Cardistry lovers from Europe: Where do you buy your cards?

[hawk7]

i thought about this thread for some time now, and i finally decided to post it.
i have a question for everyone from europe who is into cardistry:

where do you buy your cards?

or what i actually mean:

where can i get cheap bikes or tallys?

since i don't have alot of money, that's my biggest problem, because tricks come with practise, but cards only come by buying...

anyway, i've just ordered a couple of cards recently, and before i did i searched for online magic stores all over europe to see which one was the cheapest, and in the end i ordered about 25 decks from the magicbox, because as far as i could tell they had the lowest prices, but i had to pay the awesome amount of 13GBP (about 25-30USD, but that's only an estimate).
anyway, i was hoping that maybe there's a super secret super awesome online magic store that i missed somewhere, because it's really p**sing me off that in the us you can order a tally brick for 1.5$ a deck, and i have to pay more than twice that much.

so if you have any ideas let me know!

 

[FliXeRoCk107]

Well, if you live in the uk there is a shop that selles tiger decks. the address is http://www.magicshop.co.uk

 

[Loz]

Well, if you live in the uk there is a shop that selles tiger decks. the address is http://www.magicshop.co.uk

I'm not being funny but that has got to be one of the most stupid posts I've ever read. Firstly, no-one ever said anything about Tiger Decks, and on that website they're £5.99 which isn't exactly the best price in the world. If he wanted to buy a tiger deck, then maybe he would've... you know. Asked for that in his post.

But in a word no, there isn't any cheap place that I have found yet. I have been looking for ages and the best I've come up with is magicbox as well. Sometimes you can find a gem on ebay but that's pretty much it. When I feel the pinch on my wallet I just go to woolworths and pick up a load of plastic decks for £1 apiece. They're impossible to fan decently but they do a nice job otherwise

 

[Kris]

Well, I mostly buy from www.cards4magic.co.uk, in my opinion a great site, with a lot of variety of playing cards.

-Kris

 

[Asuka]

Magicbox has Bicycle seconds for 99p if you're looking for Bicycles. They're normal Bicycles cost only £1.50. If your looking for general flourishing and cadistry cards like Tally's then try www.cards4magic.co.uk

They have a massive collection of rare cards at very cheap prices and are based in the UK.

 

[hawk7]

thanks for the replys so far guys!
anyway, i've noticed that www.cards4magic.co.uk was mentioned two times i think, and i strongly recommend to check out www.magicbox.uk.com when you are currently ordering from cards4magic, because although c4m has a great variety of cards, the standard cards are way cheaper at the magicbox. just check this out:

12 Bicycle Rider Back Red:
cards4magic price: 24GBP
magicbox price: 17.75GBP
magicbox also carries bicycle seconds, they are only 0.99GBP a deck!

12 Tally Ho Circle Back:
cards4magic price: 24GBP
magicbox price: 17.50GBP

so as you can see for yourself, the magicbox is clearly cheaper, so take a look at it.

by the way i'm still waiting for someone to come up with a totally unknown and cheap magic store, but just maybe that's not gonna happen...

PS: if you have too much free time go to google.it and search for tally ho cards only displaying results from italy, they've got insane prices, like 5€ (~3.50GBP) for regular bikesjust like in some other countries (i think i recall finnland or sweden being one of them). poor bastards.

 

[Huruey]

I live in the UK, and a friend of the familly has membership with a supplier of many different things. I cant remember what they're called, but with his membership (which he has to pay for) he is able to get me bycicle bricks of 12 for £10... When I first found out about this, I nearly wet myself, seen as I too had had a lot of trouble obtaining any decent cards.

I'll try get back to you on the name of the supplier.

Take care,
Huruey