Buyer Beware: The Literary Tarot & the piping hot 🍵 surrounding it 

Adding a comment for those looking about the Indigo situation. Several different people were asking about how Indigo/Chapters were able to get decks ahead of time. Brink replied with: "Indigo in Canada received a limited supply of the tarot deck only. They shipped their order direct from the printer, so the Easyship delay has allowed them to arrive there now. If you wish to modify your pledge, please contact us at info@brinklit.org." Now, that comment alone does raise the question of who the PRINTER then is, and how they were allowed to do that. Also, I still don't think it's fair that Indigo/Chapters was allowed to do that. That would be the equivalent of B&N here in America doing the same thing, which is still shady for a mass-market bookseller to be able to sell an indie deck so widespread like that, and with a price cut. Plus, considering backers in Canada were being charged at least $63CAD in SHIPPING because of Easyship, that makes the Canadian situation with the deck a disaster.

I adore this deck! So glad it finally shipped and I finally have it but I understand totally understand why everyone was so frustrated with the shipping issues, etc.

This deck is right up my alley in theme and artwork! Nooottttt so much in all the stress and gold trimmings (which are just not “me”, as it were) I enjoyed this video! Glad you finally got your deck!

I clicked on this video so fast 👀 I missed this on Kickstarter and was originally SO gutted, though I since decided it probably wasn't for me. The art is beautiful though!

I have this deck coming. Thanks for your thoughts, I will be trimming off the gold and giving it black edging.I do LOVE how diverse this deck is.

I lucked out and got it second hand. I think it’s beautiful, I have no issues with it. One of my favorites.

Thank you very much for this video and for the honesty!! I am new to this community and I make reviews and collect tarot and oracle decks on my channel here. I enjoy your channel very much…😊

Ugh, I'm so sorry this has been such a shit experience, Livi. I was very tempted to back this project on KS but decided not to. The artwork is quite beautiful though, and i'm loving the gold 😍

It sounds like the blame is on Brink for allowing this sale and quick ship to Indigo. Either way that would be so frustrating

They made $800,000 dollars with over 11,000 backers

Oy vey! Thank you for this video! I won’t be reviewing it on my channel. I got the deluxe version with the fancy book, which is well made and beautiful. However, I agree on the cards. Absolutely crap cardstock. SOOOOO disheartening and disappointing. I knew about the Easyship drama, but I did NOT know about Indigo/Chapters! 😡 #superbacker

I think I lucked out with the shipping (I was a Kickstarter backer) it cost me $26USD, which is pretty standard for shipping to Canada, back in February. The weird thing I got was a second shipping notice/request for payment, but I just emailed Brink to double check and ignored it. I do wish the gilding wasn't there, it's sharp and gets glitter everywhere - I might actually try trimming it off. I am ok I backed it vs buying it from Indigo as I got the booster pack + big guide book, and I did swap in most of boosters (expect the Moon)

It's an extremely attractive deck 😍

I have the deck,but getting the bookie pdf ihas been trouble...I'm trying to figure out what papers,light etc mean it's very different, but I'm willing to understand. I can't pay $100;deck ..all I need is the book to innerstand it😢

Thank you for this video i was goimg to buy this but now now

Thank you for the heads up

Waiting one month while a deck is already shipped is not that unusual, in my experience - but everything leading up to that is very unfortunate, I agree, especially the part where they're just showing up in bookstores. I cannot believe that that was just the shipping company. That had to be a decision made by the NGO (probably them selling off the extras). Which - creators selling off the extras while the Kickstarter ones aren't done shipping out with isn't that uncommon, unfortunately, but selling off the indie extras in a mass market setting? That's shocking. Edited to add: Easyship (as I understand it) is only the shipping company, I think? They're not a manufacturer. I don't think they actually made the cards, they just handled the in between (getting the cards from the manufacturer to the backers). So if the quality of the manufacturer is bad, then that's unfortunately also on the NGO, for not picking a better one :(

Can you please explain the the papers,ink,light etc lol it's too much my adhd can't handle

Oof sounds like a sucky situation all around. I mean I completely enjoyed listening to the awful experience though xD Having no particular interest in this deck I'm only here for the drama anyway haha. I've had a bad kickstarter experience with the 78 tarot but it was nothing like this!

I’m curious, has this deck broken in and become less sticky? The images are very intriguing.

Experienced same issues but Nate's customer service is on point at least.

I'm not even half way through your video and had to comment. I've been nodding along to everything you're saying! I backed the actual kickstarter when it first showed up a million years ago and only got my deck last week. I was so frustrated with the way everything was handled and I felt like they kept making changes and trying to make updates to the cards to entice us (the gold foil on the card fronts and backs, the gilding, etc.). There was so much back and forth, between them and the printers (in China who it felt like shut down the factory a lot for different reasons) and then between them and Easyship. It just took way longer than it needed to. I think that they vastly underestimated how big this project would become and were probably overwhelmed after being fully funded and I think they probably needed more help than they had. When I got my deck I was pretty disappointed by the quality of the cards. In my opinion they just feel really cheap and are really thin. I don't care for the gold foiling everywhere and really wish they would have just made a plain Jane regular tarot deck without all the sparkle and shine Okay, that was so long 😅😮‍💨 I'm off to finish your video now!

I will probably comment further once I've finished your video (I backed this too + have many thoughts) but I will ask -- how do you know that Indigo went through Easyship (and not Brink) to get their copies? As a Canadian backer I was clearly unimpressed to see it in Indigo before I got mine (and at a more affordable rate!), but I also know Brink sold copies before most backers got theirs (I know of at least one person, with a hundred percent certainty, who ordered it fairly recently and got it before I did as a backer). I absolutely must assume Brink provided the copies to Indigo -- Easyship is just a shipping service, not a vendor, so they wouldn't be selling copies to a bookstore as I understand it. I can't even call Indigo shady for seeking to get an item to sell in their stores, if the creator sold it to them for that purpose. I could totally be wrong though, so would be keen to hear more / any insight there.

I just got mine! They clump together even after I peel them off each other. Any tips on how to deal with clumping issues?

Are you willing to sell your PDF book

I'm so sorry you all experienced this 💔

Dang, what a mess! I'm glad I skipped this one. Big book nerd here tho so bummer!

That explains why it's on TEMU

Oh no! Not the cereal box cardstock! 😭 I passed on this deck because the campaign definitely looked like it was doing too much and I was worried I'd be overwhelmed with all the different stories. I certainly do empathize with your experience tho. * cries in Tarot Palmira Campagna 🥲 * Thanks for sharing your thoughts! 🤖🖤

Sorry you wemt thru this,i just got my stunning tarot and im enjoy that and jonasa jaus

Is parchment associated with Coins, ink swords etc

📖Thank you. It's too bad cuz I love books and many of the classics I love are in this deck.

Remember to keep comments respectful. BaHaHa

10 of ink being the scarlet letter hit me right in the feels 🫣