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It's not that urgent to me. Decks are like trains - there's always another one coming soon enough...
That's what I said about ex-wives.
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"...ladies and gentlemen, thanks and good night! We're here 'til Thursday - try the brisket!"
Don't listen to Don folks. He will be gone tomorrow, he poisoned the brisket.
As I see it, in a world with over seven billion people living on it - that's 7,000,000,000; a lot of zeroes - the existence of anything in quantities of even a few tens of thousands is rare, never mind a few hundred.
Did they make ANY changes whatsoever to the uncut? I'd think they'd at least update the copyright date to this year, since the deck was produced last year. (Assuming there is a copyright date anywhere on it...)
I totally agree but I would like to add that we have some good news. First, playing cards have been around for awhile and won't disappear even if the collecting trend does. Second, this time it's international
Oh, you mean just like real estate, right?
While the prices will never plummet to the 50-cents-a-pack gift-shop level they once commanded, people will eventually stop paying such prices. Comic books, baseball cards, tech stocks, real estate, junk bonds, you name it - where there's a bubble, sooner or later there's a needle that's going to pop it.
Yesterday I decided to do my occasional search on ebay for the decks that I find interesting. Lo and behold, I found this listing:Dude I saw this and snapped a screen shot
http://www.ebay.com/itm/absolut-150-packs-of-playing-cards-sealed-/111057969851?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19db9222bb
This is probably one of the best deals that I have seen for any type deck in a while. A grand total of $515 for 150 decks of Absolut Vodka playing cards, you cant get better than that; that's about $3.44 a deck.
Unfortunately, I did not have the money to snag this awesome deal but someone did. So my question is: Who bought it?
If any of you fellows out there bought this, hook a brother up
This was certainly one of the times that I wished I was rich.
-Stan
New add: Bicycle Truth Garden No. 03. The China release was several days ago, the international release was a few hours ago.
well shoot. and here i was thinking i was just being patience for international shipping. Thanks for the info Don.
Well, he did compare them to Magic Finish Aladdins - they're supposedly made to better withstand the tropic conditions of Singapore.
I was told by Lawrence Sullivan that the production decks were going to have the LS diamond facing the correct direction... C'est la vie, I guess... The prototypes were facing the wrong direction. (Or perhaps these are ALL the prototypes, and there will be a new edition that has it correct...)
The decks used in the CARC photos are the same as mine, so the photos appear to have been taken with prototypes before the standard decks arrived.
The way to tell the difference is the diamond pattern on the center of the back. On the tuck box (and supposedly the stock models) it's an "LS" ambigram (for the magician making this deck, Lawrence Sullivan), while for the prototypes the back image was flipped and the ambigram is no longer readable as such - it just looks like a pretty pattern.
I have stated my opinion about D&D but just want to add how I find it ironic that the same people bashing them are ordering BRICKS from them.@ Ben K: I'm not sure who your comments are directed at? From what I can tell, I'm the only one who mentioned buying a brick of New Fan Backs. I don't see how what I wrote about the Steamboats would be considered bashing. I certainly would not boycott D&D. I have enjoyed many of their products.
I've finally done a side-by-side comparison with the D&D Steamboats and the Cincinnati USPC
Alright so here's the deal on this. In about a month I'm moving to a new place, and packing starts now. The decks are just gonna be transported in their suitcase into the bigger home, where I will have tons of room to sprawl out and make an inventory. When I made this post I didn't realize all my used decks were mixed in with my sealed, for sale decks.
Once I sort things out, I'll be putting together le care package. I'll post information on how to contribute to shipping then, once I have a receipt or an estimate ready from USPS.
It all sounds good in the 'hood! Thanks, bro. And thanks to the rest of you for the support - you don't know just how much the kids love it when I give them the playing cards I just performed with.
