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Topic: How much value do alters add to a card
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2austin5
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posted December 23, 2012 01:53 PM
        
As the title says, how much value does an alter put on a card. There is a guy who does alters and his work is amazing and very clean, but the price is (for card value) $25 per alter and I don't know if an alter would even add that much value to the card, can anyone help on this? I would be altering cards that are worth between 10-25 dollars
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Mr.C
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posted December 23, 2012 01:58 PM
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Originally posted by 2austin5:
As the title says, how much value does an alter put on a card. There is a guy who does alters and his work is amazing and very clean, but the price is (for card value) $25 per alter and I don't know if an alter would even add that much value to the card, can anyone help on this? I would be altering cards that are worth between 10-25 dollars
You don't commission alters for profit, you do it for your own enjoyment. Rarely does an alter add that much value to a card.
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thror
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posted December 23, 2012 02:13 PM
$25 for a good alter is a fairly cheap price. Sure, your $25 card WONT be $50 after he does it, but as C said, you get them altered to enjoy.If you had a $25 card, and the alter added $50 of 'value' to it, the alterer would charge at least $50 to do it. __________________
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TheJGits
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posted December 23, 2012 03:40 PM
There's a few ways too look at this. You can charge for your time spent and materials when commissioned for an alter, this is essentially what klug does. Or you can flat rate certain types of alters. The difference is in the artist. Your average hobbyist probably shouldn't be charging for time and materials. This is more of a professional artist method of payment seeing as this is how they make their living.Now for the value added to the card really depends on the card and the quality of the alter. A high quality alter on a very playable card can command a nice premium. I find that is more the case with legacy and edh and not really standard. Another factor in price is popularity of the artist, there's a few artists who have made names for themselves who get great prices on their cards. A few of them frequently sell on ebay. Now if you plan on altering for profit, having a steady stream of commission work is the way to go. People like to have their input and ideas painted more than seeing a random alter and impulse buying it. Hope that helps. __________________
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MasterWolf
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posted December 24, 2012 10:11 PM
If you are altering for resale then it's very unlikely that it's a good investment. You need premium pieces from well-known alterers to get that result. Usually the card maintains a normal value or slightly higher but you commission alters because YOU will enjoy them, not to make money.
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valorale
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posted December 25, 2012 12:00 AM
It also depends on who the artist is that did the alter. Card Kitty for example has done a decent job of marketing her name and brand, she commands a premium over other artist even if their art might be higher quality.
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