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40$ worth it?
« on: February 23, 2012, 03:41:38 PM »
 

awesomeness12

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Hi guys. Is a Pirate Deck set worth 40$?
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Re: 40$ worth it?
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2012, 03:51:59 PM »
 

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I'd say no, personally
 

Re: 40$ worth it?
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2012, 03:55:28 PM »
 

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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.
 

Re: 40$ worth it?
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2012, 04:12:05 PM »
 

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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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Re: 40$ worth it?
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2012, 04:26:48 PM »
 

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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)
 

Re: 40$ worth it?
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2012, 05:37:20 PM »
 

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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. :'(
 

Re: 40$ worth it?
« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2012, 05:44:32 PM »
 

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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.
 

Re: 40$ worth it?
« Reply #7 on: February 23, 2012, 06:01:48 PM »
 

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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... ???
 

Re: 40$ worth it?
« Reply #8 on: February 23, 2012, 06:10:37 PM »
 

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Wait Apollo was from Eric Duan as well? I always thought it was a US-designed product...
 

Re: 40$ worth it?
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2012, 06:29:17 PM »
 

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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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Re: 40$ worth it?
« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2012, 08:55:29 PM »
 

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I don`t think it is, but you can decide if you like it.
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