Comments on: Card Kingdom’s Condition Conundrum https://www.quietspeculation.com/2021/12/card-kingdoms-condition-conundrum/ Play More, Win More, Pay Less Thu, 23 Dec 2021 18:14:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: Yamil Perez https://www.quietspeculation.com/2021/12/card-kingdoms-condition-conundrum/#comment-2120307 Thu, 23 Dec 2021 18:14:27 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=102729#comment-2120307 When it comes to grading cards as near mint, excellent, very good, and good, Card Kingdom has a very interesting system. It would rather sell a near mint card as excellent if there’s any doubt about the quality of its condition. As a result I have found many near mint gems sold as excellent. I’ve gone as far as comparing two different Alpha lands one sold as near mint and the other as excellent and both look virtually identical. At that point I simply make the upgrade myself if its clearly a near mint. It does compensate pretty well for those near mints that turn out to be off centered. The Alpha Uthden Troll I received is so off centered it actually reaches the edge. A major misprint actually. I’m happy to keep it. It feels like I’ve gotten far more in return for it. I’m a happy customer.

]]> By: Scott Bradley https://www.quietspeculation.com/2021/12/card-kingdoms-condition-conundrum/#comment-2120306 Tue, 21 Dec 2021 17:09:44 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=102729#comment-2120306 In reply to Scott Bradley.

As a point of discussion, I’d argue that CK needs to flatted the pricing on their EX and VG cards more than futzing with the G card prices. Cards at G prices generally move, the cards at EX and VG don’t; wonder why that is?

]]> By: Scott Bradley https://www.quietspeculation.com/2021/12/card-kingdoms-condition-conundrum/#comment-2120305 Tue, 21 Dec 2021 16:15:00 +0000 https://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=102729#comment-2120305 hey Sig, I’ve been waiting for you to write this article, not because I agree with you, but because I disagree with you. If you look around the web, other vendors HP cards never sell. they are way over priced. Check out the price on SCG for an HP UNL Mox Sapphire. $6000? Are you kidding me? That’s almost 2x what you sold you card for recently (albeit in a private sale, the point remains that NO ONE is buying at that price)! While CK might not reward people buylisting HP ABU core set cards, for those of us that buy they are fairly price in the market. if you simply increase the buy list and have the sale price go up, the cards no longer will sell and will sit at an inflated price on the market just like the EX and VG cards you complain about. Yes, restock comes far less often as a result and I get this is a site geared towards making money, but for those of us that just want to play with these sweet old cards it’s an absolutely terrible proposition.

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