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Mike Ratledge wrote: again way outside the ability and cost range for 99.9% of collectors

Mike Ratledge wrote: but Orient Express is equally "unobtainium" at this point.

Well i gotta disagree with you there.. i got four V.S.O.E. sets altogether, both grimaud sets and two waddingtons sets (with different backs) and i never paid over £40 a set and i got all sets within the last two years, so they are out there and at resonable prices.

Jock1971 wrote:

Mike Ratledge wrote: again way outside the ability and cost range for 99.9% of collectors

Mike Ratledge wrote: but Orient Express is equally "unobtainium" at this point.

Well i gotta disagree with you there.. i got four V.S.O.E. sets altogether, both grimaud sets and two waddingtons sets (with different backs) and i never paid over £40 a set and i got all sets within the last two years, so they are out there and at resonable prices.

But not the 1870'ish version, right? I have not been looking lately, but it was usually hard to find.

Just keeping everyone up-to-date as much as possible: Lotrek found a good deal of the boxes that were produced for him had terribly offset dividers between the two decks, so it slowed down the shipping / fulfillment of these restoration sets a couple of days until he could go through them and weed out the ones that had the divider between the two decks set off to one side. I didn't ask for a ratio, but I get the feeling that it was something more than 10% if not a great deal more, but as I understand it most of them have been shipped today or will be heading to the backers (first) on Monday.

Sorry, we just decided that at this point everyone had been waiting plenty and we weren't going to let a partially substandard piece of cardboard go out to everyone who has backed this project. We wanted the quality to be as good as possible, so we erred on the side of being another couple days or a week rather than sending them out in an unknown condition. The end result for these is truly nice! Cartamundi - in the end - provided a really nice set of decks including the hand gilding of the fully restored decks which were done by their division in France (formerly the "Grimaud" company, now owned by Cartamundi, which is producing a revival of sorts of the old Grimaud decks this year).

Mike Ratledge wrote:

Off topic but who has got the rights for this deck?

guru wrote:

Mike Ratledge wrote: ... (graphic removed)

Off topic but who has got the rights for this deck?

I got the rights from Cartamundi. They own B P Grimaud of France, or what used to be known as Grimaud. They made a lot of classic / fancy decks including many of the early Hermes decks from the early 1950's.

Any news on these, have they shipped yet

i ordered from UC so i don`t get kickstarter notices

Jock1971 wrote:Any news on these, have they shipped yet

i ordered from UC so i don`t get kickstarter notices

Jace, as far as I know all packages have been shipped, although Lotrek has not sent out all of the tracking information yet.

I have already heard of a few deliveries in Europe, and I expect my own ahortly.

Lotrek should be able to provide fulfillment information including tracking number. Kickstarter package shipping was fiest, and we tried to match them to UCdecksales.com orders.

Thanks mike.
will wait until the weekend and if i still hear nothing will give Lotrek a PM.

Hi, guys,

Now that it seems that all pledges have been sent to backers, does anyone know when the uncuts bought here in UC after the campaign are going to be sent?

Gonzalo wrote:Hi, guys,

Now that it seems that all pledges have been sent to backers, does anyone know when the uncuts bought here in UC after the campaign are going to be sent?

KS backers had first priority for fulfillment, but I believe they have all been mailed at this point. Lotrek should be able to provide shipping info / tracking #, I think.

I have heard of them all over Europe, Canada and see mine inbound waiting for customs, and my single gilded decks are already here (Wednesday), but they were mailed separately.

As far as uncuts and UCdecksales orders, they should be immediately behind the KS packages. I should have done a better job trying to match those to the KS backers, but I must have messed that up. Of course, it could easily be because I don't recognize a username(s) on KS, also. I should have used addresses for matching the two pieces, but I didn't.

The majority of decks has been sent but there are about 20 that I'll hopefully send tomorrow (or Tuesday).

Still waiting on the UC ordered set and an uncut sheet!! Hopefully I’ll be getting them soon!!

niceguy0750 wrote:Still waiting on the UC ordered set

You are not the only one..
Have Faith.

Hey Mike - Does the gilded deck from UC Deck Sales come wrapped in cellophane?

Also, how many sets are left for purchase?

Jock1971 wrote:

niceguy0750 wrote:Still waiting on the UC ordered set

You are not the only one..
Have Faith.

Yep, Still waiting on mine in the UK too

misterharmanko wrote:

Jock1971 wrote:

niceguy0750 wrote:Still waiting on the UC ordered set

You are not the only one..
Have Faith.

Yep, Still waiting on mine in the UK too

Waiting in US too.

Lotrek gave me a tracking number and mine arrived in NY on Monday with no movement information since. Customs? A little troubling.

I've received my decks, in Portugal, yesterday. (I ordered in Kickstarter)

The cards are awesome.
I found the small detail, of the cards order in the deck, very classy.

I'm now waiting for the uncut sheet.

Bruno happilly collected his Hellenic stamps yesterday.
Beautiful Artifacts Re-Assessed Wonderously !
Thank you Mike, Lortek ....
Deeply Grateful .... and .... arouses the desire .... for more ....

I got mine yesterday! I love them and truly appreciate the work.

Has anyone pledged for the uncut?
Have you received it already?

Still waiting...
No news.

Any updates on the excess single gilded decks sold on UCdecksales? Last update was March 10 on KS " The one group that has not been fulfilled is the single decks sold on UCdecksales, and those are going to be shipped by me from the states in about a week (I have not received my box yet either)."

I have not received any information via email or shipping information to Japan yet.

pre ordered a set on UCdecksales
Still waiting here in U.K ...No news or tracking sent
slightly frustrating

I received this on April 6 from lotrekdesign@hotmail.com regarding my order of an uncut from UC site. Agree it's frustrating overall, especially since every reason for a delay I've seen has nothing to do with my order, just last in line apparently. Was expecting this in Nov/Dec originally. At least we know people are receiving the decks recently and Lotrek will eventually deliver, but quite a delay.

I'm writting this email to let you know that I have just finished shipping of the KS Dondorf orders and all UCdecksales orders (like yours) will be sent in a week when I'll be back home from my Easter holidays.

I have all boxes ready to ship.
I want to apologize for the delay but I had to manually fix all boxes as I was not satisfied with how they were delivered to me. This messed up all my schedule because it was a very time consuming task.


Thank you for your patience,


Lotrek

ecNate wrote:I received this on April 6 from lotrekdesign@hotmail.com regarding my order of an uncut from UC site. Agree it's frustrating overall, especially since every reason for a delay I've seen has nothing to do with my order, just last in line apparently. Was expecting this in Nov/Dec originally. At least we know people are receiving the decks recently and Lotrek will eventually deliver, but quite a delay.

I'm writting this email to let you know that I have just finished shipping of the KS Dondorf orders and all UCdecksales orders (like yours) will be sent in a week when I'll be back home from my Easter holidays.

I have all boxes ready to ship.
I want to apologize for the delay but I had to manually fix all boxes as I was not satisfied with how they were delivered to me. This messed up all my schedule because it was a very time consuming task.


Thank you for your patience,


Lotrek

Well, that's good to know that the UC orders are on the way. Thanks for updating us with this. Hopefully, Mike will update us soon on when we will see the Single Decks shipped from US.

ecNate wrote:I received this on April 6 from lotrekdesign@hotmail.com regarding my order of an uncut from UC site. Agree it's frustrating overall, especially since every reason for a delay I've seen has nothing to do with my order, just last in line apparently. Was expecting this in Nov/Dec originally. At least we know people are receiving the decks recently and Lotrek will eventually deliver, but quite a delay.

I'm writting this email to let you know that I have just finished shipping of the KS Dondorf orders and all UCdecksales orders (like yours) will be sent in a week when I'll be back home from my Easter holidays.

I have all boxes ready to ship.
I want to apologize for the delay but I had to manually fix all boxes as I was not satisfied with how they were delivered to me. This messed up all my schedule because it was a very time consuming task.


Thank you for your patience,


Lotrek

Yet another email I didn't receive to 2 accounts. Not in spam either.

The single gilded decks are going out tomorrow, finally. I just pulled shipping labels, and I have the gilded decks and now white boxes from MPC finally. I apparently ordered them once before, but I have no record of receipt nor any idea where those ended up.

There are 11 orders, three with two decks, all domestic /US except one for Angel In Spain. Shopify SHOULD send tracking numbers tomorrow.

I do have 9 more single gilded decks ready for immediate delivery. Price is $73 plus $7 for Priority Mail.

TGunitedcardists wrote:I have not received any information via email or shipping information to Japan yet.

I am aware of some of the sets and uncuts being received in the United States now Maxwell Blade received two of each Tuesday. Several in Canada and many in Europe and western Asia.

Lotrek should have tracking information if you are still waiting. I have not received my set, but I did receive the single gilded decks.