Legit check - Bicycle Standard playing cards

Are my decks legit or not?


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Oct 13, 2019
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Hello i’m from Indonesia, I’m a newbie for checking some stuff of bicycle product, can someone help me to check it, cause every side of my deck is differrent from any other legit deck that reviewed by people who said the original, my deck has a different seal, i dont know if its a new one or just a fake one, can somebody help me? Thanks btw :)
 

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RickEverhart

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The box definitely looks real, but I have not seen that shiny hologram seal on Bicycles before. I am not saying they are fake, I just need someone else to confirm in bicycle has the silver seals on some of their decks going out.
 
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The box definitely looks real, but I have not seen that shiny hologram seal on Bicycles before. I am not saying they are fake, I just need someone else to confirm in bicycle has the silver seals on some of their decks going out.
Thanks for your information sir, but the USA words was not the same as the original that i knew U.S.A
 
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They look OK to me, i have three red and two blue decks in front of me that look the same as yours. The seal is a kind of hologram. I bought them in the Netherlands from Dynamite magic, one of the best shops in europe, so i am confident mine are real. I think this is an export-only version, the hologram has something to do with taxes or customs i believe. The seals used to be black or blue but the last seven or eight decks i got were exact the same as yours. The rip-offs are usually poor quality cards in a good-looking box.
 
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They look OK to me, i have three red and two blue decks in front of me that look the same as yours. The seal is a kind of hologram. I bought them in the Netherlands from Dynamite magic, one of the best shops in europe, so i am confident mine are real. I think this is an export-only version, the hologram has something to do with taxes or customs i believe. The seals used to be black or blue but the last seven or eight decks i got were exact the same as yours. The rip-offs are usually poor quality cards in a good-looking box.
Thank you sir for your information :), by the way is your “made in usa” words on the side of the deck has similar with mine ? or yours has dot on it like “made in U.S.A”
 
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The seal is something I've never seen before, but that might just be related to where you got them... Do they feel like normal bikes?
Thats what im thinking about, i got a lot of differences between mine and others That said it was legit deck. My friend told me to feel the slipperiness of the card, sadly im not understand :((
 
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Thank you sir for your information :), by the way is your “made in usa” words on the side of the deck has similar with mine ? or yours has dot on it like “made in U.S.A”
Call me Gustav please. That dot looks like a printing error on the box. The blue bar with 'standard size standard face' looks a bit off to the right. These are seconds. That are decks that didn't pass casino quality standards. My dealer sells them for 2/3 of the price. Sometimes the print on the cards is slightly off or the color isn't exactly right but they are real bicycles. Usually sold through wall-mart or petrol-stations. Nothing wrong with them, just cheaper. That slipperiness is easy to see, not to feel. Let light reflect off a card. You will see that the cards have very fine lines in them, like a net. That is the air-cushion finish, i believe. Cheap cards are just cardboard coated in plastic that is egal and shiny. They don't have lines. Take one of the advertising cards out of the deck and tear it carefully. You will see black glue in between the face and the back. There are other ways too but this one of the simplest. Bicycle has a video out about the production process that shows you all about it. Hope this helps you. G.
 
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Call me Gustav please. That dot looks like a printing error on the box. The blue bar with 'standard size standard face' looks a bit off to the right. These are seconds. That are decks that didn't pass casino quality standards. My dealer sells them for 2/3 of the price. Sometimes the print on the cards is slightly off or the color isn't exactly right but they are real bicycles. Usually sold through wall-mart or petrol-stations. Nothing wrong with them, just cheaper. That slipperiness is easy to see, not to feel. Let light reflect off a card. You will see that the cards have very fine lines in them, like a net. That is the air-cushion finish, i believe. Cheap cards are just cardboard coated in plastic that is egal and shiny. They don't have lines. Take one of the advertising cards out of the deck and tear it carefully. You will see black glue in between the face and the back. There are other ways too but this one of the simplest. Bicycle has a video out about the production process that shows you all about it. Hope this helps you. G.
Finally i got the answer :)) thank you so much Gustav, this is very helpful for me as a beginner, may you have a good day and could you tell me please for more legit detail or have another update about bicycle cards soon :) one once again thanks for your help
 
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