Yesterday I spoke to a friend that saw him at some local event and the kid finally got the mox jet. However, he did something which I considered to be rather foolish. Apparently, the kid saw some a dude at some event with a mox jet for trade and the two haggled the trade. From the kid's story, it seemed like the guy with the mox jet didn't really need anything from the kid, but felt bad and just traded the mox jet just to be nice.

To the point of the story, the kid traded away both of his standard deck and literally all of his good cards (like wrath, sylvan library, etc) at a fraction of the price for this jet. So at the event where my friend saw him at, the kid was trading the entire time when he usually would be playing because now with his mox jet, he doesn't have a good enough deck and his entire binder is full of bulk rares.

If he's happy with what he has, then good for him. Heck, he can still probably afford to put together Kuldotha Red from what he has left and that wins local fnm's left and right. :P

When I was trading away my P9, I always got tonnes of garbage offers. For example, if T2 cards are in the offer, they will barely add up to the prevailing P9 cash price in the market. If Legacy staples are in the offer, I will probably get 80-90% of the prevailing P9 cash price in the market.

In the end, I moved most of my P9 by trading them away at very fair trade. The other party's legacy staples' value add up exactly to my P9 prevailing cash value.

After tonnes of garbage offers, I hardly trade now. Most of the time, I just use cash to buy what I need.....Which brings me to 1 question.

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Originally posted by MTDetermine:
Why do you need trading when you can always sell your cards for cash, and use those cash to buy what you need???

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If your goal is to buy a P9, then it takes a LOT of time to sell your cards to get to that amount. You have to put your cards up for sale at a competitive price, grade your cards correctly, sell to multiple people, sell in multiple transactions, buy shipping supplies, go to post office... It's A LOT of work!

For someone in your position who can easily sell the cards for cash, you don't have that problem. But a lot of people do. Think of it like selling collection for cash. You need to offer a good discount to sell it all away.

For trading up, you only have to deal with one person and go to the post office once. A lot less work.

And that's one of my major pet peeves actually, when people keep throwing out : "But I can sell my cards for $X, and then go buy your cards at $X!!". Then GO DO IT!!! No one is stopping you. The truth is that when people bring this up when trading up, they're just too lazy and don't want to deal with all the works I listed above.

I sure wouldn't and I'm the nicest person I know.

Thanks,
Jazaray

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Originally posted by Jazaray:
Hate to say it, but is he sure the Mox is real? I just can't see someone just trading a Mox, for stuff he doesn't need at all, just to be "nice" to some kid he doesn't know and will probably never see again...

I sure wouldn't and I'm the nicest person I know.

Thanks,
Jazaray

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Likely it is, if he traded for 1.5x the cost in staples. I've got a couple pieces of power and if someone offered me $750 in easy to trade staple cards for my Recall, i'd do it

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Originally posted by Jazaray:
Hate to say it, but is he sure the Mox is real? I just can't see someone just trading a Mox, for stuff he doesn't need at all, just to be "nice" to some kid he doesn't know and will probably never see again...

I sure wouldn't and I'm the nicest person I know.

Thanks,
Jazaray

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Originally posted by rats60:
Reminds me of a prerelease along time ago. I walked by a guy who was bragging about his trade for a Beta Mox and then he pulled it out of the sleeve and it was a CE.

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Originally posted by fluffycow:
So no one else thinks it's silly to have a piece of power and not be able to play in tournament for a few months than to not have power and have fun with the hobbie?

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Originally posted by fluffycow:
So no one else thinks it's silly to have a piece of power and not be able to play in tournament for a few months than to not have power and have fun with the hobbie?

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I felt tourney was stressful, and the constant deck tuning to ensure a deck remains T2 is also stressful. So I just play casually and my once T2 deck is now Legacy.

If a player trades away all his decks for P9, I will think it is strange. If he trades away some decks, but still have some nice decks to play, why not? Nowadays, you can assemble some nice casual decks on a budget. $30 can give you a decent white-weenie. Madness deck does not look too expensive either. If you can afford 4 Arcbound Ravager and 2-3 Mox Opal, you can have a rather competitive affinity deck too.

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Originally posted by fluffycow:
So no one else thinks it's silly to have a piece of power and not be able to play in tournament for a few months than to not have power and have fun with the hobbie?

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When it comes to, it's just ridiculous to have highpriced cards. I guess some people more money and different values than me, but what on earth would i want a card (that i can only have copy of in a deck anyway >.> ) that could pay my way to a whole, decent-good legacy deck? Or a couple cheap standard decks. Or tons of fun casual decks.

I dunno, it sounds like this person was just overexcited about that particular card. But if he really wanted it then he can do all the work all over again getting his regular cards back. Which can be fun too, so does it hurt THAT bad?

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Originally posted by Sovarius:

I dunno, it sounds like this person was just overexcited about that particular card. But if he really wanted it then he can do all the work all over again getting his regular cards back. Which can be fun too, so does it hurt THAT bad?

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Reminds me of a recent story. In Jan 2011, local player decided he wanted to quit. Since young, his dream is to own a Beta Black Lotus. Instead of selling his cards, he proceeded to trade in over $2500 of his T2 stuff for a Beta EX Black Lotus with his regular dealer.

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Originally posted by MTDetermine:
Reminds me of a recent story. In Jan 2011, local player decided he wanted to quit. Since young, his dream is to own a Beta Black Lotus. Instead of selling his cards, he proceeded to trade in over $2500 of his T2 stuff for a Beta EX Black Lotus with his regular dealer.

Now he decided he wanted to play. The dealer is not willing to even give him $1600 cash for that Beta Lotus.

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Originally posted by gaeacradle:
LOL. This is his fault for changing his mind within 2 months.

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