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But these first two episodes have been objectively fucking awesome. I hope they end this show well, but regardless, the season is off to a great start!

I’m really trying to figure out why this book is rated so highly. It’s my first time reading Sanderson and I enjoyed the world building but not much else. I thought the allomancy would be complicated to explain and hard to write but he did a nice job with the action sequences. It was mostly everything else that was a letdown.

Spoilers below if you haven’t read…

-Vin and Eland fall in love after what amounts to like 3 pages of superficial conversations at balls

-there was zero background for any of the secondary characters. I couldn’t tell you a single thing memorable about Ham, slam or thank you ma’am cause I literally don’t know anything about any character other than kelsier, vin or Sazed.

-so like why did kelsier sacrifice himself so easily?? To start a revolution? When we find out the LR is actually incredibly easy to kill? Makes zero sense.

-we know nothing about the LR and we’re supposed to be wowed by the “reveal” he’s actually not the hero but the servant? Not to mention the fact we read meaningless blurbs from “his” journal for 300 pages before we have enough context to care about what we’re reading.

-the trope of “pathetic kid who somehow becomes the most powerful whatever” is kinda tired eh?

I wanted to like this and I’ve heard such great things about Sanderson. This book is simply not very good and it’s wild to me it’s at like a 4.4 on Goodreads. Convince me I should read the next ones!!

So I see the discord links and promotion everywhere.

Are there actual apps or things normal non-scalpers can do to know when things will be restocked? I love when a new set drops cause I can just go wait early in the morning at target and be guaranteed something…but most days target doesn’t restock at open and who knows about Walmart.

I have the “restockd” app that works for Best Buy in store. I wouldn’t mind paying a couple bucks for some subscription if it was legit, but what are the legit options?

Is the “CCN” app worth a subscription?

Discord is pretty foreign to me but I would try it if there was a legit way to know when dollar generals, Walgreens, etc were going to have any stock.

I don’t want your discord link but I’d love to hear from any other normal collectors who have found an app or something that works for them. Thanks!

My son and I are accumulating a good amount of cards. He’s mostly focused on the IR’s and we aren’t obsessed with chasing $$ and we generally don’t sell anything, aside from the occasional trade at a shop or whatever.

We do have a ton of Ex’s and other 2-3$ cards that we don’t know what to do with, as well as a few thousand bulk cards separated into holo/base.

There are local people who will buy bulk for like $40 a thousand holos, etc.

Obviously card values are driven by eBay/tcg sales which means someone is buying just about every single card for some reason or another and I see there are plenty of $1 and under listings.

How does selling a $1 card work on eBay? How is it worth the cost of shipping, etc? Is there a stock shipping charge for a single card in an envelope?

I don’t mind the time consuming aspect if it makes us some $ to spend on pokemon. Can anyone talk me through the logistics of how annoying this is? We already have an eBay account with good feedback, etc. DM works too. Just generally it’s hard to wrap my mind around because I live in an area where I could probably visit 20 shops within an hour of me and find any card I wanted, but I know that’s not true for everyone!

Thanks for any help you’re willing to provide!

So my family and I were lucky enough to get tickets to two shows we were hoping to attend, Orlando and Atlanta. We could no longer attend Atlanta so we’re waiting for resale to be available, not knowing what to expect. I had a coworker who wanted tickets badly so I synced up with her to try and release them instantaneously, having no idea if that would work. So I listed them, she was ready, she kept refreshing but couldn’t see them, I sent her my link, she got them in her cart and they were gone, bought by someone else in the first 30 seconds. No clue if it was a “bot” or someone who just constantly refreshes. Seems like it will be almost impossible for normal fans to get any tickets at resale either way. Maybe better luck closer to show time…just figured I’d share if this helps anyone else!