Thanks! I'll take a look of it, btw I'm from Israel so if I want a certain deck it will take sometime until I get it, and is it ok to buy different Bikes on Ebay and Amazon? or is it risky?
Fix me if i am wrong or misunderstood, but the decks in the website you gave me are new ones right?
EBay has Buyer Protection on most of the items available there for auction - but you should check how the rules apply for buying from another country.
Amazon is a retail store - there's no risk. Even when dealing with Amazon Marketplace shops, you're good to go.
Bicyclecards.com is operated by USPC - the actual retail company is Wingra Direct, a retailer that's wholly-owned by USPC. All the decks they sell are new, but the site itself (in a different form) has been around for a while. They used to sell from shopbicyclecards.com.
Well I mainly want to collect them for show and to brag off to my friends of the cool decks I have, so I don't really know if I'd like to trade decks, adding the fact I live in Israel and I don't think we have a community for playing cards collecting, but the challenge of trading sounds fun!
Small question, are there any rules or stuff that are like a normal thing to do when collecting playing cards? Like am I allowed to play with the cards I collect or it will hurt the value (Trading wise)? Can I unseal them or they have to stay sealed for maximum value(For trading as well)? Sorry for my little knowledge of the subject
You can trade decks right here on the website, though there are some prerequisites to be met first. Check out the board called the Pasteboard Bazaar.
As far as rules, they're the same as would apply to any kind of collecting. Mint in sealed box is the most valued, but that's not to say a used deck is completely without value - just a reduced value. Vintage decks will almost always be open-box, because few of those decks were ever saved - they were opened and used. Opened but unused is worth less than mint-sealed, of course, and opened-used has a lower value - but there's also the fact that you got to use them!
Sorry for so many questions, but just another one, can you explain me how the kickstarter decks work?
Like is it a way to guarantee yourself that specific deck when it is released?
And should I start and getting decks from kickstarters? Couse there some cool ones that got my eye already :p
I've recently described Kickstarter as a million people begging for money with a few million people hanging around waiting to give them money!
When an artist, inventor, creator, etc. wants to make something and lacks the cash, they used to have to go to one or two big investors who would sink a lot of cash into the project. Now, instead of a few people and a lot of cash, Kickstarter has a lot of people, each giving you a small amount of cash. But instead of being rewarded with stock or part-ownership of the company, you get a "reward" - usually a product made as a result of the project. It's not a pre-ordering system and it's not guaranteed in any way - like any investing, there's risk. A project doesn't get made if there's not enough funding to reach the goal before the deadline, and sometimes even when a project does get made, the creator doesn't manage the money well enough or is an outright scam - but in most cases, when a project succeeds, within a few months you get the reward, based on the schedule presented by the project's creator.