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Title: $3,000 for Golden Nuggets
Post by: xlacs on March 18, 2012, 02:13:31 PM
Wow! just saw this for sale at DealingDueces: http://dealingdeuces.com/casino-cards/blue-golden-nugget-casino-cards.html. This is the most expensive deck I've seen for sale. I don't know if I would even buy this if I had the money. It's just so crazy to spend that amount on one deck of cards.
Title: Re: $3,000 for Golden Nuggets
Post by: NathanCanadas on March 18, 2012, 02:25:59 PM
Wow! just saw this for sale at DealingDueces: http://dealingdeuces.com/casino-cards/blue-golden-nugget-casino-cards.html. This is the most expensive deck I've seen for sale. I don't know if I would even buy this if I had the money. It's just so crazy to spend that amount on one deck of cards.
Aren't these cards normally worth about 200$ though? Or are these rarer?
Title: Re: $3,000 for Golden Nuggets
Post by: Linguist_ on March 18, 2012, 02:35:19 PM
I don't know much at all about vintage cards so best wait for a user who does know about them to reply, but from the information on this thread (http://aethercards.com/discourse/index.php?topic=1996.0;all) it's clear that the blue Golden Nugget is one of the most expensive, along with the orange. A completely sealed, pristine condition blue Golden Nugget is a very rare thing indeed.

If you waited for it to come up on Ebay, I'm sure it would cost you much less than $3,000. But it will take you a long time to find it on Ebay, and when you do there will be a ton of competition to contend with. The steep price tag is likely because of the convenience. I'd imagine the person who buys it is probably someone who needs it to complete their Golden Nugget collection, or near complete it.

I would definitely contact the sellar though, and ask for more detailed pictures before I splashed that amount of money on it. Hell, if I was nearby I'd ask to come and see it first before spending that. I could buy a used car for that price, and I would want a test drive before I bought it.
Title: Re: $3,000 for Golden Nuggets
Post by: xela on March 18, 2012, 02:51:51 PM
Those are definitely rare. I would love to add those to my collection. I would estimate their price at $500, not $3000.
Title: Re: $3,000 for Golden Nuggets
Post by: digipunk on March 18, 2012, 03:02:16 PM
$300-400 might be reasonable for this deck 'cause it doesn't have cellophane. $2,999 is insane :mindf-ck: :mindf-ck:
Title: Re: $3,000 for Golden Nuggets
Post by: xZEROx on March 18, 2012, 06:21:30 PM
Wait am I the only one who can't get to the item page? The link doesn't work for me...
Title: Re: $3,000 for Golden Nuggets
Post by: Linguist_ on March 18, 2012, 06:29:21 PM
Wait am I the only one who can't get to the item page? The link doesn't work for me...

The link appears to have changed slightly. It's now at http://dealingdeuces.com/default/casino-cards/blue-golden-nugget-casino-cards.html (http://dealingdeuces.com/default/casino-cards/blue-golden-nugget-casino-cards.html)
Title: Re: $3,000 for Golden Nuggets
Post by: xZEROx on March 18, 2012, 06:39:16 PM
Oh wow! As much as the blue GN is rare, not to mention it's with the tax stamp, I can't see it going over $500. Certainly at $3000, I'd much rather get one of those War Series deck. :S
Title: Re: $3,000 for Golden Nuggets
Post by: DeckOfCards on March 18, 2012, 10:19:22 PM
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ULTRA-RARE-Deck-BLUE-GOLDEN-NUGGET-Playing-Cards-NEW-Free-Shipping-/270937802234?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f1526c5fa#ht_500wt_1145
Found one sealed on ebay.
Title: Re: $3,000 for Golden Nuggets
Post by: Curt on March 18, 2012, 11:20:15 PM
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ULTRA-RARE-Deck-BLUE-GOLDEN-NUGGET-Playing-Cards-NEW-Free-Shipping-/270937802234?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f1526c5fa#ht_500wt_1145
Found one sealed on ebay.

That one would be a newer version of what dealingdeuces has for sale, you can tell by the stamps used to seal the deck. The older ones has the tax stamp. Still a pretty sweet deck, just not as rare.
Title: Re: $3,000 for Golden Nuggets
Post by: jmrock on March 19, 2012, 03:19:02 AM
Dealing Duces is definitely the most ridiculous example of a playing card website I've come across... Their pricing is just plain absurd and disrespectful to most any collector... I mean every deck is overpriced tremendously... I wonder if their nice website fools anyone into paying those insane prices...
Title: Re: $3,000 for Golden Nuggets
Post by: Don Boyer on March 19, 2012, 05:07:25 AM
Dealing Duces is definitely the most ridiculous example of a playing card website I've come across... Their pricing is just plain absurd and disrespectful to most any collector... I mean every deck is overpriced tremendously... I wonder if their nice website fools anyone into paying those insane prices...

While I agree in general, some of their prices are actually within the reasonable-to-cheap range.  $15 for a red/blue Tahoe pair isn't out of the ballpark, and neither is $50 for a full set of all four Tahoe colors (red, blue, white, black).  On eBay you might pay $50 just for the white and black ones, and that's if you can even find them.

Some retailers have certain things at a high price, while those same retailers could have other things at a genuinely low price.  You have to shop around.

I just got a kick out of seeing that they have Jerry's Nugget decks for sale at $400 a pop.  I saw another site offering them in red only for $300, but they were out of stock.
Title: Re: $3,000 for Golden Nuggets
Post by: Jin Jian on March 19, 2012, 07:37:56 AM
i thought it would be around 300+ ?? why 3000!!
Title: Re: $3,000 for Golden Nuggets
Post by: Don Boyer on March 19, 2012, 07:31:08 PM
i thought it would be around 300+ ?? why 3000!!


It could have something to do with the fact that it's exceptionally rare and about 60 years old, still sealed...  But even at that price, the consensus here feels it's too much.
Title: Re: $3,000 for Golden Nuggets
Post by: jhayel84 on March 21, 2012, 10:54:53 PM
granted that it is rare! but for $3000 price tag.. way overpriced! They are greedy $(#*$&# !!
Title: Re: $3,000 for Golden Nuggets
Post by: Don Boyer on March 24, 2012, 12:30:57 AM
granted that it is rare! but for $3000 price tag.. way overpriced! They are greedy $(#*$&# !!

The price will come down if they find no one is buying.  Or they'll just keep the blasted things.

Getting rare, limited edition and/or out-of-print decks from a retailer, you'll always pay top dollar.  I've seen Black Ghost 1st Ed. going for $250 and $300 at two different shops.  You'd never see them trade that high around here or on eBay.