[access-uk] Re: Chancing the cards?
- From: "Adrien Collins" <adriencollins22160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 22:28:20 +0100
HI Peter
That's when they subsidised prices but they don't do that
any more, the price should be the same as the high street
prices but it is obvious that that's not the case with the
playing cards.
Regards
Adrien
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Beasley
Sent: 05 February 2012 01:56 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Chancing the cards?
Yes! but they seem rather expensive. RNIB used to sell
products for 1 third of the price if you were blind but not
these days.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jackie Cairns" <jackie.cairnsplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2012 12:52 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Chancing the cards?
> Hi Peter
>
> Yes you could, quite easily, with a Perkins and some time.
But why
> should you when the RNIB sell them on their online shop?
I'm not
> having a pop, just agreeing with Ibrahim that it's not
fair.
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Jackie Cairns
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Peter Beasley
> Sent: 05 February 2012 10:38
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Chancing the cards?
>
> I have no idea what a pack of cards costs in an ordinary
shop, but my
> suggestion is just to buy one and obviously with sighted
assistance,
> Braille them.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ibrahim Gucukoglu
<mailto:ibrahim_gucukoglu@xxxxxxxx>
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2012 10:10 AM
> 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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