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Re: CFD: e-bay (aka ranting and raving)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 11 Feb 1999 10:18:30 GMT
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On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 06:26:17 GMT, "James Brown"
<galliard@shades-of-night.com> wrote:
> To give an example from experience, one of my friends saw how crazy everyone
> was over magic cards when they first came out. He then went to the local
> gaming store, and pre-ordered 6 boxes of cards (not packs, boxes), which was
> about half of the incoming order. Instead of selling them right away for a
> quick buck, or holding on to them until a week ago, and retiring ;) he kept
> them in his closet "until the time was right" Unfortunately for him, that was
> about the same time that the unlimited run flooded the market, and people
> hadn't yet attached ridiculous value to the beta run - he barely made 50 bucks
> on each box, which he probably lost to Visa in interest. Unfortunately for
> everybody else, those cards collected dust in a closet while die-hard fans were
> dying to get at them.
That's rather sad. A box of Beta currently goes for... $2000, I think.
Possibly more. Arabian Nights go for $4000, which is totally silly - I
calculated once what cards you'd get out of it (pretty good guess, as
in each box you get 120 out of 121 cards of a sheet) - at most $2000
worth.
Buy low, and if you're making _that_ much of a loss anyway, just keep
the damn things.
*shakes head*
Jasper
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| (...) No problem. I flared up too. (...) Understood. I would just prefer that the buyer who gets it is someone who participates online. From what others have said, about half the winning bids go to people who don't participate in RTL or Lugnet, and (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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