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Foil MM Brainstorms actually are at 130,-€ on MCM right now. Thus 50,-€ - although totally absurd since inprint - is kind of a good deal if you want to go for foil non FNM Brainstorms. ;-)
SCG just announced that they're running Modern Premier IQs (5k price support, compared to their 10k each for Standard and Legacy) on their Sunday Opens alongside with their Legacy tournaments, starting July 19-20th. Legacy still remains the format they're covering.
Why I post this here? Because you bet your ass that prices for Modern staples are going ballistic even more now.
On one hand, I'm glad there will be more modern support out there as the format is more accessible to me budget wise. On the other, I'm upset because there's still quite a bit I don't have in terms of "staples", and the semi-frequent price swings are making it hard to complete my collection.
I'm also terrified that some component of my deck will wind up banned as I've already been burned once...but that's another issue.
I've had discussions with several people on MODO about the entire Vintage Masters thing. My thoughts on it:
- Port is the most expensive normal card on MODO now, with Wasteland being up there. I do expect promo reprints soon, maybe even one of those in July to keep attendance up to compensate for the colossal fuck-up that the switch to the Beta client is going to bring.
- Why didn't VMA include Onslaught fetches? They aren't Modern-legal and were qualified for inclusion, yet they chose the crappy, Mirage ones instead. Pulling Dual + fetch is unlikely anyway since both are rare, and it didn't seem super-broken anyway. Maybe we're getting fetchland reprints with Khans already and Wizards was just trolling us?
Khans or M15 reprint for duals is the only thing that makes sense at this point. It's the same thing when Thoughtseize was left out of MMA.
So for the last month or so I've been trying to sell a few extra duals that have been sitting in my binder. I haven't resorted to ebay but have been using craigslist and MOTL to try and shift them. I've priced them pretty aggresively (adding between 5-10 bucks to what people are charging for damaged versions on TCG player) and I still have people trying to get a discount, some as much as 40% because they claim to be dealers. I've gotten all sorts of excuses as to why they think they deserve to pay less, such as being afraid of the death of legacy and profit margins, but it's really starting to piss me off. Is it wrong to expect a fair price, based on current market values? Or am I just naïve? For reference, I'm trying to move a revised tundra (sp according to scg) and a revised trop (mp) for 145 and 130 respectively. This is by no means an attempt to solicit sales here, I just wanted to provide some context.
tl;dr: bitching about people trying to get discounts on already aggresively priced duals.
People are stingy. And like to feel like they walked away with a deal. You should set your prices a little higher in anticipation of the counteroffer.
I had the same experience when I tried to move some cards. And I was mostly selling to brogrammers who make ~100k or whatever. Those were the stingiest of all. Just keep at it. It's a pressure game.
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I've been having noticeably more difficulty moving expensive Legacy cards. I mean, $145 for Tundra isn't an OMG SMOKING DEAL. Keep in mind that six months ago, TCG Mid for Tundra was $124. Three months ago it was $237. Now its $215.
The MTG Stocks graph for Tundra is really ugly; the gap between mid and low is almost $100, which, in my opinion, means that they're not moving.
From what I can see, tournaments and the format are getting bigger, while prices are dropping. A little bit of recoil from prices getting jacked up too high, but mostly ... China, my man, puttin' in work, printing those lovely sheets.
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