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Andy Dufresne posted:There's a very popular youtube channel about collecting any out of print magic cards to speculate on their future price, and the guy also does the same with collector's editions of any popular game. I suspect he's attracted a fair amount of copycats and combined with the everything bubble (btc, nfts, $TSLA, and so on) this is the result. Is that this guy? I found him I think through this thread about a year ago and I have no idea how he does it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBuNRIcDoho
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Yeah, I have basically no interest in what he does but YouTube recommended him and I probably watched 20 of them last year. It's an interesting peek into another world
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Mar 22, 2021 00:01
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lament.cfg posted:I don't get it either. Scorpion is way better than Sub-Zero. 
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Mar 22, 2021 00:26
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There was some special edition of a game a couple years ago (halo?) that came with a miniature plastic helmet, reddit was in an uproar because the bag to carry the plastic helmet was a poorer quality piece of polyester crap than they thought it would be - but the real scam is spending several hundreds of dollars on a video game.
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Mar 22, 2021 02:44
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I think fallout 76 had that too Canvas bag vs nylon I mean buying the game itself was bwm
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Mar 22, 2021 02:47
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evilpicard posted:There was some special edition of a game a couple years ago (halo?) that came with a miniature plastic helmet, reddit was in an uproar because the bag to carry the plastic helmet was a poorer quality piece of polyester crap than they thought it would be - but the real scam is spending several hundreds of dollars on a video game. Sounds like Fallout 76 and Bethesda's decision to burn a lot of goodwill. Especially scummy was that they sent actual canvas bags to reviewers and influencers, just not to paying customers.
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Mar 22, 2021 02:51
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Fallout 76 was a clusterfuck in every sense of the word. Here's the best recap of it I've seen, including the failed merch tie ins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjyeCdd-dl8
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Mar 22, 2021 03:06
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lament.cfg posted:I don't get it either. Scorpion is way better than Sub-Zero. In a thread designed to post idiocy you have to keep it realistic. This is just over the top dumb.
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Mar 22, 2021 03:31
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Andy Dufresne posted:Every time I see a post about motorcycles in this thread I start to think that selling motorcycles might be a dream job And you don't even have to live in a desolate oil town (selling trucks)!
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Mar 22, 2021 03:48
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Residency Evil posted:And you don't even have to live in a desolate oil town (selling trucks)! 
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Mar 22, 2021 05:21
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The cat helmet was for Halo 3, but that didn't come with a bag.
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Mar 22, 2021 07:03
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Haifisch posted:Hey now, you can also sell trucks if you're near a military base.
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Mar 22, 2021 13:47
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Or a Mustang.
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Mar 22, 2021 13:56
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Andy Dufresne posted:There's a very popular youtube channel about collecting any out of print magic cards to speculate on their future price, and the guy also does the same with collector's editions of any popular game. I suspect he's attracted a fair amount of copycats and combined with the everything bubble (btc, nfts, $TSLA, and so on) this is the result. I can't imagine a scenario where a plastic Sub-Zero helmet is worth enough on resale to justify a $900 purchase. Is it going to sell for $2k in a year? Could this one guy be driving over a 100k people to spend that kind of money in the hopes of a making a profit selling to the same people who watch his channel?
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Mar 22, 2021 14:15
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I think the $900 price indicates nobody wants to sell, not that there are buyers willing to pay that much. The idea behind sitting on these boxes is that the game might become hugely popular and in several years people will want the collector's items because they loved the game so much. On the flip side, this guy has about 100 Diablo 3 collector's editions on the shelf because the game sucked.
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Mar 22, 2021 15:24
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Has there ever been a game so beloved that the collector's edition swag was actually valuable? As BWM as it is, I'm pretty sure people buy those because they actually want it, not because they think it'll be valuable. Maybe in 30+ years they might have value if it turns in to some super popular franchise (and they're mint in box), but other than that I'm pretty sure the vast majority are just because someone wants the cool plastic doodad sitting on their shelf. That said, I'm sure a person could turn a minor profit buying them up and selling them ASAP at a mark-up.
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Mar 22, 2021 15:42
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League of Legends and World of Warcraft have some pretty crazy priced collectors editions, but most of that value is because of the in game cosmetics. You can get the physical stuff sans cosmetics for like $200 for WoW, or a working code for like $8000
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Mar 22, 2021 15:52
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Andy Dufresne posted:There's a very popular youtube channel about collecting any out of print magic cards to speculate on their future price, and the guy also does the same with collector's editions of any popular game. I suspect he's attracted a fair amount of copycats and combined with the everything bubble (btc, nfts, $TSLA, and so on) this is the result. A few years back, a friend of mine spend over two thousand Euros on Magic cards in a couple of months because he was convinced the value would quickly increase in the near future. Two thousand euros might not seem like much, but the average wage here is 700 Euros, with 400 going to rent, 40 on public transport, whatever else for utility bills, so you do the math on how risky of a decision this was. Not a single card has been sold since then.
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Mar 22, 2021 16:19
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Actual valuable collectors item toys are rare and valuable because no one cared much about them when they were released. New toys sold with "collectors item" in the marketing collateral are never going to become rare and valuable because everybody who bought one is carefully hoarding it.
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Mar 22, 2021 16:59
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This discussion reminds me of a really insane BWM story from my own life. In college I went over to a friend of a friend's house for a small party, and someone sees the host's warhammer stuff and the host asks if that person plays, and that person casually says oh it seems fun but it's a bit too much money for me to get into right now. Now a normal/sane warhammer player would say something like "yeah it's a bit of a money sink haha i enjoy it though, that's hobbies for you." I think that would be a reasonable statement. Instead he launches into this really lengthy rant about how, actually, getting into warhammer is cheaper than going to a movie. Because if you go to a movie, you might really like the movie, and see it multiple times in the theater, and buy food each time. Then you might need to buy the collectibles associated with that movie, at which point he shows us this Sweeney Todd uh, barber set statue? thing? and a poster, and the collector's DVD, and several other items related to Sweeney Todd, all on display on a table, and he says that altogether going to see Sweeney Todd cost him upwards of 500 dollars, whereas getting a starting set of warhammer figurines might only run you a hundred. So in conclusion, he said, warhammer is really not expensive, because it's cheaper than seeing a movie.
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Mar 22, 2021 17:09
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in college i lost 200 bucks to online poker
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alnilam posted:This discussion reminds me of a really insane BWM story from my own life. Sounds like a sick party though
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Alan Smithee posted:in college i lost 200 bucks to online poker Sounds a lot cheaper than seeing a single movie.
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Mar 22, 2021 17:21
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alnilam posted:This discussion reminds me of a really insane BWM story from my own life. Reminds me of how Blue Story needed to budget hundreds of dollars to go see a comedy show, because besides the $30 ticket she also had to buy every single piece of merch they offered...
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alnilam posted:This discussion reminds me of a really insane BWM story from my own life.
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Mar 22, 2021 17:27
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Good lord this is why that comic about "let people enjoy things" is wrong Fandoms are bad
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Good lord this is why that comic about "let people enjoy things" is wrong
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Dik Hz posted:I personally can't stand when people band together online to talk about common interests. Those people ought be ashamed of themselves. Have you ever gone into TV IV to talk about a show you like?! Abandon all hope
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Mar 22, 2021 18:08
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Now now it's fine to be a fan of something. Hell I won't even judge someone for buying collectibles, if that makes them happy, though it's extremely BWM and I don't personally get it, but whatever. The insane part of this story is the idea that seeing the movie somehow compelled him to buy hundreds of dollars in collectibles, and therefore while you think a movie ticket only costs $10, in truth it costs hundreds.
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alnilam posted:Hell I won't even judge someone for buying collectibles, if that makes them happy, though it's extremely BWM My friend that's what this thread is FOR!
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Dik Hz posted:I personally can't stand when people band together online to talk about common interests. Those people ought be ashamed of themselves. How much did you spend on seeing zootopia?
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Mans posted:A few years back, a friend of mine spend over two thousand Euros on Magic cards in a couple of months because he was convinced the value would quickly increase in the near future.    (y-axis prices in USD, the icons are just showing when sets came out) [for those that play Magic that's Revised Underground Sea, RTR Cyclonic Rift, and Grim Monolith, so two spikes from the official corporate no-reprint policy and one spike from, somehow, everyone being stuck at home in the pandemic making casual cards boom in price?] Like, literally not managing to profit off a single card in the last two years means they made nothing but absolutely braindead purchases, because the market has absolutely exploded and is pricing me out of owning some stuff I'd like to own. the real GWM is having bought in decades ago and forgotten until right now, and it will always be that until every single old magic card is owned by a collector
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Reminding me of the Zendikar FNM I attended where I opened a Mox Ruby. The shop-owner offered me a whole booster box of Zendikar for it, since there could be anything in that box, maybe even a Mox!!!
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Mar 22, 2021 19:15
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What are the best ways to sell bulk magic cards? I have a bunch from high school that I doubt I’ll care about again.
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This MTG chat bugs me. Every time it comes up here, it reminds that I have hundreds of cards from the mid/late 90s that collectively could sell for $200 if properly sorted and cataloged. That's not enough to make me want to sort through them and figure it out, but enough to make me annoyed that they're just sitting there taking up space when it could be cash in my pocket. also that the last time this conversation came around, I looked in to it and discovered that my brother stole a card from me (among others) that would be worth $100 today on its own.
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Just do a little bit of it every day, like 20 cards or something - it adds up over time. If that doesn't even feel worth it, I'd just trash 'em
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withak posted:Actual valuable collectors item toys are rare and valuable because no one cared much about them when they were released. New toys sold with "collectors item" in the marketing collateral are never going to become rare and valuable because everybody who bought one is carefully hoarding it. Everybody learned from getting screwed over by the Death of Superman comic book event when DC printed millions of the special black bag Superman #75. it was one of the first times that non-comic book So now you get collectables made up with runs in the thousands or tens of thousands (though not the mass-market things like the Fallout 76 helmet or steelcase game things where they make a million of them to sell in Best Buy or whatever, more like comic book statues and figurines and variant cover editions) but nobody outside that fandom really is speculating on these so while limited they aren't exactly rare but they are still expensive because most collectors never sell them and the retail markup is huge if you don't buy on a preorder or something.
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DaveSauce posted:This MTG chat bugs me. The low effort but BWM way to sell them is to at least sort them by set/rarity and bring them in to a comics/card shop and see if they'll do a bulk sale but most probably won't be interested at all unless you sort out all the rares first, and they might only take those. And you might only get store credit instead of cash. Anything other than the $20+ cards are basically just a reason to get people into the store to hopefully buy something else while they are there, because there's just no money in it anymore just like comic back issues. The only real way to get anything at all is to spend some time on ebay or CoolStuffInc or one of the bigger card sales places and figure out if what you have is worth trying to sell just the rares for whatever you can get or just put them all up as a big bulk set auction on ebay and hope you get someone willing to give you way less than you think you deserve to take a chance for a set of 99% crap cards they'll just throw away anyway.
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DaveSauce posted:This MTG chat bugs me. I did the same thing with the binder of Pokemon cards I put together in one summer in the late 90s and threw in a box and forgot about until I rediscovered it while cleaning out the closet last summer; doing the research and listing them for sale and getting the sleeves and protectors and envelopes to mail them out took some time but now I'm up about $400
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I've been selling out of the MTG hobby recently. Just deleted a huge self-post, because I have ~opinions~ about this. For BWM content: I know a guy that has collected many copies of a single card that is now $200+. It's gone up quite a bit, but I kept wanting to tell him, "There's this thing called illiquidity." Like, make sure you can actually offload 30 copies of the same card. In the current environment, it might work out fine, but it may not it still be like that when you decide you want out. DaveSauce posted:enough to make me annoyed that they're just sitting there taking up space when it could be cash in my pocket. Basically beaten by Vice President, but if you don't care about making 100% value on them, you can also sell to a large online retailer like Card Kingdom or Star City Games using their 'Buylist' programs. They probably won't take all of them, but they will usually take the ones of any real value. Send them the cards, they send you a check. I have had positive experiences with both retailers so far. It's a good balance between effort and cash return, assuming anything is worth anything.
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