So I just signed up to this. Looks quite good, though I get the impression the low value trades are just snapped up immediately so I'll not easily be able to move on my unwanted bulks.
Anyway, is there a way to show which cards in my "Haves" list are actually wanted at any one time? Or do I have to click on each one individually and scroll down to see if anyone has it listed as a want? Because that's mental if so. It'll take forever.
There's a button where you can filter it to your haves, yes. It's on the top left above the list of cards that people want.
This post hasn't been bumped in a while, so I thought I'd make some comments. There is a new feature where the frequency of the card's trading is listed. For example, I wanted Skred and only 8 other people had active wants, but it was trading at 1.2 copies per week. So I just opted to buy them online instead.
I also want Noble Hierarch, which had about the same number of people waiting. However it is trading about 10 per day, so I can quickly source it on Puca.
Also, the best trading time is at set release. That is when you can get the best deals and unload over-priced mythics. Save up some points for Origins!
Well, every single Dragonlord is now worth more than what you traded them for at release.
Anyways, I finally got around to trying to trade for an edh deck on pucatrade. So far all I had done was trade for a timetwister (which arrived last week). I realized it was going to take some time for someone to offer me a mox, so I put up around 100 wants earlier today, and within 5 minutes almost the entirely of the list was being sent my way (except for a couple sylvan libraries and a couple bulk rares). Pretty sweet.
Curious, those of you that have received duals, did you have a silver or gold membership and five points or send an extra card for incentive to receive the dual? I'm afraid to cash out my duals for other duals through Puca and not be able to get duals without something extra. I also don't want to wait for six or more months.
Waiting for duals is foolish, just use your points to get fetches or shocks. I will gladly trade any of my duals for fetches and shocks at the value pucatrade puts on them.
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Sometimes you have to be quick. A moment again, I did 'send a card' and an U.S. person came up for 2 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas. I checked my trade binder to be sure I had 2 BUT before I could get back to my computer, someone else nabbed them.
Sometimes you have to be quick. A moment again, I did 'send a card' and an U.S. person came up for 2 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas. I checked my trade binder to be sure I had 2 BUT before I could get back to my computer, someone else nabbed them.
In those situations, grab the trade. You have thirty minutes to cancel for moments like the one you just had.
Curious, those of you that have received duals, did you have a silver or gold membership and five points or send an extra card for incentive to receive the dual? I'm afraid to cash out my duals for other duals through Puca and not be able to get duals without something extra. I also don't want to wait for six or more months.
Getting duals on Puca can be quite a crapshoot. I traded off a spare Taiga once toward a Trop, but I got lucky and probably wouldn't again. This was when it was in its infancy. Tons more competition for duals now, and by going the pucatrade route you'd be sacrifing the competitive advantage you have. Trade binders on the table, the guy with other duals to offer back is generally in the best position to score a dual. On Puca you're on a level playing field with people who got their points by trading off Goblin Rabblemasters.
If you want to cash out a dual for a full deck of $20 cards it's great, but if you want to turn your Sea into a Volcanic I'd look elsewhere. Unless you're trying to trade a pile of revised Plateaus for a beta Underground Sea, and then I retract my advice.
What's the best way to sell points for cash? I've been sitting on points for awhile now in the hopes of getting duals, but have yet to get a single dual. Plus a bunch of other older cards. I figure I will just buy them if I can sell my points.
What's the best way to sell points for cash? I've been sitting on points for awhile now in the hopes of getting duals, but have yet to get a single dual. Plus a bunch of other older cards. I figure I will just buy them if I can sell my points.
You may be able to find someone to sell directly. Another option is to pick up cards that you can then move for store credit. For example, get Khans fetchlands which you can easily offload to a site with a good buy list / store credit setup.
What's the best way to sell points for cash? I've been sitting on points for awhile now in the hopes of getting duals, but have yet to get a single dual. Plus a bunch of other older cards. I figure I will just buy them if I can sell my points.
If you go to the pucatrade subreddit, people do use it occasionally to sell/buy points. The current #1 hot post on the page is a guy looking to buy a large quantity of pucapoints. That could help
What's the best way to sell points for cash? I've been sitting on points for awhile now in the hopes of getting duals, but have yet to get a single dual. Plus a bunch of other older cards. I figure I will just buy them if I can sell my points.
You may be able to find someone to sell directly. Another option is to pick up cards that you can then move for store credit. For example, get Khans fetchlands which you can easily offload to a site with a good buy list / store credit setup.
This. I just acquired about 130-140 khans fetch lands in the past week. They're much easier to sell than the dual lands and other mid-level rares I traded away and have very high pucapoint:buy list ratios, let alone selling directly to buyers. SCG buy list prices are really very good on them at the moment.
What's the best way to sell points for cash? I've been sitting on points for awhile now in the hopes of getting duals, but have yet to get a single dual. Plus a bunch of other older cards. I figure I will just buy them if I can sell my points.
Post on the sub-reddit, edit your profile name to state you are selling and add your rate to your profile, post on MOTL, post here (though I didn't have much luck here, tbh), or anywhere else with MTG trading that will allow it. Going rate seems to be between $.72 and $.75/100 USD depending on quantity.
What's the best way to sell points for cash? I've been sitting on points for awhile now in the hopes of getting duals, but have yet to get a single dual. Plus a bunch of other older cards. I figure I will just buy them if I can sell my points.
Post on the sub-reddit, edit your profile name to state you are selling and add your rate to your profile, post on MOTL, post here (though I didn't have much luck here, tbh), or anywhere else with MTG trading that will allow it. Going rate seems to be between $.72 and $.75/100 USD depending on quantity.
Good luck!
When I posted, I had no bites for $0.75 or $0.75. I think this value is quickly sliding to $0.70- there just aren't enough people buying large quantities compared to the large number of sellers.
Bah, after a relatively good run I've had a few dumb cases in the past 24 hours. First someone in Greece opened a case against me with no text in it. I asked what was up and he said "it didn't arrive yet." This was ten days after I shipped, not even two weeks on a trans-Atlantic package. The cards showed up later that day.
Tonight I got a couple 160 point cards from a dude in Texas that are a) beaten to crap and b) postmarked a full week after he supposedly shipped. Normally I wouldn't open a case for either of those reasons, especially on $3 in cards, but both issues together were pretty galling and clearly no accident.
What's the best way to sell points for cash? I've been sitting on points for awhile now in the hopes of getting duals, but have yet to get a single dual. Plus a bunch of other older cards. I figure I will just buy them if I can sell my points.
Post on the sub-reddit, edit your profile name to state you are selling and add your rate to your profile, post on MOTL, post here (though I didn't have much luck here, tbh), or anywhere else with MTG trading that will allow it. Going rate seems to be between $.72 and $.75/100 USD depending on quantity.
Good luck!
When I posted, I had no bites for $0.75 or $0.75. I think this value is quickly sliding to $0.70- there just aren't enough people buying large quantities compared to the large number of sellers.
No doubt the market has become more competitive. In the past month I have sold 330K points ranging from $.72/100 to $.80/100. Recent sales have been in the $.72/100 to $.75/100 range, though I now see people on the sub reddit advertising at $.70/100. It is possible that the price could continue to fall, though.
People selling at under $.75 are lazy. There are too many ways to turn pucapoints into non-pucapoints value at better ratios than that. It's not too hard to get over $.85 with some ingenuity and patience.
The crazy thing about selling Puca points is that you're almost at buy list prices. With Puca sometimes being higher in points than TCG -mid-, plus the fifteen to twenty five percent off of every dollar you're probably averaging forty to fifty percent the original value. Am I missing something, or do I have wires crossed somewhere?
The crazy thing about selling Puca points is that you're almost at buy list prices. With Puca sometimes being higher in points than TCG -mid-, plus the fifteen to twenty five percent off of every dollar you're probably averaging forty to fifty percent the original value. Am I missing something, or do I have wires crossed somewhere?
Selling pucapoints at $0.75 per 100 puts you near TCG low for NM copies minus maybe 10-15%, which is roughly equal to PayPal and sellers fees. Taking 25% off TCG-mid isn't a huge hit because you're not selling at TCG mid, but nearer to low.
NM only is a big scam. I signed up to get my 500 free points and was sent a card. It has a nick in one corner and that's not NM. I accepted the trade as didn't think it was worth it to complain.
Even if the nick is small it's not minor.
If I want SP cards I'll pay for SP cards and get the discount I deserve.
Seems like a massive hassle to go through a process of sending things back.
The fact that I was able to be given these free points is nice but it is an issue. Obviously the system can be gamed as there is no verification of identity. Just get yourself 500 points here and there and get cards for free. I don't want to feel like I'm being honest while others are taking advantage.
Perhaps letting people use the site for free isn't a good idea. Paywalls create much more than a financial barrier. Paypal/credit card leaves a paper trail which means you can't get away with scamming as easily.
There's a button where you can filter it to your haves, yes. It's on the top left above the list of cards that people want.
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I also want Noble Hierarch, which had about the same number of people waiting. However it is trading about 10 per day, so I can quickly source it on Puca.
Also, the best trading time is at set release. That is when you can get the best deals and unload over-priced mythics. Save up some points for Origins!
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Anyways, I finally got around to trying to trade for an edh deck on pucatrade. So far all I had done was trade for a timetwister (which arrived last week). I realized it was going to take some time for someone to offer me a mox, so I put up around 100 wants earlier today, and within 5 minutes almost the entirely of the list was being sent my way (except for a couple sylvan libraries and a couple bulk rares). Pretty sweet.
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In those situations, grab the trade. You have thirty minutes to cancel for moments like the one you just had.
Getting duals on Puca can be quite a crapshoot. I traded off a spare Taiga once toward a Trop, but I got lucky and probably wouldn't again. This was when it was in its infancy. Tons more competition for duals now, and by going the pucatrade route you'd be sacrifing the competitive advantage you have. Trade binders on the table, the guy with other duals to offer back is generally in the best position to score a dual. On Puca you're on a level playing field with people who got their points by trading off Goblin Rabblemasters.
If you want to cash out a dual for a full deck of $20 cards it's great, but if you want to turn your Sea into a Volcanic I'd look elsewhere. Unless you're trying to trade a pile of revised Plateaus for a beta Underground Sea, and then I retract my advice.
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You may be able to find someone to sell directly. Another option is to pick up cards that you can then move for store credit. For example, get Khans fetchlands which you can easily offload to a site with a good buy list / store credit setup.
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If you go to the pucatrade subreddit, people do use it occasionally to sell/buy points. The current #1 hot post on the page is a guy looking to buy a large quantity of pucapoints. That could help
This. I just acquired about 130-140 khans fetch lands in the past week. They're much easier to sell than the dual lands and other mid-level rares I traded away and have very high pucapoint:buy list ratios, let alone selling directly to buyers. SCG buy list prices are really very good on them at the moment.
Post on the sub-reddit, edit your profile name to state you are selling and add your rate to your profile, post on MOTL, post here (though I didn't have much luck here, tbh), or anywhere else with MTG trading that will allow it. Going rate seems to be between $.72 and $.75/100 USD depending on quantity.
Good luck!
When I posted, I had no bites for $0.75 or $0.75. I think this value is quickly sliding to $0.70- there just aren't enough people buying large quantities compared to the large number of sellers.
Tonight I got a couple 160 point cards from a dude in Texas that are a) beaten to crap and b) postmarked a full week after he supposedly shipped. Normally I wouldn't open a case for either of those reasons, especially on $3 in cards, but both issues together were pretty galling and clearly no accident.
Rancored Elf will cancel your order if prices go up. Read about him and other shady vendors here.
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No doubt the market has become more competitive. In the past month I have sold 330K points ranging from $.72/100 to $.80/100. Recent sales have been in the $.72/100 to $.75/100 range, though I now see people on the sub reddit advertising at $.70/100. It is possible that the price could continue to fall, though.
Selling pucapoints at $0.75 per 100 puts you near TCG low for NM copies minus maybe 10-15%, which is roughly equal to PayPal and sellers fees. Taking 25% off TCG-mid isn't a huge hit because you're not selling at TCG mid, but nearer to low.
NM only is a big scam. I signed up to get my 500 free points and was sent a card. It has a nick in one corner and that's not NM. I accepted the trade as didn't think it was worth it to complain.
Even if the nick is small it's not minor.
If I want SP cards I'll pay for SP cards and get the discount I deserve.
Seems like a massive hassle to go through a process of sending things back.
The fact that I was able to be given these free points is nice but it is an issue. Obviously the system can be gamed as there is no verification of identity. Just get yourself 500 points here and there and get cards for free. I don't want to feel like I'm being honest while others are taking advantage.
Perhaps letting people use the site for free isn't a good idea. Paywalls create much more than a financial barrier. Paypal/credit card leaves a paper trail which means you can't get away with scamming as easily.
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