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Eoghann wrote:
I got a pair of delightfully retro tarots with a touch of contemporary humor that I just couldn't pass up. I'm sure you guys will get a kick out of them.

Jock1971 wrote:
Love that Housewives Tarot set. Got me one in the post . Thanks Eoghann

Venka:

Here's the rest of what I was chatting with you about the other day when Mr. Venka had the audacity to interrupt us (chattus interruptus?) The nerve of some people!

I was telling you that I saw my stepson Ian playing a video game called "Red Dead Redemption" on his PlayStation in our living room.

The game is a Wild-West-themed FPS (First Person Shooter) interspersed with hands of Poker.

As I watched, I - not surprisingly - became very interested in the playing cards used in the game, as they featured courts with what can best be described as Wild West zombies. I wondered if the publishers of the game might have made an actual, physical deck of them (The artwork on the cards in the game was so detailed that it seemed likely that an actual deck would have been produced from them).

Later that evening, I searched eBay for "Red Dead Redemption Playing Cards" and sure enough, there they were! I immediately purchased one.

Two weeks later, I had yet to receive a Notice of Shipment, so I sent the seller an eBay message asking if there was a problem.

I got no reply, but the status on the item now showed that it had an Estimated Delivery Date between July 21 - July 24.

On August 6th, I had yet to receive the item and once again sent an eBay message to the seller, saying that I had yet to receive the item and asking again if there was a problem.

I got no reply. Since I had sent that message under the category of "I have not received the item" it automatically opened an eBay "case" against the seller. This encourages the seller to resolve the problem, because they can lose certain eBay status and privileges if they have more than a certain number of unresolved cases against them.

After another week went by with no response from the seller, I escalated the "case" by phoning eBay's Custpmer Support Problem Resolution Center.

I explained the situation, and they verified what of it they could (they have access to the eBay messages between the Buyer and the Seller) and ruled the "case" in my favor. Since the purchase was covered by eBay's Buyer Protection Plan, they immediately issued a full refund (including Shipping charges) to my PayPal account.


I immediately got back on eBay and purchased another Red Dead Redemption deck, which should arrive any day now.

As I believe that I mentioned in our recent chat, I have purchased more than two hundred items through eBay (mostly decks of playing cards) over the past seventeen years, and this is the first time that I have had this happen (my never receiving an item I'd purchased). All in all, a pretty good track record for eBay!

-Robert (rslancastr@aol.com

Venka:

Right after I sent you the previous email (the first time), I went out and checked our mail box, and there was the Red Dead Redemption deck! I'm attaching one of my "grids" - scans of a few cards from the deck.

Although the courts aren't quite what I'd remembered them to be (they are more skeletons than zombies, and the only thing "Wild West" about them is perhaps the style in which they are drawn, and the faux "aged" look - I had remembered them as wearing Wild West attire).

I thought it an odd choice that the deck's box (on the far right in the "grid") does not include the words "Red Dead Redemption", but they ARE on the sides of the box, in red.

While the deck DEFINITELY is of my favorite "type" of deck (it has custom/non-standard courts), it hardly seems worth all of the drama it took to obtain it (opening the "case" against the first seller, ordering it a second time), but I like the way I found out about it (seeing the cards in my stepson's video game)!

Best,

-Robaire (rslancastr@aol.com)

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RSLancastr wrote:Eoghann, I love both of those Tarot decks!

I have probably eight oe ten Tarot decks in my collection, my favorite being "Tarot for Cats".

Eoghann wrote:I remembered you mentioning you the x men tarot deck a while ago. Which I envy you for.

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Eoghann wrote:That last one with the maiden and the cherub is really cool Mike!

Eoghann wrote:Got some cool goodies today myself. Hotcakes and Triplicates still nowhere in sight though!

Eoghann wrote:That last one with the maiden and the cherub is really cool Mike!


Got some cool goodies today myself. Hotcakes and Triplicates still nowhere in sight though!

Eoghann wrote:That last one with the maiden and the cherub is really cool Mike!


Got some cool goodies today myself. Hotcakes and Triplicates still nowhere in sight though!

sprouts1115 wrote:Looks like a pretty good fan to me. What what do you see in the fan? Damn I missed out on this deck; I do regret it now....

RSLancastr wrote:Thank goodness that there was no "camel toe" in that photograph!

ecNate wrote:Decided to pick up a few 80s era cigarette decks since they had custom courts and were cheap.