Quote from: Nurul on November 12, 2013, 02:52:40 PM

Lol don't know why YOU complain, you always end up buying it :/ besides, you don't need to buy a brick to get the white&red LTD, you can purchase Peter McKinnon's DVD and get the deck for free. In fact, you can buy 2 DVDs, get 2 decks for free and still pay less than buying a brick

Did you happen to try that? I tried getting 2 or 3 bricks for the hell of it and only 1 free deck showed up. I think E is limited how many free decks we get per order.

Elite seems to be the unofficial home of the baroquely elaborate deck.  Practically all of their designs would fit in that category.  It's never been my cup of tea, but they seem to have a strong enough following that they could print almost anything, put the Bicycle name on it and it would sell in decent numbers.  It kinda makes me wonder why they keep coming back to Kickstarter in the first place - they have their audience and they should have the funds to self-produce by now, right?

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Legit websites. Designers want to entice viewers to fund their project, so their project pages on Kickstarter are visually enticing and endlessly thoughtful. If they’re the real deal, their website will echo a similar level of care and detail, so check out the project website. Can you tell this isn’t the designer’s first rodeo? If it is their first rodeo (that is, first time trying playing card design), do they have past experience as designers or illustrators?

Don't know that I agree with this part. Jackson did not exactly have a great website. On coffee with D&D, Jackson mentioned he is working with someone on a website design. Not sure if it's his personal website or a "Kings Wild" website. I think Jackson was the exception to these Club 808 rules and recommendations.

Quote from: bhong on November 02, 2013, 02:04:45 AM

Now if only USPCC International (Canada) would start thinking about this. I think the only unique decks I've seen in Canadian Walmarts are the Bicycle Heritage Edition Playing cards and Bicycle Tragic Royalty. I honestly can imagine they moving a ton of decks with some unique decks in Canada.

The Bicycle 127th Anniversary deck was a Canada exclusive.  Texan Palmetto Backs are also made for exclusive distribution in Canada.

At one point, IPCC was indeed a separate company owned by USPC and they even did their own printing.  It wasn't uncommon in the past for USPC to have several cities printing decks as they acquired the companies the previously ran them, though IPCC was wholly their own creation.  Over time, however, anything outside of the company HQ was shut down, all the decks are made in the greater Cincinnati area (Erlanger is a suburb of Cincinnati) and IPCC is more of a marketing outfit for USPC decks than anything else.

It's not that you'll never see some of the custom decks they distribute in the US going to Canada, but Canadian law would require packaging changes, such as labeling in French and English.  Us lazy, stupid Murricans don't like that as much.    So it's not like USPC can simply dump their English-only decks in your stores.  Packaging changes cost money and the Canadian market isn't as large as the US market, making it hard to justify making Canadian-mandated changes to decks that will sell mostly to Americans.  Back when IPCC was still in operation as a print shop, they did their own printing and it was a non-issue to comply with what was for them the law of the land.  It's not considered efficient today to scatter the company's resources rather than consolidate them in a single place.