You can also mark large pieces of it tradeable at a time and check various bots to get a good baseline number. This will depend a lot on the composition of your collection, but it's a good quick and dirty way to find the absolute minimum you can get if you wanted to liquidate immediately.
That also gives you a number to start from when you decide if the quote you get from a website is good/bad/indifferent.
The hard part is to find the bot that will buy the various pieces at the best prices. Some won't buy foils, others only deal in Standard legal cards, etc....
Short term at $400 is unlikely, at least in the US. A couple websites had Black Friday deals for boxes of MMA at $200, and another had them for $220. Buying in at $280 is full retail right now and I wouldn't suggest it if your goal is resale.
Definitely hold the Modern staples. Whether or not we get a Modern PTQ season, we will get a Modern MOCS season at some point. This gives you an extra selling window for the Modern stuff.
The email specifically mentioned redemptions from 11-13-13. I don't know if that means the redemptions from 11-20-13 are ok, or if the whole thing is backed up and you'll get the same email next week.
Yeah, got the same thing. Last week was when Theros redemption started, I wonder if they just got crushed under a massive wave of people bailing from online to paper.
Wait 1-2 weeks for prices to crash as people get out. Then buy as heavily as you can on whatever flavor of staples you like(modern, standard, etc...) and you'll do fine.
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.
Does anyone know how far in advance WOTC actually finalizes what cards will be in a set? For example, if it were two years in advance, they wouldn't have had a problem putting it in Huey for price reasons because they were only 10-15. As a side note, I hate that they're less likely to put it in a regular set for price reasons.
I think one of the Devs said that when FTV20 was spoiled, the next FTV was already either done or very close to finalized. That's for a supplemental product, not sure on normal expansions.
Mark Rosewater may have already answered this on his tumblr, it has to be a pretty common question.
That also gives you a number to start from when you decide if the quote you get from a website is good/bad/indifferent.
The hard part is to find the bot that will buy the various pieces at the best prices. Some won't buy foils, others only deal in Standard legal cards, etc....
A lot of paper sites have dropped their Theros buylist prices already because of the wave of product that's about to come crashing in.
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.
I think one of the Devs said that when FTV20 was spoiled, the next FTV was already either done or very close to finalized. That's for a supplemental product, not sure on normal expansions.
Mark Rosewater may have already answered this on his tumblr, it has to be a pretty common question.