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With the 24 hour early birbs, there's no need to rush. That said... the campaign should open in about 57 minutes!

I don’t see the campaign. Am I missing something?

Nope seems like a delay

Live now

badpete beat me to it.

Not seeing any mini decks for sale.

Hugely disappointed not seeing these as an add-on, considering you'd like me to "add" these decks to my previous ravn collection.

I'm out!

Huh.

Well, I'm not as adamant about it as Cardians, but I would like to see mini decks for this campaign, if only because then I would be able to boast... Mini-Manis!

Hello!

I had a delay due to a Kickstarter error even if I had green light to launch.
Since I pushed the button 2 seconds after 11pm, the EB reward was set from 11pm supershap, so I crashed the system.
Glad I found out in 5 minutes.

Anyway, thank you for backing. The campaign is young, and we have a couple of interesting releases for the incoming weeks.
As always it will be a good initial boost, then flat line so we have time to consider what to do/offer.

Have a great day!
cheers
Lorenzo

A friend of mine just named her 2 new sibling cats Sol and Mani, at my suggestion...

Can't say "no" to a deck designed by Lorenzo.

TwoPiece wrote:A friend of mine just named her 2 new sibling cats Sol and Mani, at my suggestion...

Can't say "no" to a deck designed by Lorenzo.

If she has a son she should name him Lorenzo

vasta41 wrote:

TwoPiece wrote:A friend of mine just named her 2 new sibling cats Sol and Mani, at my suggestion...

Can't say "no" to a deck designed by Lorenzo.

If she has a son she should name him Lorenzo

She has a son. He's in college. I'll see if he wants to legally change his name now...

The 2 cats with sol and mani names is great!
If I get the pics from the backer I am going to post it in an update ahah

So, speaking of Ravn, we extended the early bird deal, +24h, for a total of 48h

Thank you for extending the early bird deal. Lost signal yesterday trying to pledge, but im in now.

It was nice to get the box along with both decks lower or near the same price as just buying the two decks alone. Looks like the yellow may be my favorite deck of all of them.

I was lucky enough to get a sneak peek: here is my quick review of these 2 gorgeous decks : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2VJjMfbuFI" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I am loving the look of the RAVN eclipse - the tucks look really elegant in the black and gold colour way - maybe better than the sol and mani going by the pictures on KS.

Best update ever
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That's really good news!

Does this apply to the EB pledges as well?

Yes, they said in the materials it applies to EB also. While that is great news and they managed to get me to buy one more set, my bank account groans yet again.

I didn't want the case for storage reasons so skipped the EB. Now I switched to it to get Eclipse. Damn you Lorenzo and Caroline!

RichK wrote:I didn't want the case for storage reasons so skipped the EB. Now I switched to it to get Eclipse. Damn you Lorenzo and Caroline!

Almost same here, i had the 6 deck tier (3x Sol & 3x Mani) and now i have 3 dual cases

Me three - had a case plus 4 add-on decks, had to switch to 3 cases.

I wonder if the Eclipse will ultimately have greater or fewer produced and sold than Sol & Mani.

I was just gonna get the yellow but I'm glad I got both with the case. I always wanted a black Ravn deck so I'm getting my wish.

Stepchild wrote:I wonder if the Eclipse will ultimately have greater or fewer produced and sold than Sol & Mani.

I say fewer since people might only want a yellow or blue deck. There can't be more Eclipse than the other two because you need the pair in the case t get one.

HELLO!

so, how about this release? I hope you liked it.
I am sure you liked it eheh

About the backstage and some insight about production numbers:

Eventually we will have a count where sol and mani are more than eclipse, but not in big quantity.
The plan is a split-production so ideally the production should be even among the 3 variants.
We'll see at the end of the campaign what is the difference, but the plan is to have even numbers more or less.

Next week another little release, not a deck lol
Thank you for backing
cheers
Lorenzo

Re: Update #22 “IMPORTANT: Last minute problems = delay”

Wanted to voice my disappointment at this, specifically the second of the two issues;

“2. The 1000 assembled dual cases take a lot of space and weight and cannot be shipped via air freight for an affordable price. The shipping cost from Cartamundi to Texas by cargo-plane is a whopping $4500 and we cannot afford it. We have to chose the ship option, which takes up to 30 days to arrive at the fulfillment center.”

This is completely unacceptable and something one would expect of a first timer, not something of someone who has designed and funded multiple successful projects. Not getting accurate (or even ‘ballpark’) shipping quotes until such a late stage in the process is real amateur hour stuff. Then compounding the problem for backers by proceeding with the “slow boat” option to save money and telling backers “ship happens”.

Yes Lorenzo, shit does happen, but don’t think your backers will forget this in the future!

Thedissident001 wrote:Re: Update #22 “IMPORTANT: Last minute problems = delay”

Wanted to voice my disappointment at this, specifically the second of the two issues;

“2. The 1000 assembled dual cases take a lot of space and weight and cannot be shipped via air freight for an affordable price. The shipping cost from Cartamundi to Texas by cargo-plane is a whopping $4500 and we cannot afford it. We have to chose the ship option, which takes up to 30 days to arrive at the fulfillment center.”

This is completely unacceptable and something one would expect of a first timer, not something of someone who has designed and funded multiple successful projects. Not getting accurate (or even ‘ballpark’) shipping quotes until such a late stage in the process is real amateur hour stuff. Then compounding the problem for backers by proceeding with the “slow boat” option to save money and telling backers “ship happens”.

Yes Lorenzo, shit does happen, but don’t think your backers will forget this in the future!

I think that is very harsh and uncalled for. The way Lorenzo handles his projects is an example for many KS campaigners how to run their campaign and interact with backers. Yes, problems sometimes happen but one thing that we can absolutely be sure in is that Lorenzo will deliver - he always goes above and beyond for his customers.

A delay is clearly disappointing but there is absolutely no need for these accusations and tone.

Lorenzo is so good about being transparent and open with his backers, I can hardly get a little miffed at this one mis-calculation. I don't think he's being casual about this at all, and he has more than earned my trust.

I obviously have a horse in this race as I consider Lorenzo a friend and we are obviously collaborating on a deck... but i can say unequivocally that he’s a genuine person. During this process he’s been extremely generous in showing me the ropes and the inner workings of what it takes to run a successful kickstarter campaign. And I don’t even mean financially successful. I mean successful from the only perspective that should really matter: fulfilling a promise to backers by delivering a top quality product. A lesser creator would have simply lied or blamed the delay on something else. A lesser creator might have shipped the brick boxes with the wrong score lines. I can assure you that Lorenzo is NOT a lesser creator. Backers will get their decks. They might be a little late but which creator these days isn’t? The outlaw decks one of my favorite 2018 decks were almost a year delayed. The mint52 decks have also been delayed multiple times. Again my two cents. And i admit that I’m not impartial—but I’m certainly trying to be objective. In the end I think everyone will be happy with the end result. The ravn decks look spectacular.


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