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twinkletwinkle
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 posted September 23, 2012 04:14 PM   Click Here to See the Profile for twinkletwinkle Send a private message to twinkletwinkle Click to send twinkletwinkle an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote 
I recently put up a post and someone claimed that Alphas have been going up in value a lot the last six months. Has anyone else observed that? Does anyone know why that would be?
 
MTDetermine
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 posted September 23, 2012 06:30 PM   Click Here to See the Profile for MTDetermine Click Here to Email MTDetermine Send a private message to MTDetermine Click to send MTDetermine an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote 
Read something recently that ebay ending auctions for really nice Minty Alpha rares (even obscure ones) are going up, in some cases doubling from the last known auction. But anything that is slightly played revert back to earthly prices.
 
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I would imagine that some of it is driven by inflated prices from dealers. Look up anything on ABU that is old an graded. We're talking 75.00 for a 20 dollar card. I don't think anyone buys them for these prices, but it may still have an effect on the prices of 'minty' old cards.
It can also be seen that a card like Serendib Djinn, which I collect actually, which is normally like 15 bucks; when ABU has 4 of them that are minty for sixty dollars each, then I have to assume that those four will stay with ABU for eternity, and there for there are four less minty Serendib Djinns amongst players / collectors. This could potentially drive up the price for ANYONE looking for mint Serendib Djinns. Make sense?

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airwalk
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 posted September 24, 2012 02:37 PM   Click Here to See the Profile for airwalk Send a private message to airwalk Click to send airwalk an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote 
Even the price of crappy Alpha stuff has gone up almost two-fold. It's all because I started trying to put together a set.
 
coolcards
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 posted September 24, 2012 06:36 PM   Click Here to See the Profile for coolcards Click Here to Email coolcards Send a private message to coolcards Click to send coolcards an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote 
ABUGames lists their buy price for a M/NM Alpha set at $32,398. A Beta M/NM Beta set much lower at $20,625. That's a 57% premium for Alpha.
 
Lemonjuice
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 posted September 24, 2012 06:48 PM   Click Here to See the Profile for Lemonjuice Click Here to Email Lemonjuice Send a private message to Lemonjuice Click to send Lemonjuice an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote 
Seems like Artificial Inflation
 

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