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[Bikefanatic]

Hi everyone. I'm from Cincinnati Ohio. I've been a card player since a teen. Starting back in December 2012, I made it as a hobby and been collecting only Bicycle decks which I have about 40 something. I just get the ones I like. I once worked for USPCC in Norwood Ohio before they moved to Kentucky.

[BMPokerworld]

Welcome to our great forum!!!

Thanks!

Mike

[Magic_Orthodoxy]

oooh, you can give us scoop on Bike then? Awesome! Welcome

[Bikefanatic]

The scoop on what? How the cards are made,etc?

[Magic_Orthodoxy]

sure, all that good stuff. card stock, finishes.... who talks trash about who at the water cooler

[MagikFingerz]

The scoop on Tiffany

[Bikefanatic]

I worked there 3rd shift back in 2007 for three months. I was a "stripper". Lol. Those are people who work on these machines where you had to take stacks of the uncut sheets so the machine can cut them into strips and afterwards you fan through them to check for defects. It's this rolling, wooden shelf of like seven columns you place the strips into then I didn't know what is done to them next. The work is fast placed but doing casino cards was worse because you had to really make sure there was nothing wrong with cards because if so, people playing a game could take advantage. Any defected decks were just given away, thrown away or sold to China. That's just what I've done but of course there's more to it than that. I've seen people put decks in boxes of 12 and somethings like that.

Back in the Norwood Ohio location, they had a shop that was open to the public where you can buy cards and other gifts. I believe employees got a discount. Years ago I drove to the Kentucky location and they didn't have a store.

[walrus]

Cool, did you ever obtain any rare or historical decks.

[Bikefanatic]

Not really. The popular decks at that time was Tragic Royalty and White Ghost. I think they do have a deck with the building of the Norwood plant on front of it.

[Magic_Orthodoxy]

Any defected decks were just given away, thrown away or sold to China.

Dude, it sounds like half the fontaine shipment should have been sold to china....

oh and 100% of the Vortex decks

[walrus]

Beautiful