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Originally Posted by Starshower
I came upon Liz Dean's Golden Tarot in a shop today (I wasn't looking, honest). On the few scans on here they look all strange & gentle & LOVELY! Sort of mock - medieval / modern / melancholy / Visconti-Sforza-ish melange ... but the gold box looked nice, and I can cope with pretty, pictureless pips, and, and, and ...
Help???????????
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O, please, I urge you, stop in your tracks!
I hardly ever trade decks, and this was a deck which was in my collection for less than 48 hours. I didnīt even add it to my profile/deck list through sheer shame. I traded it so fast. Before you could utter the words "shoddy cr*p" it had vanished forever from my collection.
And I fumigated and vigorously salted the part of my desk where it had briefly lain.
It is nasty, cheap, with appalling "bus-pass" lamination. Flimsy, insubstantial symbolism that you canīt get your teeth in. Lots of two-dimensional figures doing not very much.
O but lots and lots of special effort put into the box. And then it is shrink wrapped so you canīt see what youīre getting. References on the box to "gold", "sumptuous", "golden", "Visconti-Sforza."(I can feel from your post that the box has already worked its insidious magic with you too.)
And no mention whatsoever on the box of the words "rip-off" or "tat".
Gross misleading of the consumer.