Elven
A Rant ...
I have today 'paid off' the last payment for a deck. Anticipation is high on opening the heavy beautiful laminated sturdy coloured box, a ribbon holds the book in place - and I pull its satin tab, as the book fits snuggly into its designed compartment. Underneath are the cards.
I take the celophane paper carefully from the cards - and hold them in my hand - they are light - actually 'very' light.
I peel the first one off the top of the deck - it feels flimsy and fragile. With a firmer grip between two fingers the card flexes slightly - Im not happy. Then I realize I am holding not one, but two cards and I am disappointed to say the least. The cardstock is disgusting!
Matt board - dull printing, gutter edges, thin and useless to me in their brand new condition - I look through them, attempt a shuffle. The cards flex and bend better than Jane Fonda! so sadly, I put them back in the box.
Why bother!
I am over it! Seriously over cheaply made 'decks of cards' which cost a fortune, whose card stock and laminating or lack of quality surface is dismal - I've had it! The box is great, the book is good, and the tools are dreadfully manufactured. Cheap bending cards!
The playing decks I buy for $2.00 (and there are two packs) are better!
Yes, I'll be writing to somebody! as I will have to laminate these cards myself for them to be any use. Or I may send them back!
Its not the first deck I've purchased over the last year or so which seem to lack quality - but this is going too far - professionally - they are unusable for me.
Manufucturers? Publishers? ...is this what we can start to expect now from the quality of our decks?? Its not good enough!!!
Put the money into the cards and not all the packaging and bling if it has to be, but some decks are no more than thick paper!
I buy my cards from the readings I do ... I have to pay a new deck off - very rarely do I purchase one outright - I'm not in the position to do that. It is infuriating to find that the deck is this bad.
Please consider the quality of the cards as a priority. You're investment in your product will show good return and further custom.
Rant over!
I have today 'paid off' the last payment for a deck. Anticipation is high on opening the heavy beautiful laminated sturdy coloured box, a ribbon holds the book in place - and I pull its satin tab, as the book fits snuggly into its designed compartment. Underneath are the cards.
I take the celophane paper carefully from the cards - and hold them in my hand - they are light - actually 'very' light.
I peel the first one off the top of the deck - it feels flimsy and fragile. With a firmer grip between two fingers the card flexes slightly - Im not happy. Then I realize I am holding not one, but two cards and I am disappointed to say the least. The cardstock is disgusting!
Matt board - dull printing, gutter edges, thin and useless to me in their brand new condition - I look through them, attempt a shuffle. The cards flex and bend better than Jane Fonda! so sadly, I put them back in the box.
Why bother!
I am over it! Seriously over cheaply made 'decks of cards' which cost a fortune, whose card stock and laminating or lack of quality surface is dismal - I've had it! The box is great, the book is good, and the tools are dreadfully manufactured. Cheap bending cards!
The playing decks I buy for $2.00 (and there are two packs) are better!
Yes, I'll be writing to somebody! as I will have to laminate these cards myself for them to be any use. Or I may send them back!
Its not the first deck I've purchased over the last year or so which seem to lack quality - but this is going too far - professionally - they are unusable for me.
Manufucturers? Publishers? ...is this what we can start to expect now from the quality of our decks?? Its not good enough!!!
Put the money into the cards and not all the packaging and bling if it has to be, but some decks are no more than thick paper!
I buy my cards from the readings I do ... I have to pay a new deck off - very rarely do I purchase one outright - I'm not in the position to do that. It is infuriating to find that the deck is this bad.
Please consider the quality of the cards as a priority. You're investment in your product will show good return and further custom.
Rant over!