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Anyone got any tarot bargain stories from the January sales? I was just commenting to Grizabella the other day: funny, tarot decks never seem to be included in the January sales...
I hit the shops in Manchester this afternoon. Shops heaving with people and I decided to track down a pagan bookshop which Id heard about here at AT and despite being familiar with Manchester for over 30 years, I didn't know about this place. Anyway, so I found it and the stock was actually quite good. They had a Ukiyoe tarot (hurrah! OOP!), Giotto tarot (never seen this for sale anywhere), Corto Maltese and Arcus Arcanum. All priced at normal price, no noticable discount, but the pound is weak at the moment anyway so it works in my favour.
Anyway, half an hour later, I think "I should have bought that Breughel tarot" and so I decide to go back to the shop and get it. I walk back into the shop, and see all the tarot decks which Id been perusing laid out on a table with bumper price Sales discount stickers. The manager had come in and suddenly put the whole stock on sale half an hour after Id paid full price for everything! Don't you just hate it when that happens?
(by the way if anyone in the area is interested they've got quite a few interesting decks on sale. "New Aeon Bookshop". I almost bought a back up of LoS Classical Tarot, but am determined not to go down that ole back up road. Tarot de Paris? Half price? Druid Craft? Liber T? Hudes? Quite a few others. The bad news is, it's a clear out sale as the owner told me they're only going to stock RWS and Thoth from now on. The other stuff doesn't sell)
However, I lucked out a bit later in the day when I was taking a short cut down a street which Ive not walked down for over ten years, and I suddenly spotted a second hand bookshop (was I whistling?) which Ive not been in for 15 years or so. Something pulled me in (this always happens. I really think I must have a 6th sense for deck bargains). And I found a facsimile fortune telling deck from 1715 and a vintage early 1980s Tarot Zigeuner in immaculate condition.
Joy! Does anyone else want to to share their January Sales stories? I popped into Borders. but everything EXCEPT tarot decks seemed to be on sale
I hit the shops in Manchester this afternoon. Shops heaving with people and I decided to track down a pagan bookshop which Id heard about here at AT and despite being familiar with Manchester for over 30 years, I didn't know about this place. Anyway, so I found it and the stock was actually quite good. They had a Ukiyoe tarot (hurrah! OOP!), Giotto tarot (never seen this for sale anywhere), Corto Maltese and Arcus Arcanum. All priced at normal price, no noticable discount, but the pound is weak at the moment anyway so it works in my favour.
Anyway, half an hour later, I think "I should have bought that Breughel tarot" and so I decide to go back to the shop and get it. I walk back into the shop, and see all the tarot decks which Id been perusing laid out on a table with bumper price Sales discount stickers. The manager had come in and suddenly put the whole stock on sale half an hour after Id paid full price for everything! Don't you just hate it when that happens?
(by the way if anyone in the area is interested they've got quite a few interesting decks on sale. "New Aeon Bookshop". I almost bought a back up of LoS Classical Tarot, but am determined not to go down that ole back up road. Tarot de Paris? Half price? Druid Craft? Liber T? Hudes? Quite a few others. The bad news is, it's a clear out sale as the owner told me they're only going to stock RWS and Thoth from now on. The other stuff doesn't sell)
However, I lucked out a bit later in the day when I was taking a short cut down a street which Ive not walked down for over ten years, and I suddenly spotted a second hand bookshop (was I whistling?) which Ive not been in for 15 years or so. Something pulled me in (this always happens. I really think I must have a 6th sense for deck bargains). And I found a facsimile fortune telling deck from 1715 and a vintage early 1980s Tarot Zigeuner in immaculate condition.
Joy! Does anyone else want to to share their January Sales stories? I popped into Borders. but everything EXCEPT tarot decks seemed to be on sale
