With the way this project barely passed the finish line with under $300 to spare, the creators indifference to his backers and the plans to make custom courts - the designs for which having barely begun, nowhere near finished - I have some serious reservations about this projects chances for success. I mean REAL success, not just reaching a goal - that number is meaningless if the project goes nowhere with it.
At the least, there's no good chance this deck will see the light of day until sometime next year. They're claiming a November estimated delivery, but without finished designs, he won't be up and running, ready to print, until perhaps sometime in November if not later. If he does manage to finish by November, then he has to deal with the holiday crunch - the bigger card companies rushing to get out Black Friday and holiday season deck releases in large numbers, all before the plan closes for the holidays for about two weeks. If he submitted his work today, he's stand a great chance. As he hasn't even finished the design, he's going to be perhaps a season or more late on delivery.
And all of that assumes that this guy took everything into account, every single penny that needs to be spent, with a margin for error built into the goal. There's absolutely no extra cash for him to fiddle with on this. He's going to be cutting it really, really tight - I suspect he'll run out of cash before he can complete delivery, and maybe before delivery even begins.
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