Anyway, I realized that what I needed to make this more organized was a spreadsheet. Here's what I have so far--if I'm missing anyone, please let me know.
HuldraDancer is starred because I don't want to assume you're in yet if you're having difficulties.
Right now that gets us almost exactly 8 dozen, or 96 cupcakes.
aTigerslunch pledged $50, that's the only one you're missing so far. Which puts us at $315 if Huldra makes it in or at $285 if things fall through for Huldra. We should also confirm the amount with Blue Gloves because they said they'd do $20 or $30.
What's our time frame for this? I just remembered that it takes 3-4 business days to add money from my bank account to paypal (I've just deposited the money but it says it won't clear till the 24th June.)
I'd say people ought to start uploading funds today/over the weekend, so that PayPal has all of next week for the business days needed to process and make the money available in your account. While that is happening, Lady Nuggins and I will be emailing back and forth with the bakery to sort things out, so I imagine funds will be available roughly around the same time we all get in agreement on the order. I'd say we should probably aim for selecting a goody delivery date of maybe Monday, June 30th in the afternoon hours. It basically gives everyone a full business week to get sorted/organized. And we can always delay as needed for folks to get their funds in order, after all.
My bank account finally got verified this morning, sooner than expected, so I'm already in the 3-5 business day window of my $50 going up.
To continue asking potentially unhelpful questions, it looks like Flirt has a zillion flavors? Do we think we should send a variety or stick with like, one or two 'classics' and also, Allan doesn't happen to know of anyone at Bioware who has some extremely strong, can't-even-breathe-it-in-from-across-the-room-allergy of say, chocolate or anything else we should try and avoid. (I just remember this always being important when I was 5 and parents would send treats to school with their kids to share with the class 
so I figured I would ask)
Yes, I noticed the rather large selection and was like, "Mother of God!"
As far as food allergies, you're always gonna be faced with a few that have them, unfortunately. Kinda no way around that, really. 
As far as flavors, I'm thinking picking maybe 3 (4 at max) to give a variety without being too overwhelming for the bakery. After all, depending on how much staff they have and baking times, they have logistics to figure out in just how much variety they can do in a short amount of time. It'll be easier on them if they can do large portions at a time, and limiting to 3-4 flavors would be way easier to do that than, say, wanting every cupcake to be a different one.
I plan on speaking with Flirt later today via email to get the initial dialogue rolling, so I'll pick their brains on what they feel capable/comfortable doing in the timeframe and go from there.
But if we stick to 3-4 flavors, we'd want to give a little spread of variety: some rich, some more tame, to cover as many taste ranges as possible. I'd personally eyeball:
* Cookies and Cream (basically chocolate cake with vanilla icing)
* Heartbreaker (red velvet cake with cream cheese icing)
* Coffee Date (marble cake with coffee frosting)
* Wild on Whyte (vanilla cake version with strawberry buttercream icing)
That covers a wide range of tastes, from chocolate lovers to coffee lovers to "plain" lovers (vanilla) and who doesn't like red velvet cake, c'mon? 
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Hopefully someone else may know...
