Choosing the right custom playing card manufacture.

If you are looking to purchase custom playing cards for your business, wedding, anniversary, or any other special event please read on for some useful information you may or may not know about customized playing cards.

Choosing the right manufacture or playing card company to print your playing cards is very important. Don’t always go with the first company you come across. There are several custom playing card manufactures out there for you to choose from. Most of these companies all work with the same people and are very interconnected. So pricing should be the same across the board. Here is where you want to take a closer look. Most companies will have an e-mail request form or want you to call for pricing which is fine, judge the company by how fast they respond to your inquiry. If they get back to you with in a reasonable amount of time (no more than 24hrs) then they have passed the first test. If you send an inquiry to a custom playing card company that takes more than that to respond to a quote request (which means money in their pocket) how long will it take them to take care of a problem situation? So once they have responded and sent over pricing the next step is to request samples from the company so you know exactly what you are getting. Most people do not realize there are several different thickness and quality of custom playing cards. You want to make sure the cards are at least 300 GSM if you are planning to have people use them more than once.

There are several reasons why people choose a thinner custom playing card stock or a thicker playing card stock, but if you have any intent of these custom playing cards actually being used I would not suggest going any lower than a 300 GSM. The reason I say to receive samples and a written estimate from the custom playing card manufacture is because they know the general public does not know about the different thickness. Basically I’m telling you to compare apples to apples, because not only is the thickness different but also so are the prices. One company may quote you $4.50 per deck for 100 decks where another company will quote you $3.25 for 100 decks. The most obvious choice too most buyers would be to go with the $3.25 per deck without first wondering why the price difference per deck is so high. One simple answer that question is GSM or card thickness.

Another reason why you want to receive samples is so that you make sure that what you are paying for is what you get. I personally have seen some shady things going on in this industry where a customer will order custom playing cards at $4.50 a deck thinking they are getting 300 GSM and with no samples to compare them too have no idea they have just received 260 or 280 GSM and the custom playing card manufacture just made a lot more money on you. It’s sad to say but these things do happen and I owning my own custom playing card company do not agree with these tactics so I would like to warn everyone out there before they get ripped off.

521 Promotional Advertising prides itself on customer service and satisfaction and hopes that all the other companies in this industry would do the same. 90% of our business is repeat or client referral’s and we not willing to give that up to make a few bucks from a client that does not have the knowledge of custom playing cards that we do.

We have been in the custom playing card industry for over 10 years and counting and we intend to keep it that way. We don’t BEAT the competition we ARE the competition!

If you have any questions regarding custom playing cards, custom board games, custom dice, or promotional advertising products please feel free to contact us at 521promo@gmail.com or give us a call at 973-288-1541 and one of our reps will be more than happy to assist you.