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Magic The Gathering cards - Amadeus - 11-11-2006
I have this small problem which I would like to share with you and ask for your opinion.
I have a friend who has a large stack of Magic The Gathering cards. It includes a lot of more elderly cards plus three 75-card sets (I think two of them are Champions of Kamigawa and Saviors of Kamigawa). However, he doesn`t use these cards so all they do is collect dust. Plus, he is currently in a bad financial state. Not as bad as it sounds, but still...
In any case, he has decided to sell these cards. He asked me how much would they be worth and I told him quite a hefty sum (seriously, its so many cards.....) He also asked me if I knew anybody who would be willing to buy them. I told him that allthough I don`t know anybody, I`ll try to find someone. I also asked him to inform me when he settles on a price since I am tempted to purchase the cards as well. Well, he immediatly determined the price. He said that if somebody else purchased them, he would sell them for around 42$. But he also said that if I purchased them, he would sell them to me for 32$.
Allthough the offer is quite tempting, I`m preety undecided. So I ask you....what would you have done in my place?
Magic The Gathering cards - Whompt - 11-11-2006
$32? Not bad at all, really. The older cards are definitely worth it, if you're into the value of them. The three 75 packs? That's about 30 something dollars there. I woulda done it, if I had the money.
Magic The Gathering cards - Warako - 11-11-2006
To be honest, if he was my friend and in financial trouble, I'd have him take the cards to a card shop and sell the individuals, some cards can pull in $10 a piece even more. You could buy them and resell them for profit but that'd be fucked up imho.
Magic The Gathering cards - Amadeus - 11-11-2006
Quote:Originally posted by Cell Jr.
To be honest, if he was my friend and in financial trouble, I'd have him take the cards to a card shop and sell the individuals, some cards can pull in $10 a piece even more. You could buy them and resell them for profit but that'd be fucked up imho.
Well hes not in that kind of trouble. If he was, I would have probably done something similar. No, the only thing is...well he doesnt have pocket money to buy cigarettes.
EDIT: Also, he would have likely wanted to do something like that if he was in that much trouble since he fully REALISES the actual worth of the cards.
Magic The Gathering cards - Warako - 11-11-2006
Quote:Originally posted by Jackie Chun
Quote:Originally posted by Cell Jr.
To be honest, if he was my friend and in financial trouble, I'd have him take the cards to a card shop and sell the individuals, some cards can pull in $10 a piece even more. You could buy them and resell them for profit but that'd be fucked up imho.
Well hes not in that kind of trouble. If he was, I would have probably done something similar. No, the only thing is...well he doesnt have pocket money to buy cigarettes.
Ohhh, in that case buy them and resell them for profit for yourself since it's not as bad as I thought.
Magic The Gathering cards - Reijin - 11-12-2006
Don't take them to a shop. Most stores buy only at 1/4 value.
I'd have to know a list of a lot of the rares to even know the value, but if he's willing to sell them for that much, meh, may as well, not a big loss on you.
I agree that the 75card Tournament Packs are worth about 15 each but on that same end, that's when sealed due to the possibility of opening something valuable. If you already know that in your stuff you don't have that valueable stuff, then there is no point.
Out of the Tournament packs... It can have Champions, but not Saviors. Saviors is the third set in the block which means that its not able to have a starter... But they may be Precons, but those usually only have shitty rares in them as well, excluding a few notable diamonds in the rough (the Rat's Nest precon oddly have Jitte in it, which is worth as much as the Precon itself by now, and only limited due to it BEING in one.)