Comments on: Rags to Riches: Week Sixteen

By: Plejades

Plejades — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 09:21:00 +0000

Hello alfree,

the pricing of foils is often complicated and no general rule of thumb such as “twice the regular” will do you any good. In general you can say that the more the card is in demand by tournament players the less of a premium the foil will fetch compared to the price of the regular one. Cards that are not used in tournaments usually fetch a higher foil premium as the value is mostly a collectors one and not a play value one.

By: alfree

alfree — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 07:46:36 +0000

I have a question: Where can I get the best deal for a Foil Molten-Tail Masticore I ripped off a draft. Non Foil ones typically go for 15 tix but nobody seems to be paying very high for the foil one, which puzzles me because I thought Foil Mythics are typically worth alot more than their regular counterparts.

By: Neros

Neros — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 05:59:37 +0000

In your future articles could you do a screen shot or something of what the ads you post are and same with the ones you find. Also would like to know what you type into the search bar to find some of these awesome deals.

By: Neros

Neros — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:52:26 +0000

It looks like you were right all along about the fetch lands going up in price after rotation.

By: Plejades

Plejades — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:23:15 +0000

There is of course no question that this would be a bad return if you see it as income. It was never intended as such, though. Many people trade during their free time as hobby and would not use this time for a job. Don’t forget that there are many people out there that do it for fun and if you can make a little profit out of it it doesn’t hurt I guess.
You can also do other things during that hour because in many cases you are simply putting ads up on classified and you don’t need to be focusing on the interface at all.

But again, it’s not ment to be income but rather entertainment with some financial benefits.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:31:15 +0000

I work in finance too but my time is limited. When I get a chance to play, I want to play. If you enjoy it, its a different story. To me it just seems like a waste of time trying to make a few bucks when you add it up to an hourly rate of return and the opportunity cost of it.

By: Gareth Norsk

Gareth Norsk — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:29:29 +0000

I actually do trading for my personal entertainment purposes. In fact, after a somehow disappointing draft where you are eliminated early, I enjoy and relax while looking on the classifieds screen and trying to find arbitrage opportunities. When I started doing so I was surprised how much opportunity is there. You should assume that people that want to buy a primeval titan in fact have a look who in fact is selling one… well, some of them do not. And each night I find at least one situation where someone sells a card for X and another one is looking for that card for X plus Y tix. Zero risk, nice return.

However you really have to like that – I work in finance, so it somehow is like my job

Cheers
Gareth