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Post by dmikester on Jan 6, 2018 20:59:20 GMT -5
Yeah, mine have been all over the place. I'm not sure that one of them has even been shipped yet, and one of them apparently got returned to sender even though I've received two other ones. I've given up on keeping track of it all and will just accept them as they come. However, I also don't plan on doing business with them again after this unless I get wowed by the final mailings of the experiences, as things have been too scattered and the quality so far isn't what I was hoping for.
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Post by craigrj on Jan 7, 2018 8:17:46 GMT -5
I think I'm finally caught up on these after a whole spate of mailings in the last week or so, but there is some huge variability here - Project Open Sky (one of the monthly Patreon mailings) has a HUGE morse code piece to decoder, but one of the etsy packages is literally a couple of pages of a story. The definitions of artifacts appear to be stuff like ticket stubs and the like, and I'm very ambivalent about the VFM for this.
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Post by Yasoda Dei Conti on Jan 25, 2018 4:05:08 GMT -5
I have the letter mailings only and just got my first one... sent in November... My mail sucks.
Also, for those curious it's one typewritten letter and one handwritten letter.
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Post by craigrj on Feb 24, 2018 16:55:45 GMT -5
Does anyone still back this on Patreon? I finally lost patience with throwing $30 a month at the guy and getting nothing back that I cancelled at the end of January, but I see a post was made yesterday - I also bought a bunch of his stuff from the etsy store and that has gone quiet for more than four weeks.
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Post by wortelboer on Feb 24, 2018 17:11:04 GMT -5
I bought the Chalice and Spear on Etsy in November. I received one mailing in December and the next one at the beginning of February. VERY SLOW. I will not order anything else from him.
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Post by dmikester on Feb 24, 2018 17:56:32 GMT -5
Yeah, I was supporting him on Patreon, but the extreme delays and the, for my taste, poor quality items just weren't doing it for me, so I canceled my pledge. I honestly have a hard time reading the handwriting on the letters, and the puzzles seem annoying rather than interesting. I won't be purchasing from him again.
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Post by chrisu on Feb 25, 2018 4:45:05 GMT -5
Yeah, I was supporting him on Patreon, but the extreme delays and the, for my taste, poor quality items just weren't doing it for me, so I canceled my pledge. I honestly have a hard time reading the handwriting on the letters, and the puzzles seem annoying rather than interesting. I won't be purchasing from him again. Pew, and I was thinking my problems at deciphering the letters originated from the fact that I am not a native speaker. I must confess that I put down one mailing in frustration as I had a hard time reading the snakes and worms. I did enjoy the one mailing of the doctors divine I got. But frankly I have to agree. Unless there is some huge shift in quality I rather not buy anything from him again.
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Post by kas814 on Feb 26, 2018 17:13:42 GMT -5
So I guess I am not the only one.....sigh
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Post by wortelboer on Mar 28, 2018 5:55:49 GMT -5
I will not order from them again. I ordered the Chalice and Spear. I'm supposed to get a mailing every month. I have only received two of the six mailings and the last one I received was at the beginning of February. I sent an email to them 6 days ago asking where my third mailing was and saying at this point I would like the rest of the experience mailed all at once. Still haven't received a reply. The other thing I don't like is that when they do send out a mailing, they don't send an email to you letting you know it has been shipped.
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Post by kas814 on Mar 28, 2018 7:34:45 GMT -5
I am in the same boat, albeit I have only received one mailing and nothing since. I should be getting mailing 4 this month but nothing but silence from him.
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Post by chrisu on Mar 28, 2018 9:45:58 GMT -5
Same here. I had to remind him that I also ordered Doctors Divine to receive even one mailing. Didn't get anything beyond mailing two from Chalice and Spear. I don't think we'll see any more of this considering the financial troubles the creator had been in. Hopefully I am wrong but I highly doubt it.
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Post by craigrj on Mar 28, 2018 11:22:26 GMT -5
You might be right - I've been back to check on the status of my four mailings from them, and they are terribly, terribly late - I've written him a message and if I get nothing back I think a claim is in order.
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Post by wortelboer on Mar 28, 2018 17:02:27 GMT -5
I just received a reply. He said he would send my remaining mailings to me all at once, "as soon as he can".
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Post by craigrj on Mar 29, 2018 4:00:13 GMT -5
I just received a reply. He said he would send my remaining mailings to me all at once, "as soon as he can". I got a similar message - did he also mention declining orders and taking on contract work? My take is if you are going to take people's money and commit to a schedule, then make sure you are setup to be able to deliver (i.e. build an inventory ahead of time rather than do nothing until orders come in) - there's a certain amount of leeway I'm prepared to give for one-man-bands (a la Armchair Detective, CPP and Decoder Ring) ... hmmm, now I consider it, maybe almost all of these things are destined to be late and I should just accept that...
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Post by Todd on Mar 29, 2018 5:24:14 GMT -5
MPC used to be notoriously late, too. Timely shipments is a relatively new thing for them.
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