Thanks for the information.

About two months ago, I emailed a very large playing card company in Germany/Europe and asked for a price for a very large print run of card decks and received no reply. Maybe they didn't want to disclose the cost per deck itself.

In the meantime, the Euro stores (one dollar stores) in Germany are selling cheap poker card decks again. Two decks of cards (each shrink-wrapped together in one card box ) for a total of 1.50 euros. The quality of the cards is ok for normal customers. Apparently the production costs per deck can't be that high after all.

What do you consider to be a “very large” print run? Because I bet that store buys hundreds of thousands of units.

"What do you consider to be a "very large" print run?"

A five- or six-digit number of card decks.

Daniel, I think your best bet will probably be to check out some of the printers that print adverting material. They too print playing cards. For example, you can get custom playing cards with your business logo from 4imprint USA cheap for .95 in a lot of 10,000. And I'm sure they would deal with you on a larger lot without a logo. There are lots of advertising printers out there. And I would even talk to a local printer and maybe they could point you to the right place.

Tom

Advertising printers is actually not a horrible idea. Prices and quality will vary but they do want the business.

Tom thank you very much for the advice.

The card deck company got back to me after all and the price offered per poker card deck according to my layout, including card box and value-added tax, is less than one euro.

Is that a good thing? I have no idea the exchange rate.

If it is good then I’m happy to hear it.

I checked a conversion chart, and it looks to be $1.07 United States for one euro.


Tom

Selling magic kits, decks etc is business related. Isn’t it. If he had posted someplace else, others would be saying move it to the business section. lol

Yes, this is the right area to talk about the business side of magic. It's Tricky but it is the business section.

Tom

I have given this thread the title "Production costs for card decks". From my point of view if someone is not interested in this, he she it simply should not click on the thread.