{"id":613,"date":"2010-03-12T14:12:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T14:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cult-stuff.com\/?p=613"},"modified":"2010-03-12T14:12:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T14:12:11","slug":"card-prices-shoot-up-and-not-in-the-good-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cult-stuff.com\/?p=613","title":{"rendered":"Card Prices shoot up&#8230; and not in the good way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With world events what they are it seems the card collecting hobby is going to take a price hit. The price of wholesale\u00a0paper\u00a0and pulp has increased\u00a0drastically\u00a0in the last few months and now the prices are set to jump 8-12% in the next few weeks. These problems will hit the European market first and are caused in no small part by the Finnish port strikes and of course the Chile&#8217;s earthquake.\u00a0Between\u00a0them they\u00a0account\u00a0for almost 12% (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-03-11\/pulp-price-surges-on-chilean-quake-finnish-strike-update1-.html\">source<\/a>) of the worlds pulp sales, and the production mills have stopped running.<\/p>\n<p>Already major card\u00a0printers Cartamundi* have jumped on this sending out\u00a0warning\u00a0emails\u00a0to all\u00a0manufacturers\u00a0stating\u00a0\u00a0that they will be increasing prices.\u00a0Apparently\u00a0they will hold off until the end of the month one would guess they anticipate that this is when they will need to re-stock on paper, or it&#8217;s a good ploy to bump sales.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like cards are about to get more\u00a0expensive.<\/p>\n<p>*<strong>Note<\/strong>: Cartamundi are printers under\u00a0license\u00a0and deal with the printing for many of the large\u00a0manufacturers, including brands like Yu-GiOjh World of Warcraft Strictly Ink, Upper Deck, and several others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With world events what they are it seems the card collecting hobby is going to take a price hit. The price of wholesale\u00a0paper\u00a0and pulp has increased\u00a0drastically\u00a0in the last few months and now the prices are set to jump 8-12% in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/cult-stuff.com\/?p=613\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cult-stuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cult-stuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cult-stuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cult-stuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cult-stuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/cult-stuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"http:\/\/cult-stuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cult-stuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cult-stuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cult-stuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}