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i have noticed that leeasher.com has now posted a date for this years sale of the 'famous' jerrys nuggets decks: september 4th. the webpage suggest more info to follow at later time. and going off the info stored their on previous sales, it looks highly professional and organised. im guessing their will be a few of us cardists that will be glued to our screens on this date to try and pick up one of these. as they say, stay tuned.

Lee stands behind his sales and even certificate for the JNugs.

mmiikk wrote:i have noticed that leeasher.com has now posted a date for this years sale of the 'famous' jerrys nuggets decks: september 4th. the webpage suggest more info to follow at later time. and going off the info stored their on previous sales, it looks highly professional and organised. im guessing their will be a few of us cardists that will be glued to our screens on this date to try and pick up one of these. as they say, stay tuned.

Join his mailing list to stay up-to-date. He's been doing this for years and surely the safest way to buy JNuggs nowadays.

Looks like we have a set time for when the sale will go live.
"Be here on September 4th, 2014 at 8:30pm (EDT).
Don't be late. Only 50 will be sold this year."

Shame it's going to be 2:30am here in Europe

Anyone planning on buying?

I want to so bad. If I can get one of the first tiers, I'll get one but I can't spend more than that on one deck right now.

I'd love to but I view Nuggets like diamonds. They're absolutely awesome, great to own, expensive as hell and based on a completely false market.

No offense intended towards Mr. Asher of course, he seems like quite the stand up guy and seems to have one hell of a head for business on his shoulders. In the words of Ali G, "Much respect yo. Booyakasha!"

chach wrote:I'd love to but I view Nuggets like diamonds. They're absolutely awesome, great to own, expensive as hell and based on a completely false market.

No offense intended towards Mr. Asher of course, he seems like quite the stand up guy and seems to have one hell of a head for business on his shoulders. In the words of Ali G, "Much respect yo. Booyakasha!"

Hard to argue that logic, chach! These sat in a warehouse for more than 20 years and then were sold for $1 in their gift shop. Darned things were easily available 10 years ago and not even hard to get 5 years ago. Like you compared them to diamonds: if Russia released 1/10th of their diamond reserves, DeBeers and every diamond ever made would be basically worthless. That's how Russia pays their bills, so they're not about to do something stupid.

How much do these go for on Lee's website?

Eoghann wrote:How much do these go for on Lee's website?

That's what I'd like to know as well Whatever it is I'm sure it won't be cheap though

Here's a run down of how it works from his website:

http://www.leeasher.com/jerrys_nugget_d ... .html#list

markjanderson wrote:Here's a run down of how it works from his website:

http://www.leeasher.com/jerrys_nugget_d ... .html#list

I wouldn't want to be anything but first or second. Yeah right, I might as well just sleep through this one haha

Hot damn those are pricy.

I'm curious to see what all the fuss is about. But I'm not THAT curious.

Uhm... No. Not even once.

Got in at tier 11 for $400. Released it. Too rich for my blood.

Tried my luck for the $50, got hit with the $380 tier.

*clicks on 'Return deck'*

I got in on tier 7 at $320 and had to release it. People are very quick at clicking their mouse buttons hehe

I get that these are rare but asking $400? fuckin madness

While I agree it's an outrageous and synthetic price-point for JNuggs, it just goes back to what I've said several times: a deck of cards is worth exactly what you can get somebody to pay for it. No more, no less.

I saw a deck of OG Dondorf #1000 Hundertjahrkarte ("Jubilee" / "Centennial") sell for $1700 last month. Just WAY over what I'd ever even consider. I'm going to be right up front and say I paid $120 for my JNugg.

I have paid more - like for a first edition Congress 606 gold edged ("gilt") very unusual deck in basically pristine condition. It's one of the almost unknown geometric backs that they only did once and I've never seen another one like it - and neither have people like Tom Dawson, etc

I paid $250 for it, and that's about my limit no matter how nice or how rare a box of 52 of our fancy pieces of cardboard I'll go.

I passed on it completely. As much as I'd like one, I just can't see more than $125-150 on. Since there were only 2 under $220, I said to heck with it.

Cbkimble wrote:I passed on it completely. As much as I'd like one, I just can't see more than $125-150 on. Since there were only 2 under $220, I said to heck with it.

Yep, the fact is that only two people could get a decent price the way that sale was structured, so in essence is was a non-sale - except for those two people. I'd love to see someone find 1000 of those puppies!

Mike Ratledge wrote: I'd love to see someone find 1000 of those puppies!

And I'd love to be that person.

I'd love to be that person as well. I'd completely bust the price of that deck. They'd no longer be valued at over $100.

Well, that's exactly my point: only one person has any significant stockpile of this deck, and has had for almost 10 years, now. It's an inevitable conclusion that something like this is going to be at a premium price as well. He made the market, he set the prices, he is the only one that can change them also. If you've basically only got one source for a deck, you have to pay whatever it is that person wants, or you do without, and I'm not being snippy, I'm just saying that's how it works. That's pretty much the way it is and has been, just off the top of my head: "Rarebit" from T11. You want one, you get it from them, or do without. Now I can get them with my lunch or dinner group, as long as we order $100 worth of food in one seating. That's Charleston's "speak-easy" replica bar - the first of its kind in the state. Very popular for lunch (it's in the old "Charles Towne" section of downtown. Also very good food as well, so you're not having any trouble what you might want to eat (menus are online at RareBit).

Are the decks worth $100 each? Of course not. Have the managed to keep them exclusive enough to make that price-point stick? Oh, yes - they have. When you see one of these change hands, it's almost always for $200+ dollars - if not more. Now that I steered us WAY off topic, I'll duck out again.

"We now return to your regularly scheduled Lee Asher JNugg 2014 discussion" . . .