Seeing as how I'm stuck at a casino and I don't even gamble, I wonder if anyone will actually respond tonight. How's everyone doing? Been months since this thread was responded to.
Its going okay. I've just been working away at my ebay listings, keep checking in around here, but haven't really seen much going on discussion wise in a while aside from a post here and a post there. Trouble with having such a large collection still, is reprinting sets, while great for those who don't have the cards, are not so great for people who have a bunch of many of the cards, so trying to remedy that particular issue now. So far so good, but its a slow process. Birthday coming up in a few days, so that's nice, though with all this ebaying I have to do, its not been as relaxing as I would have hoped, decided to skip going to the beach with my parents to continue working on my listings, inevitably decided that making a bunch of money was preferable to not making said money and actually spending money on more stuff I probably don't really need :p. Basically I hope wizards does a good job with the new modern masters set, but at the same time I hope I don't take too much of a hit in the process as I work to sell through this stuff as quickly as possible. At least the set wont actually release for about a month so I have some time before actual on-hand supply hits the market, but once the spoilers hit in 10 days, that's going to be me keeping my eyes peeled to this place every day to keep up on what's getting reprinted and respond accordingly. Good ol spoiler season, always an interesting time.
I have to ask man, how much inventory do you have? I honestly imagined you liquidated almost everything when you sold your shop years ago, but you always mention selling cards. It's crazy that you still have this much stock left over from what? Three years ago? So much for selling your "store!" LOL
You gotta relax every now and again and go on trips. Good for the soul man. You lose monetary gains, but you gain some happiness, which is why you went for money in the first place.
Well, leaving the shop was due to health reasons from working too long of hours, and having too much stress in keeping up with everything and thusly not having the time to take care of my health as I really needed to. And given the massive size of my collection at the time of leaving the shop (approx. 3.5 million cards) it does tend to take a good bit of time to work through. Honestly though a lot of the reason its taken this long to really get down to it on a truly dedicated basis was more to do with spending a lot of time helping out friends and family with a variety of things, most importantly there being helping my parents ease into retirement and all of the work and preparation that goes into that before and after. Working at remodeling my parents home, among various other things, and just generally working on my health, which has been steadily improving, even if I still need to lose the weight (but I have a plan there too). In the end it is all a process. I'm also not 100% out, though I do not buy collections or anything like that anymore or sell at a shop, I still do buy sealed deck product that I can break apart for reasonable profit from time to time and as it was something more easily kept up with a good amount of my ebaying over the last couple years has been doing that along with a smattering of other things that I had already been working on. Right now I'm focused on Modern, and then will work from there. And yeah, in this case my slow steady pace caused me to have to really get at it with the new modern masters set coming, so I opted out of this vacation but there will be another one soon enough, so I'll still get my break when the time comes. The key I've found is to just give yourself a steady but reasonable amount of work to do no matter the source so as to keep making progress without adding the undue stress that too much work will inevitably bring. Things are going well around here though, and significant progress is being made, both with my parents, the house, and with my card organizing/selling. Hoping within another year I will be looking at the light at the end of the tunnel with all this, but we'll just have to wait and see.
Seeing as how I'm stuck at a casino and I don't even gamble, I wonder if anyone will actually respond tonight. How's everyone doing? Been months since this thread was responded to.
I'm pretty exhausted, myself. I've been fighting off a cold this past week, and I've no sick time left, since I overdrew for a nasty virus that knocked me down and out for most of the week between Christmas and New Year's. That, and I have to save my available vacation time for July - #2 is on his way. Meanwhile, child #1 is walking, talking, and is absolutely adorable.
As far as things Magic go, I've given up on most of my collecting. Now it's just angels, dragons, and legendaries (above and beyond what I still need for my multitude of casual [I've also given up on Modern, and I gave up on Standard a looooong time ago] decks). I'm spending a lot of time here, which has turned out to be hilarious fun.
I empathize with you getting stuck in the casino - a few years ago, my company had a meeting in Las Vegas, and on the last day we had free time. There were three of us on my team, and we were all married and poorly paid, so that eliminated most of the entertainment available. We ended up picking a bar at random, sitting down and having one drink each of some pretty nice scotch, and calling it a day.
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Well, leaving the shop was due to health reasons from working too long of hours, and having too much stress in keeping up with everything and thusly not having the time to take care of my health as I really needed to. And given the massive size of my collection at the time of leaving the shop (approx. 3.5 million cards) it does tend to take a good bit of time to work through. Honestly though a lot of the reason its taken this long to really get down to it on a truly dedicated basis was more to do with spending a lot of time helping out friends and family with a variety of things, most importantly there being helping my parents ease into retirement and all of the work and preparation that goes into that before and after. Working at remodeling my parents home, among various other things, and just generally working on my health, which has been steadily improving, even if I still need to lose the weight (but I have a plan there too). In the end it is all a process. I'm also not 100% out, though I do not buy collections or anything like that anymore or sell at a shop, I still do buy sealed deck product that I can break apart for reasonable profit from time to time and as it was something more easily kept up with a good amount of my ebaying over the last couple years has been doing that along with a smattering of other things that I had already been working on. Right now I'm focused on Modern, and then will work from there. And yeah, in this case my slow steady pace caused me to have to really get at it with the new modern masters set coming, so I opted out of this vacation but there will be another one soon enough, so I'll still get my break when the time comes. The key I've found is to just give yourself a steady but reasonable amount of work to do no matter the source so as to keep making progress without adding the undue stress that too much work will inevitably bring. Things are going well around here though, and significant progress is being made, both with my parents, the house, and with my card organizing/selling. Hoping within another year I will be looking at the light at the end of the tunnel with all this, but we'll just have to wait and see.
LOL Three million cards. That's a wall of "Nope" for me. Well, glad you aren't stressing a lot. Only things I keep now are cards that go into Shardless BUG and Burn. I don't bother with anything else. WotC irritates me with how they blatantly ignore my format. I've told WotC and MaRo on their Twitter to go **** themselves after not having video coverage at GP Louisville. Not sure I'll ever go to a GP again just so I give them as little money as possible. I still attend local events, like the CFB $3K coming up in Santa Clara.
Seeing as how I'm stuck at a casino and I don't even gamble, I wonder if anyone will actually respond tonight. How's everyone doing? Been months since this thread was responded to.
I'm pretty exhausted, myself. I've been fighting off a cold this past week, and I've no sick time left, since I overdrew for a nasty virus that knocked me down and out for most of the week between Christmas and New Year's. That, and I have to save my available vacation time for July - #2 is on his way. Meanwhile, child #1 is walking, talking, and is absolutely adorable.
As far as things Magic go, I've given up on most of my collecting. Now it's just angels, dragons, and legendaries (above and beyond what I still need for my multitude of casual [I've also given up on Modern, and I gave up on Standard a looooong time ago] decks). I'm spending a lot of time here, which has turned out to be hilarious fun.
I empathize with you getting stuck in the casino - a few years ago, my company had a meeting in Las Vegas, and on the last day we had free time. There were three of us on my team, and we were all married and poorly paid, so that eliminated most of the entertainment available. We ended up picking a bar at random, sitting down and having one drink each of some pretty nice scotch, and calling it a day.
Number two coming along eh? You've been busy That's pretty cool man. Congratulations. I actually lost my job in November last year and decided to go back to school. This time for a field I should have gone into in the first place. Journalism. Media to be specific. Not main stream, though. Vice would be the closest I get to to that. I'd like to eventually have my own YouTube company providing the best news out there on subjects that matter. I have a plan, and I'm moving towards it.
As I was saying earlier, I just have a set amount of cards for my two decks of Shardless and Burn. Cards are various iterations of Burn and what side board cards the decks use. I sold everything else to CFB at their last $3K and bought a skydive and plane trip lol. ******* ***** man, adrenaline is addicting.
Seams like the replies/posts here are getting fewer & fewer. Is this Magic community dying? Are we slowly becoming extinct?
If I am just exaggerating, what can be some of the reasons why there have been less & less replies?
I've been busier at work. Three years later, and I'm still the FNG, so any time a new ticket pops up the vets laugh and point at me. Not literally (at least, not ALL the time), but basically I do all the stuff that they don't want to do. Which means that I've learned a lot about programming telephone systems.
So that means that I've got less time at work to randomly surf the internet. And at home ... yeah. That's busier too (see my last post in this thread).
How's everyone else doing?
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I think a lot of people are just busy with work/family/otherwise these days and just don't have as much time to post. I keep up on what is going on around here each day if I can, but only really post if there is something specific I can contribute to. Being that I am no longer with the shop and not keeping up with standard in any particular way and now that mtgsalvation has taken over the set valuation info, a lot of what I did on a more active basis kind of became redundant. Mostly just been working away at helping friends and family with a variety of things, and preparing for the next big batch of modern cards to list up on ebay.
For market street specifically though I just think a lot of the things that tended to generate a lot of the active posting have sort of settled out a bit in recent times. The card spikes tend to be fewer or for more obscure or higher end type items, We are enough after the last modern masters set and such that things have largely settled out there as well, and really its just a bit of a calm time in the secondary market seemingly at the moment. I imagine others can speak more towards such areas as most of what I have to go off of is just from my own pricing/re-pricing of the cards I have listed or are preparing to list, and from what people mention about stuff around here.
That said it does seem as though the community has shrunk a good bit in recent years, which is unfortunate, but I suppose is a bit of a sign of the times. It doesn't seem as though the magic community is growing by as fast a pace as it used to either, which I think with a normal amount of people coming and going in the game tends to mean less regulars around here a bit as well.
Forum communities in general seem to be shrinking as social media and reddit grow, too. MTGS has around 350k members and the main MTG subreddit has a little under 200k subscribers, which is a lot considering the 6-7 year head start MTGS has and doesn't factor in more specific subgroups (which have some but not complete overlap). Market street specific, there are more dedicated MTG finance communities out there now too. MTGS is still one of the longest running communities but we're nowhere near the only game in town. Lots more competition for users now.
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I remember a day when the Cafe threads on MTGSalvation were active on a daily basis. The information was not always correct, but at least it wasn't behind a pay wall.
However, in the last six months, things have slowed down tremendously around here. Where's all the finance discussion on MTGSalvation headed to?
I don't think it's any one place - it seems like it's been fragmented everywhere. If I had to guess, I'd say it went to sites with the finance podcasts.
I'd imagine reddit's r/mtgfinance has been swallowing up a lot of the news and discussion. Podcasts too, and those often get linked to reddit with corresponding discussions.
Finance has died quite a bit - the old days of standard cards spiking and holding are long gone. Same with modern cards popping up seemingly daily. Decreased attendance = decreased interest = lower finance interest.
With the recent spikes in Legacy, I figured there would be a lot more chatter... But it's quite, too quiet... spooky quiet. I posted about the multiples of jumps from Magic's first 4 expansions... even cards from The Dark are getting some love.
This. reddit is pretty big. Kinda sad because you lose that sense of community and reddit's fairly fragmented - miss the days of people being active on the forums.
I'd imagine reddit's r/mtgfinance has been swallowing up a lot of the news and discussion. Podcasts too, and those often get linked to reddit with corresponding discussions.
I will say that reddit is much more mobile browse-able for me, which is relevant. MTGS either loses a bunch of functionality on the mobile view or is difficult to read with tiny text, which has basically killed my phone browsing of the site.
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You gotta relax every now and again and go on trips. Good for the soul man. You lose monetary gains, but you gain some happiness, which is why you went for money in the first place.
I'm pretty exhausted, myself. I've been fighting off a cold this past week, and I've no sick time left, since I overdrew for a nasty virus that knocked me down and out for most of the week between Christmas and New Year's. That, and I have to save my available vacation time for July - #2 is on his way. Meanwhile, child #1 is walking, talking, and is absolutely adorable.
As far as things Magic go, I've given up on most of my collecting. Now it's just angels, dragons, and legendaries (above and beyond what I still need for my multitude of casual [I've also given up on Modern, and I gave up on Standard a looooong time ago] decks). I'm spending a lot of time here, which has turned out to be hilarious fun.
I empathize with you getting stuck in the casino - a few years ago, my company had a meeting in Las Vegas, and on the last day we had free time. There were three of us on my team, and we were all married and poorly paid, so that eliminated most of the entertainment available. We ended up picking a bar at random, sitting down and having one drink each of some pretty nice scotch, and calling it a day.
LOL Three million cards. That's a wall of "Nope" for me. Well, glad you aren't stressing a lot. Only things I keep now are cards that go into Shardless BUG and Burn. I don't bother with anything else. WotC irritates me with how they blatantly ignore my format. I've told WotC and MaRo on their Twitter to go **** themselves after not having video coverage at GP Louisville. Not sure I'll ever go to a GP again just so I give them as little money as possible. I still attend local events, like the CFB $3K coming up in Santa Clara.
Number two coming along eh? You've been busy
As I was saying earlier, I just have a set amount of cards for my two decks of Shardless and Burn. Cards are various iterations of Burn and what side board cards the decks use. I sold everything else to CFB at their last $3K and bought a skydive and plane trip lol. ******* ***** man, adrenaline is addicting.
Seams like the replies/posts here are getting fewer & fewer. Is this Magic community dying? Are we slowly becoming extinct?
If I am just exaggerating, what can be some of the reasons why there have been less & less replies?
I've been busier at work. Three years later, and I'm still the FNG, so any time a new ticket pops up the vets laugh and point at me. Not literally (at least, not ALL the time), but basically I do all the stuff that they don't want to do. Which means that I've learned a lot about programming telephone systems.
So that means that I've got less time at work to randomly surf the internet. And at home ... yeah. That's busier too (see my last post in this thread).
How's everyone else doing?
For market street specifically though I just think a lot of the things that tended to generate a lot of the active posting have sort of settled out a bit in recent times. The card spikes tend to be fewer or for more obscure or higher end type items, We are enough after the last modern masters set and such that things have largely settled out there as well, and really its just a bit of a calm time in the secondary market seemingly at the moment. I imagine others can speak more towards such areas as most of what I have to go off of is just from my own pricing/re-pricing of the cards I have listed or are preparing to list, and from what people mention about stuff around here.
That said it does seem as though the community has shrunk a good bit in recent years, which is unfortunate, but I suppose is a bit of a sign of the times. It doesn't seem as though the magic community is growing by as fast a pace as it used to either, which I think with a normal amount of people coming and going in the game tends to mean less regulars around here a bit as well.
However, in the last six months, things have slowed down tremendously around here. Where's all the finance discussion on MTGSalvation headed to?
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