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Post by Fan of History on Sept 13, 2012 9:58:30 GMT -5
During my M13 week, I have needed to sell some cards and I see the prices on some pauper cards have skyrocketed pauperscage.blogspot.se/2012/09/prices-september-2012.html (the Pauper's Cage podcast's price list) But I am having trouble selling at anywhere near those prices in the Classifieds tab on MTGO. This has been my post lately featuring mostly my surplus pauper cards: Human SELLING (pm first plz) Echoing Truth 1, Sulfur Vent 2, Rite of Flame 1.5, Graveborn Deck 9, Standard Bearer 2, Foil M13 Mutilate 8, Nightscape Familiar 1, Terminate (PS) 1, Foil Shards of Alara booster 3.5, Support Humans! PM First plz Most of my sells have come from Ravnica shock lands (that have not gone down as much as they should as they are all coming back soon) and random rares. Is there anywhere else I should sell? The bots are not paying very well, not as far as I have seen anyway
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Post by gabochido on Sept 13, 2012 10:43:00 GMT -5
Unfortunately, those prices (obtained from Marlonbots/MTGOTraders) are just a base, but they are indicative of the general trend. When trending upwards, there will usually be other bots left behind with cheaper prices and humans have to compete with those.
There are a few bots that have good buy prices for pauper cards: MTGO_Bazaar and the JB series (JBetham, HSStore, etc..). You can usually find some good bots to sell to using MTGOLibrary's prices wiki (http://www.mtgolibrary.com/) but you'll usually get the best prices by rounding down to the nearest tix (or selling in multiples so that the final price is in units of tixes) and trying to sell that way.
To find a guaranteed price at which you can expect to be able to sell a card, check out the cheapest price for a bot selling that card (and that has it in stock) using mtgolibrary's wiki and then offer it at the nearest tix rounded down (or in multiples as I said).
BTW, Terminate sells for .15tx (I wouldn't try to sell this to humans) and nightscape familiar sells for .6tx (I would just hold on to it and see if it eventually hits the 1tx sweet spot) and due to them being given out, there is very little demand for the Alara boosters so I doubt you'll get more than 2tx for them.
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Post by Fan of History on Sept 13, 2012 12:34:44 GMT -5
OK, thanks, Gabo, you are the man!
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Post by RockBass on Sept 13, 2012 22:37:18 GMT -5
To echo Gabo's statement, I've found the best way to sell to humans is to go cheaper than what the bots sell them for, but try to get a little more profit out of it than what a bot would buy it for.
So if a card costs 4 from a bot, and a bot will buy it at 2, I'll try to sell it for 3.
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Post by Fan of History on Sept 17, 2012 1:07:18 GMT -5
I am still doing that and I am having some success. Raised the standard bearers to 3 and sold a couple of other cards. Here is what I am doing now.
Human SELLING (pm first plz) Deep Analysis 2, Echoing Truth 1, Geothermal Crevice 1, Graveborn Deck 8, Standard Bearer 3, Foil M13 Mutilate 7, Chain Lightning 1, Counterspell 1, Nightscape Familiar 1, Stormscape Familiar 1, Support Humans! PM First plz
I do realize that I really really want to get myself a bot. Anyone that has any experience with running a bot? It seems to be the only way to get any volume
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