Lenticular cards cost me from 3.99 usd to above. Those go only to special trades and friends
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yes, there is a local small used bookstore where they sell old/ vintage postcards once in a while. the senior lady who works there is always so nice and gives me discount although the cards are inexpensive, around 40 yen each. vintage japanese cards are very cool at the same time.
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Hi, it depends what type of card it it. You can have one for 0,5 EUR in Czech, but also for 4 EUR. The cost of the stamp is growing since last year, which makes me a bit upset. But hobby is hobby 
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Anything more than ā¬1 I would consider expensive. I recently bought these two lovely screenprinted postcards of local landmarks for ā¬2,50 each, but I already know Iāll find it difficult to part with them 
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It all depends on which card you buy. Postcards are not for sale at the post office, you look for them either in special āMarkā salons, or in all sorts of souvenir shops.
Everything that costs 30 rubles is the normal price for a new postcard, 40-50 rubles is already decent. I bought a postcard for about 40 rubles, it was made of some kind of unusual cardboard. Sets of ten postcards also cost about 300 rubles, which is acceptable.
But for a āvintageā Soviet postcard, I will not give more than 20-30 rubles at a flea market. From 30 rubles you can buy a Soviet badge there, and its cost is much higher than postcards, which at that time were just everywhere.
Although they donāt ask for such prices for old postcards. I saw a set of 10+ 1971 postcards with views of my city for only 150 rubles. Good value when they only accept cash.
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Iāve bought several lots of postcards on ebay for around 10c US a card, which is pretty cheap. That being said they are extremely random, some are odd themes I have no idea who Iāll send them to, etc. As others have said this is fine for Postcrossing officials and swaps ā as long as you have a place to store them you can eventually find the right person to send to!
Often you can find regular tourist cards for 50c US or so, but sometimes as much as $2.00 US and if you want a shaped / lenticular / large size it can run you up to $5.00 US.
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In Japan, a card by an artist can cost 150 - 200 yen (or more).
I also tend to think a card that costs more than 1 Euro is quite expensiveā¦
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Here in Taiwan, the most expensive price cost 12 NTD (47 yen, less than a half of US dollar)
5 NTD to China, 6 NTD to Hong Kong and Macao, 10 NTD to Asian and Oceanian countries, 11 NTD to Canada and USA, 12 is for other countries
Postcard had its prescribed size, (because everyone can make their own cards) if the card is over this size (so does shaped card) then it cost with regular mail price, the highest price is 17 per 10 g
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@xyz9902 I think this thread is about price of postcards, not postage fees. 
btw for a couple of occasions I turned on Travel Mode in Taipei, and researched a bit about price of postcards there, as a result. I found most of the decent-quality view cards / tourist cards there cost 20 to 25 NTD each. Thatās kinda like 2 cards equal to a cup of bubble tea. Those cute illustration cards are only more expensive.
No offense but Iāve understood why some Taiwanese users send Taobao cards or self-printed cards, despite super-cheap postage, since then.
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Iāve never shopping on Taobao but right, lots of people do
I even bought 50, 60 NTD cards, the most expensive postcard I bought was 100 NTD, it was a 3D card
Self-printed cards are not that bad as long as they made by good artists
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Lou Paper is USD $2. Some local artists on Etsy sell postcards from USD $3-5
Iāve recently bought some expensive ones on Etsy for my official Postcrossing recipientsā¦ canāt wait to send outā¦ 
Sending them through USPS First class mail is $1.20 but that price is going up in about a month 
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I feel these price comparisons are not very telling because the absolute numbers donāt really say much about how expensive or cheap things are. Average salary in Denmark is 4 times higher than in Poland so 1ā¬ has different value to a Danish person than it has to you.
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I differ to @anon62166699 as postcards are more expensive where I live. Between $5 to $7 seems standard and yet theyāre printed overseasā¦?! Thatās also because it requires a specific trip to the venue to buy them- Iām maybe 20min drive from the national tourist spots here but my local shopping centres within a 10min drive wonāt stock the postcards.
Iāve bought more postcards when I visit interstate locations than local due to price. At $20 for a (metal) box of 10 or 12 Australian photographs that were printed in Australia from material held in, say, the State Library or National gallery is what Iām prepared to spend on. Not many people seem interested in those though. (The metal box is the perfect size for storing other postcrossers postcards OR for using as my watercolour storage.)
I prefer maxicards for a few reasons- theyāre domestic stamps already primed to send overseas, I donāt have to add postage as theyāre postage prepaid anywhere, but best of all theyāre the quickest way to buy postcards in a pandemic.
Of course there are far more subjects covered by the maxicards so more range for postcrossers wish lists to be met.
The other problem being that on limited means like a pension the best value is a maxicard- so the cost of a postcard plus stamp is beyond most pensioners.
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In my little experience, in Italy a 10x15 cm touristic card is in average 50 cā¬, that I consider not so cheap since often, searching, you can find the same or an equivalent at 30 cā¬.
Thereās also a direct proportion to size, the bigger, the expensive: a 12x18 cm card is 1ā¬, and panoramic cards are 1,5ā¬.
Shaped cards are 80cā¬ - 1ā¬, while Iāve seen viewcards made by a photographer (exposed in his shop) at 2ā¬.
Postage is the costly part, especially if sending outside EU: from 1,15ā¬ you pass to 2,4ā¬ and to 3,1ā¬ if to Oceania, a very big step.
Maxicards are 2ā¬ if with domestic stamps: 1,1ā¬ for the stamp and 90cā¬ for the postcard.
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Most postcards I buy are between 1 EUR and 2 EUR. I may be snobby but the cheaper cards are often exactly that (print/cardstock). Due the pandemic I started to order them online what eased my budget a lot since local shops sell the same cards for more money for obvious reason. The official cards from my city are 2.10 EUR since they are made from a small business. Usually I use the cheaper ones from my neighbor city (the cities border each other) who is more popular anyway and of course, have way more motives to choose from.
The most expensive cards I have in my stock are made of wood with a magnet at the backside. The did cost 8 EUR each. Since they can be sent only in envelopes I need to find someone who will probably like the print and doesnāt mind getting an envelope. I bought them early 2020 and only found one person so far. So probably they will be with me for a while.
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Well, it depends on how much other things cost. 1 EUR is pretty cheap in my country (price of 2 average bread buns). You barely will even find cards below that price. If you do they often are sold in bundles, tourist cards (who arenāt liked very much here) or the print is very bad. Postcards in my area even are a bit hard to find but almost every shop sells folded cards. The best quality for the cheapest price you can find in a drugstore chain. Since the demand for postcards is low the price rises and many companies who print them tend to make them more special aka Tausendschoen or PolaCard = more expensive.
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I the UK, prices for postcards vary greatly. In some bigger tourist places, you can get 5 ordinary viewcards for Ā£1 (ā¬1.20, $1.38), but nicer ones cost up to Ā£1 each. Designer cards tend to be around Ā£1.30-Ā£1.50 each.
The biggest expense in the UK is the postage, Ā£1.70 per card (ā¬2, $2.35). The price of stamps is what really limits my activity here on postcrossing. Iād love to send out more cards 
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Here in Germany postcards from Etsy artists are often a bit more expensive. But worth the buy.
Tourist cards are cheap, but I never buy them.
2 Euros for a card is the limit for me.
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I live in a small town and we donāt seem to have postcards at all, even in the central post office! but as I know, postcards bought at the post office with a special letter āBā cost about 33 rubles, it seems that such a postcard can already be sent across Russia. what would I do without online stores!
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SLOVENIA 
I rarely buy cards these days as I have made huge stock of uncommon places in the past while looking for and buying new places for my Slovenian collection (which has cca 1700 pieces btw).
Back then cards were from 40-50 Eurocents up to 1 Euro, depending from the place and who issued them (specialised issuer, Slovenian Post in cooperation, local Tourist association, museum). Today the price is more or less similar, cards that I have bought last month were 0.89ā¬/piece but I did not mind as I liked them and were ideal for my collection (even got 3 new places from Slovenian Istria).
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