1:48 it says VG EX which is a grading system psa uses for miss cuts. notice the only place it says psa is for the logo P.S. VG EX 4 is actually equivalent to psa 8 or 9 (Very good-Excellent)
Hey rudy, rebacks are pretty easy to spot for moxes. Just look at the zeto casting cost. A real authentic beta card has the zero shifted slightly to the right ik the grey circle. A reback aka collectors/international edition have the zero shifted slightly to the left in the grey circle. Hope this helps!
yeah, everyone drafts your "cube", but obviously they don't keep the cards. you get them back at the end of the draft. basically, you shuffle up your custom set, or cube, and then randomly assort them into piles of 15 cards that you use as the packs. No need to break them down by rarity like a normal pack, because usually cubes contain all powerful cards, no "draft chaff" like you get in normal packs. I hope that explains the process a bit better. It's really fun. My friend had kinko's print out the MTGO Vintage Cube and sleeved it up and we cube draft with that.
Ever since I've started watching your videos discussing fakes, I realized that I used to own a fake emrakul, the promised end. I removed it feeling grainy and thin with a darker color. I had no idea it was a fake at the time and feel awful that I traded it away
Jay Kenley you mean, he's running a store to make a profit? Oh the horror... Piss of you fucking pleb. If he didn't like the deal, he could have walked away. The fact is that he was willing to sell, and people are willing to buy at Rudy's prices. Either he gets in to the same business to make a profit, or he doesn't get full value because the business he is selling to are themselves trying to make a profit.
When my dad was 16 he said his parents gave him 1,000 dollars and he said could have gotten the whole power 9 for 500$ or his first car for 900$... He got a car instead 😫😫😫😫😫
Rudy, if you want to make the sharpied library stand out take a stack of cards and put the library in the middle, the black touched up card will stick out like a soar thumb.
How to distinguish inked borders easily - shuffle the inked card into pile of normal cards (e.g. New basic lands) and the inked card will stick out immediately when looked at the side of the pile
Depends on the sig. Some artists have a ridiculous signature like a 3year olds writing which seems strange. Then I have seen some that sign over their artwork instead of the text which I thought was odd. And with the ones that have actual artlike beautiful signatures it depends, if its a big line you get their fat tip sharpie keep the line moving half ass sig not the nice one
@@gabriellecisneros9295 to me, the artist drew the original art, he has seen his artworks thousands of times thousands of days. He's seen the actual card with his art work so many times. It is like putting a document at your job in front of your boss and saying see isnt this special? Signature please. They only want to sign it for money and your card isnt any different than the guy before and after you getting it signed. I would rather have the original art (if thats a thing for cards it is for comics) or a mint card as it was purchased from the store on the first day.
I like this kind of videos. I like to see nice vintage cards. Nice work rudy. Waiting for the second video. It would be interesting if you could tell us what cards you prefer in this collection. Hello from France !
I have people bringing me their entire card collection and wanting a lot more than what the cards are worth all the time. All card sellers go thru this all the time. I always have people for example want $500 for some 5000 cards, when the cards are in fact more closer to $50. Then these people would feel insulted when I give them a low offer of $20 for the whole collection. I could only offer $20 cause I can only get $50 for the whole collection. $500 is ridiculous and this person will never get that much from anybody.
haha i went to a LARGE garage sale, where hundreds of people go and set up tents and sell stuff. Someone had a box of around 5k magic cards and wanted $1 each. It was basically all lands and commons worth a few cents XD Like no, ill buy the whole box for like $3
One video suggestion is talking about what 94 cards are more plentiful in higher grade and what's rarer in high grade. For example, most people didn't start playing with Moat or The Abyss until after 95 when penny sleeves became normal. These are cards that hurt both sides so players hated those cards in early Magic.
just considering card condition to assign them a value is wrong. there are so many more aspects that should be considered. how playable a card is going to be in competitive play in the next future, how likely is it going to be reprinted (or banned), how well mtg as a game is going to do, how big is your business (and therefore how much you're going to save on ebay fees, delivery and so on, how many clients you have that trust you etc), how many of them you're buying at once (buying in bulk is always cheaper). there's a whole bigger picture to look at when you're assigning a price to something in order to resell it and make a profit out of it. an heavily played volcanic island is still going to be easier to sell than a beta bgs 9.5 monolith, just because there's more people willing to buy it and play it, and so even if it's worth less as a collectible, you're a lot more likely to sell it quickly, which is crucial in order to run a business. Would be interesting if you make a video that goes through all the processes of a single card since the moment you bought it and the moment you sold it on ebay, considering all expenses (buying cost, ebay fees, shipping fees, paypal fees etc) and how much net profit you got out of it.
More videos like this please! I think you can still totally buy that LoA for a played price. $50 seriously? I would pay 5 times that in a heartbeat to buy it. In fact yes that's an offer. I'll buy that LoA for $250 right now. Say the word.
Edwin the Magic Engineer 50 dollars is definitely low-balling considering the tcgplayer low for a damaged LoA atm is about $349 including shipping. I'd gladly take a card that's damaged from inking for 50-100 off especially at that price especially an LoA that's signed.
Only bought 1 signed card. The signiture looked bad so no one was buying it. I only got it because it was cheaper then the normal version. I planned to play with it anyway lol
Please add a little information for non-magic players. I would assume we're a very small part of your viewership, but a few words of explanation even on things that should be MTG-101 would help a lot. Personally I like your videos because of the business/investing side of things. I have never played, never watched, never anything MTG. I've learned a lot from watching you over the past year or so, but there is still a lot of things that I'm just a bit lost on. Thanks.
I have never played the game either, never owned a single card, but I find these videos interesting. Rudy is obviously a smart guy and passionate, which means there are things I can learn from him, even if I never buy a single MTG card. The obvious passion is also a draw. He has a very different life and outlook than I, which is always interesting to learn about.
Basically cards have value because they see play. (Competitive play) the black lotus and power Nine are some of the most broken cards in the entire games history. They aren’t legal in nearly any format, except vintage. Which not many people play, since you need such an expensive deck. Duel lands have always been strong since the beginning, since fixing your mana pool is an incredibly important core of the game. (And helps lower randomness of basic land drops)
Rudy you should open up a magic the gathering store in Santa Barbara, California. There is a high demand for magic the gathering. What I hate the most is My local lgs are all comic stores, and the fact that magic is becoming more popular they don't invest much in it. Not a single lgs has singles for stock, and every time I go to buy some booster packs they either don't have that set or they ran out. Extremely frustrating
Nice video as always, Rudy. I have a question about the Library of Alexandria: You said you couldn't buy, even being a legit card, because of sharpie marks. Couldn't you just buy/sell it as Damaged? I'm not a collector, I buy my cards to use on my decks, and recently I got a Black Vise, which was very cheap. I though it to be a scam, but then I saw why it was cheap, the card is playable but not very pleasing to the eye. Still, I wanted to have it for it's use. I know you deal mostly with collectors, where quality is the name of the game, but, don't you think that Damaged cards would be a way to reach players that don't really care about quality, but function? Cheers from Brazil
I'm not even going to watch this. I can see all the cards in the first 5 seconds. The answer is yes, you should buy this...and give these cards out to all your youtube fans because you are not a creepy Rudy. You are kind and caring and want to give back to the community. And free tacos too.
When buying cards I avoid those that are in foreign language, those that are signed, those that are in foil from the last 5 years, and anything less than slight play. Most of that collection I would pass on.
buy boxes instead and write down the order there printed in for instance how many packs in order before a certian card shows up like how many booster packs before a mistic rare shows up from a set point in the print chain then open one booster pack from a unopen box set to see where it is in the print chain then count the packs to find the super rare cards then pull those and sell all the unopened packs inbetween they print the in a predetermined order now days u just have to open a lot of boxes in order there on the pallet to figure out where the chain loops
FYI: It was definitely evident that the autographed “Library” Card was touched up on the edges & corners with a Black Sharpie. The cross section of the edges looks like shit! They’re completely blacked out. The overwhelming majority of the cards were heavily played and not pack fresh. Therefore, the asking price was really high, especially, since you’re reselling them; you’ll definitely take a big hit. The auto’s look OK ~ if they’re on cards that were heavily played and were not gem mint! Good luck!!!
Just read your feedback on eBay. Love how all your negatives from the past year are all from .99 cent orders for the most part. Unreal. Love the channel watch daily.
i like how rudy likes to make us think we can influence his decision with the "should i..." in the title when the sale has already gone through and most of these cards are available on his ebay :D
I am not going to give an offer number, but I think you should set a general percentage return you think you can get in a year (Maybe an even shorter term, I don't know how power and higher end stuff moves). I don't buy and sell cards regularly, but you should have a decent idea of the turnover on these cards and how much you can get for them so include in your offer an amount that "guarantees" that percentage. For the cards with ambiguous liquidity, generate the sum with whatever you think is a reasonable discount rate and then discount additionally for the liquidity risk or perhaps just a salvage value based on what you are doubtful on. Whatever is left offer inflated bulk rates as there seems to be some good stuff in those miscellaneous boxes. The asking price seems more like it should be your target price to turn these over at best. Realistically, I would probably offer 30-35 with the expectation of making 50 after cost of doing biz within a year and maybe an additional 5-10 over time. You don't buy collections like these to make. How often do collections like this come your way? Every 6 months, every two years; perhaps you should look to make enough on the liquid stuff to buy another big collection based on the average time you come across similar lots. There are multiple variables that must be considered.
note, my numbers may be a little off but after looking at the table of value. I'd say the dual lands average to about 150 a piece (I counted 92 so roughly 14k), thae power is all in rough shape so lets average 800-900 a piece (X 19 = +-18K). Then maybe 3K for the rest of the table that gets you to 35K (Im leaning towards 35k for your sale price of these cards rather than the purchase price) The rest of the boxes contain maybe 2-3 K at best unless the EDH decks sleeved up are pimped out with high end land bases and money cards. so your looking at selling all this for 38K-50K+ (Not much more IMO). So given my above formula you can probably move 60% of the duals relatively quickly to net you 8-12K, 20-40% of the power 3-8K, 80% of the rest of the table 1-2K, 40% of the jank for 1-2K. 13-24K back on the higher turnover stuff. Doesn't seem good to me. My numbers may still be off, but I don't think that matters much based on the percentages you can sell quickly, especially if I'm being generous on the turnover (you have the experience with that not me, but I know moving power isn't always quick and can be costly, high demand duals will sell (US, VI, TI).
First of all I think you understated how cool all those foils and signed cards from the boxes are. Obviously the cash value is modest but they were nice as hell and truly reflected an impressive amount of effort. I mean, even finding envelopes and stamps is challenging and I'm not even a true millenial. In fact I'm your age. My question is, how long can you afford to sit on those duals? I am guessing you'll want to sell a handful of them soon to keep cashflow in hand but doesn't it kinda make sense to hold most of them rather than trying to just make $10 (or less) apiece this year? And if you are in a position to do that, does it give you a little more wiggle room in the offer? After all, if you can give this guy a sweet payout, dozens of people are going to be mailing you cards (the economy is not being as kind to us as Wall Street claims). Lastly, can you also do some accounting of how much time you wind up spending analyzing the cards, formulating an offer, and then checking them into your inventory? If it's 20 hours of work, do you invoice that somewhere or is it just your gift to the universe and the 'tube?
Great video Rudy. I can't imagine counting all that and being able to calculate your profit margins off the top of your head. On a side note, more floppy tacos in your new store please!
I could see what your talking about just fine on the edging of the card being black. It's pretty obvious when you point it out. So don't worry your camera picks it up fine!
Personally, I love signed cards. Then again, I don't deal in high end cards like that. Most expensive card I've ever bought was an Invocation Damnation lol.
I stopped playing at start of 6th edition and wish I had all my cards back(no collector cards) I just loved playing and seeing you grade cards makes me laugh I wish I had all those commons and worn cards. Just to play with my friends again would be cool. Does anyone deal with old lots of worthless cards like that I wonder? Your knowledge makes me have that old itch again. LOL
Why would you Crack the graded caseing? is it such a pain shipping? you have to ship high value cards with some protection anyway. and the grade should give you some more legal protection.
I think you need to group the cards according to guaranteed value and then extraneous filler. If they insist on selling it as a bundle, they're still looking at probably 1/3 of their asking something like 15-16k just an estimate. Haven't seen the actual hard costs of the cards yet.
Just bought a collection. I have a small issue with counter fit cards in the collection. I have two sets of Verdant Catacombs all from Zendikar, however one play set has a bit better colour and is a bit more glossy then the other play set, is this a red flag or do different print runs sometimes produce slightly different finishes? Also I did a black light test on some and found it odd that the backs of some are a rich blue and others are more of an orange tint, then I looked at more cards from my own collection and found the same issue, do the backs of cards when under black light give off different colour depending on print run?
Why would you crack the case of the lotus to sell it instead of leaving it in the case because of the 8? I still don't understand why vendors crack the case before selling high value cards?
51 seems high to me. Especially based on all the imperfections in the money cards. None of them look like sure fire sells. A lot of those signed cards won't draw a premium because they aren't hugely sought after... does he have clean expeditions? Does it have clean fetches, modern staples...? Beta Sol Rings or Mana Vaults in good shape? Alliances FoW isn't what it used to be... Duals all looked somewhat played. I think I'd buy some legends boxes or old sealed product and pass on this.
So basically cracking a case is done when it's a good looking card but people who know less about it will pay more for it. I like that. I keep watching these videos without even playing or knowing anything about these cards lol.
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I was able to pinpoint all the yellowed cards, it's definitely noticeable.
Im buying a bunch of proxies for myself so i have a couple of cubes with cards i could NEVER afford and finally some decent decks haha, BUT, i was reading the schpeel about the cards "Quality it's amazing, we use German machine 'german machine name here' which is costs 100 millions" hahaha
Thanks for asking my opinion but that's why I watch your videos Rudy. To learn. To me, that's a beautiful collection and some real value is there. So if I could afford it and it would make me happy to do so, I would have bought it. I also know it shouldn't count but especially if I could afford it, it would matter to me how much the seller needed the money. The "invisible" hand and all that. This is a great video, cliffhanger and all. I'm really anxious to find out what happens. Screw Netflix yo'. (Except for the TICK, which is Awesome.) :3
Rudy I have to ask, why can you not buy the Library? Does the touching up reduce the value that much to where nobody will buy it even with the touchup?
Coloring the sides with sharpie is basically just as bad as drawing a shit anime tiddies alter on the front of the card. It's considered a defaced card, and comes with the understanding that someone basically tried to fake its condition by covering up the dings on the edges.
You can call me a cute intern any day :3 Those played cards though, probably cracking a black lotus on the concrete in the school playground for a grey ogre.
Rudy I'm a totally new viewer and I just like your commentary. Never played MGT in my life (used to play a lot of pokemon and yugioh back in the day though). Would you make a video/tutorial on playing in general? Or better yet, a review of all the major booster boxes and rare with prices? I just find your commentary entertaining but not all the plebs like me can understand =).
For videos on how to play Magic, I would recommend Tolarian Community College youtube channel. He goes over deck building in various formats and does reviews of magic the gathering products.
Beware, inking old cards is a common practice on online markets (TCG in the US and MKM in Europe) My LGS does it before shipping cards they over-graded on MKM... and they're a pretty big seller there :/
I mean if it wasn't a ton buying the boxes of cards you could sell them in store Id come in and pay market price or a bit more to have a lot of Commander stables to flip through
Rudy. You are the man. Honest. True. Smart. Well spoken. You are someone who I would hire 3 minutes into an interview. You have "it". You are also the only UA-camr I have notifications for! Keep doing your thing.
Supply shortage reduce format accesability -> reduce audience that play legacy/vintage = format dies out = eventually prices will be only as collection value
My issue with eBay is also how much I sell on eBay I always leave good feed back even if you take 7-10 days to pay for your order I respectfully after 5-7 days send a reminder to pay and still leave good feedback, but out of 51 sales this past month I got 1 person to leave feed back and I personally leave a hand written message with every order I send out and yet I got one person to leave feedback :(
Super interesting series and I cannot wait to see more. Unfortunately, I think I have a fake beta Plateau thanks to your help... Ignorance truly is bliss
You should organize the cards by price next time and explain why you price them out. I am buying cards too but small amount that are on the revised list. I only buy cards at 60% or less market value because I am taking the risk that the game will fall apart or wizards decides to reprint revised listing cards.
TapTenMana there are a lot of things to consider. Is the artist alive? If they are show often to they sign, if they still sign at all? Christopher Rush and Ron Spears signatures are examples of signatures that would add value. Eric Deschamps and Rob Alexander sign a TON of cards, to the point where I wouldn't even add value to the card for their signature because there are so many in circulation and they still sign cards today. The most important thing to understand though is that to most, these cards are damaged so you're only selling to a select group and therefore you can't get too carried away with increasing price because it will be hard to move. There are FB groups that can help you value cards that are signed if you want.
Funny watching this now, 90 for a lions eye, 50 for duals, I wish that was still true
The thumbnail itself is worth more than what he paid for the whole collection now a days. Crazy.
Even worse now, I think.
Yes, I like watching you spend money I do not own
and losing money from the crash I do not own.
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it says VG EX which is a grading system psa uses for miss cuts. notice the only place it says psa is for the logo
P.S. VG EX 4 is actually equivalent to psa 8 or 9 (Very good-Excellent)
I dont nor ever will "collect" magic cards, but I love watching you analyze them. Its great.
Keep up the good work.
to show inked borders, use a LED flashlight while recording, it should show the ink color better than ambient light
Jcris87 Leave it to a majoras mask dude
I could see it without the LED, but that's a damn good tip.
Hey rudy, rebacks are pretty easy to spot for moxes. Just look at the zeto casting cost. A real authentic beta card has the zero shifted slightly to the right ik the grey circle. A reback aka collectors/international edition have the zero shifted slightly to the left in the grey circle. Hope this helps!
Why didn't I invest in Garbage Pail Kids..
Awesome video! Can't wait for part 2. Thanks again for selling me the sealed Revised deck, I pulled two dual lands, you are the man, Rudy!
That first box was definitely a cube, that's why it had such a wide range of cards
Jay Kenley it's a custom set of cards from which you do drafts with.
yeah, everyone drafts your "cube", but obviously they don't keep the cards. you get them back at the end of the draft. basically, you shuffle up your custom set, or cube, and then randomly assort them into piles of 15 cards that you use as the packs. No need to break them down by rarity like a normal pack, because usually cubes contain all powerful cards, no "draft chaff" like you get in normal packs. I hope that explains the process a bit better.
It's really fun. My friend had kinko's print out the MTGO Vintage Cube and sleeved it up and we cube draft with that.
Chris Perciavalle having photocopies made is a better idea if they were my cards. I wouldn’t want people bending my stuff.
Ever since I've started watching your videos discussing fakes, I realized that I used to own a fake emrakul, the promised end. I removed it feeling grainy and thin with a darker color. I had no idea it was a fake at the time and feel awful that I traded it away
Can you go into more detail based on the heavy play how you were not able to verify if the Mox Jets were real?
Jay Kenley You sound mad. Are you mad? Mostly cause you seem mad. You know what? Dont be so mad.
seems honest and reasonable
Jay Kenley you mean, he's running a store to make a profit? Oh the horror... Piss of you fucking pleb. If he didn't like the deal, he could have walked away. The fact is that he was willing to sell, and people are willing to buy at Rudy's prices. Either he gets in to the same business to make a profit, or he doesn't get full value because the business he is selling to are themselves trying to make a profit.
@Jay Kenley Found the whiny manchild on ebay who left negative feedback because Rudy didn't reply within 6 hours.
Jay Kenley lemme explain business to you: Work for McDonalds
Imagine what it’s worth now :O
The same price those, the really
Olds doesn’t change a lot
@@stargamer2729 yeah mtg and pokemon are different so not surprising
When my dad was 16 he said his parents gave him 1,000 dollars and he said could have gotten the whole power 9 for 500$ or his first car for 900$...
He got a car instead 😫😫😫😫😫
Rudy, if you want to make the sharpied library stand out take a stack of cards and put the library in the middle, the black touched up card will stick out like a soar thumb.
Super cool video, I'd love more exactly like this and see all of the collection. Go deep on this, diggity
How to distinguish inked borders easily - shuffle the inked card into pile of normal cards (e.g. New basic lands) and the inked card will stick out immediately when looked at the side of the pile
Great video Rudy. One suggestion: Use a mini tripod when you want to examine cards up close, like that inked Library.
I just want to see all those lands back in circulation and being played.
So the ones I'm hoarding will go up in value.
*posting before watching entire video* - For some reason just makes me sad that someone is selling their entire collection :(
"You're like the creepy -...uh the cute intern i never had." :'D
I really love signed cards. Some people forget Magic is pure art.
gabrielle cisneros i prefer to get the artist to sign the sleeve, that way they are signed but the card isn't ruined
Thats similar to sign a Picasso in a napkin. The card is not ruined for having a signature just the opposite.
Depends on the sig. Some artists have a ridiculous signature like a 3year olds writing which seems strange. Then I have seen some that sign over their artwork instead of the text which I thought was odd. And with the ones that have actual artlike beautiful signatures it depends, if its a big line you get their fat tip sharpie keep the line moving half ass sig not the nice one
@@gabriellecisneros9295 no it isn't, it's completely different.
@@gabriellecisneros9295 to me, the artist drew the original art, he has seen his artworks thousands of times thousands of days. He's seen the actual card with his art work so many times. It is like putting a document at your job in front of your boss and saying see isnt this special? Signature please. They only want to sign it for money and your card isnt any different than the guy before and after you getting it signed. I would rather have the original art (if thats a thing for cards it is for comics) or a mint card as it was purchased from the store on the first day.
I like this kind of videos. I like to see nice vintage cards. Nice work rudy. Waiting for the second video. It would be interesting if you could tell us what cards you prefer in this collection.
Hello from France !
I have people bringing me their entire card collection and wanting a lot more than what the cards are worth all the time. All card sellers go thru this all the time. I always have people for example want $500 for some 5000 cards, when the cards are in fact more closer to $50. Then these people would feel insulted when I give them a low offer of $20 for the whole collection. I could only offer $20 cause I can only get $50 for the whole collection. $500 is ridiculous and this person will never get that much from anybody.
haha i went to a LARGE garage sale, where hundreds of people go and set up tents and sell stuff. Someone had a box of around 5k magic cards and wanted $1 each. It was basically all lands and commons worth a few cents XD Like no, ill buy the whole box for like $3
One video suggestion is talking about what 94 cards are more plentiful in higher grade and what's rarer in high grade. For example, most people didn't start playing with Moat or The Abyss until after 95 when penny sleeves became normal. These are cards that hurt both sides so players hated those cards in early Magic.
"Like the creep- no cute intern I never had"
No no, it's fine. I understand.
just considering card condition to assign them a value is wrong. there are so many more aspects that should be considered. how playable a card is going to be in competitive play in the next future, how likely is it going to be reprinted (or banned), how well mtg as a game is going to do, how big is your business (and therefore how much you're going to save on ebay fees, delivery and so on, how many clients you have that trust you etc), how many of them you're buying at once (buying in bulk is always cheaper). there's a whole bigger picture to look at when you're assigning a price to something in order to resell it and make a profit out of it. an heavily played volcanic island is still going to be easier to sell than a beta bgs 9.5 monolith, just because there's more people willing to buy it and play it, and so even if it's worth less as a collectible, you're a lot more likely to sell it quickly, which is crucial in order to run a business.
Would be interesting if you make a video that goes through all the processes of a single card since the moment you bought it and the moment you sold it on ebay, considering all expenses (buying cost, ebay fees, shipping fees, paypal fees etc) and how much net profit you got out of it.
More videos like this please!
I think you can still totally buy that LoA for a played price. $50 seriously? I would pay 5 times that in a heartbeat to buy it. In fact yes that's an offer. I'll buy that LoA for $250 right now. Say the word.
$275 here!
Edwin the Magic Engineer 50 dollars is definitely low-balling considering the tcgplayer low for a damaged LoA atm is about $349 including shipping. I'd gladly take a card that's damaged from inking for 50-100 off especially at that price especially an LoA that's signed.
Amazing video. This is definitely my favorite video of yours... and considering I've watched almost all them... that's sayin' something.
been watching the cardshop series from the start its awesome man! best wishes and may your taco always be firm and floppy!
Only bought 1 signed card. The signiture looked bad so no one was buying it. I only got it because it was cheaper then the normal version. I planned to play with it anyway lol
Please add a little information for non-magic players. I would assume we're a very small part of your viewership, but a few words of explanation even on things that should be MTG-101 would help a lot.
Personally I like your videos because of the business/investing side of things. I have never played, never watched, never anything MTG. I've learned a lot from watching you over the past year or so, but there is still a lot of things that I'm just a bit lost on.
Thanks.
I have never played the game either, never owned a single card, but I find these videos interesting. Rudy is obviously a smart guy and passionate, which means there are things I can learn from him, even if I never buy a single MTG card. The obvious passion is also a draw. He has a very different life and outlook than I, which is always interesting to learn about.
Basically cards have value because they see play. (Competitive play) the black lotus and power Nine are some of the most broken cards in the entire games history. They aren’t legal in nearly any format, except vintage. Which not many people play, since you need such an expensive deck. Duel lands have always been strong since the beginning, since fixing your mana pool is an incredibly important core of the game. (And helps lower randomness of basic land drops)
Rudy you should open up a magic the gathering store in Santa Barbara, California. There is a high demand for magic the gathering. What I hate the most is My local lgs are all comic stores, and the fact that magic is becoming more popular they don't invest much in it. Not a single lgs has singles for stock, and every time I go to buy some booster packs they either don't have that set or they ran out. Extremely frustrating
Nice video as always, Rudy.
I have a question about the Library of Alexandria: You said you couldn't buy, even being a legit card, because of sharpie marks. Couldn't you just buy/sell it as Damaged?
I'm not a collector, I buy my cards to use on my decks, and recently I got a Black Vise, which was very cheap. I though it to be a scam, but then I saw why it was cheap, the card is playable but not very pleasing to the eye. Still, I wanted to have it for it's use. I know you deal mostly with collectors, where quality is the name of the game, but, don't you think that Damaged cards would be a way to reach players that don't really care about quality, but function?
Cheers from Brazil
I'm not even going to watch this. I can see all the cards in the first 5 seconds. The answer is yes, you should buy this...and give these cards out to all your youtube fans because you are not a creepy Rudy. You are kind and caring and want to give back to the community. And free tacos too.
I love how you laughed at the poor quality of the knock off but felt bad and gave em a bone by saying they have gotten better since :)
2022 Rudy wanted me to remember awesome collection purchases.
When buying cards I avoid those that are in foreign language, those that are signed, those that are in foil from the last 5 years, and anything less than slight play. Most of that collection I would pass on.
Excellent video. Taking the time to make a collection evaluation video is impressive. Good work.
buy boxes instead and write down the order there printed in for instance how many packs in order before a certian card shows up like how many booster packs before a mistic rare shows up from a set point in the print chain then open one booster pack from a unopen box set to see where it is in the print chain then count the packs to find the super rare cards then pull those and sell all the unopened packs inbetween they print the in a predetermined order now days u just have to open a lot of boxes in order there on the pallet to figure out where the chain loops
FYI: It was definitely evident that the autographed “Library” Card was touched up on the edges & corners with a Black Sharpie. The cross section of the edges looks like shit! They’re completely blacked out. The overwhelming majority of the cards were heavily played and not pack fresh. Therefore, the asking price was really high, especially, since you’re reselling them; you’ll definitely take a big hit. The auto’s look OK ~ if they’re on cards that were heavily played and were not gem mint! Good luck!!!
Just read your feedback on eBay. Love how all your negatives from the past year are all from .99 cent orders for the most part. Unreal. Love the channel watch daily.
i like how rudy likes to make us think we can influence his decision with the "should i..." in the title when the sale has already gone through and most of these cards are available on his ebay :D
I am not going to give an offer number, but I think you should set a general percentage return you think you can get in a year (Maybe an even shorter term, I don't know how power and higher end stuff moves). I don't buy and sell cards regularly, but you should have a decent idea of the turnover on these cards and how much you can get for them so include in your offer an amount that "guarantees" that percentage. For the cards with ambiguous liquidity, generate the sum with whatever you think is a reasonable discount rate and then discount additionally for the liquidity risk or perhaps just a salvage value based on what you are doubtful on. Whatever is left offer inflated bulk rates as there seems to be some good stuff in those miscellaneous boxes. The asking price seems more like it should be your target price to turn these over at best. Realistically, I would probably offer 30-35 with the expectation of making 50 after cost of doing biz within a year and maybe an additional 5-10 over time. You don't buy collections like these to make. How often do collections like this come your way? Every 6 months, every two years; perhaps you should look to make enough on the liquid stuff to buy another big collection based on the average time you come across similar lots. There are multiple variables that must be considered.
note, my numbers may be a little off but after looking at the table of value. I'd say the dual lands average to about 150 a piece (I counted 92 so roughly 14k), thae power is all in rough shape so lets average 800-900 a piece (X 19 = +-18K). Then maybe 3K for the rest of the table that gets you to 35K (Im leaning towards 35k for your sale price of these cards rather than the purchase price) The rest of the boxes contain maybe 2-3 K at best unless the EDH decks sleeved up are pimped out with high end land bases and money cards. so your looking at selling all this for 38K-50K+ (Not much more IMO). So given my above formula you can probably move 60% of the duals relatively quickly to net you 8-12K, 20-40% of the power 3-8K, 80% of the rest of the table 1-2K, 40% of the jank for 1-2K. 13-24K back on the higher turnover stuff. Doesn't seem good to me. My numbers may still be off, but I don't think that matters much based on the percentages you can sell quickly, especially if I'm being generous on the turnover (you have the experience with that not me, but I know moving power isn't always quick and can be costly, high demand duals will sell (US, VI, TI).
The yellowed card probably belonged to a collector that smokes. F-ing tar gets over everything.
First of all I think you understated how cool all those foils and signed cards from the boxes are. Obviously the cash value is modest but they were nice as hell and truly reflected an impressive amount of effort. I mean, even finding envelopes and stamps is challenging and I'm not even a true millenial. In fact I'm your age.
My question is, how long can you afford to sit on those duals? I am guessing you'll want to sell a handful of them soon to keep cashflow in hand but doesn't it kinda make sense to hold most of them rather than trying to just make $10 (or less) apiece this year? And if you are in a position to do that, does it give you a little more wiggle room in the offer? After all, if you can give this guy a sweet payout, dozens of people are going to be mailing you cards (the economy is not being as kind to us as Wall Street claims).
Lastly, can you also do some accounting of how much time you wind up spending analyzing the cards, formulating an offer, and then checking them into your inventory? If it's 20 hours of work, do you invoice that somewhere or is it just your gift to the universe and the 'tube?
Great video Rudy. I can't imagine counting all that and being able to calculate your profit margins off the top of your head.
On a side note, more floppy tacos in your new store please!
that second Trop looked like it got some blacktop/sidewalk play from the look of the back!
I don't think I would mind a PSA 4 Power 9 card for the right discount.
I could see what your talking about just fine on the edging of the card being black. It's pretty obvious when you point it out. So don't worry your camera picks it up fine!
Seems legit. Lotta moulah on that table!
MTG Unpacked when you realize some pieces of cardboard are worth more than you.
I have only 10 Revised dual lands with HEAVY play. Do they have any value at all?
Absolutely!
Yeah, literally thousands of dollars.
18:24 Hadn't even thought someone would sharpie the edge.
Personally, I love signed cards. Then again, I don't deal in high end cards like that. Most expensive card I've ever bought was an Invocation Damnation lol.
I stopped playing at start of 6th edition and wish I had all my cards back(no collector cards) I just loved playing and seeing you grade cards makes me laugh I wish I had all those commons and worn cards. Just to play with my friends again would be cool.
Does anyone deal with old lots of worthless cards like that I wonder? Your knowledge makes me have that old itch again. LOL
You're very very good with a camera I did see the sheen of the Sharpe.
Why would you Crack the graded caseing? is it such a pain shipping? you have to ship high value cards with some protection anyway. and the grade should give you some more legal protection.
I think you need to group the cards according to guaranteed value and then extraneous filler. If they insist on selling it as a bundle, they're still looking at probably 1/3 of their asking something like 15-16k just an estimate. Haven't seen the actual hard costs of the cards yet.
Hopefully if the sale goes through some of those box cards will go on eBay. I'll buy a good handful of em.
I'd watch these all day. Give us more please!
Those foil/signed/foreign commons are sweet. Not huge bucks, but cool stuff.
Id love to buy that inked library of alexandria!
Just bought a collection. I have a small issue with counter fit cards in the collection. I have two sets of Verdant Catacombs all from Zendikar, however one play set has a bit better colour and is a bit more glossy then the other play set, is this a red flag or do different print runs sometimes produce slightly different finishes? Also I did a black light test on some and found it odd that the backs of some are a rich blue and others are more of an orange tint, then I looked at more cards from my own collection and found the same issue, do the backs of cards when under black light give off different colour depending on print run?
magic cards are either printed in USA or europe, i think there are differences, not sure
Why would you crack the case of the lotus to sell it instead of leaving it in the case because of the 8? I still don't understand why vendors crack the case before selling high value cards?
What if they could prove that it was the artist that did the ink around the edges for the Library of Alexandria?
51 seems high to me. Especially based on all the imperfections in the money cards. None of them look like sure fire sells. A lot of those signed cards won't draw a premium because they aren't hugely sought after... does he have clean expeditions? Does it have clean fetches, modern staples...? Beta Sol Rings or Mana Vaults in good shape? Alliances FoW isn't what it used to be... Duals all looked somewhat played. I think I'd buy some legends boxes or old sealed product and pass on this.
Omg I want just a few of those dual lands so bad 😩
So basically cracking a case is done when it's a good looking card but people who know less about it will pay more for it. I like that. I keep watching these videos without even playing or knowing anything about these cards lol.
I was able to pinpoint all the yellowed cards, it's definitely noticeable.
As a player since 1995, I know that, Shhhhh... you can clean dirty (or yellowing) cards without damaging them.
Im buying a bunch of proxies for myself so i have a couple of cubes with cards i could NEVER afford and finally some decent decks haha, BUT, i was reading the schpeel about the cards "Quality it's amazing, we use German machine 'german machine name here' which is costs 100 millions" hahaha
Thanks for asking my opinion but that's why I watch your videos Rudy. To learn. To me, that's a beautiful collection and some real value is there. So if I could afford it and it would make me happy to do so, I would have bought it. I also know it shouldn't count but especially if I could afford it, it would matter to me how much the seller needed the money. The "invisible" hand and all that. This is a great video, cliffhanger and all. I'm really anxious to find out what happens. Screw Netflix yo'. (Except for the TICK, which is Awesome.) :3
How do you value alters? if you had a yellowed dual would it be worth having it altered?
Nice collection filled with cards that TCG would list as Damaged with signed cards.
Kasey Baker I won't buy or trade for sign cards I view them as damaged!
1% scammers is legit. We don't agree on a lot but you're still the smartest tuber in Magic.
Rudy I have to ask, why can you not buy the Library? Does the touching up reduce the value that much to where nobody will buy it even with the touchup?
Coloring the sides with sharpie is basically just as bad as drawing a shit anime tiddies alter on the front of the card. It's considered a defaced card, and comes with the understanding that someone basically tried to fake its condition by covering up the dings on the edges.
Amazing! Thanks for sharing Rudy, this stuff is why we love your tacos
You can call me a cute intern any day :3 Those played cards though, probably cracking a black lotus on the concrete in the school playground for a grey ogre.
Shouldn't the inked Library just be valued as "damaged"? Playable double sleeved right?
Rudy I'm a totally new viewer and I just like your commentary. Never played MGT in my life (used to play a lot of pokemon and yugioh back in the day though). Would you make a video/tutorial on playing in general? Or better yet, a review of all the major booster boxes and rare with prices? I just find your commentary entertaining but not all the plebs like me can understand =).
For videos on how to play Magic, I would recommend Tolarian Community College youtube channel. He goes over deck building in various formats and does reviews of magic the gathering products.
Such a shame this collection had to be sold, but at the same time it probably was for a good reason.
Beware, inking old cards is a common practice on online markets (TCG in the US and MKM in Europe)
My LGS does it before shipping cards they over-graded on MKM... and they're a pretty big seller there :/
I'm curious what the right offer price on the lotus is, I recently passed on a Beckett 8 lotus with similar stats? Anybody have a reasonable amount?
I mean if it wasn't a ton buying the boxes of cards you could sell them in store Id come in and pay market price or a bit more to have a lot of Commander stables to flip through
Rudy. You are the man. Honest. True. Smart. Well spoken. You are someone who I would hire 3 minutes into an interview. You have "it". You are also the only UA-camr I have notifications for! Keep doing your thing.
Shoulda bought it all rudy
What about buying some stocks? Something that actually yield dividends and grows?
every time i see a signed card my heart breaks a little
Why crack the case of a sub-9+ card? Isn't there still value in keeping it graded for authentication purposes?
I like to gamble a bit I would meet in around 30-35k not including the library that's inked etc.
Supply shortage reduce format accesability -> reduce audience that play legacy/vintage = format dies out = eventually prices will be only as collection value
My issue with eBay is also how much I sell on eBay I always leave good feed back even if you take 7-10 days to pay for your order I respectfully after 5-7 days send a reminder to pay and still leave good feedback, but out of 51 sales this past month I got 1 person to leave feed back and I personally leave a hand written message with every order I send out and yet I got one person to leave feedback :(
Did you get a set of revised volcanic island with matching signature?
In Oz it's 5:30 AM. Early bird gets the jank rare collection.
Super interesting series and I cannot wait to see more. Unfortunately, I think I have a fake beta Plateau thanks to your help... Ignorance truly is bliss
Oh my god it is so hugh, so big.......what a Playmat :)
You should organize the cards by price next time and explain why you price them out. I am buying cards too but small amount that are on the revised list. I only buy cards at 60% or less market value because I am taking the risk that the game will fall apart or wizards decides to reprint revised listing cards.
How does one price autographed cards? Ebay sold listings, or base card price plus a percentage?
TapTenMana there are a lot of things to consider. Is the artist alive? If they are show often to they sign, if they still sign at all? Christopher Rush and Ron Spears signatures are examples of signatures that would add value. Eric Deschamps and Rob Alexander sign a TON of cards, to the point where I wouldn't even add value to the card for their signature because there are so many in circulation and they still sign cards today. The most important thing to understand though is that to most, these cards are damaged so you're only selling to a select group and therefore you can't get too carried away with increasing price because it will be hard to move. There are FB groups that can help you value cards that are signed if you want.
I hope you bought this as you clearly made 10X on your money by now
I really enjoyed this video. Too bad about that Library...
I always struggle to understand who puts so much time, money and effort.... and then decides to sell a whole collection like that....
divorce, lost job, house payment, health crisis, kid's college... simply losing all interest in the game.
Buy his fiance a wedding ring and honey moon
Mid-life -crisis- wake up.
@Miles Davidson nice