Trading for cards worth?

[Rass]

You're missing the point of this conversation.  It's about trading. Nothing more. Try to keep up mate.

If its only about trading why does it have worth in the topic also

[Eneishi]

I love how you can't read.
You should read the first post before posting.

[Harmon74]

I love how you can't read.
You should read the first post before posting.

What you got for trade, and what do you need?  You can look at my trade binder and need list.

[Rass]

I guess you cannot follow a conversation. I was responding to the quoted piece. Again I don't know where your from but in 93 where I lived and played cards all hade different values. This is nothing new. People would trade for value then. The reason why people trade for value now is its easy to find the price that 99.99% of the people agree on and use.

[#noided]

You talk about how people look up the value of their cards when trading, and then ask why people do this.

[Eneishi]

You talk about how people look up the value of their cards when trading, and then ask why people do this.

Good job! +1 internetz for you.

[Gorzo]

I'm trying to figure out how you were old enough to be playing and trading 16 years ago, putting you likely in your early-mid 20s (estimate) yet still today come here and show such disrespect to this community and it's members just for answering the question you asked and sharing their opinions. We have members 12-14 years old who show much more respect and maturity.

Chill, man. People are allowed to disagree. Don't start slinging insults at them.

[Greg54js]

Well this conversation has degenerated and is completely off from the original topic

[Eneishi]

Please thank gorzo.

[#noided]

Please thank gorzo.

Hey! Don't forget me too!

[Jake, Fart Sculptor]

My point being that it's only you that really think you got ripped off.

If I didn't need the card, and would never play it. I didn't consider myself getting ripped off. It had no value to me because I would never use it.

I agree with you to an extent. I mean I trade for play value most of the time and so do a few of my friends, we never even look up the actual value. I understand both sides of the argument. What I don't understand is what happened to card dealers, when I first started playing, cards being traded were priced at full value, but of you had cash to buy it from a vendor, it was 3/4 value, sometimes even half. When I came back in after innastrad came out I paid 60 bucks for two Garruk, primal hunters, and now much are they worth? I understand economics, but if a vendor has a card that they pulled from a pack, they technically paid 4 dollars for it. If you come to me with cash I'll price it on play value. I sold a sorin of innastrad for 10 bucks when he was at thirty. Ripped off? I don't think so, I'll never use him. But I can see using him as trade fodder.

[Sevenfold]

Heres how i trade to friends and local players ill trade cards with out lookin at prices. But when it comes to the world wide web i make sure i get a fair deal on my cards. Noy cuz im a dick to ppl on the here its cuz i dont want to be the guy everyone comes to, to rip him off. Theres ppl in my town that make a living of magic by trading by cards at low prices and sellong them when they go up. But when it comes to someone i dont know or will nvr see i want full dollar for the card.

[BlackJester]

Hello Eneishi, and welcome to iMtG, home of the Whooper.

I figured that you might be feeling a little hungry so I'll tell you what.  I'll trade you the rest of my ham sandwich which I don't want anymore for the car sitting in your driveway.  You're not using it right now anyway, right?

[TBNL]

Hello Eneishi, and welcome to iMtG, home of the Whooper.

I see figured that you might be feeling a little hungry so I'll tell you what.  I'll trade you the rest of my ham sandwich which I don't want anymore for the car sitting in your driveway.  You're not using it right now anyway, right?

Well put

[Coffee Vampire]

Back in '96 if you needed a card and I had it, but didn't use it. And you had a card that I wanted but didn't need it. As long as the rarity was similar, that was our trade. These days people go look up prices and trade for how much cash a card is worth.

My Question is why do people do this now a days? It never used to be like this, but now I see it's become a disease amongst the "standard" players.

This is mostly because the prices online often reflect what a card would be sold/traded for in the olden days. As for standard players being nazis about prices, it is because standard cards are constantly changing value. It is only natural that they want to get what they paid for before what they bought isn't worth as much anymore.

Also you must remember that magic was not as fully developed as it is today, so back in the olden days, people couldn't get exact trades even if they wanted to. There was not really official pricings for all the cards like there is today.

There are a lot of other factors, but who cares really. Just trade what you can for stuf f that you want and hopefully both people recieving both ends of the deal will end up happy at the end of the day. As for me, I don't mind a few bucks sliding if I am getting something I need. That's why I save those 4 dollar cards I don't need for those standard players who want exactly their card's TCGPlayer worth in cards.

Man, this argument is being blown out of proportion. We're all a little tired...let's calm down and think about this rationally. Stress balls are on me tonight!

...And so are whoopers! Whoopers all around!