So I am curious what the best avenue to take would be for exiting the Mtgo market. Would it be better off to convert the collection over into tickets, then transfer tickets over into currency or some other kind of exchange? Or would it be a combination of getting rid of the "bulk" items through bots, leaving only "good" items for purchase.
Or would there be more value in parting with the collection as is?
Would this only have a small market of potential buyers and where would one find such buyer?
Hopefully this is in the right location (and I am not breaking any rules) Thanks for your time.
Depends a lot on what you have. You can send MTGO Traders your list and get a quote from them. This will give you a baseline price and then you can decide if you think you can make more by turning it into tickets and then selling the tickets for about $0.95 each.
If you play paper, you could also look into set redemption as a way to turn digital cards into something in the real world. But this adds a couple steps that may not help you, depending on how well you can sell cards and such.
You'll be making a choice about whether you want to get max value over more time, or less value faster. With the margins online being much narrower than in paper magic, it's usually fine to just take a reasonable buy offer from a site like MTGO Traders or MTGO Academy. You'll take a 10%-20% hit probably, whereas in paper you'd be taking a 50% hit or so by selling your collection all at once.
EDIT: Also, you can mark all your rares+mythics tradeable and get a quote from a few different buybots. Check out Academy bots, Goatbots, Dojo, etc.... Then you can make sure that any quotes you get for your whole collection are in the right ballpark.
Return to Ravnica is the last set with cheaper handling costs though.
You include the handling costs in the price of the set. RTR is still more expensive to redeem than GTC or DGM right now (all costs except sending the parcel included, it's USD 136 for RTR, USD 112 for GTC and USD 96 for DGM without shopping around at all).
Pretty sure Theros (USD 145) is better than any of those because it's newer and there's more demand in paper.
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Or would there be more value in parting with the collection as is?
Would this only have a small market of potential buyers and where would one find such buyer?
Hopefully this is in the right location (and I am not breaking any rules) Thanks for your time.
If you play paper, you could also look into set redemption as a way to turn digital cards into something in the real world. But this adds a couple steps that may not help you, depending on how well you can sell cards and such.
You'll be making a choice about whether you want to get max value over more time, or less value faster. With the margins online being much narrower than in paper magic, it's usually fine to just take a reasonable buy offer from a site like MTGO Traders or MTGO Academy. You'll take a 10%-20% hit probably, whereas in paper you'd be taking a 50% hit or so by selling your collection all at once.
EDIT: Also, you can mark all your rares+mythics tradeable and get a quote from a few different buybots. Check out Academy bots, Goatbots, Dojo, etc.... Then you can make sure that any quotes you get for your whole collection are in the right ballpark.
Step 2: Redeem
Step 3: Sell as sealed boxes on Ebay.
Always has been profitable if you pick the right sets.
Edit: At the moment, I believe Theros - Foil has the highest markup from online to paper. This can and does change rapidly.
You include the handling costs in the price of the set. RTR is still more expensive to redeem than GTC or DGM right now (all costs except sending the parcel included, it's USD 136 for RTR, USD 112 for GTC and USD 96 for DGM without shopping around at all).
Pretty sure Theros (USD 145) is better than any of those because it's newer and there's more demand in paper.