It’s been a long time coming.
The Tinker Deck steampunk playing card Kickstarter campaign is live! (With some Tinker Dice for spice.)
Here’s a preview of the court/face cards:
I’ve been working on this for pretty much the whole year thus far. It’s kind of like a good sneeze, getting it out there.
…OK, maybe that’s not the best metaphor. Still, the Tinker cards are finally stepping out into the wild!
Thank you to everyone who has been supportive of this mad, crazy idea!
Tish Tosh Tesh 
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Can you help me understand the huge international shipping cost?!? I really like the cards, but $13 to ship two decks of cards to Canada can and will prevent me from pulling the trigger. I’ve had board games shipped here for less.
To provide recent examples, Dungeon Roll (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaelmindes/dungeon-roll-a-dicey-dungeon-delve) cost me $8 to ship to Canada, and Boss Monster (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brotherwise/boss-monster-the-dungeon-building-card-game) was $10.
Both of those are significantly larger that two decks of cards, and require padding, etc during shipping (which cards do not.
It’s an artifact of the KS shipping system; Canada gets lumped into International, which costs more. I’m going to get some new tiers in that are *just* for Canada tonight or tomorrow. Shipping kinda sorta… sucks.
Cool – that would certainly address my concerns – thank you.
Odd that KS would lump Canada in with, say, Asia…..
Saw the new levels, and kicked in. Thanks!
Thanks! Yeah, the KS system really needs a better shipping solution. It can tell what country you’re in because of your registration, so there’s data it can hang a better system off of. Seems like they should straighten it out, especially since they are allowing KS projects to be housed in varied locations now, too. It definitely costs differently to send to neighboring countries.
That said, Canada and Mexico once cost about the same, but lately, shipping to Mexico has jumped to almost-international rates. There are a lot of weird factors in shipping, and most of them are out of my control. Weird government tariffs, currency exchange rate fluctuations, oddball shipping policy… it’s a mess.