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I'm aware that some of my prices are high for an international market but they're priced to be competitive in the UK market; I paid shipping over here and in order to break even/ turn a profit, I need to raise the price.  In saying that, taking on board shipping from the US or further afield, it IS competitive in the domestic market.
The cards are printed in the US and in order to avoid taking massive losses, I need to compensate for the shipping I originally paid.  Basically, I will have trouble competing internationally and this is also why the prices are in GBP (£ sterling); you may be able to get better prices from other resellers if you're not geographically close to me.  Some of the stuff is hard to get, and that's where the international market comes in. 
In regards to the v6, they are getting more and more rare and while you might be able to get them (ever so slightly) cheaper on eBay, most of those are Hong Kong auctions and thus the waiting period for receiving the deck is greatly increased.   I've priced other items similarly in regards to waiting time for European buyers.

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Just getting rid of a few extras to make a bit of much needed cash.  I'm using Google Checkout to process transactions; I think you may need to have/make a Google account to pay but you might not.  I can send invoices in the exact same way that you could with PayPal but please bare in mind that I've never done this before so there's a chance you might have to bare with me if anything doesn't work as expected (although it seems very simple and I don't expect any delays).  I'll calculate shipping after every order is placed and before any invoice is sent and give you options where available.  Everything is sealed.  Due to the continually changing nature of exchange rates, I can't guarantee that my conversion into USD is completely accurate and should be taken as a rough guide. Here's the stock;

DJPK (poor quality Bee knock-offs); £1 / $1.59
Blue Rider Back (Erlanger 2009) x2; £2 each / $3.17 each
Karnival Hornets; £5 / $7.93
Smoke and Mirrors v6; £15 / $23.78
Karnival Dead Eyes (foil v2); £5 /$7.93
Blue Crown Set (all colours V2 and Black, 4 decks total); £30 / $47.56
90s Ceasar's Palace deck (uncancelled); £10 / $15.85
Ellusionist Infinity; £6 / $9.50
Gemaco Alpha (Fitzgerald's casino deck); £2 / $3.17
USPCC (not T11) Guardians; £6 / $9.50
David Blaine White Lions (Series A Blue); £13 / $20.61
Karnival Dose (foil v2); £5 / $7.93
Friar's Club (Orange); £20 / $31.70
Shadow Masters (Air Cushion)x2; £6 / $9.50 each
D&D Fantastique; £7 / $11.10
D&D Fulton's Clip Joint; £7 / $11.10
Bicycle Black Pirate; £10 / $15.85
Bicycle 2008 Election (Democrat and Republican); £8 / $12.68 for both

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The Conversation Parlor / Re: The meaning of life
« on: April 03, 2012, 02:41:51 PM »
It's Forty Two..... Isn't It?

No, that's the Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything.  It's just that nobody ever knew what the question was.

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Design & Development / Re: new deck: Mysterium Inked Deck
« on: April 03, 2012, 01:02:17 AM »
Err... a gradient effect isn't exactly the same as shading.  Much more precision is needed here; do it by hand.  I still think it needs more going on, maybe a frame of some kind?  The heart pips on the ribbon aren't working at all, either- too copy/paste slapped on without proper integration.  Again, shading would help.

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Design & Development / Re: new deck: Mysterium Inked Deck
« on: April 02, 2012, 02:59:27 PM »
It looks empty and bunched together.  Could do with more decoration and better spacing (the index in particular).  In colouring it, you should add shading as well; I think the solid colours make it look too 'sketchy'.  It's still not my kinda thing, doubt it ever will be but I could see the appeal if it improved a good bit.

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There are some people, if they do not know, you just can not tell them. I will not bother posting proper resources. as I am getting tired of this thread. Time to discuss cards. Do some research on Wikepedia itself and you will learn a lot.

It's easier to just say 'OK, you win', you know.

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Say what you will about Streamlines...
« on: April 02, 2012, 08:29:30 AM »
Streamlines cost (the equivalent of) $5 over here.  That's more than Tally-Hos... slightly

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Design & Development / Re: new deck: Mysterium Inked Deck
« on: April 02, 2012, 08:19:52 AM »
Well, welcome to the forums but first;

a) Why did you lie to everyone?
b) Can you please make an effort to use punctuation? 
c) This isn't symbolism
d) Do you have any evidence of involvement with Disney?
e) The drawings are OK, would definitely benefit from re-colouring in photoshop to sharpen them up but I would gauge interest before trying to sell it.  I don't like the theme and the execution is just OK, not great; I very much doubt I'd be getting one but some people might like it enough.

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: The-Con-Artist.com
« on: April 01, 2012, 10:12:40 PM »
Word from his facebook page:
"Great news! Our designs have been approoved and our decks have now started being printed!"
What should we expect?

http://s7.postimage.org/aswujygt7/harlequin.jpg

Yeah, I already read the thread where John posted that same link... you know there's plenty of people who can read URLs, you know.  Why would that be called 'harlequin.jpg'?

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That's 5AM Uk time... I have stuff to do today/tomorrow.  Dammit... we'll see...

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@Don re: The Pope being in the Hitler Youth.  I don't think it's that detrimental to his character when you look at the track record of Popes and Nazis side-by-side.

@Aaron Errr.. 'agonist' isn't one I've heard before but (like 'agony') comes from the Greek 'ἀγωνιστής' meaning conflict, so that would make a kind of sense but what you do is what every believer who understands the evidence must do; suspend rationality and believe something DESPITE the evidence.  It's called 'faith'. 

I think a lot of the Bible, while not a joke was intended as a work of fiction.

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OR all atheists.  It's an irrelevant point and totalitarian states operate exactly like a religion; an unquestionable authority (again, Buddhism excepting although they do some weird stuff, sometimes).  It often gets used to point to how all atheist-led governments have been immoral and it's nonsense.

Regarding Hitler; read anything he wrote, translate virtually any of his speeches and count the number of times God is mentioned.  In 'Mein Kampf', he specifically states that he believed he was doing 'God's work' in exterminating the Jewish people.  Right up until the fall of the regime, every Nazi officer in their inauguration had to swear an oath that started with the words 'I swear in the name of almighty God'.  Every Nazi belt-buckle in every uniform that came with one was emblazoned with 'God is on our side'.  The first treaty the NSDAF made was with the Vatican, in exhange for giving control of German education over to the Roman Catholic church.  Hitler was a choirboy in his youth and never made any public or surviving private statements about leaving the church in any capacity.  50% of the SS regularly attended confession.

On the other side, the Roman Catholic church never denounced Hitler and remained impartial throughout its entire campaign.  It celebrated Hitler's birthday and ordered its followers to pray for him even after his death (a practice that was ended by external forces).  The only high ranking Nazi (in fact, the only Nazi we know of full stop) to be excommunicated from the Roman Catholic church was Joseph Goebbels (the propaganda guy; unbelievably evil.  In the end he ordered all his children to be put under sedation and then given cyanide.  The youngest was 4 years old.  The oldest was 12; when the Russians stormed the bunker, she was found with a broken jaw, suggesting she struggled.  He shot his wife and then himself later that day). 

He was excommunicated for marrying a Protestant.

94 German Catholic priests ended up in a concentration camp; the rest were all foreign nationals, mostly Polish.  High ranking members of the church were given special treatment (private cells etc.) and there's very little evidence of them being treated badly.  It seems clear that they weren't being targeted BECAUSE they were Catholic priests, otherwise the numbers would be far greater.  You would have hoped that more priests would have been sent to camps for dissenting and speaking out against wholesale genocide but they didn't and they weren't.

Now, there's conflicting evidence and nobody really knows for sure whether or not Hitler was really a Catholic, or even a believer so it's pointless to labour the issue BUT I really don't think the Vatican comes out of the whole affair looking particularly good, either way.

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I guessed you rather missed my point. Still, I would rather hear what you beleive than what you do not beleive. It is the best way for me to learn about the ideas of other peoples faith or lack there of.

I don't believe in the supernatural.  What was your point?

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Hitler wasn't an atheist.  Throwing Mao, Hitler and Stalin into the mix is confusing the issue, anyway; the argument there is secularism vs totalitarianism i.e., the point is political, not religious.  In fact, in the case of Stalin, the previous entirely religious position of the tsar was what allowed him to rule absolutely as he did (the tsars acted as a kind of pope; a channel to god).  Were these good people?  No.  Did their religious beliefs have anything to do with that?  No.

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: The-Con-Artist.com
« on: March 30, 2012, 11:06:05 AM »
The-Con-Artist.com IS 12 people all working together.

You sounded pretty certain...

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If you have 281GB, that is ample space for dozens of DVDs! No need for an External drive in that case!

281GB drive does not mean 281GB of free space!  That's a really small drive, definitely use an external one.

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: The-Con-Artist.com
« on: March 29, 2012, 11:08:11 PM »
I've been talking with Shane.

And you believe him?  Why?

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Design & Development / Re: What Photoshop should I buy?
« on: March 29, 2012, 10:35:09 PM »
I don`t care if someone loses 99 cents when they have Millions

Millionaire musicians who don't suck (a complete list);

1. Radiohead

Anyway, yes there are full copies of PS on the pirate bay, so don't go there.

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: The-Con-Artist.com
« on: March 29, 2012, 10:18:14 PM »


Same artist, anyway.  I wonder if he actually knows someone who can draw or something, this isn't bad.  It's a lot more coherent and seems less cobbled together and photo-shopped than the joker.  Everything Shane has done is very bad.

Thinking about it, Shane has a few tattoos.  If he told his artist he was considering another one and got that artist to draw this up.... while the previous one was cobbled together from different work by the same artist, that would make a lot of sense.

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: The-Con-Artist.com
« on: March 29, 2012, 07:14:09 AM »
His latest pic is a bunch of different, unconnected pencil drawings poorly photoshopped to make one, incoherent image.  I am convinced that he di not draw any of it (maybe the bicycle at the bottom)


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Playing Card Plethora / Re: The-Con-Artist.com
« on: March 29, 2012, 05:42:20 AM »
I completely agree that the criticism should have been much less harsh; IF he had gone about it in a reasonable manner.  If he had come onto here or UC, unannounced and unknown and posted those up asking what people thought, I'm sure most of us would be encouraging and very constructive.  As it is, he made personal attacks on members of the community and was coming off the back of a bunch of laughable and very obviously bogus and thoughtless projects and has outright lied to everyone at pretty much very juncture.  Can't be having it.

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I'm taking it from the literal Greek meaning and the meaning used by the majority of philosophers that I have read on the subject.  It makes perfect sense to me to use that definition.

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Don; you do not believe in god, therefore are an atheist.  No matter how moderate your attitude may be, if you do not believe that there is a god up there, even if your answer is 'I don't know if there is or not', you ARE an atheist.

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Crappy new deck
« on: March 28, 2012, 04:02:44 PM »
This guy's not a card designer, just wants to stick crap on anything.  I guess these fall into the 'memorabilia' sub-category.  He may as well print them on anything.  If they're made, they'll handle and look like crap; this isn't aimed at collectors at all.  Move along.

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: NEW DECK - April Fool's Deck from De'vo.
« on: March 28, 2012, 07:43:59 AM »
Lol... why on earth would you buy a brick of these?  They were marketed as a joke, you must have known something like this was coming.  You were well warned.

I'm having money troubles at the minute; no more decks for a while.

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