LRB 5.0 Cards Presale

Craigtw · Post by **Craigtw** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 1:55 pm

Any word? I am anxiously awaiting!

Pug · Post by **Pug** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:08 pm

Give the man a chance ! He's probably busy sorting out the posting!

*Twitch*
*Twitch*

civilian_number_two · Wed Mar 04, 2009 12:53 am

That's wasn't actually the case. I just couldn't bring myself to post another story of delay.

The shop that did the card rounding was backed up and I didn't get the cards until just under an hour ago (1600 Pacific Time, March 3). Now I have in my home 102 stacks each of 85 cards. The quality as far as I could see is excellent, though I will admit that after the great majority of them appeared flawless I took them from the shop, reserving the right to return should I find any errors (this time I don't anticipate any). Now I shall put a movie on the box and begin the job of collating them into 85 stacks each of 102 cards.

Shipping should begin tomorrow.

Pug · Post by **Pug** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:08 am

*WHip-CRACK*
*Whip-CRACK*

"Work faster slave-card-shuffling-monkey! Work Faster!! "

Wylder · Post by **Wylder** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:21 am

Man, I am so stoked to hear that these things are out of the printers.

Craigtw · Post by **Craigtw** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:27 am

I am giving one set away as a prize for my tourney in April, I was beginning to worry that they were not going to be available on time!

Thanks for all your efforts and committment to quality!

civilian_number_two · Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:11 am

OK, the cards are collated now so I have had a good chance to take a really close look at them. There are some small variations in the cutting here and there, but well within acceptable limits and expected with the cost of the job. Also since these are laser printed and not run on a 4-colour ink process, there are some subtle differences here and there in colour quality. Again, these come to light under scrutiny and don't make the cards "marked" in any way.

Something that is of no concern to anyone here is is the fact that I did find some unacceptable cards here and there and I will be approaching the printer about a selective reprint. There are however 67 full decks ready to go. I will gove priority to the mail order customers, and anyone locally looking to get a deck (ie, me, my brother, others in our club) may have to wait for theirs.

In the process of this final scrutiny I did notice a previously undiscovered error in the text of one of the cards. It's too late to fix it now, and it's too bad that it was not caught by myself or any of our proofreaders. However it has no effect on the function of the card. I won't reveal the card or describe the error, because if you don't know about it maybe it'll never bother you.

Craigtw · Post by **Craigtw** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:16 pm

You do Canadians proud Civilian_Number_ Two!

Xtreme · Post by **Xtreme** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 12:25 am

WooHoo great news, thanks for all the work you put into this.

Pug · Post by **Pug** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 12:31 am

*whip-crak*

*Pant...*

*whip----------------------------crak...*

*Wheeze!...............cough!*

Hurry up, my arm aches now slave-card-shuffling-monkey............

Wylder · Post by **Wylder** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 11:15 pm

civilian_number_two wrote:There are however 67 full decks ready to go. I will gove priority to the mail order customers, and anyone locally looking to get a deck (ie, me, my brother, others in our club) may have to wait for theirs.

So, with that message being posted two days ago.... Am I jumping the gun by assuming that my deck is in the post?

Magictobe · Post by **Magictobe** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:02 am

Really looking forward to receive the deck of cards.

Thanks

generaljason · Post by **generaljason** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 11:23 pm

Mike (civilian_number_two) seperated all the decks and passed them off to Brett (brettness37).

Brett was boxing up all the cards, and working out all the shipping details over this weekend.

As far as I know, shipping will begin Monday morning.

Craigtw · Post by **Craigtw** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 3:01 pm

Good news!

Thanks again guys for all your work you've put into this!

brettness37 · Post by **brettness37** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:09 pm

Shipping has begun!!!

About 1/2 the total decks, making up about 1/3 of the total orders went out today. I'm hoping to have the rest sent out by Wednesday, but ultimately it will depend on the leeway (and assistance) given by Mrs. Brettness37.

US based guys, who opted for US based shipping: your cards will be in the States next Sunday, and hopefully in the post Monday.