I do wish that Kritzerland could get ahead - I'm always three or four months behind financially and it's so hard - my main distributor takes half of every title we do, but then takes forever to pay his invoices. Instead of paying on a net 30 or as they come in (as he did the first few years until we began doing twenty-something titles a year), he tells me that his foreign dealers take three months to pay him so I'm on some weird schedule - I get a check every week and while it might seem like it's a reasonable amount of money, he in fact is usually seven or eight invoices in arrears. Right now, he owes me over 50K but I get my little check every week and unfortunately the problem comes because I'm on a net 30 with my vendors - not a net ninety, and I can't go into arrears with them obviously. So, it's always catch up and especially difficult at the end of a year. I have to now write the Kritzerland designer a humungous check and that's going to leave very little for anyone else until the kitty is built back up, and that's a slow process given the way my distributor is paying his invoices.
