Pagan.

Uusi Hotcakes Brick box, dirty limerick and all

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Quote from: bamabenz on November 01, 2014, 03:29:15 PM

The cards look fantastic, but notice how fast the boxes flew off the shelves.
Did anyone here score the FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY COLLECTOR BOX -- I missed it by seconds.

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Wasn't me, I also missed it by seconds. It was available when I initially clicked. By the time the little pledge thing popped up, it was "sold out".

Pretty much same thing happened to me. I spent too much time reading instead of scrolling to the end.

I'm still trying to figure out the fastest way to pull-up the page on a launch. 'Discover new launched' wasn't working at 7AM so I searched on UUSI and the page was there.

Maybe next time ... except there is no Uusi next time.

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I just want to add that the opportunity to buy this deck is just the cherry on top of a big 'ol chocolate-fudge Sunday. I joined the club earlier this year and was able to fly to Charleston for the convention. The trading floor was a blast and the auction was exhilarating even though there was no way I was going to outbid Jackson or Bill for the old USPCC sales books. It was fantastic meeting some of my favorite artists: Jackson, Randy, Alex, Paul, Lance and other who's work I was able to enjoy for the first time.

And meeting Judy, Tom, Rob, Steve and all the rest made it an event I will not soon forget. Too many highlights to list them all here. My advice is absolutely join the club, buy this deck -- but if at all possible make it to next year's convention!

/todd chronis

I just pledged for the last early bird. These do look nice.

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For anyone who is looking to pick-up some 2.0 black metallic legends, I picked-up a brick here for $10 each:
http://www.fantasmamagic.com/proddetail.php?prod=2703
My timing sucked, as when I placed my order I had to pay for shipping, but now shipping is free for $75+ orders.

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This could be great, depending on the artist. I hope its not a comic interpretation of the characters, like the Goonies and Ghostbusters. That would suck. If he got the rights to imagery from the movie and did it in a 'Jacksonian' style it could be very cool.

But I bet not.

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There is no conceivable reason for any site to send you your password in plaintext. It doesn't matter how they are storing it, the fact that they send-out your password indicates that they don't know a lot about security. If you only use a PayPal account for checkout it probably doesn't matter that much to you, because they don't see your credit card/bank account info. However, I would never type credit card info into their site. If they follow good security practices then they should never actually store your credit card info, but emailing passwords in plain text is sort of an indicator, right?

As Godzillian said, they could be storing passwords in plain text or with two-way encryption. Two-way encryption isn't quite as safe, as that means if they get hacked, bad guys possibly could decrypt the passwords (lots of detailed factors are involved that indicate how hard this would be). Normal practice is to 'salt' and hash the password. The salt add protection from a dictionary attack if the password database is stolen.

Bottom line is better safe than sorry. I've had my credit card info stolen from what used to be my favorite goody store. Its a pain in the butt, as you're vulnerable to both the hassle of replacing your card and also identity theft, which means dealing with credit bureaus so bad guys can't go to town on your ass.

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They won't ship these cards to the US.

I love Puppet & Kite. Can someone post a link to his FB page?

Quote from: hecrob on September 01, 2014, 03:38:08 PM

Maybe they are EPCC??

btw Can you tell me if the White Lions (first edition) were printed somewhere else? or If the stock was any different? I keep getting messages that tell me that, the White Lions 1st edition were the best Blaine deck (quality and stock wise) ever, UNTIL The gator backs... which people are implying are even better than those ones... 

All of Blaine's prior decks are from USPC.  White Lions came in a "Series A", a "Series B", "Black Label" and "Stealth Cards" (gaffs).  It's the Split Spades Lions that have "1st Edition" printed on the box - and no subsequent edition was ever made.  I think they were released in '09 (the year is printed on the box above the title) except for the metallic "Silver Split Spades" of last year (BTW, that was his first deck to use any metallic colors).  Additionally, there were a smattering of gaff cards released (I'm sure just a fraction of the ones that were made for Blaine himself) as well as three gaffed decks manufactured as "Bicycle Split Spades" in both prototype and production editions, each with different boxes.

Split Spades Lions were very popular for the handling and stock, as were the White Lions - but the White Lions stock was a bit heavier/thicker, if I remember correctly.  Some people loved this, some preferred the SSL stock better.

I'm reasonably sure that these Gatorbacks are EPCC-made, which is why there's such a hubbub about them.  If they were USPC, I doubt he'd have sold any respectable amount for $5/pack by the brick - the profit margin would be pretty narrow.  EPCC has gone up a little in price but they're still well-enough below what USPC charges for even a basic deck.

From the product page:

"This is the first time that the US Playing Card Company has printed a deck with metallic green ink backs and metallic faces to match."

The carbon clip is $99 and out of stock at CARC.

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