Comments on: Insider: More Collection Tips

By: Bobby

Bobby — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 21:51:34 +0000

Well a win from the collection, the guy was super nice and most of the cards were bulk and it took 2 1/2 hours to go through the all. He let me though because we had a lot of good conversations and wants to hang out more haha. Since I was nice to him he let me just take what is anted instead of the whole lot so I gave him 60 for a sinkhole and a lot of other pretty good cards, And countless dazes and brainstorms. Probably 30 dazes in the collection.

By: Corbin Hosler

Corbin Hosler — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 06:49:55 +0000

In reply to Bobby. Yeah, talking people down is definitely an acquired skill, because it's no fun telling people their cards are worthless, or even worse, would be worth money if they weren't torn up.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 00:46:35 +0000

I am so glad these are posted. I have always been buying collections, and at first I was not making very good money on them, I would over compensate what I was getting and cards would sit for ages. Tomorrow I am meeting someone off of Craigslist, he says he has been playing since the beginning and had over 10,000 cards. I spoke with him today and set a time to meet him and I asked him what price he was looking for, and he said around a grand but was willing to work with me. I am certain I will not have to spend a grand, but I will feel bad if it’s just 10,000 bulk c/u and I break the news his collection is worth 50$, that has always been a weakness of mine. Telling people there cards are worthless. Once I drov over an hour to a fellow looking for 400$ for a pile of fallen empires garbage. Pick told him he had maybe at best 10$ worth of cards and he thought I was lying since he SWORE the guy he got them from said they are very valuable and will/are worth a lot of money. Not only did I get burned from wasting gas, this poor guy will be stuck with a bunch of worthless cards, and will continue to try to make his hundreds on them.

By: pi

pi — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 10:14:21 +0000

Don’t forget to ask people when they played before meeting them, bulk from ’94 or before will be way more interesting than bulk from ’11. I have bought a collection once guessing the guy played between Unlimited and Tempest (turned out he had 1 Tempest card, 2 packs of Planar Chaos and the rest was from before Mirage) and only asked for the cards he had shown me in pictures as I knew they’d cover the price (in fact they were much prettier than expected: they more than covered the price). Give the timeframe he played in I could be pretty sure the bulk held some decent cards. In fact the bulk on its own was more than what I paid, it’s nice to pull stuff like a NM Mana Drain from bulk, but given the timeframe I could be pretty sure to hit stuff like Hymns and Bolts, if not better cards.