From:	hansen <hansen@********.COM.SG>
Subject:	Re: Price Guides
Date:	Fri, 1 May 1998 17:33:52 +0800

><snip>
>>
>>How bout selling them to Scrye since they value tham so highly.... As
>>I said
>>before Scrye prices are totally craped out especially for the crap
>>rares...
>>If you noticed they value Remington 750 about $0.50 to $2.00 lower
>>than
>>their 'best 15 cards'.
>>
>>If they're gonna make a price list, at least put some effort into
>>making it
>>look realistic...
>>
>
>Okay folks,
>
>Problem with some logic here here is..... Scrye compiles their prices
>off of what the retailers send them..... Read the very first page of
>the price list for the breakdown of how they do it..... I'll sum it up
>for you though..... The break the prices into three levels, high,
>middle, and low..... add up all the prices in each braket, and divide
>it by the number of stores who reported those prices for each range.....
> It is a guide, but it doesn't take in considerations for regional
>differences.......
>
>Cards might be common in one area, but not another due to packaging, and
>distrubution..... Last year, in Australia, X-Files cards had horrid
>distrubution with regards to the rares..... In my area, we were finding
>2-3 rares per pack. The shops I go to were selling them for less than
>other areas where selling them for.
>
>Scrye doesn't just make up the prices..... They take in the retailers
>input, and take the average, out of all data. Another thing to take into
>consideration, is that, around here, not many places sell ShadowRun
>singles, (Magic being much more of a cash cow.) If there are only a
>dozen or so stores selling them in this area, who send in prices to
>scrye, those prices may cause the average to go up a bit more, (or down)
>depending on how much they gouge the buyers.
>
>IMHO, some of those prices, are fine by me..... However, if some folks
>wanted to sell me a few Swarrks, or Lord Torgo's for half, or less.....
>hey, I'm fine with that too.
>
>
>sorry for all the rambling, but when it comes down to it..... the cards
>are only worth what someone will pay for them.....


Actually the price of the "top 15" which includes skwaaaaark! and Torgo are
fine with me. They are good cards and I wouldn't mind trading the cash
equivilent of 2 boosters for them. It's the rest of the rares I have problem
digesting. For cards like Remington 750 (I really hate this rare because so
many commons are so much better than it), I'd really value it at $1 - $2
max...
More average cards like Sally, Ghost, etc... who are playable but not really
the most nuyen effective would go around pack price...
Clumping all the rest of the rares is not really a good way to represent a
price...


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