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RSLancastr wrote:Order placed!
I am excited to see what 17 decks I will get - it will be like a late (or extremely early) Christmas!
BMPokerworld wrote: Glad you like it. These type of "amazing deals" are a big loss for me. We paid somewhere between $4,000 - $6,000 for these decks and will only receive a little over a $1,000 after fees. As far as returning damaged decks, the answer is yes and no. When we have a huge amount of damage, such as the faith deck, (I think over a gross and a half were damaged due to their horrendous packing job and those were one of the decks replaced.), We send them back. But if the decks were packed well from our supplier and we only have a few, say 3 or 4 per gross, then we tend not to ask for replacements and just consider it the cost of doing business. How they pack their decks is very important in my decision to send them back or not. There is only so much anyone can do and damage will always be part of doing business in playing cards. If you complain about every single slightly damaged deck, then no one would do business with you and to tell you the truth, I wouldn't do business with one of my wholesale partners if they constantly complained about a few decks per gross. Of course if it was say, Gold Arcanes, Black Ghost First Editions or decks like that, then it would be different.
The reason I end up with a lot of damaged decks is two-fold. One, we are very picky about what decks we send out and two, we buy most of our items in multiple grosses. That means if we buy 3 gross of something, we could end up with 3 or 4 damage per gross or somewhere between 9-12 damaged decks per wholesale order. So as you can see, based on our buying volume, damaged decks can add up quickly. I donated probably another 500 decks +/- to different charities already, including to Don Boyer for the hospital he supports. I hope this answers your question.
Thanks!
Thanks!chess wrote:BMPokerworld wrote: Glad you like it. These type of "amazing deals" are a big loss for me. We paid somewhere between $4,000 - $6,000 for these decks and will only receive a little over a $1,000 after fees. As far as returning damaged decks, the answer is yes and no. When we have a huge amount of damage, such as the faith deck, (I think over a gross and a half were damaged due to their horrendous packing job and those were one of the decks replaced.), We send them back. But if the decks were packed well from our supplier and we only have a few, say 3 or 4 per gross, then we tend not to ask for replacements and just consider it the cost of doing business. How they pack their decks is very important in my decision to send them back or not. There is only so much anyone can do and damage will always be part of doing business in playing cards. If you complain about every single slightly damaged deck, then no one would do business with you and to tell you the truth, I wouldn't do business with one of my wholesale partners if they constantly complained about a few decks per gross. Of course if it was say, Gold Arcanes, Black Ghost First Editions or decks like that, then it would be different.
The reason I end up with a lot of damaged decks is two-fold. One, we are very picky about what decks we send out and two, we buy most of our items in multiple grosses. That means if we buy 3 gross of something, we could end up with 3 or 4 damage per gross or somewhere between 9-12 damaged decks per wholesale order. So as you can see, based on our buying volume, damaged decks can add up quickly. I donated probably another 500 decks +/- to different charities already, including to Don Boyer for the hospital he supports. I hope this answers your question.
Thanks!
That is awesome, I will try and buy from you more often.
Whew!BMPokerworld wrote:RSLancastr wrote:Order placed!
I am excited to see what 17 decks I will get - it will be like a late (or extremely early) Christmas!
Thanks!!! You got the last one!!!
Thanks!
Good call, chess! Mike (and Brooke Michaels' Poker World (http://www.bmpokerworld.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) are a class outfit with a great inventory and do right by their customers. Most of the decks I*ve bought in the past year or so were purchased from them.chess wrote:That is awesome, I will try and buy from you more often.
All the lots were pre-made and just pulled when someone ordered them. They were not created on demand. We simply pulled a small brick box and a large brick box with matching numbers and put them in a flat rate envelope.RSLancastr wrote:Whew!BMPokerworld wrote:RSLancastr wrote:Order placed!
I am excited to see what 17 decks I will get - it will be like a late (or extremely early) Christmas!
Thanks!!! You got the last one!!!
Thanks!
Will that mean that I get the best of the lot (say, 17 Black Ghost v1 decks), or the dregs (say, 17 "Faith" decks)?
Most likely, somewhere in between the two extremes, and I'm itching to find out what it will be!
Yeah, I got from the description on your site that the lots were pre-made and all roughly equal in value.BMPokerworld wrote:All the lots were pre-made and just pulled when someone ordered them. They were not created on demand. We simply pulled a small brick box and a large brick box with matching numbers and put them in a flat rate envelope.
Thanks!
Out of curiosity, how many sets were there?BMPokerworld wrote:Thanks!!! You got the last one!!!
Thanks!
RSLancastr wrote:Out of curiosity, how many sets were there?BMPokerworld wrote:Thanks!!! You got the last one!!!
Thanks!
RSLancastr wrote:Wow, 57 or 58, and they sold out that quickly?
It would be fun if I get number 58 - it is one of my lucky numbers - I was born in 1958.
Damn, where were you when I was doing the listing?DelMagic wrote:Hey Mike,
You could have said they were limited edition, hand-numbered and signed collections and you could have gotten a lot more money. Maybe next year that would work for you.
John
HAHAHA!DelMagic wrote:Hey Mike,
You could have said they were limited edition, hand-numbered and signed collections and you could have gotten a lot more money. Maybe next year that would work for you.
John
made me laughhikeeba wrote:First 17 in: Awesome Haul!!
Most are minor dings that really shouldn't affect the cards, but you wouldn't want to sell them like that.
The list: These I wanted (some I hadn't bought before): Bearbrick, Irregular, Samurai, EATCT, Apollo Blue, something with flowers, Green Bike (Cincy), Bike Ltd 1, White Arcane
And the rest: Faith, Karnival Assassins, Phoenix, Skull, Guardians, D&D Plaid Brown, D&D Chinatown, Dose
Still some more to bust open, but a great deal! Thanks!
That is not a bad haul at all. Even though these are dinged decks, there's a lot of variety and most of those are pretty desireable decks. It looks like it is a far better deal than D&D's mystery decks, even though they're not dinged. I guess I just have to be quicker to score these deals the next time BMP has a sale like this.hikeeba wrote:First 17 in: Awesome Haul!!
Most are minor dings that really shouldn't affect the cards, but you wouldn't want to sell them like that.
The list: These I wanted (some I hadn't bought before): Bearbrick, Irregular, Samurai, EATCT, Apollo Blue, something with flowers, Green Bike (Cincy), Bike Ltd 1, White Arcane
And the rest: Faith, Karnival Assassins, Phoenix, Skull, Guardians, D&D Plaid Brown, D&D Chinatown, Dose
Still some more to bust open, but a great deal! Thanks!
Wow.. Amazing!DelMagic wrote:I bought 2 sets of these. In total I received:
2-Black Arcane
2-Black Shadowmasters Bicycle
2- Bicycle Faith
2-Karnival Midnight Foil
1-Karnival Midnight Regular
1-Black Tiger White Pips
1-Black Tiger Red Pips
1-Karnival Assassins
1-Karnival Inferno
1-Dose
1-Sentinels
1-Black Ghost
1-Karnival Ryujin
1-Karnival Hornets
1-Bicycle White Ghost
1-Bicycle Apollo
1-Bicycle Phoenix
2-Bicycle TokiDoki
1-BIcycle Tattoo
1-Purple Artifice
1-Carnival Trick Card Deck (since I do magic, yeah!)
1-Black Smith Back Erdnase CARC
1-Aladdin
1-Tragic Royalty
1-S&M V6
1-Bicycle League Back
1-Gold Dragon Back Bicycle
1-Orange Bicycle
1-Samurai
Most of these are in fine, useable condition. I've bought many decks for full retail which were in the same shape as these. In next year's voting, this is likely to be my "Deal of the Year" choice.
THANK YOU MIKE!
MagikFingerz wrote:Mike: Out of curiosity, have you had such a sale before? How much time did it take to accumulate the amount of dinged decks you sold like this?
I would suggest that you "Like" BMP's new Facebook page then, as I would think it likely that sales like this one will get announced there before here next time.alric wrote:[That is not a bad haul at all. Even though these are dinged decks, there's a lot of variety and most of those are pretty desireable decks. It looks like it is a far better deal than D&D's mystery decks, even though they're not dinged. I guess I just have to be quicker to score these deals the next time BMP has a sale like this.
This was the one I saw on the table in the pic I wanted to get one of (and I got exactly one of them). The ding only affected the top card ever so slightly (couldn't notice at arm's length) - the rest are mint.DelMagic wrote:I bought 2 sets of these. In total I received:
1-Carnival Trick Card Deck (since I do magic, yeah!)
I think something with the flower is transducer night sakura deck.hikeeba wrote:First 17 in: Awesome Haul!!
Most are minor dings that really shouldn't affect the cards, but you wouldn't want to sell them like that.
The list: These I wanted (some I hadn't bought before): Bearbrick, Irregular, Samurai, EATCT, Apollo Blue, something with flowers, Green Bike (Cincy), Bike Ltd 1, White Arcane
And the rest: Faith, Karnival Assassins, Phoenix, Skull, Guardians, D&D Plaid Brown, D&D Chinatown, Dose
Still some more to bust open, but a great deal! Thanks!
You, sir, are correct. I also have a really colorful one and something with upset dragons....phantom1412 wrote:I think something with the flower is transducer night sakura deck.
elcyciB wrote:Great, really cool sale! Thanks Mike.
Brimstone
The Grid
Bicycle Apollo Red & Blue
Transducer Night Sakura
Galvanic
Bicycle Irregular
Bicycle Phoenix
Bicycle Fashion Series? (Lavender)
Blue Artifice
Bicycle Shadow Masters
Bicycle PRO Poker Peek
Bicycle League Back
Karnival Midnight Foil Box Edition
Karnival
Karnival Ryujin
Karnival Dose Foil Box Edition