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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: arrowood20 on November 02, 2020, 12:31:57 AM
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Anybody in the market for a complete deck of "Gambit" cards?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-Gambit-Deck-Of-Cards-TV-1970s-Vintage-Game-Show-Cards-Full-Deck/133561873781?hash=item1f18e87575:g:mU4AAOSw0Z1flhpb (https://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-Gambit-Deck-Of-Cards-TV-1970s-Vintage-Game-Show-Cards-Full-Deck/133561873781?hash=item1f18e87575:g:mU4AAOSw0Z1flhpb)
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Apparently, given the price has doubled in the last hour!
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That show had the best graphic designer(s) ever.
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I remember there was a deck from the 90’s Eubanks pilot that came up about 10 years or so ago- that sold for about $200 IIRC...
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I remember there was a deck from the 90’s Eubanks pilot that came up about 10 years or so ago- that sold for about $200 IIRC...
This deck is pushing $600 with a few hours left. I can only imagine what a deck from “Card Sharks” would go for.
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I remember there was a deck from the 90’s Eubanks pilot that came up about 10 years or so ago- that sold for about $200 IIRC...
This deck is pushing $600 with a few hours left. I can only imagine what a deck from “Card Sharks” would go for.
About $350 a few years ago, I believe. And it had the prize cards!
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Final sale price: $911.01 (obvious meaning to that number).
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Final sale price: $911.01 (obvious meaning to that number).
But not any meaning related to Gambit, is it?
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Well, there were 19 hijackers in all and 2 towers they hit, that makes 21 and that's a $500 bonus.
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Well, there were 19 hijackers in all and 2 towers they hit, that makes 21 and that's a $500 bonus.
But do they also get the Matchbox car?
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I thought that was a Revell kit...which means they'd also win the fun job of having to put it together.
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Well, either the person who won it reneged and there was a relisting or there’s a 2nd deck for sale by the same person...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/143832358445
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It's another deck. I sent a message to the seller earlier.
-Jason
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It's another deck. I sent a message to the seller earlier.
-Jason
I’m sort of shocked- what kind of a situation came about that got the seller in the position to acquire not one, but TWO 40-plus year old Gambit decks?
(I do wonder how often they had to make new decks to use- you figure they had to have at least a couple of dozen decks to use each taping session, since every match and every bonus round used a different deck. And over time they would get torn, bent up, and stained..over the 4 years of the show the prop department probably had to make a lot of them.)
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I’m sort of shocked- what kind of a situation came about that got the seller in the position to acquire not one, but TWO 40-plus year old Gambit decks?
The best episode of Storage Wars EVER. Stay tuned.
I’m just bummed to find out I don’t have the only remaining complete deck anymore; that really kills the future resale value. Oh well.
(pffft, like I’m ever selling mine anyway)
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(pffft, like I’m ever selling mine anyway)
Wait, what? You have a complete Gambit deck?
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(pffft, like I’m ever selling mine anyway)
Wait, what? You have a complete Gambit deck?
Since 2013, yeah.
It’s the one Adam Nedeff used scans of to make his own personal Gambit home game a couple of years ago.
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Am I high or did some decks have orange backs with white printing?
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Looks like the original seller has gotten around to listing his *third* deck.
You can have a mostly complete one (48/52 cards) for the low low price of $700...
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If this seller isn't looking at these and thinking "hmmm, how can I print some more of these up and weather them so they look like they came from the '70s," they aren't thinking.
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If this seller isn't looking at these and thinking "hmmm, how can I print some more of these up and weather them so they look like they came from the '70s," they aren't thinking.
Also, missing cards or not, if I've auctioned this item twice already, and both times it went for more than $900, I'm not going to sell the next one at a "buy it now" price that's less than that.
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If this seller isn't looking at these and thinking "hmmm, how can I print some more of these up and weather them so they look like they came from the '70s," they aren't thinking.
Also, missing cards or not, if I've auctioned this item twice already, and both times it went for more than $900, I'm not going to sell the next one at a "buy it now" price that's less than that.
Except, and i've made this point to the seller - you can't play cards with a less than full deck, retro novelty or not.
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Except, and i've made this point to the seller - you can't play cards with a less than full deck, retro novelty or not.
I disagree. Anyone paying $900+ for these is MOST DEFINITELY playing with less than a full deck.
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Except, and i've made this point to the seller - you can't play cards with a less than full deck, retro novelty or not.
I disagree. Anyone paying $900+ for these is MOST DEFINITELY playing with less than a full deck.
I dunno - wanna roll the oversized dice and bet on that? :)
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I dunno - wanna roll the oversized dice and bet on that? :)
1) I think we established there were cards missing from my deck a LONG time ago. :)
2) I paid, what, $50 for those all told? :)
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2) I paid, what, $50 for those all told? :)
Did you really? I loathe you more :) Want to make a good return on your investment? :) :) :)
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If you have less than an entire deck of cards, sell them individually, and space out the auctions. That would drive more interest than selling what's perceived as an incomplete product.
(I've sometimes had a hard time getting my head around eBay selling practices. Back around 1999 or so, someone associated with the Atlanta Braves got ahold of a pile of game-worn jerseys, and decided to sell all of them at once, with auctions ending within ten minutes of one another. I bid on a couple knowing I had backup plans. And that's why I have an Alan Embree jersey in my closet right now.)
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If you have less than an entire deck of cards, sell them individually, and space out the auctions. That would drive more interest than selling what's perceived as an incomplete product.
(I've sometimes had a hard time getting my head around eBay selling practices. Back around 1999 or so, someone associated with the Atlanta Braves got ahold of a pile of game-worn jerseys, and decided to sell all of them at once, with auctions ending within ten minutes of one another. I bid on a couple knowing I had backup plans. And that's why I have an Alan Embree jersey in my closet right now.)
Ha! I got a 1999 Braves game-used jersey of Justin Speier, presumably from the same seller. (I got at signed by Speier a year later.) At least their jerseys that season had a cool patch commemorating the 25th anniversary of Hank Aaron's 715th homer.
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Did you really? I loathe you more :) Want to make a good return on your investment? :) :) :)
I do not! :)