Thursday, May 29, 2014

Magic the Gathering: Case Study on Flipping Cards for Profit

Hey, I just noticed the "Title Bar" at the top of the page!

I am a hobbyist, if you have not already read that. I consider myself to be an expert on having hobbies; there is nothing I enjoy more.

Would it surprise you to know I am 22 and only recently discovered the wonders of Magic the Gathering?

It should... from the information I provided about myself in the previous post, it should.

When I open a pack of cards I find more value in actually having the cards rather than playing the game. When I was 9 I went mad with Pokemon and Yu Gi Oh (I almost never left the house without a deck...). With the release of Hearthstone, I began to relive the schoolyard days of playing for keeps during recess. My only need for improvement in Hearthstone would be expanding the library of cards available to the players.
     Don't get me wrong, I believe the current set of cards works so well that the whole thing could be a board game ( which Blizzard was most likely trying to do ), but playing with the same cards over and over and over... makes me feel drone-like after about an hour of play time.

My roommate eventually introduced me to the wonderful world of the Multiverse ( for those of you who are not familiar, the Multiverse is the setting for Magic the Gathering ), and sure enough my addictive personality drove me to purchase booster packs, starter decks, and at least one bundle box ( 36 packs of cards, 13 cards in each pack... you do the math ).

I love it. I'm having a very hard time exercising my self-control when I see them. 

Being a college student, money is hard to come by. Work is harder to fit into an already tight schedule. Having a money sink for a hobby complicates the situation even further!

So I am playing with the idea of flipping cards for profit. My reasoning:
   
     If I enjoy having the cards, and these cards hold monetary value to many individuals other than myself; why not buy a booster box, sell all of the cards on ebay, save the profit for the duration of this experiment and allocate some of it to buy another booster box, and repeat the whole process?

-I will receive the satisfaction of pulling the hard to find cards every time
-I will make some side money for my own expenses other than my bi-weekly pay from work
-Many rare cards will be available on the market for purchase by collectors and players alike
-Information data will be acquired from the entire process for future use
     -> should this information become published it would be available to others looking to gets started making a profit from trading card flipping.

             If I have any readers yet, feel free to lend me your thoughts on this idea

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2 comments:

  1. What a freaking noob. You're probably one of those assholes who plays league pretending he's hot shit and then just sits on his ass missing the fucking skill shots. Magic was like 3RD GRADE SPONGEBOB. You should just quit the internet.

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  2. I am familiar with the type of people you just described, I can assure you that I am not a middle school student in bronze league that runs well past the half way point on the map, dying and blaming it on the rest of the team because "nobody is there to help", or see's two people die within seconds of eachother and calls it "gg ,can't carry".

    Also, I do like Spongebob, so back off pal.

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