Hey Don
Maybe I read it wrong, but I think what he was trying to say is..
The first promotion was if you spent at least $100, you received the collectors box with 5-6 decks.
This time if you spend at least $100, you receive one deck.
Obviously getting 5-6 decks is better than getting one.
What's obviously better about this deal is that it's not limited. You don't have to scramble and try to be in that first X-amount of people to get it.
CBJ
The collector's box did indeed have five decks in it - but it was something you purchased, whereas with this offer, you buy $100 of whatever you want, the deck comes for free, so you have the stuff AND the deck. If we pretended for a moment that the Gold Crown in the gift box was free, then each other deck in it cost an average of $25... That's a lotta cheddar...
And you do raise an awesome point about how you didn't have to race to be one of the first N-hundred buyers. You just make your purchase at your leisure and your gift comes with it, easy-peasy. There was a four-hour time limit, but that's a lot better than the handful of seconds it likely took to sell out the fifty gift boxes - I'd wager they were gone within four minutes.
I would take part in this offer but the shipping is in excess of $50 for international and I currently have $120 free cash :S.
Donations anyone 
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You, my friend, should have made arrangements with someone domestic IN ADVANCE...
Will the value of the gold crown decks fall since more people are able to get them?
Phantom/Lalita makes an excellent point about a good number of collectors getting the decks they want tonight. There will be a good number on eBay for a short while, driving the eBay price on them down, but once that trading's done with, the price will stabilize somewhere probably not as high as it initially was, but higher than you'll see them for the next handful of days/weeks.
In short, if you missed tonight's big promo, you might be able to snag one at a price approaching reasonable on eBay very soon. Just don't wait because they won't stay on the market in those quantities for long.
Blahahahaha! Wow! Amazing!
That buyer is insane in the membrane... Only a small number of VINTAGE decks go for those numbers... Fools, move to the left - OK, now money, move to the right... There ya go...
Utterfool - sure, you rambled a little, but you expressed many points that I would have liked to earlier about this promo, and perhaps better than I would have anyway. $100 was a huge amount of money when I was a kid - but that was also back when gas was still around 50 CENTS a gallon (for you metric folks, that's roughly 13 CENTS a LITER)! A hundred bucks these days is movie night for a family of four (at least in New York, where we pay the highest ticket prices in the country - we're rapidly closing in on the $20-a-head barrier), or date night for two at a quality, non-chain restaurant, or a fair-to-lousy seat at a good play off-Broadway or a bad Broadway play!
I'll grant that people have expenses and the economy is tighter than the spaces between diamond molecules for many, but anyone working in magic or cardistry, or aspiring to do so, uses playing cards a lot. It's not beyond the pale to get $100 in playing cards in a single purchase if you're going through them fast enough. And that doesn't take the other items they sell into account...
