The ones that really bug me are Vortex, Spectrum, QuickSilver, Ultraviolet, Core, and Revision1. Of these, QuickSilver actually bothers me the most, but mostly because Russell went from being a good businessman to going into hiding. Core is in second place for me because Tim just flat out lied to me...

I don't even care about the dang dice! If that was the whole problem, he could have said that over a month ago rather than keeping us in the dark. This is just unbelievable. I have 3 KS card projects that keep promising to ship (Core, Quicksilver, and Ultraviolet), and they all just keeping making e...

Wow, he posted an update today. Apparently almost done shipping. He claims he is almost done, but there are a lot of people who still haven't received their cards. He told me that he would "resend" mine this week (implying that it had already been sent) and would send me a tracking number...

nothing....no words or decks of cards....i will contact my CC tomorrow and see if i can get my money back If you're in the US, you probably won't get your money back because the payment was made way too long ago, but if you file a claim it may help in the long run. If credit card companies get enou...

Wow, he posted an update today. Apparently almost done shipping. He claims he is almost done, but there are a lot of people who still haven't received their cards. He told me that he would "resend" mine this week (implying that it had already been sent) and would send me a tracking number...

... and then pair up with a fulfillment house with a proven track record (like, say, House of Playing Cards, which has already brokered some of Russell's decks) rather than fulfilling orders directly. But how will you know that this will happen? Russell implied that he would be using a fulfillment ...

Over a month of no contact, updates, nor cards. At least the other CCC guy Adam eventually refunded my money. I think its safe to say that between Quicksilver and Army Men CCC is finished barring a very good explanation and business plan for another project. Who in their right mind would be willing...

I appreciate the detailed analysis, and it certainly explains a lot. What I don't understand is why Russell doesn't just admit that he's run out of money and he's shipping when he can scrape up the money to do so? Unless perhaps he's relying on the website sales of decks that have been committed to...

Yeah, I hate to say it but after this mess I'm probably out on CCC. If Rus were to come on here and lays it all on the line I might give him the benefit of the doubt. After all, he did bring us the Americana. He also kept the forum going for a while. One thing that bothered me were a couple of peop...

Yeah, I hate to say it but after this mess I'm probably out on CCC. If Rus were to come on here and lays it all on the line I might give him the benefit of the doubt. After all, he did bring us the Americana. He also kept the forum going for a while. One thing that bothered me were a couple of peop...

We all know he is shipping, but this is taking wayyyy too long to arrive. We all know there have been issues with the dice etc, but its been almost 3/4 of a year since the deck funded. At this point, the funding date, the original estimated delivery date, and even the date he got everything are irr...

He claims he is shipping them. He told his cousin he is shipping them, and he told an official at his school that he is shipping them. But, I haven't heard of anyone getting them yet. It should take no more than 2 days for me to get them once he has shipped them, and there's at least one person in h...

Wow! These guys may actually be bigger jerks than Alex! They posted an update today that basically says they are still shipping, but pretty much ignoring their backers. They tell people not to email them address changes, but to update their Kickstarter profiles. I don't think Kickstarter forwards ad...

The message on Kickstarter said that the student ethics director at his school talked to him and he said he would ship all packages by June 28. If he started shipping when he made that statement, and he shipped in the order he originally promised, I'd have mine by now, but I don't (I live close enou...

To answer an earlier question, this story can have a happy ending, but it's going to require that Timothy says something. He claims that his account is locked, but even if that's true he has contacts who can post something for him because they have in the past. This is just ridiculous.

But this problem isn't that things are too complicated - the problem is that people aren't following through on their promises. Well, that's part of the problem, anyway. Another major factor is that Kickstarter doesn't do anything to help/make them. As Mike has pointed out, most of the projects we'r...

I never treated Kickstarter as a "store", but that doesn't mean I agree with your view. Kickstarter does not present itself as a pure investment platform. The terms of service specifically state that project creators are expected to either send the rewards or refund the money. It's in the ...

Magic_Orthodoxy wrote:There is his address! On his resume! Offer to send him a SASE! ha ha! Say, "Dude, I'll pay my own shipping!"

I'd be fine with that, but he has to admit that this is the problem. Otherwise, I'd just be sending him more money for something I'll never get.

IMO, your statement is exactly the problem and why people keep getting burned. First, you are not investing in a company as you seem to be saying. You are investing in a product. Once that product gets funded, there is absolutely no reason for the product not be delivered, unless the project creato...

If you're not in a position to kiss your money and throw it into the wind hoping something comes back, then stay away from Kickstarter. That has become true, but that's not how Kickstarter and the project creators present things. Many creators will make it sound like they have done all of the desig...

dcell59 - "simple tools for helping inform the backers about shipping." Thats a big one... Maybe "Ultraviolet and Core" thought shipping was not part of the equation. Lets spend are so called profits; We can sell the surplus decks on line and pay for the shipping later. Now all ...

For the record, Alex STILL has not shipped all the decks he was suppose too. He is the biggest low-life out there. For the record, I contacted the core deck guy about buying decks and he never got back to me. I understand that, but my point was that there are ways to fix the problem of running out ...

But if it's just a matter of money, he can do what Alex did with Vortex - sell decks on the side to make shipping money. When I got my Vortex decks, Alex had neglected to autograph a deck as requested, so I made a deal with him to buy a couple more decks and he would autograph 2 of them. I got my pa...

You're right though, but Kickstarter gives the impression of security - or at least it does to those that are only casual backers. That's true. I started backing projects on Kickstarter because I thought that by paying with a credit card through Amazon I would have some kind of protection against f...

While the project creator has said that he has shipped 30 packages, I have yet to see any of these cards available for sale or any reviews of the deck. The order the rewards were supposed to be shipped, there should be over 800 decks and 30 uncut sheets out there. I would expect to see these on the ...

badpete69 wrote:I think I got mine 3 months ago or so...I assume only the international shipments went out a little late?

Nope. Lots of people in the US are still waiting. It seems to mostly be people who added 20+ dice, which includes the bag.

If you paid by credit card you could do a fraud claim Have you actually tried this? In the US, credit card companies put limits on fraud claims. You usually have 2-3 months to make the claim, and most projects have an estimated delivery time that is over 3 months after the money is charged to your ...

I got my brick with brick box back in December, and a few people have posted that they've received them (I'm still waiting for the 3 decks I originally pledged for). I can't really figure these guys out. I know the cards got printed, and it sounded like they got 5000 decks. If it's just an issue of ...