Argh, what the bloody hell is up with Nahiri? I ordered a foil from eBay, the seller told me that he was shipping it out the next day and then boom, an hour later he refunded my money with an out of stock notice. No replies to my emails.
Okay, so I ordered another one from someone else. And it's just sat there, seller hasn't marked it as shipped, and won't reply to my emails. Still waiting on either a refund or a shipping notification.
So I ordered a THIRD. This one I actually got. But at this point I just want to know what the deal with with Nahiri? Why am I 1/3? It's not like I got a steal on them - the first guy could maybe have gotten a couple bucks more, but the second one I bought at market value. I could go to TCGPlayer right now and pay the same price.
I understand that all these questions are purely rhetorical. I'm just frustrated and needed a place to vent. And guess what, Off-Topic Community Thread That's Been Dead Since GP:NYC? You're it.
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Argh, what the bloody hell is up with Nahiri? I ordered a foil from eBay, the seller told me that he was shipping it out the next day and then boom, an hour later he refunded my money with an out of stock notice. No replies to my emails.
Okay, so I ordered another one from someone else. And it's just sat there, seller hasn't marked it as shipped, and won't reply to my emails. Still waiting on either a refund or a shipping notification.
So I ordered a THIRD. This one I actually got. But at this point I just want to know what the deal with with Nahiri? Why am I 1/3? It's not like I got a steal on them - the first guy could maybe have gotten a couple bucks more, but the second one I bought at market value. I could go to TCGPlayer right now and pay the same price.
I understand that all these questions are purely rhetorical. I'm just frustrated and needed a place to vent. And guess what, Off-Topic Community Thread That's Been Dead Since GP:NYC? You're it.
It's OK, we're here for you as a thread. How did that experience make you feel? I'm sure everything will be OK. Other well-known therapist-style sentences etc. etc.
For real, though, that sucks. I understand that Nahiri is in high-demand across multiple formats right now, but how can two separate places screw up an order for such an in-demand card? Surely that's a mark against the quality of the site when it's something that everyone is going to be chasing... core business and all...
Sounds like you got the downhill section of the rollercoaster this week!
One of the most common things I will see is that someone will post an auction and not get as much as they hoped, and even if its only a couple dollars off, they will refuse to send, and claim something like out of stock (part of the thing with that, is many will see certain long-term auction sellers on ebay that are able to regularly get more from their listings than the normal market value (low end of ebay buy it nows), and others think they should be able to do the same without the need for having a decade or more of time building a huge customer base that will fight over the auctions resulting in the higher prices.
That possibility aside however, if its an actual store of some kind that was listing the card on ebay, that could simply be another common problem I have seen happen a lot over the years, and that is stores will intermix their physical store and ebay inventories, and commonly tend to be rather poor at properly and quickly updating inventory levels when, say, something sells at their physical store but they still have it listed on ebay.
For individuals who have and list stuff, some will list cards on ebay and will still be actively trying to sell/trade the card locally with the intention of pulling the card if its sold/traded, but as with above, often enough those people may trade away or sell the card locally and forget to pull the listing before someone may end up grabbing it.
Sometimes its just a matter of bad timing and no ill intent intended by the seller (this can come into play even for stores that list the same inventory on multiple sales locations online and then a card spikes and the lag in inventory updating can cause cancelled orders) (Obviously that isn't the case here, though).
Inevitably though, it just sounds like bad luck on your part that you ended up running into not one but two separate sellers that seemed to have their own issues in being able to actually send you the card you wanted. Glad to hear the third worked out though. Hopefully that wont be an issue you will run into again. And at least the card wasn't on some sort of spike or something and losing out on being able to pay a reasonable price for a card (I think we've all been there before -.-).
Aside from this conversation though, is it just me or have things been a bit quieter around here of late? (Market Street in general).
I'm honestly tired of the game, as a whole. I unfollowed all of the streams on Twitch.tv, stopped attending stores altogether, even the ones I have store credit in, and the next time I go, I'm getting rid of all excess cards and keeping my sideboards and decks. I keep coming to this site because it's a habit.
I'm traveling a lot, actually. Going skydiving for the second time, next month. Still messing with my car's audio. Going out and socializing on a higher level than before. Sup with everyone else?
I'm honestly tired of the game, as a whole. I unfollowed all of the streams on Twitch.tv, stopped attending stores altogether, even the ones I have store credit in, and the next time I go, I'm getting rid of all excess cards and keeping my sideboards and decks. I keep coming to this site because it's a habit.
I'm traveling a lot, actually. Going skydiving for the second time, next month. Still messing with my car's audio. Going out and socializing on a higher level than before. Sup with everyone else?
I've only gone skydiving indoors, but it was a lot of fun. I imagine that it's even more fun outside.
Other than getting extremely frustrated with Nahiri, life is good. My kid is walking around and making the cutest babbling noise, and dancing with her dolls. It's just so adorable.
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She's turning a year pretty soon here, isn't she? They're all adorable until they really do start to walk around and learn "no." Ha! No, I bet they're still adorable.
Sky diving is super fun. The scenery, the rush of excitement as you go up, even as you're sucked out of the plane. It's quite the experience!
I'm honestly tired of the game, as a whole. I unfollowed all of the streams on Twitch.tv, stopped attending stores altogether, even the ones I have store credit in, and the next time I go, I'm getting rid of all excess cards and keeping my sideboards and decks. I keep coming to this site because it's a habit.
I'm traveling a lot, actually. Going skydiving for the second time, next month. Still messing with my car's audio. Going out and socializing on a higher level than before. Sup with everyone else?
I've only gone skydiving indoors, but it was a lot of fun. I imagine that it's even more fun outside.
Other than getting extremely frustrated with Nahiri, life is good. My kid is walking around and making the cutest babbling noise, and dancing with her dolls. It's just so adorable.
Kiddos can be a lot of fun. My oldest is 2 1/2 and still likes to sit on Daddy's lap to drink his milk or watch TV. My youngest is 1 and is already a chatterbox. It's going to be nuts when he actually learns how to talk. If I only had 10% of the energy they have...
She's turning a year pretty soon here, isn't she? They're all adorable until they really do start to walk around and learn "no." Ha! No, I bet they're still adorable.
Sky diving is super fun. The scenery, the rush of excitement as you go up, even as you're sucked out of the plane. It's quite the experience!
She turned 1 a week ago. She's been walking independently for two months, and we keep finding stuff that she can get to that we didn't realize. I need to figure out how to protect my bookshelves.
How long does a typical dive last? Indoors, you only get 30 seconds or so.
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Hard to believe it's already been a year. Hard to believe we're about to be 8 months into this year, really. I hate that we have to work. "I wish I was a billionaire, so ******* bad."
I can't really remember how long the jump is. I want to say six minutes, but I could be wrong. All I know was nine thousand feet wasn't high enough. I need to double check that this one is thirteen thousand. I also want to see if they offer pics instead of a vid. I got vid last time.
Oh, hell yeah I'm hooked. The only thing stopping me from buying a wing suit and parachute is the fact that it will cost me at least three top tier blue Legacy decks with multiple copies of each staple. Price is cray cray, lol.
I haven't seen him in a while. Glanced at his profile, and it looks like he reappeared for a minute in May to talk pauper spoilers but that was the last time.
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Seems like a lot of the regulars I remember seeing around the market street area several years ago seem to be slowly going away at time goes on. Likely nothing all that much out of the ordinary, but still.
I know I haven't had a whole lot to do around here in a while, other than a random comment here or there, I basically just pop in, check new posts in certain places, and then pop out again, seems like I've been doing that around here for a while now.
Seems to be the running theme for my regular online spots, many of which have been around for 10+ years (this has been my sole magic forums for quite a while though, since I stopped having anything to do with wizards forums a while back.) The activity levels for probably 90%+ of the places I frequent have really quieted down the last year or so, hopefully they will pick up again eventually, but I suppose we'll see.
Anyhow, I'm working to make some changes and see if I cant recharge my batteries a bit and get my productivity (outside of here) back to where I would like it to be.
Ha, yeah. I'm a little rusty and I need to stop doing cutesy plays and I probably would have been in a better position instead of twentieth. All of my opponents were good though. I really miss Burn. Shardless is a good deck, but I have a long way to go with it, still.
I know you made top eight, how did you do? Did you take first place, again? I know ExpiredRascals on Aluren was there as well, but I think he scrubbed out. I didn't see him after maybe fourth round? Poor bastard.
Ha, yeah. I'm a little rusty and I need to stop doing cutesy plays and I probably would have been in a better position instead of twentieth. All of my opponents were good though. I really miss Burn. Shardless is a good deck, but I have a long way to go with it, still.
I know you made top eight, how did you do? Did you take first place, again? I know ExpiredRascals on Aluren was there as well, but I think he scrubbed out. I didn't see him after maybe fourth round? Poor bastard.
ER started well at 3-0, but crashed out at 3-3, I think. We just split the top 8, thankfully. It was blazingly hot in that building.
Are you maindecking firecraft? I think you got my buddy on miracles in a game after he thought he was completely safe with counterbalance lock + double force in hand at 3 life.
Yeah, I dropped Vortex completely from Burn. So many times have I dropped Vortex on a board, only for the opponent to take two and remove it. Life gain these days is mostly through artifacts.
Meh, it's alright. Not much has changed. SCG pretty much abandoned Legacy at first as predicted, then gave up the West Coast second. Standard is a year and six months, WotC has given up on Modern and not really spoken about it, and there's now a new super rarity that also hasn't been completely confirmed, but will probably be main stay in all first block sets that drives down long term pricing.
Honestly, if there were better things to do with my time more frequesntly, I'd put a stake into this hobby completely. WotC won't get my money outside of tournaments.
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Okay, so I ordered another one from someone else. And it's just sat there, seller hasn't marked it as shipped, and won't reply to my emails. Still waiting on either a refund or a shipping notification.
So I ordered a THIRD. This one I actually got. But at this point I just want to know what the deal with with Nahiri? Why am I 1/3? It's not like I got a steal on them - the first guy could maybe have gotten a couple bucks more, but the second one I bought at market value. I could go to TCGPlayer right now and pay the same price.
I understand that all these questions are purely rhetorical. I'm just frustrated and needed a place to vent. And guess what, Off-Topic Community Thread That's Been Dead Since GP:NYC? You're it.
It's OK, we're here for you as a thread. How did that experience make you feel? I'm sure everything will be OK. Other well-known therapist-style sentences etc. etc.
For real, though, that sucks. I understand that Nahiri is in high-demand across multiple formats right now, but how can two separate places screw up an order for such an in-demand card? Surely that's a mark against the quality of the site when it's something that everyone is going to be chasing... core business and all...
Sounds like you got the downhill section of the rollercoaster this week!
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That possibility aside however, if its an actual store of some kind that was listing the card on ebay, that could simply be another common problem I have seen happen a lot over the years, and that is stores will intermix their physical store and ebay inventories, and commonly tend to be rather poor at properly and quickly updating inventory levels when, say, something sells at their physical store but they still have it listed on ebay.
For individuals who have and list stuff, some will list cards on ebay and will still be actively trying to sell/trade the card locally with the intention of pulling the card if its sold/traded, but as with above, often enough those people may trade away or sell the card locally and forget to pull the listing before someone may end up grabbing it.
Sometimes its just a matter of bad timing and no ill intent intended by the seller (this can come into play even for stores that list the same inventory on multiple sales locations online and then a card spikes and the lag in inventory updating can cause cancelled orders) (Obviously that isn't the case here, though).
Inevitably though, it just sounds like bad luck on your part that you ended up running into not one but two separate sellers that seemed to have their own issues in being able to actually send you the card you wanted. Glad to hear the third worked out though. Hopefully that wont be an issue you will run into again. And at least the card wasn't on some sort of spike or something and losing out on being able to pay a reasonable price for a card (I think we've all been there before -.-).
Aside from this conversation though, is it just me or have things been a bit quieter around here of late? (Market Street in general).
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I'm traveling a lot, actually. Going skydiving for the second time, next month. Still messing with my car's audio. Going out and socializing on a higher level than before. Sup with everyone else?
I've only gone skydiving indoors, but it was a lot of fun. I imagine that it's even more fun outside.
Other than getting extremely frustrated with Nahiri, life is good. My kid is walking around and making the cutest babbling noise, and dancing with her dolls. It's just so adorable.
Sky diving is super fun. The scenery, the rush of excitement as you go up, even as you're sucked out of the plane. It's quite the experience!
Kiddos can be a lot of fun. My oldest is 2 1/2 and still likes to sit on Daddy's lap to drink his milk or watch TV. My youngest is 1 and is already a chatterbox. It's going to be nuts when he actually learns how to talk. If I only had 10% of the energy they have...
She turned 1 a week ago. She's been walking independently for two months, and we keep finding stuff that she can get to that we didn't realize. I need to figure out how to protect my bookshelves.
How long does a typical dive last? Indoors, you only get 30 seconds or so.
I can't really remember how long the jump is. I want to say six minutes, but I could be wrong. All I know was nine thousand feet wasn't high enough. I need to double check that this one is thirteen thousand. I also want to see if they offer pics instead of a vid. I got vid last time.
Sounds like you're really hooked
I know I haven't had a whole lot to do around here in a while, other than a random comment here or there, I basically just pop in, check new posts in certain places, and then pop out again, seems like I've been doing that around here for a while now.
Seems to be the running theme for my regular online spots, many of which have been around for 10+ years (this has been my sole magic forums for quite a while though, since I stopped having anything to do with wizards forums a while back.) The activity levels for probably 90%+ of the places I frequent have really quieted down the last year or so, hopefully they will pick up again eventually, but I suppose we'll see.
Anyhow, I'm working to make some changes and see if I cant recharge my batteries a bit and get my productivity (outside of here) back to where I would like it to be.
Kind of. :/
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I know you made top eight, how did you do? Did you take first place, again? I know ExpiredRascals on Aluren was there as well, but I think he scrubbed out. I didn't see him after maybe fourth round? Poor bastard.
ER started well at 3-0, but crashed out at 3-3, I think. We just split the top 8, thankfully. It was blazingly hot in that building.
Are you maindecking firecraft? I think you got my buddy on miracles in a game after he thought he was completely safe with counterbalance lock + double force in hand at 3 life.
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Honestly, if there were better things to do with my time more frequesntly, I'd put a stake into this hobby completely. WotC won't get my money outside of tournaments.