I'm not swimming in cash, but I've always seemed to have a bit more than friends living hand to mouth and more than a few times, I've bought cards from friends, giving them more than what the local store would give them in cash, but certainly less than retail, and usually less than what I could re-sell it for on MOTL or eBay. I can easily get $100 from the ATM, buy cards from them, sell the cards later and move the funds back into my account.

One of my closest friends is in college now, trying hard to find a job with almost no experience and it's expensive (textbooks are pushing him just past the edge). He sold off almost everything except an EDH deck and now he's going to be selling most of the contents of this deck to me. He's going to be selling these cards one way or another, so if it's not me, it'll be an LGS for far less than what I'm offering. He'd be quite adverse to a loan, especially with no immediate source of income. I still have my cube, so he knows he's always welcome to come to my place and draft with it any time, but if he sells all the money cards in his deck to me and I, in turn, sell them off, it'll be quite a task to rebuild the deck.

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Originally posted by yakusoku:
tl;dr version for the upcoming wall of text - a friend is selling me his entire EDH deck for cash. What would you do?

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and usually less than what I could re-sell it for on MOTL or eBay.

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Originally posted by Pail42:
Why don't you help your friend sell on eBay or MOTL so he gets the most money possible?

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Originally posted by choco man:
It's a nice thing to do, but this always seems easier said than done.

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It would obviously depend on your financial situation and how likely it would be for him to re-buy everything in the future.

Say, I'll buy it from you for $500 (If it's worth $600 MOTL, $700 retail) and then if you can afford to sit on it (and its something he might eventually want back at some point) you just sit on it. Say he gets a job in 3 months or something and you can sell it back to him for $550 or $600. Not quite a direct loan but something added for your time and initial outlay. If his job situation doesn't improve or your financial situation changes where you do need to have the cash not tied up in cardboard you can always sell off pieces at that time.

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Originally posted by yakusoku:
tl;dr version for the upcoming wall of text - a friend is selling me his entire EDH deck for cash. What would you do?

I'm not swimming in cash, but I've always seemed to have a bit more than friends living hand to mouth and more than a few times, I've bought cards from friends, giving them more than what the local store would give them in cash, but certainly less than retail, and usually less than what I could re-sell it for on MOTL or eBay. I can easily get $100 from the ATM, buy cards from them, sell the cards later and move the funds back into my account.

One of my closest friends is in college now, trying hard to find a job with almost no experience and it's expensive (textbooks are pushing him just past the edge). He sold off almost everything except an EDH deck and now he's going to be selling most of the contents of this deck to me. He's going to be selling these cards one way or another, so if it's not me, it'll be an LGS for far less than what I'm offering. He'd be quite adverse to a loan, especially with no immediate source of income. I still have my cube, so he knows he's always welcome to come to my place and draft with it any time, but if he sells all the money cards in his deck to me and I, in turn, sell them off, it'll be quite a task to rebuild the deck.

I don't have a personal interest in the deck itself (Uril), so if I buy it, my first instinct is to sell the cards individually to recoup the money I spent to buy it. I don't want to overtly treat him like a charity case, but I pretty much went to a big name online retailer and was quoting him 80% of their sell prices for most of his cards as a fair real value of everything. I'm trying to balance his pride, his need, and what's fair for both of us. Am I doing too much or not enough or something completely different from what one of you would do in the same situation?

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Originally posted by fluffycow:
Who has a huge list of cards for cheap? like ~$.25-~$1? I need a lot of them on a regular bases. I know slurpee has an amazing list and I have been dealing with him alot, anyone else?

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Originally posted by revenger:
So, wednesday night I see someone playing a modern Geist of Saint Traft deck.. Awesome looking deck. 2x or 3x Tarn, 2x or 3x flats, lots of shocklands, naturally 4x geists. Definetly had some bling in this deck. What bothers me is: playing the deck unprotected. Ugh. Ack. Played the deck 4x when I was there. Why do that to the cards? Hell, at least get some penny sleeves. I'm sure that would help some.

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Originally posted by pugowar:
Looking to pick up a 9-pocket binder for my cards.
I had a monster and liked it but the sleeves began to rip.
Anyone have any recommendations?

Also what sleeves are best for using in these 9-pocket binders?

Thanks!
Tim

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I put my cards in perfect size sleeves and then put them into monster binders.

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Who has a huge list of cards for cheap? like ~$.25-~$1? I need a lot of them on a regular bases. I know slurpee has an amazing list and I have been dealing with him alot, anyone else?

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What kind of cards? I have a bunch of standard rares (INN-RTR and soon GTC) and rares from certain time periods (e.g. Darksteel/Mirrodin/Fifth Dawn/etc), a lot of which are bulk but a lot of which are also like .25-$1 stuff that doesn't make much sense for me to plow through. I also have piles of uncommons/commons that are worth like $1 or something, but again, doesn't make any sense for me to go through at this point in time. If you knew what you wanted I'd be willing to go through stuff since it'd be a sure thing rather than potentially wasting a bunch of time.

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Cubfan made the suggestion that I would, if it makes sense to do so. EDH decks normally contain cards that aren't going up or down in value too much anyway, and usually only up, right? So just buy it at a lower price that you can profit off, let him know you'll sit on it for X months or unless/until you need money. If/when he wants it back, he can pay back the value of the deck and maybe a little extra (I personally would be fine with just the value of the deck, but I'm not hurting for money--especially when it comes to friends). If he doesn't want it back, if you need the money, or if you sat on it for X months, then just sell the deck off.

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Originally posted by revenger:
Thought Dissector (cheap version of Helm of Obedience) + Rest in Peace = Good Game?

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no. read it again. "Target opponent reveals cards from the top of his or her library until an artifact card or X cards are revealed, whichever comes first."

doesnt say anything about them being put into a graveyard until the end of the effect. so x=1 will always reveal 1 card, and not go infinite.

helm text, for comparison:
"Target opponent puts cards from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard until a creature card or X cards are put into that graveyard this way"

they dont template cards this way anymore.

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Anyone has an eBay account in good order, and with good feedback selling cards? I have 2 summer Hurloon that I'd like to get to a larger audience in exchange for a percentage. Email or PM me.

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Thought Dissector (cheap version of Helm of Obedience) + Rest in Peace = Good Game?

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it all sounded really cool in my head also. too bad it doesn't work that way in a real game. i tried to pull it off, but caught myself in the middle of the "combo."

doesn't matter, thought dissector is still a cool card.

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Originally posted by Bagbokk:
What kind of cards? I have a bunch of standard rares (INN-RTR and soon GTC) and rares from certain time periods (e.g. Darksteel/Mirrodin/Fifth Dawn/etc), a lot of which are bulk but a lot of which are also like .25-$1 stuff that doesn't make much sense for me to plow through. I also have piles of uncommons/commons that are worth like $1 or something, but again, doesn't make any sense for me to go through at this point in time. If you knew what you wanted I'd be willing to go through stuff since it'd be a sure thing rather than potentially wasting a bunch of time.

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