r/mtgfinance

Everywhere is just littered with people scared the ccb will go down in price, no, not people wanting to buy them cheaper, just people scared their boxes might go down.

Singles, no one is chasing singles, everyone worried about their singles losing value though.

I dont see anyone gushing over any of the art, only prices.

This is the most over hyped set I've ever seen and people are still hoping to turn this into the next lord of the rings when its the same damn ip except the set sucks.

Even the damn reprints look disgusting compared to their originals.

So we used to have a weekly general discussion thread on Wednesdays in this sub, I'm not sure what happened to it. Mods if this thread is something you cancelled intentionally feel free to take it down and I won't post it again obviously.

But if people like these general discussion posts, feel free to discuss whatever Magic-related topics you want below without needing to create a new post. And Mods, please bring these back!

Is there any more information on what the Gift Bundle promo(s) is going to be? The original LotR gift bundle had the scene cards, will this have something similar or just a single card?

I've been selling on tcgplayer for couple months and occasionally have orders that are 30+ cards that with shipping, only come to around 5 dollars. For those that sell on tcgplayer, how do you guys ship order like this? According to usps, they are too big for stamps and have to be shipped as a package which usually comes to at least $8.

I think we can all agree that in the long term Sealed boxes, SLD, decks, everything is going up. Different pace, different starting point, different liquidity. So in theory, always hold, never sell, line goes up

But my question to you is this. When do you offload? I bought FIN CBBs at MSRP, sold a few at X2 profit, few at X3, keeping the rest for now. But I am very aware that percentage wise, them rising from 1400 EUR to 2100 EUR is "only" 50%. That money could go into a new CBB that is likely to X2 from MSRP in that time.

Is it a case of a limited budget? As in you have to sell what you have to be able to "reinvest" in new product? What if you haven't yet hit your budget ceiling? Do you have a set percentage at which you offload?

My general tactic has been to list everything sealed I get at 1pc slightly above market, then readjusting the price when it sells for the next piece. Doing this until I hit 0 profit/loss on the lot, then putting the rest to bed for the time being.

But I am very aware that is not optimal. I should have waited a few months before listing my EOE CBBs or any CBBs really, the danger of them going down is extremely low. I just don't like being in a loss position, even though I can afford it and can continue buying more stock.

What about you?

Buying my first deck and was gonna go with manapool as they have better prices usually than TCGPlayer but because the cards are all shipped individually the shipping cost is almost as much as the deck. They say free shipping over 50$ but I think bc its 94 packages all under 50 I think ALL of it stacks up

I get its a logistics issue but is there anything I can do? Will also check my LGS but I'm building something kinda weird so not sure if they'll have what I need

This is part question, part vent. I love deckbox so much, it's an amazing site with so many great features. But! I cannot, for the life of me, get anyone to respond to trades recently!

Trying to figure out if others are having success, or if the site is becoming less active?

Amaze your friends and pod by correctly guessing the lowest price that The Hobbit Collector Booster Box will reach 1 calender year from release, as well as the August 14, 2027 price.

To Enter, post in this EXACT format ("Low" #value comma "1yr" #value):

Low 697, 1yr 1731

You must post in this format because I will have to use automation to gather up and calculate entries, no way am I doing this by hand. I'll take entries for 1 full week from now. All pricing will be taken from tcgplayer so people can see the values.

For the LOW value, I'll take the average of the 25 lowest verified full collector booster boxes in English that sell between release date (August 14, 2026) and 1 calender year later (same date, 2027)

For the 1YR value, I will take the average of all sales in the week from August 8th to August 14th.

Winner: Lowest difference between your LOW guess and the 1yr guess, added together. Lowest $ amount wins. If there's a tie the earliest poster wins.

Prize: I will ship you (1) The Hobbit collector booster pack after a winner is found. If the winner ends up with under $25 difference in the two guesses combined differences with the calculated values I'll ship them a The Hobbit Play Box as well.

Edit: Relaxed the bounds on the combined difference to under $25. If you get within $25 total of the difference I will ship the extra The Hobbit Play box.

Catch all for anything relating to the Hobbit Secret Lair Super Drop!

Personally - the value of all these lairs are not great. I do not expect a fast sell out. I personally love the unique foil treatments, and will be picking up a few copies He Who Walks Unseen and probably Desolation as a PC pickup (Heavy Junji Ito vibes).

What are you buying, what are you skipping, what is selling out?

Just noticed smth weird. Nearly all of the expensive cards of the hobbit set are cheaper or close to the price the english cards sell in Europe. (The one ring, gleaming splendor, mox etc.)

When did this happen the last time?

I checked with Marvel, Spider Man, LOTR, FF. There it's the other way round.

Watching different cards closely on cardmarket the last few day there doesn't seem to be much supply and demand for the cards atm.

Seems like we're in for a market correction. Will just be the question is US market needs to go up or EU market down.

If we take the one ring surgefoil for example. I could by it now for 360€, after tax and shipping that will still be below 500€ and sell it in Europe for above 600€.

Edit: It's even weirder for me that in US the cheapest display is 837 USD, while in Europe the are 670 EUR now.

(Took prices from cardmarket and TCGplayer)