What's the best way to get value out of foils?
Economics forum
Posted on June 12, 2016, 8:37 p.m. by acbooster
I've been thinking on this for a long time and never really have come up with anything. None of the game stores in my area even consider buying foils, no one trades for them, and they just keep building up in my collection. How am I supposed to get rid of them for stuff I need?
Foils are mostly sought after by collectors/people like me who like to pimp their decks, so it's a bit of a niche market. I second going through eBay, that's where I go to get my fix usually. I also go through TCGPlayer and some of my local FB groups.
June 12, 2016 8:58 p.m.
There are always a few people who want to foil out some sort of deck (mainly modern/eternal format players) so it's not completely a dead road. I've made plenty of foil trades for non foil cards and each side of the party got good value for it.
But as far as that goes, its hard to sell them, thats why stores dont buy em.
June 12, 2016 8:59 p.m.
iBleedPunk says... #5
acbooster if you would be willing, depending on what foils you have accumulated, I am hella down to trade or even possibly buy some.
June 12, 2016 9:32 p.m.
Are they in your binder? I'm always looking for foils.However, it's very difficult to get rid of them because most people don't care and the card costs nearly 2x as much as a regular.
June 12, 2016 9:43 p.m.
grumbledore says... #7
I use pucatrade to unload my junk foils. Also: all of my junk cards. lol. 14k cards indexed, 15k more to add lol
June 12, 2016 10:38 p.m.
They're not in my binder right now, but since I'm on summer vacation I can work on putting my binder up there since I don't plan on getting new packs anytime soon. I've got a ton of junk foils and junk rares that I don't have any place for and I'd love to open up binder space. I'm running out of pages and don't want to go buy more lol.
June 12, 2016 11:52 p.m.
DarkMagician says... #9
@ThisIsBullshit Can you link any of the mtg groups for selling cards? I can't seem to find them.
June 13, 2016 6:01 a.m.
DarkMagician says... #10
@ThisIsBullshit Can you link any of the mtg groups for selling cards? I can't seem to find them.
June 13, 2016 6:01 a.m.
ThisIsBullshit says... #12
DarkMagician: This one is for all Magic cards great and small, and this one is high end (over $50) cards only.
acbooster usually shops will take bulk rares so you can probably get rid of those with them if they're not foil.
June 13, 2016 9:40 a.m. Edited.
I've already checked the ones around here and the only store that did closed down about a year ago
June 13, 2016 4:23 p.m.
I use both of those Facebook sites a lot. In fact, I have some stuff up for sale on there now.
ThisIsBullshit says... #2
You can try trading on here, on pucatrade, or deckbox. If none of those get any hits, try selling on eBay or on the Facebook groups dedicated to selling MTG cards. If they're foils of cards people want, you'll be able to get rid of them somehow.
June 12, 2016 8:40 p.m.