Okay guys, I used to be an avid trader/buyer/seller on this site when I had an iPhone, but I swapped to Team Android awhile back and completely forgot that this site can be accessed from the web. I unfortunately sold all my cards in bulk to buy a car about 4 months ago, but good news, I was helping a friend move about a month ago and he gave me all his Magic cards. I let them chill at my mom's house and forgot they were there till yesterday. So for the past day and a half I have been going through them and sorting out all the rares and mythics that now reside on my page. They're all mint condition, they were well taken care of at my buddy's house as well as my mother's -- apart from the very few with annotations to the side of them. I'm looking to sell them off and figured you guys would be more helpful than eBay.
I've had a couple trades on here with some notable members who left me fabulous reviews. If you don't have any rep or bad rep, I'd require payment first before I send my end out. I'm also totally down with a middle man if the middle man service is still available here. Trust me guys, it has been quite awhile since I've been on this site. Maybe it's completely dead, or maybe it's still a thriving community. Nevertheless, I'd be glad to get back in and have wonderful trades go off without any issues. For clarification purposes, I'm looking to sell the cards, not trade for others. I have a security deposit I need to get situated in the near future. First apartment and stuff. Go me.
So yea guys, check out my page and feel free to hit me up or comment on this post.
P.S. The last time I was here, a member by the name of Nobelllama was collecting something Sables. I don't have any, but if you're still an active member, Mr. Llama, I'm curious to know how many you managed to accumulate. Cheers.
Poo. I totally put this in the wrong section. Could a mod please move it to the trading section?
This site is more or less dead at this point. Just a handful of people arguing in the "last post wins trend." Look at the spoiler topic for the new set, no one is even talking about it.
Yup. Used to see 5 to 6 new posts a day in discussion or rules. Now it's been a weeks since I checked and barely anything. This used to be an awesome app with lots of traffic. It's dead Now. Last box I bought was shadows. I'm slowly getting out of magic. Been more into Star Wars Destiny now!
That's unfortunate. I was hoping I could just jump back in.
I give pitor a bunch of credit for making this app, but I think the big blowout argument and bannings didn't help with people staying. Also iMtG, imtg2(plus), iMtGu too many app that tried to be made. server update fee. Think trying to milk people out of every dime you can hurt the app big time
Who are the regulars now? Do you know a trusted app/site that I can sell magic cards on for fair market value? I'm not going to card kingdom. They wanna give me $19 for a $28 card and that's just lowballing me. :/
Yes, $19 was low-balling you, but you could have countered with $21 because that's not low for a sale. What makes this card $28, TCGplayer _average_ price? Since you used to be an avid trader/buyer/seller, you already know this, but for the benefit of everyone else...
1. When one is is trading cards, one can compare average price to average price; however, not when one is comparing 6 rares to 24 uncommons. Trust me, the sum their actual prices will not be the same.
2. If one thinks he can get "average value" for his card, he should open a TCGplayer seller account and list it. His card will not sell if he lists it for average price, he wil have to compete with the lowest price (including shipping) in the same card condition he has.
3. The real value of a card is usually between 88-92% of the average value, depending on rarity, age, and recent tournaments.
4. I buy cards at auction on eBay all the time and keep track of my expenses compared to TCGplayer's _lowest_price_in_that_condition_. My current margin since Valentine's Day is 65%!
5. I sell my extra cards on TCGplayer and I get ~90% out of the cards after shipping, packaging, and seller fees. In the end, I get about 90% of about 90%. So, I'm getting about 81% of the TCGplayer average.
In conclusion, selling a card for 75% of the TCGplayer average value is a pretty good deal for both parties, not just the buyer. If one is trading a similar number of cards with similar rarities, by all means, use the TCGplayer average price. Otherwise, he is just going to annoy other traders/buyers/sellers by the dollar signs in his eyes.