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Season 5: Sleeve Kings in 49 Standard, 8 Premium and 9 PERFECT FIT Premium Sizes! by Imperial Publishing Imperial Publishing
Season 5 of Sleeve Kings features 6 new Standard sizes and 9 new Perfect Fit Premium Sleeves! Back and select Premium or Standard, mix and match.

Project story

This project is a part of a Stable Pledge program.
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Yes we are finally back for SEASON 5!  We have raised more than $750,000 USD with over 9,200 backers in our prior sleeve projects (see details HERE) since our first project in 2018. Click HERE for a summary of all sizes/bundles and what size fits what game to OVER 10,000 games! If you want to check out your games and what size cards a game is you can download the PDF version of our sleeve mat and print it with no auto-scaling HERE. Want to try our sleeve finder app for Android or IOS? Download to your mobile device HERE or scan this QR Code:


Why Back Now

  • Cheapest you will ever get these! If you check out the price per pack at the highest reward levels you will see the savings are huge! Our MSRP went up in early 2023 so this should be your LAST chance to lock in at these prices.  We are only able to offer these prices this time as shipping from China has fallen substantially since COVID.
  • 10% More Sleeves Than The Other Guys -Standard sleeves come 100/pack and Premium come 50/pack.  We are the only brand offering 110/pack for Standard and 55/pack for Premium Sleeves.  10% more!
  • Buy Direct From The Manufacturer & Save!  -How are we able to offer these so cheap?  We ARE Sleeve Kings!  This is our brand!  We produce directly from the factory and sell directly to you.  There is no middleman!
  • Six All-New Standard Sizes:  We are back again with 6 new standard sleeves by popular demand! The new sizes are: SKS-8844 -"Terraforming Mars: Dice Game" (55 x 77 MM), SKS-8845 -"Mega Civilization" (75 x 105 MM), SKS-8846 -"9XL" (60 x 130MM),  SKS-8847 -"Perfect Square Standard" (63.5 x 63.5), SKS-8848 - "Kingdom Death Gambler's Chest" (57 x 100 MM) and SKS-8849 -"Wyrmspan Compatible" (57 x 57 MM).  
  • Nine All-New Premium Sizes: We released our Fantasy Flight compatible sleeves back in 2020 but for whatever reason the FFG sleeves have always been way too generously sized for our tastes.  We will continue to offer those FFG compatible sleeves, but we are launching an all-new "PERFECT FIT" line for 2024, starting with 9 new sleeve options.  We are pricing these as if we had launched them in 2018 though, so you can get them for a STEAL on this campaign.

  • Mind-blowing savings on our "FFG Killer" Sleeves. As launched in 2021 on our Season 3.5 Kickstarter (HERE), we are still offering FFG-compatible sleeves since the demise of their sleeve line, but at crazy prices.  These sleeves are 100 microns thick and are 55 sleeves per pack. Compare our price here versus FFG's now defunct line of sleeves.  Note we had to raise our MSRP on these sleeves in 2023 but you can STILL get them on this campaign at our 2021 prices.



  • Advanced Shipment! You will get your sleeves before anyone else since these new sizes are not available anywhere else (for the Perfect Fit Premium only). We will ship all rewards at least several weeks before the commercial release of our new sizes!  
  • Thicker Than Any Other "Standard" Sleeves -Most "Standard" Sleeves are 40 microns thick, a few are even 50 microns. Ours are 60 microns thick! That is 20-50% thicker than any other "Standard" Sleeve! You have a lot of choices in sleeving, why not choose the best?
  • The "Clear" Winner -Our sleeves are made from Cleartech™ Polypropylene. Our standard sleeves are made from 60 micron thick sheets which are demonstrably clearer than the other guys.  You can actually SEE the difference. Just as diamonds are rated on a clarity scale, even 100% polypropylene can vary significantly from prouct to product depending on how it is manufactured. You will see the difference!
The top sleeve is a Sleeve Kings Premium and the bottom is an FFG Sleeve. Notice the difference in clarity? You have to see it to believe it!

For our Premium Sizes, we set out to replicate the Fantasy Flight sleeves but we failed... Ours are actually noticeably clearer! Check the reviews section videos for more details but you can see the difference. Being obviously CLEARER is honestly "a bug not a feature" in this case. Our factory doesn't know how to duplicate that cloudiness in FFG sleeves so you're stuck with clearer sleeves with us! 

  • More Sizes! It takes years for some brands to slowly add a size to their catalog. We started Season One with 20 sizes and now have 49 standard sizes + 8 FFG Compatible Sizes + 9 New Perfect Fit Premium = 66 total skus! Many sleeve companies only offer a handful of sleeve sizes but we are committed to going BIG and offering more for you!
  • US backers can SPLIT their DIAMOND REWARDS into two shipments if you don't know exactly what you want. Yes, if you back for 100 packs you can choose to get 50 of them sooner and the other 50 packs later, at no extra shipping charge!
  • By Very Popular Demand: Mix/Match Any of our 49 Standard, 8 Premium Sleeve Sizes or 9 of our New Perfect Fit Premium Sleeves! You can use all the tools from Season 5 to mix your premium sleeves with our standard sleeves including the Bundle Pledge Calculator HERE.  Post-campaign you can select whatever mix you want. Note, the Standard pricing is the same as Season 3 so there will be an upgrade charge for Large, XL, and XXL sleeve sizes. For the surcharges check the 2nd tab of this google sheet.
  • We have the latest bundles for today's most popular games! Looking for a specific game's sleeves?  Check the app above or look at our pre-bundled sleeve page HERE.  You can just fill in the # of games you want to sleeve (mostly 1) and it will tell you how many of each sleeve you need right at the top of the spreadsheet! 

How To Pledge

  1. Determine if you want all FFG-SIZED PREMIUM (100 Microns Thick and 55 per pack in 8 sizes), the new PERFECT FIT PREMIUM (also 100 Microns thick and 55 per pack in 9 sizes) or all STANDARD (60 Microns Thick and 110 per pack in 49 sizes), or a mix of the three. There are only 8 sizes of Premium (FFG Compatible) and 9 sizes of Perfect Fit Premium Sleeves so those are easy to figure out.  
  2. For Standard Sleeves, jump over to our 10,000+ list of games/expansions to see how many sleeves you need HERE.
  3. Also for Standard Sleeves, you can simply take a look at our 200+ prebuilt "bundles" (HERE) for some of the newest and most popular games. Enter a "1" in column A for any games you own, then see the total number of what SKU you need for those games at the top of the page.
  4. As of August 2023 BoardGameGeek.com discontinued their Geeklist of sleeves for each game in favor of including the sleeves for each game right on the main page of each game. You can now look up ANY game on BGG,com and hit the "Sleeve It" button to see exactly what size sleeves and how many of each size you need. For example for Gloomhaven you can click HERE and see it would need 975 sleeves sized 44 x 68 mm, 727 sleeves sized 63 x 88 mm, and 47 sleeves sized 102 x 102 mm. That would be SKS-8803 X 9 packs, 8810 X 7 packs and 8838 X 1 pack.
5. Once you determine how many sleeves you need, just hit the "Pledge" button at the top of this page and select the rewards level that meets your needs. HINT: Always round up as you can never have too many sleeves and we are adding games to both google sheets weekly! Also, note that you can double, triple, or even 5x the DIAMOND level if you want 200, 300, 400 or even 500 packs of sleeves. This can be performed now and will also be available post-campaign during the Pledge Manger process.

6, Determine if you want to pay in 6 equal installments or all at once. Note you will not get charged for your pledge until the campaign ends even though the Gamefound page makes it sound like you are getting charged right now. We are happy to offer the installment option for all of you at no extra cost!

There is no "7"... you're done! We will send you a link at the end of the campaign so you can tell us how many of what SKU you need and your address and then we will send them out to you!

Rewards

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Add-ons

This project doesn't allow to pledge add-ons only.
These items can only be included as an add-on with a bundle. Selecting this item without a bundle will result in the order being canceled and refunded.

Sizes

We are offering 49 standard + 8 FFG Style + 9 Perfect Fit Premium sleeves = 66 unique sleeve skus/sizes in total!  Each one was carefully selected to offer gamers the chance to sleeve the largest number of games without having hundreds of different sizes. They are divided into five groups: Mini ($2 MSRP), Standard ($2.50 MSRP) and Large ($3 MSRP), XL ($3.50 MSRP) and XXL ($4 MSRP). For a convenient list of all SKUs and bundles just check our google sheet HERE. We are updating this thing constantly! Note there is an add-on charge for Large, XL and XXL sleeves, you will pay for that post-campaign as you select the larger sizes.

We also have a couple of add-on sleeve options, you can get SKS-7710 (Penny Card Game Card Sleeves (67 X 92) - 110 Pack, 50 Microns) or SKS-7711 (Perfect Fit Internal Card Sleeves (63.5x88mm) - 110 Pack, 60 Microns) as well. You can check those two skus out HERE and add them post-campaign. The 7711 are treated just like any other MEDIUM size sleeve in your pledge and the 7710 are an add on at a significant discount.
 


280 X 205mm Sleeve Finder Mat. Click on the image above to access the hi-res PDF so you can see what size fits what game before you get the playmat in your hands! Just print it out with no sizing adjustment when printing to print it to its true dimensions. Note, we only have sizes 8801 through 8820 on the mat due to the extremely large size of most of the SKS-8821 and above skus. The mat is REALLY FULL NOW!

Bundles

With over 65 different sizes and so many choices it can seem overwhelming to know what to pledge for. We try to take the stress out of that by offering game bundles. Now you don't have to wade through 10,000+ lines of games in our google sheet. We have made more than 300 bundles for many of the most popular and latest games. Check out the bundle calculator HERE. Just add a "1" to any game you have and want to sleeve from the huge list and the total number of each sleeve you need to sleeve all of those games pops up at the top of the screen, almost like magic! For best results just save the spreadsheet to your computer or make a copy and save it for yourself so you can remember what sleeves are going with what games. You can see images of most of our bundles at this DROPBOX folder. There are too many to show here.

We have a HUGE variety of games and bundles, here are just a very few of them.







Reviews


We have had literally HUNDREDS of review and they are posted in our other crowdfunding seasons and we consistently rank as a top brand.  Check this very recent and candid discussion of cards sleeves and see what brand came out on top (hint: its us!)


Season 1 Reviews:
Season 3 Reviews:
Season 4 Reviews:



Customer Service & Performance

Customer Service

Our Season 4 Gamefound project was tough on most of our backers and we'd like to address some of those reasons and what we are doing to ensure long delays don't happen again.

Survey Frustration: When we launched Season 4 on Gamefound we were the first project Gamefound had ever had that had this level of complexity to the pledge levels. They simply weren't set up to allow for a "chose any 100 of the following" in any sort of effective manner. They quickly programmed that functionality together but it wasn't pretty. But they assure us that the survey experience will be much better and they have improved a lot in the last 15+ months in this area.

Fulfillment Issues: We had lots of delays especially in Europe due to some difficulty in getting our partner in the EU to fulfill things and communicate with both us and the backers. We have recently moved our warehouse to Spiral Galaxy in the UK. It will be a bit more expensive for us to fulfill into the EU but we are confident that Spiral Galaxy will be able to handle the shipments and communicate much better than in previous campaigns.

Communication: We had a few months during the Season 4 campaign where we didn't post updates often enough and didn't reply to the backers comments and emails well enough. A lot of that was due to all of that and logistics being handled by a single employee who was spread to thin to strart with. We now have Brigit who will oversee everything and Kathy was specifically hired in July 2024 with the SOLE responsability of communicating to backers AND replying to your comments and emails. If you have ANY problems at all please email to kathy@sleevekings.com and she will reply and address everything.

We are committed to providing much better feedback and being fully transparent with any difficulties we face. We believe this campaign will go much more smoothly and hope you will take a chance on us and allow us to prove that to you.


Shipping


We will collect the shipping costs AFTER the project is over during the Gamefound post-campaign Pledge Manager. For now, just pledge for the amount of the sleeves you want!

We are offering these sleeves as cheaply as possible. Best of all, the more you pledge for the larger your savings. Shipping worldwide on a hundred or more packs of sleeves is 8 KG or more, so please understand worldwide shipping is EXPENSIVE.

For our EU backers, VAT is being collected directly by Gamefound. For countries outside the EU, all customs duties and taxes will be paid by us at the time of import. By doing this, you should not receive a customs invoice at the same time you receive your package. Currently, most shipping companies are charging additional fuel surcharges and are increasing their 2024 rates by around 10% from 2023. The rates in the campaign are the best that we can find to process the shipments. In fact, we pay to get the sleeves to the regional distributors ourselves rather than passing along those costs to you.

For the following areas, since you receive the packages without having to pay additional fees upon arrival, we consider these as "Shipping Friendly" areas. Outside of these areas, we do our best to minimize any customs fees that you will be required to pay upon receipt. Please note that we are not experts in VAT/Customs, so outside of these areas, please review you own country's laws/regulations to best understand what you may actually pay when the rewards arrive.

Note: The estimated weight is assuming 100 standard size sleeves. Actual shipping rates charged could vary slightly. We do our best to get shipping estimates before the campaign starts, but because of world events beyond our control, final actual shipping charges could fluctuate a bit based on actual shipping rates. At these levels, we are subsidizing EVERY rate here already though and will charge you LESS than what it costs us to ship in every case. We are sorry the shipping rates are so expensive, but it is what we actually have to charge due to the extreme weight of these sleeves!!

  • USA: Lower 48 states only for Gold/Platinum/Diamond, all USA addresses for High-five. If you live anywhere other than the non-lower 48 states your shipping cost will be higher as we can only send to places like APO/AE, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and Puerto Rico via USPS Priority Mail. A large flat rate box is $21.95 and should fit most Diamond Level Pledges though.
  • Asia 1: Hong Kong, Macao, Japan, Korea
  • Asia 2: Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines
  • EU Zone: France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden and all other truly EU countries.
  • Non-EU: This is all countries that are in Europe but NOT in the EU and not Iceland, the UK.


Note: Any country south of Mexico, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Niger, North Korea, Russia, South Africa, Syria, Somalia, or Yemen. We reserve the right to refund and cancel any pledges from these countries or others where shipping is way too expensive or where delivery is unreliable  If you pledge for a reward from some other country and the shipping is more than 15% higher than what we are charging for Worldwide we will contact you and give you the option to pay the extra shipping or refund you and cancel your pledge. 

Double or Triple Diamond Shipping:
If you want to back for 200 (or 206 with no mat) sleeves as a Double Diamond backer the shipping will be the full shipping price as in the above chart + 60% of that value for the 2nd Diamond since they are shipped together. So if you are in the USA a Diamond level is $19 shipping and a Double Diamond would be $19 + $11.40 (60% of 19) = $30.40. A Triple Diamond (the max you can pledge for) would be $19 + $11.40 + $11.40 = $41.80.

Note that some of our add-ons will add a lot of weight/size to the package so we have to charge additional shipping for those items as follows:


Timeline

We have the following projected schedule for this campaign:

July 23 2024 - Campaign Launches
August 14 2024 - Campaign Ends (22 days)
August 21 2024 - Pledge Manager Opens
October 21 2024 Date - Pledge Manager Closes

Note once we hit 75% of our pledge managers recieved we will be able to acurately estimate how many of what we need where and expect to go into production around Sept 5 2024. We will then deliver rewards in November 2024. We are honestly already staging some items to various locations in anticipation of this campaign so we can get some rewards out much faster. We want to avoid long delays and trouble with logistics!

Risks and Challenges

We believe in accountability and keep this google sheet with all of our prior campaigns so you our backers can always see exactly where we stand.
We are keeping this project VERY SIMPLE so it should be fulfilled in plenty of time! No big stretch goals are being introduced to complicate things and it should go very smoothly. This is our sixth crowdfunding effort for Sleeve Kings and our 9th overall.

Refunds and cancellation

Stable Pledge

This project is a part of the Stable Pledge program. The creator guarantees a full refund to backers if the change in any price estimates after the campaign's end is bigger than 10%. Backers will be granted a 100% refund upon request made within 14 days after the change announcement. Gamefound will pay back its provision to the creator, who is solely responsible for refunds. Learn more.
Refunds will be issued on a case by case basis. If the refund is warranted due to the fault of Sleeve Kings, we will refund the full pledge. If the refund is requested by the backer, it will be made, but be reduced by the amount of Gamefound fees that were paid by Sleeve Kings and are not refundable. Once the product is shipped from the factory, no refunds will be processed without a REALLY, REALLY good reason. You can reach out to us for any problem at all through our Crowdfunding Specialist at kathy@sleevekings.com.

Customer Service and Fulfillment

Customer Service

Our Season 4 Gamefound project was tough on most of our backers and we'd like to address some of those reasons and what we are doing to ensure long delays don't happen again.

Survey Frustration: When we launched Season 4 on Gamefound we were the first project Gamefound had ever had that had this level of complexity to the pledge levels. They simply weren't set up to allow for a "chose any 100 of the following" in any sort of effective manner. They quickly programmed that functionality together but it wasn't pretty. But they assure us that the survey experience will be much better and they have improved a lot in the last 15+ months in this area.

Fulfillment Issues: We had lots of delays especially in Europe due to some difficulty in getting our partner in the EU to fulfill things and communicate with both us and the backers. We have recently moved our warehouse to Spiral Galaxy in the UK. It will be a bit more expensive for us to fulfill into the EU but we are confident that Spiral Galaxy will be able to handle the shipments and communicate much better than in previous campaigns.

Communication: We had a few months during the Season 4 campaign where we didn't post updates often enough and didn't reply to the backers comments and emails well enough. A lot of that was due to all of that and logistics being handled by a single employee who was spread to thin to strart with. We now have Brigit who will oversee everything and Kathy was specifically hired in July 2024 with the SOLE responsability of communicating to backers AND replying to your comments and emails. If you have ANY problems at all please email to kathy@sleevekings.com and she will reply and address everything.
Creator responsible for this project: Imperial Publishing Inc doing business as Imperial Publishing.

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