THIS ISN'T AN OPINION POLL - IT IS A FACTUAL POLL - If you haven't experience any of this - don't vote.
I don't want to divert the conversation to here - although it might, however:
I HAVE been asked, "is that a trick deck" a few times in my 13 years with Bikes...but after asking why they asked that - people would say, "I have a friend that had a deck that did" - then they would describe a Svengali or a Tappered deck...sometimes an ID - but nobody has asked me that before I did magic, and nobody has asked me if they had NO knowledge of other marketed trick decks.
HOWEVER - in just carrying around a novelty deck...and doing nothing with it - I have had MANY people ask me, before they have seen anything - are those cards trick cards.
SO I ask - have you had people ask you if your cards are trick cards?
Yes - but only when I use novelty cards
Yes - but more so with novelty cards, than with bikes or recognized brands
Yes - but the same amount regardless of using Bikes or Novelty cards
No - it is a non-issue, I have never been asked either way
I don't have enough experience performing to judge either way
I don't want to divert the conversation to here - although it might, however:
I HAVE been asked, "is that a trick deck" a few times in my 13 years with Bikes...but after asking why they asked that - people would say, "I have a friend that had a deck that did" - then they would describe a Svengali or a Tappered deck...sometimes an ID - but nobody has asked me that before I did magic, and nobody has asked me if they had NO knowledge of other marketed trick decks.
HOWEVER - in just carrying around a novelty deck...and doing nothing with it - I have had MANY people ask me, before they have seen anything - are those cards trick cards.
SO I ask - have you had people ask you if your cards are trick cards?
Yes - but only when I use novelty cards
Yes - but more so with novelty cards, than with bikes or recognized brands
Yes - but the same amount regardless of using Bikes or Novelty cards
No - it is a non-issue, I have never been asked either way
I don't have enough experience performing to judge either way