Universal Dali discounts

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 24 Jun 2003, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Cerulean	24 Jun 2003
If you can spare the money and like his photocollages, there's a discount to $75.00 on the Salvador Dali tarot: www.learntarot.com under browse and buy tarot decks. I don't know the condition of the cards or boxes, etc., but I think it comes with a booklet...if you want a pristine copy for collecting, tarotgarden.com has them. A cheaper way to go, as I've done, is Rachel Pollack's book on the Universal Dali...I've seen through Abebooks.com and Amazon.com the book go for as low as $35.00...I paid about $40.00 for a color hard-bound with some slight page crinkles and her commentary on the deck, which is valuable to me. My suggestion if you do get the book is to see if the images of the Dali and Pollack's summary works for you. I really liked Rachel Pollack's summary, which adds insight from her Rider-Waite-Smith studies and some names of the art collages...Mark Filpas review of the tarot and notes from Rachel Pollack's book was helpful to me. http://www.spiritone.com/~filipas/Masquerade/Reviews/dali.html My sister likes the cards...so I'm hoping to take of such discounts soon, myself. I first learned about collage decks from Voyager Tarot and keep it out of sentiment...Dali's deck doesn't look so strange to me anymore, which might be a bad sign %). Mari_H.

Woof	24 Jun 2003
They have the deck for $67. 39. Just an FYI. Woof

Cerulean	24 Jun 2003
By the way, be careful on this one and specify if it is the deck or book that you are buying...some sellers are listing the book as if it is a deck unless you read the description carefully. I usually send an email for availablity, ask specifically if it is the deck we are talking about...sometimes if there is telephone number, I'll also call about condition on lower-priced items before sending money. I also wanted to add...if you do want to buy on Amazon or Abebooks.com and it's an independent store with an email address, I will send email to find out condition (is booklet there, are all 78 card cards in the set, is the box intact). If there's a price range, I send inquiries to a low and middle-range vendor...or the vendor that is nearest, because mailing costs can be cheaper. The seller that replies first usually gets my business. If no reply, sometimes I will go to the high end of the price range, because the seller rep or rating is very high and I really want something specific. Of course, I do send an email message and only pay after getting a reply.

Rusty Neon	24 Jun 2003
Another low-cost alternative (if you can live without the major arcana and the Pages and don't mind poker-size cards) is to get the Salvador Dali poker deck (52 cards) published by Piatnik which is based on the minor arcana of the Salvador Dali tarot deck.

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