It would still be nice to hear what happened, or if it's going to come back. Kind of a slap in the face to the backers to leave us without anything.

I've been a collector of various kinds of things since I was a kid, and I've seen this kind of thing again and again. And I'm not just talking about the amount of stuff being made that is targeted at the collector's market. The same comments I see where people are lamenting their area of collecting getting overrun.

Just keep in mind that there are cycles to collectables, and people will eventually get out. If you are willing to wait, you will have the luxury of being able to get all of the items you want for pennies on the dollar when people are no longer interested. During an emotional crisis that was most likely due to the death of my mom, I began collecting Hot Wheels at such a pace that at one point I was able to sell enough of my collection to take 18 months off work. I still have literally thousands of these cluttering up my house, many that were once worth $50-$100 each, that I'll be lucky to get more than a few bucks for - most will go to charities and children of friends.

In my view, the best thing you can do is to welcome us "carpetbaggers" and wait for us to sell off the pristine sealed decks of the cards you don't feel like buying now. 

You might also consider clips. The Grid deck folks got a lot of pledges for those. I ended up getting the set of all of the clips and adding a few more decks to the package on the side.

Thanks! I had the wrong address (I think the link I originally followed and bookmarked was misspelled).

Can anyone explain to me which why the box required reprinting?

This is what Paul said on the KS update:

"The first two were not printed up to spec, and the third looked great but did not have the correct amount of glue applied, which was resulting in them not staying shut properly."

He didn't specify what was not "up to spec" about the first two.

Why does NathanCanadas think otherwise? 

It looked to me like Kickstarter shut the project down. The creator's account was deleted. One reason this can happen is a creator trying to back their own project.

Eco clips could get a few people to increase their reward levels, but I do agree it's not going to bring in the $4k needed to complete funding. However, there's still 25 days to go, and I've seen card design projects completing with less at this point. I think most of us can forgive a few grammatical errors and web site problems (that hiddenmirros.com link is still there, Juan). The real issues are the final look of the cards and the reward packages.

Quote from: dcell59 on May 04, 2012, 01:40:16 AM

I got my card today. Very nice!

Are they sending them out already?

I was talking about the printing plate card I ordered.

I knew that. I'm not important enough to have been downfamed that much.

I must have no taste, since I like them all so far. 

They still have 23 available at the $175 level. I wonder if they will have some left over at the end.

It looks like they'll hit the level needed to make these a Bicycle deck pretty soon.

In any case, it's an interesting gamble. If things go perfectly, he makes his May delivery date (or at least he gets to start shipping in May) and gets to be a hero. If not, he could be looking at a long summer of waiting.