All I'll say is that everyone knows my feelings about his clip-art lazy-design decks and the pricing tactics he employs to sell them. I buy other stuff from him since he does have good prices on them, but never a deck he designed.
Errrm... Nathan at the moment these are £50 a deck at the current exchange rate thats $75 a deck... or $300 a set. You really wanna buy these at that price? Or you could get a variety box, a couple gold arcanes, a hell of a lot of stuff from E, just about any deck you want, etc, etc.Give it a few months and they will have dropped down to $15 a deck, buy them then.
Quote from: Don Boyer on February 15, 2012, 01:00:40 AMAll I'll say is that everyone knows my feelings about his clip-art lazy-design decks and the pricing tactics he employs to sell them. I buy other stuff from him since he does have good prices on them, but never a deck he designed.You're right. But as a collector I'll probably pick them up sooner or later. Probably when they're at $8 a piece or less. But he does have some insanely good prices for a lot of the other decks. I'm not sure how he manages to gain profits selling them. For those of you who don't know, check his website too, alongside with his eBay store. Sometimes he's got cheaper goods on one, sometimes on the other.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bicycle-Purple-Trace-Playing-Design/dp/B00770YG2Y/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&m=AJBKHBBQVXK53&s=generic&qid=1329343960&sr=1-3http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bicycle-Green-Trace-Playing-Design/dp/B00770XL5W/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&m=AJBKHBBQVXK53&s=generic&qid=1329343960&sr=1-4http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bicycle-Black-Playing-Nuclear-Design/dp/B007710FCI/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&m=AJBKHBBQVXK53&s=generic&qid=1329343960&sr=1-5http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bicycle-Yellow-Trace-Playing-Design/dp/B00770SZJE/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&m=AJBKHBBQVXK53&s=generic&qid=1329343960&sr=1-6
I warned you that you were looking at $300 a set...
Quote from: hazofhorsham on February 15, 2012, 05:43:39 PMI warned you that you were looking at $300 a set...And I thought you were exaggerating!
Quote from: NathanCanadas on February 15, 2012, 05:48:40 PMQuote from: hazofhorsham on February 15, 2012, 05:43:39 PMI warned you that you were looking at $300 a set...And I thought you were exaggerating!Doesn't seem like it. merz is up for the profit again. He sold quite a few decks when the last 4 was at $50. Some collectors out there really don't know how to work around this guy do they...
You're right. But as a collector I'll probably pick them up sooner or later. Probably when they're at $8 a piece or less.
I'm not sure he sold ANY of the first run of 'trace' decks. They're certainly not popular and nobody seems to be desperate to get them. IMO, they're a massive flop.
Quote from: Kanped on February 16, 2012, 07:07:47 PMI'm not sure he sold ANY of the first run of 'trace' decks. They're certainly not popular and nobody seems to be desperate to get them. IMO, they're a massive flop.I'm sure he roped in a few suckers with more cash than wisdom, but I doubt he made a return on his investment just yet.
Quote from: Don Boyer on February 17, 2012, 11:39:05 AMQuote from: Kanped on February 16, 2012, 07:07:47 PMI'm not sure he sold ANY of the first run of 'trace' decks. They're certainly not popular and nobody seems to be desperate to get them. IMO, they're a massive flop.I'm sure he roped in a few suckers with more cash than wisdom, but I doubt he made a return on his investment just yet.Yeah that's true. I was thinking that Merz must be pretty wealthy to be able to make these runs of decks without any backers or whatnot. Either that or he has some people funding him or he just makes fat loans. All in all though that's a lot of money to spend on decks, without a great deal of assistance financially
I just saw the america series of Merz decks sold in Japan and sold out!6 decks for 170$, Couldn't believe it.