[access-uk] Re: Chancing the cards?
- From: "Adrien Collins" <adriencollins22160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 22:22:57 +0100
HI Eleanor
I still have my cards in their box and I have had them for
over 30 years, they don't fall apart. Do you remember the
game whot, I have that too.
Regards
Adrien
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eleanor Burke
Sent: 05 February 2012 01:24 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Chancing the cards?
I think I'd prefer the tin for preserving the cards.
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From: Peter Beasley <mailto:pjbeasley23@xxxxxxxxx>
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2012 12:19 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Chancing the cards?
I remember from my schooldays that Braille playing
cards used to be in a tin. I baught a pack in 1990 and they
are in a cardboard box.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ibrahim Gucukoglu
<mailto:ibrahim_gucukoglu@xxxxxxxx>
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2012 12:06 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Chancing the cards?
Hi Mike.
I have a set of playing cards which must be
15 years old or more, I?ve had them since I was a child and
used them regularly. The cards come in a sturdy cardboard
box and the braille dots though very faint on some of them
are still quite legible. If RNIB are putting braille cards
in a tin to protect the dots and they think this is an
acceptable reason to charge over double what the print cards
sell for, they?re clearly desperate to add value to these to
justify the price. The packaging makes little or no
difference to the cards since if you use them on a regular
basis the dots will become flattened and fainter over time
anyway, a tin isn?t going to make the slightest difference
to that. If RNIB were to sell a set of plastic like cards
which were robust and sturdy instead of the flimsy cardboard
ones they sell, then I could perhaps justify spending that
on a set. As you say though, I?m probably going to have to
buy a decent set myself and have them brailed with sighted
assistance.
All the best, Ibrahim.
From: Mike Moore
<mailto:mikeis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2012 11:36 AM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Chancing the cards?
Ibrahim,
Obviously you have failed to take into
regard the high quality box the cards come in..... though it
is to protect the less than sufficient quality of the
playing cards, so the bumps don't get flattened!!
It's a sod, but I agree with Peter, buy a
good quality set of cards, the vinyl ones which will give a
good sharpness of Braille and mark them yourself. You can
also come up with a better system of ID..
Kindest,
Mike
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ibrahim
Gucukoglu
Sent: 05 February 2012 10:11
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Chancing the cards?
Hi Everyone.
I know we?ve discussed games on here in the
past, so I thought I?d raise this issue as it raises my
hackles somewhat. I was on the RNIB online shop this
morning looking for brailed playing cards, and was shocked
to discover that these cards cost £7.26, while the standard
printed cards cost less than half this at £3.5. For an
organisation that claims to promote equal access, this is
hardly an encouragement to take up a new hobbies or interest
as it penalises those of us who must use braille. A couple
of sets of these cards would set me back a Wapping £14.5, an
outrageous amount of money considering that the work
required to adapt these cards IE putting a suit and numeric
denominator on each hardly merits such an inflated price.
Thoughts anyone?
All the best, Ibrahim.
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