EVE General Discussion

Well, there's one born every minute as the saying goes.

Could I perhaps interest you in some collectible single units of tritanium? These were hand-collected by a group of (mostly) virginal Minmatar slave girls and then bathed gently in the tears of failed pirates.

BWAHAH. Best response ever.

As it happens, I'm hosting a CCG tournament in two weeks with a first place prize of 12,000$

So by the looks of it, you may stand to gain 20,000$ through all of this.

Good. Use your aggressive feelings, boy. Let the hate flow through you.

Of course something "worth" 11k is a STEAL for 3k! Looks like investment is right up your alley!

In all honesty (and hello forums!) I don't see how the guy is offering a scam.

If everything is sealed then it's not a scam. If the guy has boxes of cards that would wind up amounting to something more than he paid for it was a good investment.

I don't understand everyone...? He obviously knows the guy face to face.

And after this topic Im sure he will meet him fist to face.

If this topic is even legit.

Well what you need here is some simple common sense combined with basic economics:

1) What something is worth depends on what somebody is willing to pay for it.

2) If you want to keep the cards for yourself you can pay as much as they are worth for YOU.
If you are willing to pay 10000 $ for them or only 100$ - they are obviously worth that amount for you. Whatever amount you are willing to pay for them - it's the cards worth (for you).

3) If you want to resell the cards to make a profit thats a different story.
Then you have find out or try to guess what the cards might be worth for somebody else since that is obviously the amout of cash you can get for them reselling them. If nobody is willing to pay a price for them (in other words there is no market for them) they are esentially worthless.

Since the guy who tries to sell you the cards is doing this as a business you can safely assume the cards are definitely not worth 11k $, because if that would be the case he'd probably already sold them for this price (or a bit less).
He's trying to find the guy who pays most for them, and probably has been seraching a long time for a guy to pay him a few thousand $ for those cards since it seems to be a pretty dry market.

So what it basically comes down to is: are YOU willing to take the risk to find somebody who will pay you more than this 3000$ for them? Search on ebay and such if people are buying those cards. If there's nothing the chance of finding somebody buying them is obviously pretty slim.
If you think (after a bit of resarch) there's a good chance that you can resell them for a lot more than the 3000$ you paid (which i personally doubt) then go for it - if you realise you likely won't resell them easily better stay away.

over one hundred and fifty, actually, i'm a pokemon master

Collectibles are funny. They're only worth anything because you think you can sell them to a) an eccentric, rather obsessed collector guy or to b) another speculator who thinks he can sell them to a) an eccentric, rather obsessed collector guy or to b) another speculator who thinks he can sell them to an a) eccentric, rather obsessed... ad infinitum.

Unfortunately the last guy in the chain can end up holding a bunch of worthless stuff. For example (in the U.S.), the sudden and catastrophic Ponzi-like collapses of the Beanie Babies, Webkinz, and Silly Bandz markets.