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From: hansen <hansen@********.COM.SG>
Subject: Re: Card Prices?
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 13:29:11 +0800
>On Sat, 4 Apr 1998 23:46:56 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>Ok, let me start off this mail by saying that I LOTH the idea of card
>>pricing. I think it was one of the things that killed Magic for most of
>>the "old timers" that were oplaying back in the days when the cards were
>>near impossible to find, and people traded Moxes for useful cards like
Dual
>>lands without thinking of things like Card Value...
>>

Actually a lot of people I know paly Magic because the cards have monetary
value... U can quit and still hope to get some cash back instead of keeping
card which are now worthless to u....

>>However, I'm friends with a local Card Shop Owner, and he had someone
trade
>>in a large number of SRTCG for some other stuff, so now he'd like to price
>>them and sell them singly. I do like this idea as it let's me complete my
>>set, or at least mostly complete it :] Plus, I offered to help him price
>>them, so now I'm looking for some help.
>>

That's ok by me...

>>For those of you who have priced out the cards, or have an idea of what
you
>>think these cards are worth (I know a few of you sell these cards singly
>>:)), can you send me these lists? PLEASE, since my compy doesn;t handle
>>attachments well nor does it have all that many text readers, can you send
>>me your lists and prices as a PRIVATE e-mail, with the prices cut and
paste
>>into the e-mail?
>>
>>E-mail: chaos@*****.com
>>
>>I'll use these lists to strat putting together a price list using the
>>averages of the various prices...
>>
>>Once they're done, I'll also make these available to anyone who's
>>interested...
>
>The prices I've seen in rec.games.trading-cards.marketplace.misc have been
$1 to
>$3 for rares (sometimes the really good ones are a little higher), $.20 to
$.50
>for uncommons. (So, it's actually probably cheaper to get a complete set by
>buying single cards than by buying boxes).
>

If u got scrye.... The prices there are really rediculous...

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