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I just reported it Paul. Enough is enough for me.

I didn't want to post this info hoping decks would be coming soon but I PM-ed her on May 25 on FB asking about the projects and this was her reply.

Hey Rich! Thank you for your message! I usually post an update when I have more info or some news. At the moment I’m just waiting too, I should have more info about Muertos by the end of the month. 2 Muertos decks will be shipped to together, “AVALON” in production process at the moment. Problem with MPC limited edition....apparently....they stuck somewhere in the middle between China and USA..... MPC is taking care of that finally.....I had to fight with them a lot.
No worries guys!!!! Everyone will receive their decks at the end. I had so many projects in a past 3 years and always delivered the product.

Sent another PM Aug. 19, no response yet.

That's interesting, there's about 9,000 miles of salt water between the USA and China, did the container ship go DIW? Did it disappear like Malaysia Airlines 370?

Typically, if we see ships DIW in a shipping lane we'll render assistance (by "we" I mean the various sea-going armed forces of planet Earth, this is maritime law). Doesn't really matter what flag the vessel is flying.

In all seriousness, though, she just sounds like a generally disorganized person. Delays are bound to happen, unless you do something like a professional project manager would, and, y'know, plan for contingencies, develop relationships with your manufacturers and distributors, do formal SWOTT and comparative analyses of each project. There are creators here that seem to have most of this down: Guru, Lorenzo (although, despite the delays, I'm impressed with the House of the Rising Spade project-- there are a ton of moving parts in that project), Lotrek (although, like it says in his signature, he does bite off a lot, but when issues do arise he's communicative and is always bird-dogging solutions), Giovanni, etc. Maybe reaching out to fellow deck producers might provide some insight on how to handle her current predicament.

ICantShuffle wrote: That's interesting, there's about 9,000 miles of salt water between the USA and China, did the container ship go DIW? Did it disappear like Malaysia Airlines 370?

Typically, if we see ships DIW in a shipping lane we'll render assistance (by "we" I mean the various sea-going armed forces of planet Earth, this is maritime law). Doesn't really matter what flag the vessel is flying.

In all seriousness, though, she just sounds like a generally disorganized person. Delays are bound to happen, unless you do something like a professional project manager would, and, y'know, plan for contingencies, develop relationships with your manufacturers and distributors, do formal SWOTT and comparative analyses of each project. There are creators here that seem to have most of this down: Guru, Lorenzo (although, despite the delays, I'm impressed with the House of the Rising Spade project-- there are a ton of moving parts in that project), Lotrek (although, like it says in his signature, he does bite off a lot, but when issues do arise he's communicative and is always bird-dogging solutions), Giovanni, etc. Maybe reaching out to fellow deck producers might provide some insight on how to handle her current predicament.

But the CRAZY deck was supposed to be ready to ship end of MARCH. No update since the Feb. 25 date. Say they got to her in April, that's 4 months without update or decks. Riccardo (Passione Playing Cards) reached out and got generic response. Not good in my opinion.

I have counted all of my Natalia decks MIA. Maybe they will show up eventually, but I doubt it. I don't care that much, and still feel for her. She is a talented artist. I don't think she ran with our money, but I also paid for some rewards that I haven't received and some other items on her website that I also didn't receive. I wish she would at least be upfront and say what happened, but that isn't going to happen either. I have kinda put this behind me. There are some other decks that fit into the same category and some other Kickstarter projects for that matter.

I was looking to get this deck post Kickstarter as I missed it on KS. Hope Natalia fulfills her promise and gets this deck to all backers along with retailers.

Well I tried to warn people on her last project, like I’ve done with others. It seems like an I told you so situation once again. But hey don’t listen to me, I’ve only seen it time and time again.