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benjoshua
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 5:55 pm

mbassoc2003 wrote:Are CCGs really worth anything?

I sell Yugioh cards from time to time and make probably $500.00 a year with little effort. My son and I play the game and we go to the FLGS to duel and trade. Yugioh has recently become the #1 CCG of all time. I know it attracts the geeky younger crowd, as well as some skanky types, but it has helped my son's strategic thinking, and it's good father-son time. My son also wins the weekly tournament about half the time.

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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 6:30 pm

mbassoc2003 wrote:Are CCGs really worth anything?

If I had shoved all my MTG cards in a closet, instead of selling them off years ago, I could trade them, easily, for all the RPGs on my want list.

Jeebus, just the set of 40 dual lands...

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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 7:11 pm

I have recently looked (again) into selling my cards.. aparently the duel lands have doubled in price in the last couple of months , I did get an explanitation from someone, which I won't bore you with, he said the best time to sell was now or in next 6 odd months..
that was the silver lining, most other cards suck with some exceptions, it almost worth selling the duels and chucking the rest for the hastle..

Brette:)

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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 8:05 pm

When I was playing (wow, 15 years ago), dual lands were $5 cards. Now they're on the order of $50 cards. Just that would be $2000 for a set of 40! And I had even better stuff too.

Oh well.

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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 9:28 pm

I offered to trade original art to Brett once for his MTG cards but he blew me off...

Ask me about my new M16!

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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 10:13 pm

TheHistorian wrote:If I had shoved all my MTG cards in a closet, instead of selling them off years ago, I could trade them, easily, for all the RPGs on my want list.

So I shouldn't have traded my moxes for Space: 1889?

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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 10:36 pm

I'd likely pay a nice penny if I coulod find someone willing to sell an actual complete set of Ruins World. Yeah, good f'n luck finding someone who even knows what the hell that game was, much less one who knows what a truly complete set contains.

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beasterbrook
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 11:32 pm

Tharizdun wrote:I offered to trade original art to Brett once for his MTG cards but he blew me off...

Hay I don't rember that, I do rember you saying postage costs whould be too high..

Brette:)

Oh and it looks more like duel lands are heading towards the $80us range..

Brette:)

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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:57 pm

Not Troll & Toad, but another seller when asked if he could ship Media Mail:

You are not paying for the shuipping. You are paying for the books. If you reverse what I am charging, shipping would start at $.99

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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:08 pm

JohnGaunt wrote:Not Troll & Toad, but another seller when asked if he could ship Media Mail:

What?

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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:20 pm

TheHistorian wrote:

What?

Sorry.

I asked a seller if he could ship by Media Mail instead of (over)charging $75 for Parcel Post. I quoted his response.

My motto is "Eschew obfuscation; espouse elucidation."

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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:39 pm

JohnGaunt wrote:Sorry. I asked a seller if he could ship by Media Mail instead of (over)charging $75 for Parcel Post. I quoted his response.

My motto is "Eschew obfuscation; espouse elucidation."

I suspect I know which one you are referring to. After perusing the condition of the contents of the auction, I decided it wasn't worth the effort.

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Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:20 am

JohnGaunt wrote:
Sorry. I asked a seller if he could ship by Media Mail instead of (over)charging $75 for Parcel Post. I quoted his response.

My motto is "Eschew obfuscation; espouse elucidation."

I see. If you're in the mood, you can report that to ebay.

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Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 7:59 pm

TheHistorian wrote:I see. If you're in the mood, you can report that to ebay.

Thanks, but no. The shipping overcharge is so blatant that no one will be deceived unless he wants to be deceived.

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Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 11:51 pm

JohnGaunt wrote:Not Troll & Toad, but another seller when asked if he could ship Media Mail:

Please post a link to his Ebay listing.

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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 5:17 pm

FormCritic wrote:Please post a link to his Ebay listing.

OK, but I want to see if someone actually buys the lot.

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** expired/removed eBay auction **

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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 5:27 pm

JohnGaunt wrote:
OK, but I want to see if someone actually buys the lot.

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** expired/removed eBay auction **

Im interested to see if they cancel that guys auction for fee avoidance.

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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 5:51 pm

JohnGaunt wrote:
OK, but I want to see if someone actually buys the lot.

. . .
** expired/removed eBay auction **

Two of those books look like library books, don't they? It looks like stickers with dewey decimal numbers or something.

btw, I thought Ebay only allows (for some time now) actual shipping costs+some minor "packaging" fee

That is completely blatant :!:

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