Don, it's his son I believe, the username is LutherMadison. That account was selling private reserve decks at something like £50+ per deck. He has regularly shared links on Facebook and Twitter to ebay listings from that account.
Well, in that case, I saw no active auctions for anyone with a name remotely like Daniel Madison's, which would include his son's. And that's not Daniel doing anything, it's his son, right?
I checked out his website, and one of the windows of opportunity is open now. 52 GBP per pack, 500 GBP per brick. Expensive, right?
Guess what? It's his bloody deck! He can sell it for whatever price he thinks the market will bear. They could be a thousand pounds each, if he wants them to be.
Right now, I'm hearing a lot of pissing and whining about the price of the deck - and all of those complaints arise from one simple cause: you want one but can't afford the price. Yell and scream about it all you want, but bear one important thing in mind: you will NEVER own every single deck that you want to own. Some decks are terribly expensive, others are just so limited you'll never see one and the reasons go on and on - unless, of course, your desire for playing cards is more limited than all the limited edition decks out there.
If people are foolish enough to spend 52 GBP on a pack of brand-new USPC-made playing cards, LET THEM. That's less money they have to spend when the next great deck comes out, giving you a better shot at getting it. It is not written anywhere that you have a natural human right to own whatever decks you want to own and at the prices you're willing to pay for them. It's NOT GONNA HAPPEN. The sooner one accepts this, the sooner they can be at peace with their collection and its "limitations".
You guys could try the patience of a Zen Buddhist monk...
Victor... Even while he's not here, he causes trouble. He will always whine about things being too expensive or why people don't give him free samples. If it wasn't that, he'd likely whine about how shiny the sun is or isn't, why snow is so dry or so wet, how long or short the day is, why his fingernails never stay clean, why his porridge is too hot/too cold/just right...he doesn't seem to be happy unless he's miserable and he wants you to be miserable as well because misery loves company. We have a guy just like him where I work. NO ONE likes working with him and they drown him out at every possible opportunity they can. In enough time, people will learn to ignore anything he has to say, because most people prefer winners over whiners. When that day comes, he'll be the monkey in the tree all alone, with no one left to fling poop at but himself.
Now, if I remember correctly, this is a topic about a deck called KINGS being released by Ellusionist with Daniel Madison and Peter McKinnon. Please discuss THAT deck all you want - but if you want to continue ranting about some other deck, do so in the appropriate topic! If one doesn't exist, MAKE ONE!
On the topic of Kings, we inch closer to the deadline: Wednesday of next week (the 22nd) at 20:00 UTC, 4:00pm US/Canada Eastern, 1:00pm US/C Pacific. Who else is praying that it doesn't have Daniel's custom faces?
