Another piece?

No date was given on when this will be released. These appear to be a darker blue than the original. Would you guys consider this a reprint?

I don't get this at all. Expensive decks for a mediocre design. Not sure what the minimum print run for this company is, but seems to have a pretty high funding goal considering. The forced story line-what does an old cardmaker have to do with sirens. Maybe if you plan on doing more than one deck it could be Old Storyteller series or something.  Easy pass for me.

I have to agree with a lot of what Don said. There is not something that's going to appeal to the masses. You definitely what to promote this to the book crowd. You may also consider putting it under the "Publishing" category on KS as opposed to the "Games" category if you can.

Unless you're in a country that KS does not support, then why would you want to sell your design to somebody else. If the design is good enough, then it should fund on KS without one of the resellers. If you don't want to deal with the shipping part, there are plenty of fulfillment options out there. If you do your homework, and research, and math right. Then just do it yourself. If you don't want to deal with any of that stuff, and all you want to do is draw. Then by all means sell your design. Just don't be insulted at what you are offered. JMO!

russbrett you are on the right track. The smaller box will hold one deck and the larger will hold 2. You will need a small piece of bubble rap or a bubble bag to snug the decks up. I know that KWP uses these type boxes exclusively, and for good reason. Knock on wood and cross my fingers. I have never received a damaged deck that was shipped in one of these. Just tape these boxes up and apply the postage. They work great.
As far as the bubble bag- go with a slightly bigger one like the http://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-680/Bubble-Bags/4-x-5-1-2-Self-Seal-Bubble-Bags or the http://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-10549/Bubble-Bags/4-x-5-Bubble-Bags-Open-End. You will want to shoot yourself, or somebody else about the third deck you try to stuff in the 3x5 bag. 
You may want to also pick up some bubble mailers. I wouldn't go any smaller than these. http://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-9985/Bubble-Mailers/Uline-Self-Seal-Bubble-Mailers-0-6-x-10. You can put the smaller box in one of these for international shipping. gives you plenty of roof to attach the custom's form.
You may also want to pic up a bigger box for international shipping- like a http://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-433/Indestructo-Mailers/9-x-4-x-3-Indestructo-Mailers or similar. Something that will hold at least a brick plus padding.
Keep in mind ULine does charge shipping to ship your shipping supplies. I recently purchased about $300 worth of supplies, and my shipping was around $60. That's about 20% of the purchase price.

When shipping domestic, anything over 2 decks. 9 out of 10 times it's cheaper to ship USPS Priority Mail-- and not just flat rate. the regional box A1-https://store.USPS.com/store/browse/uspsProductDetailMultiSkuDropDown.jsp?categoryNavIds=shipping-supplies%3ashipping-boxes&categoryNav=false&navAction=push&navCount=0&productId=P_RRB_A1&categoryId=shipping-boxes can cost as little as a small flat rate box to ship, but typically $7-$10. The best thing about priority mail boxes is that they are free. You don't even need to go to the post office. Just order them on-line, and they will drop them on you front step for nothing-$0- zilch.

In the end shipping is probably the biggest underestimated cost of a KS project. It's nice to get that big old check from KS- just keep in mind it will take 20%+ of that check for shipping/shipping supplies. Also don't discount your time. If you work a full time job- realistically you will get 30-40 packages done per night. So if you have 500+ backers?    Not sure who you are using as a printer, but for example- if you print with LPCC- they will charge you to ship the decks to your US address- then you pay shipping again to you backers, and your time. If you use their fulfillment. they take care of everything(at a cost) and you get charged to ship the left over decks to you. If there is a down side to using their fulfillment- I recently received 2 decks in a bubble mailer from them- no damage luckily. I don't know if they have different levels of packaging or not.

Hopefully this helps you some-Good luck on your project

The most valuable deck I own is open. In fact it doesn't have a tuck at all. It's also 130 years old. If anybody thinks that modern decks are expensive to collect. Just wait until you start collecting vintage decks.

As far as the question at hand. When we talk about the value of open vs. closed decks, usually we are talking about modern decks. In general an open deck is always going to be worth considerably less than an original like new deck. . That doesn't mean that it's not worth some money though. Example- I have an sealed unbranded black Reserve Note deck from Jackson's 2nd Fed 52 project. They are still selling for well over $100 now. I was able to pick up a 2nd signed opened one for a very reasonable price. If I was to sell it. I would take no less than $75 for it, and I would get it. Not selling it though.

It all really boils down to each individual deck. If the deck did really well when it was new, and is still expensive/rare as a sealed deck. then people will pay a small premium to get a used deck, just to say they have one. In general any deck I can buy new for under $20, I'm not going to buy used. Unless I'm buying it to have as a second.

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I'll do 2 pair please. 

Since the whole purpose of RT redesigning these cards is to get away from looking like Bee's, I would think he would not want to use the "fade-to-white" Stinger-style border?

Very nice Alex. It took me a few seconds to see the head on lion face. Pretty cool. Looks to be another winner.

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