StarscreamF15
I have a swiss *blue box* copy of the Aleister Crowley Thoth deck. I got this deck last year sometime. It was interesting because when I first saw the Thoth deck I did not like how it looked. Then one day I saw some pictures of a Thoth deck online somewheres that had a really cool shade of green on the boarders and a green tint to the pictures. Im not a huge fan of green but there was something about the way they looked that to me just made the artwork POP and I fell in love with the deck.
So Ok I ended up with the grey bordered swiss copy instead. That was ok. Once in my hands I found that I liked them but I was always searching for the green bordered Thoth. Of course in my research I found out they were misprints, the 'Greenie/Greene' decks and some people hated them and some loved them.. to each their own.
I found an auction on eBay that had the Thoth white box C and everything in the description told me from what I had researched that this was the infamous 'greenie' deck so I hit BIN on a copy (they had multiples). They were listed as new/sealed (to all appearances 'dead stock') and the price was for what a present deck would go for. *shrug* hey there are people that dont know what they are selling on eBay so who was I to look a gift horse in the mouth?
I got the deck in today. Its the US Games green bordered /box/, GIANT cards instead, sealed and copyrighted 2006. Not at all what they advertised. Nothing close to it. I had considered getting a giant thoth deck for study/meditation and such but this is not what I was led to believe I was buying and not really what I wanted, at least right now. Oddly enough I also got in some velvet bags I had ordered that by chance fit this deck perfectly....
Maybe Im grasping at straws here but I gotta wonder just /why/ I got the deck I got (besides a shifty seller)... should I keep it or send them back for a refund and just suck it up one of these days and fork out the $$$$ most people want for a Greenie deck? Just curious on thoughts and opinions on this.
So Ok I ended up with the grey bordered swiss copy instead. That was ok. Once in my hands I found that I liked them but I was always searching for the green bordered Thoth. Of course in my research I found out they were misprints, the 'Greenie/Greene' decks and some people hated them and some loved them.. to each their own.
I found an auction on eBay that had the Thoth white box C and everything in the description told me from what I had researched that this was the infamous 'greenie' deck so I hit BIN on a copy (they had multiples). They were listed as new/sealed (to all appearances 'dead stock') and the price was for what a present deck would go for. *shrug* hey there are people that dont know what they are selling on eBay so who was I to look a gift horse in the mouth?
I got the deck in today. Its the US Games green bordered /box/, GIANT cards instead, sealed and copyrighted 2006. Not at all what they advertised. Nothing close to it. I had considered getting a giant thoth deck for study/meditation and such but this is not what I was led to believe I was buying and not really what I wanted, at least right now. Oddly enough I also got in some velvet bags I had ordered that by chance fit this deck perfectly....
Maybe Im grasping at straws here but I gotta wonder just /why/ I got the deck I got (besides a shifty seller)... should I keep it or send them back for a refund and just suck it up one of these days and fork out the $$$$ most people want for a Greenie deck? Just curious on thoughts and opinions on this.