Best way to get sell value out of cards?
Economics forum
Posted on April 6, 2015, 5:41 p.m. by acbooster
So here's the situation:
My binder is getting full and no one at my LGS or at school has anything I'd want to trade for. My LGS has decent buy prices, but most of my value cards are foils and they don't buy foils. I decided it might be time to start trying to sell off the bigger part of my collection because I don't build decks as often as I used to.
What'd be the best way to get good money out of my cards?
Yeah I was mainly planning on selling more of the money cards. The junk rares I will be saving to make a cheap cube out of. My main issue is that the only store in my area that buys foils buys them for the price of the normal card. I can understand shops not wanting to buy them because most people don't buy foils anyway, but it's frustrating when you have so much value in your binder and you can't do anything with it.
April 6, 2015 5:50 p.m.
ThisIsBullshit says... #4
You can start trading on tappedout or elsewhere, you can usually find people to trade cards, or if not, maybe just sell them.
April 6, 2015 5:55 p.m.
You can move foils on Pucatrade.com, but you need a silver account.
April 6, 2015 5:59 p.m.
KingShaunus says... #6
On Pucatrade you can actually send foils but cannot receive them unless you have a silver account.
Source:
http://pucatrade.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/379247-how-do-i-trade-a-foil
April 6, 2015 6:36 p.m.
insertcleverid says... #7
General rule of thumb, the faster you move, the less cents on the dollar you'll get. Selling the entire collection is the fastest but you'll make the least. Setting up a store on tcg is the best, but it will take forever.
In the middle is selling on Ebay, selling to online buylists, then selling to your lgs (which usually is just for store credit.)
April 6, 2015 6:43 p.m.
selling in FB groups is also a good option, usually you get around tcg low, or generally -5-10% to account for fees and such tcg takes or ebay
or sometimes posting on tapped out to sell stuff
April 10, 2015 11:47 a.m.
actiontech says... #9
I also highly recommend PucaTrade. I've been moving cards on there for just a couple of months and I've turned a lot of binder jank into a foil Snapcaster Mage (my 3rd), my 4th foil Deathrite Shaman, 2x Force of Will, and I'm currently working on foiling out all 40 of the RTR shocklands by sending out all of the non-foils I've built up over the years. It takes some patience but once you get your collection entered properly and get the hang of it you can turn a lot of garbage into gold! Shameless plug: I get 100 free points if you reference me when you sign up. If you're gonna anyway though, I would personally appreciate it if you use this link!
https://pucatrade.com/invite/gift/8422
ThisIsBullshit says... #2
Trade online. Pucatrade works great (not sure if you can trade foils on there though) as does TappedOut, Facebook, and EBay. If you really want to, I think you can sell on tcgplayer but that seems like a larger hassle than it's worth.
Also, don't sell as a collection. If possible try to sell as singles, you'll get better prices that way.
April 6, 2015 5:47 p.m.