We've re-hashed walmart in the first 3 pages of the thread. Honestly I think being able to buy singles online makes for better tournaments and better players. Stores can't charge you $2.50 a pack and make money, but online retailers can't host tournaments either. I personally believe them to be synergistic.
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Seriously, why can't they? Local store lists packs at 20% off, at $3.20 per booster pack. Out of the 5 times I have been there playing tournaments, I have never seen a single booster pack sell. Nobody who knows how cheap you can get cards for online would pay those prices, and these days everyone who plays is on the Internet. I can see how selling packs for $2.50 a piece would hurt your per-pack profit, but losing 80% of your $0 profit is 0. $.10 profit per pack might end up being a lot more than you think, if word gets around. Hell, if a local store were willing to sell booster boxes for $85 or so it would probably steal back all the buyers who were buying cards online previously. Even if you only make a couple dollars per box, it's more than 0.
Maybe it's only the tournament players who know what is up, I suppose it's possible that the overpriced packs sell well earlier in the day. I just see an opportunity to make a little money as an improvement over making no money at all.
Seriously, why can't they? Local store lists packs at 20% off, at $3.20 per booster pack. Out of the 5 times I have been there playing tournaments, I have never seen a single booster pack sell. Nobody who knows how cheap you can get cards for online would pay those prices, and these days everyone who plays is on the Internet. I can see how selling packs for $2.50 a piece would hurt your per-pack profit, but losing 80% of your $0 profit is 0. $.10 profit per pack might end up being a lot more than you think, if word gets around. Hell, if a local store were willing to sell booster boxes for $85 or so it would probably steal back all the buyers who were buying cards online previously. Even if you only make a couple dollars per box, it's more than 0.
Maybe it's only the tournament players who know what is up, I suppose it's possible that the overpriced packs sell well earlier in the day. I just see an opportunity to make a little money as an improvement over making no money at all.
Tournament players don't buy packs. Casual players do. They'll buy them from irl stores because they have no reason not to. Going online doesn't enter into most of their heads at all.
EDIT: Well, we all bought packs when they had Chinese propechy, Masques, Nemesis, and Odyssey, and Italian The Dark at like $2 a piece. But thats different.
People who don't have good cards don't go to FNM because they are going to get spanked. They drop $200 at an online retailer and get good cards that they can't buy in a local store and then come in and play (spending money the whole time).
Nice fantasy world you live in where FNM players keep dropping money the entire time they're at the store. Chances are you're getting little if anything beyond the entry fee for the tournament.
technik, you are correct that hobbyists don't always make good businessmen. That explains why so many places that were started in the 80's and 90's quickly went out of business after the speculation bubble burst. However, people seem to forget that we ARE businessmen and that this isn't a hobby for us. People (including those selling boxes at absurdly low prices) really believe that their time is absolutely worthless, and that is no way to do business. While it may make players happy because they're excited about saving $5.00, those people are actually much worse businessmen than your average LGS and are poisoning the well.
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Tournament players don't buy packs. Casual players do. They'll buy them from irl stores because they have no reason not to. Going online doesn't enter into most of their heads at all.
EDIT: Well, we all bought packs when they had Chinese propechy, Masques, Nemesis, and Odyssey, and Italian The Dark at like $2 a piece. But thats different.
This.
I will buy packs to get older cards for my EDH decks or for Chaos Drafting or something.
Plenty of people buy packs at my LGS, it is no big deal.
Last week the store(? Or maybe people bought Stronghold, not sure) opened two packs of Stronghold, and Sliver Queen was staring back as the rare in each one. It was pretty cool.
I am always personally aware of the bottom line of my local store, while their attendance is quadrupled since I started going there, I still try to spend as much as I can there instead of somewhere else. (They need to get more singles, IMO, but otherwise its all good)
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I'm gonna do some number crunching. Are these $83.99 boxes with free shipping in stores, auctions, or fixed price auctions?
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We live in a country were ~50% of the populace believe public schooling is a socialist conspiracy and that being called Einstein is an insult. We could try and fix it, but unfortunately the other 50% don't believe in euthanasia.
mine was a fixed price auction. There were a number that were the same.
The prices are pretty much the same for auction and fixed price anyway it turns out, so here we go:
Box sells for $83.99 with free shipping. Let's say that a booster box, once it's packaged since you wouldn't just slap an address and stamp on it, weighs two pounds. I'm sure it's more, but I don't have a booster box packed and ready to ship on hand so we'll say 2 pounds even for the sake of argument.
Listing fee for a fixed price auction is 35 cents. Selling fee for $83.99 is $9.20.
That means ebay is taking $9.55. Let's assume that these people are all power sellers with 4.9 stars or higher in all categories, so they get 20% off the fees. That makes ebay's cut $7.64. That knocks us down to $76.35 that you're getting now. The cheapest that you can LEGALLY mail a 2 pound package for is $5.09. That now knocks it down to $71.26. Of course, you don't have that money yet, you have to collect that money. The payment method of choice on ebay is paypal, so we'll use their fees. I saw that some of the auctions also will directly accept your credit card, but there are similar fees associated with that. For paypal, I'll give the sellers the benefit of the doubt and assume that they do over $100,000 per month in paypal transactions so that they can get the minimum percentage taken out. That makes paypal's cut $1.90, which means now your cut is $69.36. Keep in mind that this is also under IDEAL conditions, and not realistic conditions. Also, keep in mind that the cost of a box to distributors was $69 and change BEFORE the wholesale price increase with Shards of Alara. I don't know exactly what it is now, but the word "increase" would sure indicate that it's at least $70. Oh, and none of this takes into account the fact that, as I keep saying, a person's time should not be valued as completely worthless.
Can someone tell me again that this is a worthwhile business plan and that the people doing this aren't total *******s who are doing the industry more harm than good?
You realize, any online retailer is going to have a B&M presence. Its a requirement for being an authorized wizards reseller.
You would think that, huh? It's amazing how many people flat out lied to Wizards about having a B&M store and just took places of a store they don't run/work for, or some space that could be rented like a local Civic Center.
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The prices are pretty much the same for auction and fixed price anyway it turns out, so here we go:
Box sells for $83.99 with free shipping. Let's say that a booster box, once it's packaged since you wouldn't just slap an address and stamp on it, weighs two pounds. I'm sure it's more, but I don't have a booster box packed and ready to ship on hand so we'll say 2 pounds even for the sake of argument.
Listing fee for a fixed price auction is 35 cents. Selling fee for $83.99 is $9.20.
That means ebay is taking $9.55. Let's assume that these people are all power sellers with 4.9 stars or higher in all categories, so they get 20% off the fees. That makes ebay's cut $7.64. That knocks us down to $76.35 that you're getting now. The cheapest that you can LEGALLY mail a 2 pound package for is $5.09. That now knocks it down to $71.26. Of course, you don't have that money yet, you have to collect that money. The payment method of choice on ebay is paypal, so we'll use their fees. I saw that some of the auctions also will directly accept your credit card, but there are similar fees associated with that. For paypal, I'll give the sellers the benefit of the doubt and assume that they do over $100,000 per month in paypal transactions so that they can get the minimum percentage taken out. That makes paypal's cut $1.90, which means now your cut is $69.36. Keep in mind that this is also under IDEAL conditions, and not realistic conditions. Also, keep in mind that the cost of a box to distributors was $69 and change BEFORE the wholesale price increase with Shards of Alara. I don't know exactly what it is now, but the word "increase" would sure indicate that it's at least $70. Oh, and none of this takes into account the fact that, as I keep saying, a person's time should not be valued as completely worthless.
Can someone tell me again that this is a worthwhile business plan and that the people doing this aren't total *******s who are doing the industry more harm than good?
You would think that, huh? It's amazing how many people flat out lied to Wizards about having a B&M store and just took places of a store they don't run/work for, or some space that could be rented like a local Civic Center.
THERE HAS TO BE SOME WAY OF MAKING MONEY DOING THIS OR IT WOULDN'T HAPPEN SO DAMNED MUCH.
I don't own a business. I don't sell magic cards. But just, logically, with the volume of these sales, people CANNOT BE LOSING MONEY EVERY TIME.
Okay? Seriously. Ask one of them how the **** they do it. Stop complaining because you don't run yours business profitably and blame other people for that. Realize that one of yours premises has to be wrong and reexamine it.
We live in a country were ~50% of the populace believe public schooling is a socialist conspiracy and that being called Einstein is an insult. We could try and fix it, but unfortunately the other 50% don't believe in euthanasia.
If you order directly from WOTC the price doesn't change does it? So if I ordered 200 boxes now(for delivery a day or two before release) and agreed to buy 400 more over the next 6 months I can get the same price for all 600 boxes right?
Assuming you get all the best rates from ebay, paypal, and the PO possible for a business then you could lure your buyers in by selling to them for basically cost for the first 200 boxes, but as time has proven the costs of the boxes almost always goes up in the few months after release. Then you get the other 400 boxes and can sell them for 90? 100? more? You're hoping that the same buyers as before will come back as long as you can remain competitive and show that you have prompt shipping and good customer service.
*sigh* Buy more boxes at a time from wizards, boxes get cheaper. It's called a discount.
Plus, ripping people of by selling them $40 Baneslayer Angels (2 of those is another box you know) helps too...
Problem here is; Bigger stores > bigger volumes > bigger discount > cheaper resale.
Small stores can't invest so much, don't get the discount and die. It's easy. Have you no educational system? Can you really NOT see the obvious?
Jeebus is right. Big stores kill small stores. Online stores kill B&M stores. But hey, you can always play online magic...
And he's complaining about ebay sellers hurting the industry and monopolies and whatever ridiculous conspiracy, when plenty of smaller online retailers are selling them for the same price as the giants, as are plenty of ebayers, and his business either needs to compete or just stop.
*sigh* Buy more boxes at a time from wizards, boxes get cheaper. It's called a discount.
Yes, I understand that. The price I used is the price that DISTRIBUTORS, pay. Distributors get boxes from Wizards for less than any retailer can; otherwise, there would be no reason for the distributors to buy them because all retailers would get them from Wizards.
THERE HAS TO BE SOME WAY OF MAKING MONEY DOING THIS OR IT WOULDN'T HAPPEN SO DAMNED MUCH.
I don't own a business. I don't sell magic cards. But just, logically, with the volume of these sales, people CANNOT BE LOSING MONEY EVERY TIME.
So you've been arguing adamantly this whole time without actually having any knowledge of anything? Awesome, thanks for making me waste my time. "There has to be a way" doesn't refute the FACTS that I presented, nor does it provide any insight.
So why do they do it? They have to be doing something sneaky, because it doesn't make sense for so many of them to be doing this volume, at a loss.
There's one reason, but it makes no sense. B&M stores will sometimes sell items at or below cost as a loss leader to get people in the door and buying other things. The companies doing this on ebay could just be taking the hit and including flyers for their online websites. The things is, the whole "loss leader" concept doesn't really work on ebay, especially since it's clearly the home of people desperate trying to save 11 cents who have no loyalty towards any one dealer or another.
If you order directly from WOTC the price doesn't change does it? So if I ordered 200 boxes now(for delivery a day or two before release) and agreed to buy 400 more over the next 6 months I can get the same price for all 600 boxes right?
Assuming you get all the best rates from ebay, paypal, and the PO possible for a business then you could lure your buyers in by selling to them for basically cost for the first 200 boxes, but as time has proven the costs of the boxes almost always goes up in the few months after release. Then you get the other 400 boxes and can sell them for 90? 100? more? You're hoping that the same buyers as before will come back as long as you can remain competitive and show that you have prompt shipping and good customer service.
Yes and no. The price of boxes from Wizards for a retailer won't change. However, you won't get those other 400 boxes from Wizards, because much like with M10 they're going to run out. You'll have to go to other distributors who WILL raise the price, as they did with M10. Also, the calculations I did were using the absolute best rates possible from ebay, paypal, and Wizards. It doesn't get any better than that, and even that is unrealistic.
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Yes, I understand that. The price I used is the price that DISTRIBUTORS, pay. Distributors get boxes from Wizards for less than any retailer can; otherwise, there would be no reason for the distributors to buy them because all retailers would get them from Wizards.
So you've been arguing adamantly this whole time without actually having any knowledge of anything? Awesome, thanks for making me waste my time. "There has to be a way" doesn't refute the FACTS that I presented, nor does it provide any insight.
There's one reason, but it makes no sense. B&M stores will sometimes sell items at or below cost as a loss leader to get people in the door and buying other things. The companies doing this on ebay could just be taking the hit and including flyers for their online websites. The things is, the whole "loss leader" concept doesn't really work on ebay, especially since it's clearly the home of people desperate trying to save 11 cents who have no loyalty towards any one dealer or another.
Yes and no. The price of boxes from Wizards for a retailer won't change. However, you won't get those other 400 boxes from Wizards, because much like with M10 they're going to run out. You'll have to go to other distributors who WILL raise the price, as they did with M10. Also, the calculations I did were using the absolute best rates possible from ebay, paypal, and Wizards. It doesn't get any better than that, and even that is unrealistic.
I've studied business and I'm minoring in economics. There has to be a way is enough. Because every single tenet of good business dictates you don't sell at a loss unless it benefits you, and I can't imagine ebay sellers benefitting from losing money at all. There is no brand loyalty being created, the nature of ebay is anathema to it.
I've studied business and I'm minoring in economics. There has to be a way is enough.
I majored in business, but I also have enough sense to questions things beyond "there has to be a way". Also, I advise spending some time outside of a classroom so you can realize that "people are ****ing morons" answer many, many more of your questions than "there has to be a way".
Because every single tenet of good business dictates you don't sell at a loss unless it benefits you, and I can't imagine ebay sellers benefitting from losing money at all. There is no brand loyalty being created, the nature of ebay is anathema to it.
This is all true (And what I've been saying this whole time), and is exactly why I've been saying that they're *******s and are poisoning the well.
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So why do they do it? They have to be doing something sneaky, because it doesn't make sense for so many of them to be doing this volume, at a loss.
To be honest, I haven't been able to figure out the math on selling boxes on E-bay either at that price ($85 or under, with free shipping), without taking a loss after fees/shipping. If there's an E-bay seller who'd care to enlighten, that'd be great!
This may be way out there, but could it be that the $83 booster boxes being pre-sold are coming from release day promo boxes, and the sellers are keeping the Day of Judgment cards to sell separately and make a profit?
This may be way out there, but could it be that the $83 booster boxes being pre-sold are coming from release day promo boxes, and the sellers are keeping the Day of Judgment cards to sell separately and make a profit?
We pay full cost for the release day promo boxes. The promo cards are free, but the only free boxes any of us get are prize support for the prerelease.
Also, glad to see Ben agreeing with me that there's no math to suggest that these people could possibly be making money. (Sorry, I still hate SCG though :p). The only conceivable way that they could be making ANY money on those boxes is if they shipped them media mail instead of parcel post (which would save $2.17). The problem is not only are they still BARELY making money if that's the case, but that is a federal offense and in absolutely no way, shape, or form worth the risk.
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We pay full cost for the release day promo boxes. The promo cards are free, but the only free boxes any of us get are prize support for the prerelease.
I didn't imply the boxes were free. I'm saying, if they can sell the boxes and break even, but keep all the promo cards, they can later sell the promo cards for $5 each or whatever and make a little money.
I didn't imply the boxes were free. I'm saying, if they can sell the boxes and break even, but keep all the promo cards, they can later sell the promo cards for $5 each or whatever and make a little money.
That's a scenario, but it also (like some of the other ones proposed with fraudulent shipping methods) involves illegal activities - those promos are explicitly designed to be given to customers at Brick and Mortar locations. Pocketing them and selling them online = a big no-no, and one that WOTC has been actively cracking down on with recent set releases.
To be honest, I haven't been able to figure out the math on selling boxes on E-bay either at that price ($85 or under, with free shipping), without taking a loss after fees/shipping. If there's an E-bay seller who'd care to enlighten, that'd be great!
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There is more then just making money on some items in overall number games. Its hard to explain.
There is more then just making money on some items in overall number games. Its hard to explain.
Instead of being vague and insinuating that we're idiots, why don't you enlighten us all.
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Instead of being vague and insinuating that we're idiots, why don't you enlighten us all.
its something where you need to see a whole picture and evaluate an entire situation. This also isn't practical for all stores as somewhere like StarCity it wouldn't.
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Seriously, why can't they? Local store lists packs at 20% off, at $3.20 per booster pack. Out of the 5 times I have been there playing tournaments, I have never seen a single booster pack sell. Nobody who knows how cheap you can get cards for online would pay those prices, and these days everyone who plays is on the Internet. I can see how selling packs for $2.50 a piece would hurt your per-pack profit, but losing 80% of your $0 profit is 0. $.10 profit per pack might end up being a lot more than you think, if word gets around. Hell, if a local store were willing to sell booster boxes for $85 or so it would probably steal back all the buyers who were buying cards online previously. Even if you only make a couple dollars per box, it's more than 0.
Maybe it's only the tournament players who know what is up, I suppose it's possible that the overpriced packs sell well earlier in the day. I just see an opportunity to make a little money as an improvement over making no money at all.
Tournament players don't buy packs. Casual players do. They'll buy them from irl stores because they have no reason not to. Going online doesn't enter into most of their heads at all.
EDIT: Well, we all bought packs when they had Chinese propechy, Masques, Nemesis, and Odyssey, and Italian The Dark at like $2 a piece. But thats different.
Nice fantasy world you live in where FNM players keep dropping money the entire time they're at the store. Chances are you're getting little if anything beyond the entry fee for the tournament.
technik, you are correct that hobbyists don't always make good businessmen. That explains why so many places that were started in the 80's and 90's quickly went out of business after the speculation bubble burst. However, people seem to forget that we ARE businessmen and that this isn't a hobby for us. People (including those selling boxes at absurdly low prices) really believe that their time is absolutely worthless, and that is no way to do business. While it may make players happy because they're excited about saving $5.00, those people are actually much worse businessmen than your average LGS and are poisoning the well.
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This.
I will buy packs to get older cards for my EDH decks or for Chaos Drafting or something.
Plenty of people buy packs at my LGS, it is no big deal.
Last week the store(? Or maybe people bought Stronghold, not sure) opened two packs of Stronghold, and Sliver Queen was staring back as the rare in each one. It was pretty cool.
I am always personally aware of the bottom line of my local store, while their attendance is quadrupled since I started going there, I still try to spend as much as I can there instead of somewhere else. (They need to get more singles, IMO, but otherwise its all good)
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You realize, any online retailer is going to have a B&M presence. Its a requirement for being an authorized wizards reseller.
The prices are pretty much the same for auction and fixed price anyway it turns out, so here we go:
Box sells for $83.99 with free shipping. Let's say that a booster box, once it's packaged since you wouldn't just slap an address and stamp on it, weighs two pounds. I'm sure it's more, but I don't have a booster box packed and ready to ship on hand so we'll say 2 pounds even for the sake of argument.
Listing fee for a fixed price auction is 35 cents. Selling fee for $83.99 is $9.20.
That means ebay is taking $9.55. Let's assume that these people are all power sellers with 4.9 stars or higher in all categories, so they get 20% off the fees. That makes ebay's cut $7.64. That knocks us down to $76.35 that you're getting now. The cheapest that you can LEGALLY mail a 2 pound package for is $5.09. That now knocks it down to $71.26. Of course, you don't have that money yet, you have to collect that money. The payment method of choice on ebay is paypal, so we'll use their fees. I saw that some of the auctions also will directly accept your credit card, but there are similar fees associated with that. For paypal, I'll give the sellers the benefit of the doubt and assume that they do over $100,000 per month in paypal transactions so that they can get the minimum percentage taken out. That makes paypal's cut $1.90, which means now your cut is $69.36. Keep in mind that this is also under IDEAL conditions, and not realistic conditions. Also, keep in mind that the cost of a box to distributors was $69 and change BEFORE the wholesale price increase with Shards of Alara. I don't know exactly what it is now, but the word "increase" would sure indicate that it's at least $70. Oh, and none of this takes into account the fact that, as I keep saying, a person's time should not be valued as completely worthless.
Can someone tell me again that this is a worthwhile business plan and that the people doing this aren't total *******s who are doing the industry more harm than good?
You would think that, huh? It's amazing how many people flat out lied to Wizards about having a B&M store and just took places of a store they don't run/work for, or some space that could be rented like a local Civic Center.
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THERE HAS TO BE SOME WAY OF MAKING MONEY DOING THIS OR IT WOULDN'T HAPPEN SO DAMNED MUCH.
I don't own a business. I don't sell magic cards. But just, logically, with the volume of these sales, people CANNOT BE LOSING MONEY EVERY TIME.
Okay? Seriously. Ask one of them how the **** they do it. Stop complaining because you don't run yours business profitably and blame other people for that. Realize that one of yours premises has to be wrong and reexamine it.
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Assuming you get all the best rates from ebay, paypal, and the PO possible for a business then you could lure your buyers in by selling to them for basically cost for the first 200 boxes, but as time has proven the costs of the boxes almost always goes up in the few months after release. Then you get the other 400 boxes and can sell them for 90? 100? more? You're hoping that the same buyers as before will come back as long as you can remain competitive and show that you have prompt shipping and good customer service.
And he's complaining about ebay sellers hurting the industry and monopolies and whatever ridiculous conspiracy, when plenty of smaller online retailers are selling them for the same price as the giants, as are plenty of ebayers, and his business either needs to compete or just stop.
End of story.
Yes, I understand that. The price I used is the price that DISTRIBUTORS, pay. Distributors get boxes from Wizards for less than any retailer can; otherwise, there would be no reason for the distributors to buy them because all retailers would get them from Wizards.
So you've been arguing adamantly this whole time without actually having any knowledge of anything? Awesome, thanks for making me waste my time. "There has to be a way" doesn't refute the FACTS that I presented, nor does it provide any insight.
There's one reason, but it makes no sense. B&M stores will sometimes sell items at or below cost as a loss leader to get people in the door and buying other things. The companies doing this on ebay could just be taking the hit and including flyers for their online websites. The things is, the whole "loss leader" concept doesn't really work on ebay, especially since it's clearly the home of people desperate trying to save 11 cents who have no loyalty towards any one dealer or another.
Yes and no. The price of boxes from Wizards for a retailer won't change. However, you won't get those other 400 boxes from Wizards, because much like with M10 they're going to run out. You'll have to go to other distributors who WILL raise the price, as they did with M10. Also, the calculations I did were using the absolute best rates possible from ebay, paypal, and Wizards. It doesn't get any better than that, and even that is unrealistic.
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I've studied business and I'm minoring in economics. There has to be a way is enough. Because every single tenet of good business dictates you don't sell at a loss unless it benefits you, and I can't imagine ebay sellers benefitting from losing money at all. There is no brand loyalty being created, the nature of ebay is anathema to it.
I majored in business, but I also have enough sense to questions things beyond "there has to be a way". Also, I advise spending some time outside of a classroom so you can realize that "people are ****ing morons" answer many, many more of your questions than "there has to be a way".
This is all true (And what I've been saying this whole time), and is exactly why I've been saying that they're *******s and are poisoning the well.
Wizards could put $100 bills in packs and people would complain about how they were folded.
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To be honest, I haven't been able to figure out the math on selling boxes on E-bay either at that price ($85 or under, with free shipping), without taking a loss after fees/shipping. If there's an E-bay seller who'd care to enlighten, that'd be great!
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We pay full cost for the release day promo boxes. The promo cards are free, but the only free boxes any of us get are prize support for the prerelease.
Also, glad to see Ben agreeing with me that there's no math to suggest that these people could possibly be making money. (Sorry, I still hate SCG though :p). The only conceivable way that they could be making ANY money on those boxes is if they shipped them media mail instead of parcel post (which would save $2.17). The problem is not only are they still BARELY making money if that's the case, but that is a federal offense and in absolutely no way, shape, or form worth the risk.
Wizards could put $100 bills in packs and people would complain about how they were folded.
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I didn't imply the boxes were free. I'm saying, if they can sell the boxes and break even, but keep all the promo cards, they can later sell the promo cards for $5 each or whatever and make a little money.
That's a scenario, but it also (like some of the other ones proposed with fraudulent shipping methods) involves illegal activities - those promos are explicitly designed to be given to customers at Brick and Mortar locations. Pocketing them and selling them online = a big no-no, and one that WOTC has been actively cracking down on with recent set releases.
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There is more then just making money on some items in overall number games. Its hard to explain.
Instead of being vague and insinuating that we're idiots, why don't you enlighten us all.
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I don't think he was insinuating. Since it doesn't make sense in any way, its probably going to be difficult to explain.
its something where you need to see a whole picture and evaluate an entire situation. This also isn't practical for all stores as somewhere like StarCity it wouldn't.