship our ANNOBIKES to us.

When we prove we can all raise this money together, nothing will stand in the way of the project creators delivering them.
If the creators are unresponsive to this, then we do nothing with the money and refund it to those who have pledged.
It’s really all we can do now, and it feels good because we know we can do it.

As we build this campaign, we realise we can edit any of this at any time during the campaign and we will welcome input from all backers, we are all the same here and all in it together. Please be generous to help out those who cannot afford to pay so much.

Thank you from the Fundraising Team 🙂