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Playing Card Chat ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦ => Playing Card Plethora => Topic started by: awesomeness12 on February 23, 2012, 03:41:38 PM
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Hi guys. Is a Pirate Deck set worth 40$?
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I'd say no, personally
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Probably not. I believe it started off as $20 a set, and that's at the high end already. But it was a short print run, the price eventually got pushed up by the resellers.
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They go for that on eBay but I sold mine for about $30 I believe, which is a far more fair price. The decks aren't in that short of a supply nor is there that high of a demand for them.
What a deck is worth is up to you. If you look at the Pirate sets and think "this is what I need before anything else!" then they're probably worth more than $40 even! For me, I looked at them and thought "I would part with these in an instant if I was given $30" and I did.
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I personally think they aren't but:
1) I would say 95% of decks are overpriced in my opinion
2) Many decks cost much more than that but are worth much less in my opinion (i.e. Gold Monarchs/Arcanes etc)
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Probably not. I believe it started off as $20 a set, and that's at the high end already. But it was a short print run, the price eventually got pushed up by the resellers.
They strategically do so and I know Pirates and Appolo are manipulated by some China dealers. :'(
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They strategically do so and I know Pirates and Appolo are manipulated by some China dealers. :'(
True story. I'm not sure how did manage to do that to the Apollo deck, but the Pirates was easy since the designer was Chinese. All they had to do was purchase a large quantity at retail rate and sell off slowly with increasing profit.
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They strategically do so and I know Pirates and Appolo are manipulated by some China dealers. :'(
True story. I'm not sure how did manage to do that to the Apollo deck, but the Pirates was easy since the designer was Chinese. All they had to do was purchase a large quantity at retail rate and sell off slowly with increasing profit.
Pirates, Apollo, Tetralogy, ... the same designer... ???
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Wait Apollo was from Eric Duan as well? I always thought it was a US-designed product...
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Wait Apollo was from Eric Duan as well? I always thought it was a US-designed product...
Yes. Everytime when I saw Kete introducing a new decks that still had no information on foreign forums (here foreign means non-Chinese you know), I knew he got the information or even the deck from China dealers (he was the first person who got the Pirates and Apollo decks and wrote in-depth reviews on them).
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I don`t think it is, but you can decide if you like it.