Hi all,

Not been on here for a long time, but glad to see this community is still thriving. I collected cards for a couple of years but have now sold most of my collection.

While going through some old cupboards I came across a poster tube with the beautiful Fantastique uncut sheet inside, the last of my collection!

I've put it up for eBay auction at 99p, with the appropriate delivery costs for international. I'm posting here in the off chance that someone is in search of this for their collection!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fantastique-Deck-Uncut-Sheet-Signed-Dan-and-Dave-Rare/253536122244

Maybe one day I'll get back to playing card collecting, but it was just too saturated with custom decks back in 2012 when I stopped!

Bump with update - all decks now for sale on eBay as acutions. Very cheap starting bids for all as I need to get rid of the decks and there wasn't much interest from original post.

Sent a PM, Alberto.

Updated original post with eBay listing for Uusi Blue Blood decks. Had quite a bit of interest in these decks, so thought I'd leave it to eBay if anyone wants to buy any. It would appear they are quite rare these days! (Should have bought more at the Kickstarter!)

Just a bump to say that the listings all have less than 1 hour left and all will sell.

Don't miss out!

Just an update to say that there is less than 1 day left on the decks for auction:

Red Artifice deck currently at £29.01;
Brown Wynn currently at £16.00
Two decks of Bee Stingers currently at £14.50! That's around the price of one of these decks normally.

No reserve on these decks, so if you think that you could grab them at a reasonable price get bidding.

Just a quick note to let you know that this auction ends in around 3 hours from now. Current bid is £51.
Remember, I'm happy to ship anywhere, and will do so with tracking and recorded delivery.

Updated post with Tendril decks that have arrived over the last couple of days. Sad to see them go but needs must.

BTW: I'm interested in helping out by buying the blue Crown Deck, version 1.  Let me know what you need.

EDIT: and also a pack of red Stingers - mine are looking a little shabby.

Don, thanks for the info. Also, I had already sold the version 1 Crownd decks when I read this post, sorry. One pack of Red Stingers remains if you are interested, just PM me which shipping option you'd like and your PayPal email and I'll send an invoice promptly.

Just to confirm your email is linguist_@ hotmail.co.uk (Without the space between the _ and @) am I right? There was an error stating that the email address was invalid when I tried sending one.. Anyway I sent a request through that email address. So sorry to hear about your current situation, hope everything goes well for you in the future (:

EDIT: I didn't notice that a 'm' was missing from 'com' .... I feel foolish now... :|

EDIT EDIT: I just can't seem to figure out his email, it keeps saying it's invalid, help anyone..? @-@ Sent you a pm Linguist_, hope you see it asap (:

Sorry about the problems sending me emai, K. There are no spaces in the email at all, I just put those in to stop spambots from picking up my email. And it's just '.co.uk' no 'com's 

Nevertheless, I received your PM and replied. Communicating through PM is no problem, just not as prompt as through email.

Items no longer for sale through forum. I will be putting them on ebay from now on.

Received my deck today and thought I'd share some pics. I thought I'd save bandwidth and upload them to a seperate site, so find them here.

I don't have the black version of this deck, so I can't compare. My own opinion is that it's a nice deck - nothing spectacular about it. The back design and Ace of Spades is pleasing to the eye with the white works very well, I think.

Handling wise - it's a Bicycle, air-cushion deck. It handles like one. I'm not a fan of giving too much attention to handling.

I'd say that given the fact that this deck is just 'nice' and the standard faces, I would just use this deck as standard. I like using the Bicycle Ghost deck as standard and it has non-standard pip colours. However, the price of this deck makes it pretty hard to justify using it as a standard, every day deck. So, I guess I'll use it from time to time, but mostly it'll just sit in its box.

I think those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones...

If that's a jibe at the fact you don't like ReaganM's Ultra Ape deck, in the spirit of the meme nature of this thread:

I think a border wouldn't look too great on this one. I love the design how it is!!

Too late, the border has already been added. But I agree that without it would be better. Magicians should just learn to do tricks that don't involve reversed cards and choose an appropriate deck for the tricks that do have borders which are most of the decks. I think the white border looks out of place on these, and I feel the same about the Artifice. But, oh well.

I find it hard to have an overall opinion about religion since they are all so different. I am against theism, I suppose. Any religions which require a god, and any people who believe in god even if they don't consider themselves as part of a religion. The religions without a god (the most prominent one for me being Buddhism) are fine.

The reason I am against theism in general is because people who believe in god generally feel that they automatically earn my respect by considering faith and belief ofver evidence and reason. That is, people who are theists tend to say that by calling them out as being wrong is disrespectful. Perhaps it is a bit direspectful if you actively seek to chastise people, but I find theists' opinion of atheists much more disrespectful. In the large Abrahamic religions alone, atheists are cast into an eternity of suffering and pain and are considered enemies of theists. Most of my religious knowledge comes from Catholicism, since I was brought up a Catholic. The Catechism (Catholic book on Catholic doctrince) is very clear about its opinion about atheists:

(2125) Since it rejects or denies the existence of God, atheism is a sin against the virtue of religion. The imputability of this offense can be significantly diminished in virtue of the intentions and the circumstances. "Believers can have more than a little to do with the rise of atheism. To the extent that they are careless about their instruction in the faith, or present its teaching falsely, or even fail in their religious, moral, or social life, they must be said to conceal rather than to reveal the true nature of God and of religion."

While I am aware that, in the Bible at least, most of the barbaric things from the Old Testament, like being encouraged to stone a woman to death if she was not a virgin when you wed her, are absolved when Jesus came along and changed things, I still think the basic idea of Abrahamic theism is deplorable. That thought-crime is something that is okay to these people - it is a sin to think of a woman in a lustful way, doing so is comitting adultery.

I could go on, but no doubt I'd be considered as being disrespectful. Even if a Christian says to me 'but I don't think you'll burn forever in the fiery depths of hell' - you follow Christianity and believe the bible is the word of your god, so yes you do. It is against your religion to accept me as an atheist - part of your purpose as following a religion is to 'spread the word' and convince others that your religion is right.

My strong opinion mostly comes from my experiences in Brazil. Here in the UK, people are much more 'tolerant' about atheism. In Brazil, however, my experience is that people assume you are either Catholic or Protestant (protestant to them meaning any non-catholic Christian, mostly). Tell people that you are atheist and they are shocked and afronted, which I found to be most distasteful.