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Design & Development / Feedback on card back?
« on: March 16, 2017, 11:39:23 AM »
So far this is what I have going for me. Any suggestions? Am I on the right track? I do understand that its hard to say weather or not a deck will be successful solely based on the back of the card, but does this current design look appealing?

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Introduce Yourself / Hello!
« on: March 16, 2017, 10:44:59 AM »
Hello everyone.

I have been collecting cards for quite a while, but I was never super into it. Everything I was at the store and I saw a cool deck of cards I would pick it up. Slowly my collection grew, but I very quickly ran out of decks to buy at the store because I had them all. As I got a little older I started looking on various websites to buy more and more. Eventually I came to the stage that I believe a lot of people here have been to, where they want to create their own deck of cards. Thats exactly where I am right now. I had been doing research on the processes, kickstarter funded decks, shipping fulfillment centers, the whole 9 yards. Through my research and chatting with other people who had been successful at my goal, I came across this forum. After a quick look around I realized it would not be a waste of time to create an account and get to know people here.

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Design & Development / Wholesale?
« on: March 16, 2017, 10:39:02 AM »
I have been collecting cards for a number of years now and I was looking into creating my own deck of playing cards. But we all know that it costs quite a bit of $$$ to have a deck bicycle branded or even printed by the USPCC, then add shipping costs in there and the price just skyrockets. I have seen quite a few people recently on kickstarter who have been able to produce their decks with a funding goal of only $5,000-6,000 and I was wondering how they were able to pull this off? I had heard rumors of people on kickstarter that have a large wholesale following and that way they were able to sell the rest of their decks and make a profit at the end and therefor they have a low funding goal. Does anybody know more details about how the process works and could anyone offer me some insight? How does one find a retailer to sell to?

I'm wanting to create my own deck, but I'm still in the research stage. After seeing how expensive it is to have a deck printed and seeing all the projects that did not reach their desired goals on kickstarter, I want to  do anything and everything I can to have an advantage to get my project funded. Any other advice will be well appreciated too.

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Essentially I think everyone is different in what they like. I'm not an expert card collector, but my view is that there are people that like things that are appealing to the eye, others like good quality, others like a theme. I personally like decks that look fancy and ornate.


To add another question, does the company that prints the deck play a factor in the project getting funded? For example, is it generally more likely that if a deck will be printed by the USPCC rather than being printed by makeplayingcards.com? Does having a bicycle branded deck really make that much of a difference?

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Deck Reviews! / Re: Black Rider Back 808s by USPCC
« on: March 16, 2017, 10:15:33 AM »
I like the black rider backs a lot. I enjoy doing magic with standard bicycle cards because if you destroy or give away a card, you can easily go get another deck at your nearest target. I have also found that sometimes if I'm using a fancy deck, people assume its marked or gimmicked in some way. I have found that using standard cards (for the most part) eliminates this and people think I can read minds or whatever. I like the black rider backs a lot because they are similar to the normal household deck of cards so nobody expects gimmicks or anything, but different enough that they are appealing to look at.

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