My favorite company to hate is no more…. ahhhh!
CardCutz made some funky cards. Some designs worked really well, others totally did not. I own a few of them. Worx, I still hate that design… Neoteric, Awesomely fun… Deckade, instantly dated by the back design containing the number 2020 – A year nobody wants to remember anyway. Besides the Worx deck, which simply doesn’t (work, that is) a lot of their cards seem to be 80’s inspired judging by the combination of neons and pastels. It’s hard to know what demographic they were going for with their original designs, if any…
Incidentally, I never actually ordered any of their originals. I got those as freebies with other orders. That’s telling I guess, if you give away your limited editions. That makes no sense! Cardcutz released 19 original designs over 3 years. Each of them seem to come in a limited run of 2500, so that is a total of 47,500 decks of cards. That is a lot of cardboard! I wouldn’t know how to move that quantity of playing cards either…I truly think that they grossly overestimated how popular these cards would be… Never mind that these are printed by USPCC on crushed stock, which should have move monkeys salivate. That stuff is glorious! Don’t believe me? Order a deck of Bicycle Elites (exclusive to Penguin Magic). You will thank me later!
Anywho, if you go to the CardCutz web site now, all you will see is a gallery of their designs, which you can’t buy from them because they sold out. A “Contact Us” button which simply goes to an email address and a link to findcards.com, where you will see that plenty of places around the world still stock their cards. But the price is not going up so, again, that should tell you something about how ill-fated the endeavour that was CardCutz really was.
I think it was a bum move to make Australians (where CardCutz originates) pay exorbitant shipping by moving your operations to the US, but I don’t wish any kind of bad luck on anyone… So good luck in your next adventure!
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If that sounded insincere after my last tirade about this company, it isn’t. Some of the CardCutz designs were good. I would have thought there was a market for them. I think, much like myself, that the principals of the outfit overestimated demand. I was initially very excited to see an Australian company enter the playing card space… Too bad, it didn’t work out.