Selling Magic Cards - Pricing?

Started by FanFicGuru, May 24, 2011, 09:40:24 AM

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FanFicGuru

So I have a ton of magic cards I wanted to sell, and this was my idea for pricing:

commons: 10/$1 or 60/$5
uncommons: 5/$1 or 30/$5
rares: Price determined by channelfireball.com, buy 4 rares and get the 5th free (free card of equal or lesser value than cheapest bought rare. example: you buy a $10, $7, and two $5 rares, you get a 5th rare that is $5 or less free)

Does this sound fair?

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Antstep

Sounds good to me. ;D Except you might want to see what commons you have before you finalize that price. Some commons are as low as 2 cents.

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Quote from: Antstep on May 24, 2011, 03:50:05 PM
Sounds good to me. ;D Except you might want to see what commons you have before you finalize that price. Some commons are as low as 2 cents.

True, but I figured that some commons are also worth upwards of .25-1.00 that I have, so it balances out. :)
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Antstep

Oh well that works out  :) Are you up for trades? I don't know if that's allowed, but if it is and you're up for it I am too.

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Quote from: Antstep on May 24, 2011, 05:52:16 PM
Oh well that works out  :) Are you up for trades? I don't know if that's allowed, but if it is and you're up for it I am too.

I appreciate the offer but no thanks. I'm going to be moving and I won't have much need for my magic cards going forward, so I'm just trying to get them sold off. :)
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Antstep

Alright well i'll definitely be sure to buy some from you  :P What table number do you have?

TC X0 Lt 0X

I assume we do this the same way as we do with YGO.
Check Ebay. At least for specific cards which are valuable in the Metagame.
I cannot tell you how many cards I've seen at Swap Meet selling for WAAAAAAAY over price.


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Quote from: TC_X0_Lt_0X on May 24, 2011, 07:18:23 PM
I assume we do this the same way as we do with YGO.
Check Ebay. At least for specific cards which are valuable in the Metagame.
I cannot tell you how many cards I've seen at Swap Meet selling for WAAAAAAAY over price.

Honestly I have upwards of 1000 commons and 500 uncommons. Since I won't have internet access for very long because I can't access power with my laptop, there's no way that I can price check all of them, not to mention the logistical nightmare of getting exact prices down to the penny. I just price checked the rares. I got a sampling of my common and uncommon prices and so I established a general purchase price. If people want to complain about 10/$1 or 60/$5 commons maybe we could work something else out, but honestly it would be quabbling over pennies, literally.

I might, MIGHT go down to 20 commons/$1 and 10 uncommons for $1. But we'll see.
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Roguemagus

What sets are they from? I'll be sure to pick some up.

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Quote from: Roguemagus on May 27, 2011, 09:28:28 AM
What sets are they from? I'll be sure to pick some up.

They range from Kamigawa through New Phyrexia. :) I'll be there tonight. Look for a guy wearing an "I'm just a shy guy" T-shirt with a Mario shy guy on it.
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