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MacDaddy on March 15, 2009
Hi Ron,
I like your podcasts and agree with you almost completely about selling to venders at big events. At one tournament, I watched a dealer buying rares from people for 10cents to a dollar and then turning around and selling them 5 minutes later for $2 to $10 dollars. The thing that made me sick to my stomach was some 12 year old kid selling his trade binder away for the last $10 he needed to enter the tournament. It was the first big tournament I had been to in a long time but still regret not trying to talk that kid into keeping his $75 – $100 retail values worth of cards.
So I actually applaud Star City games for only the 150% to 200% mark up in the cards you mentioned because I believe with other dealers it can be anywhere from 500% to 1000% mark up (and much more – ie buying a slaughter pact from a kid for 25 cents and handing it to the seller who has someone waiting to buy it for $3).
Keep up the good work Ron,
Mac Dad
The Wrath of Pete « Does Not Compute on March 24, 2009
[...] Peter Hoffling, President of SCG’s email response: – at 25 mintues, 10 seconds [...]
David Koontz on March 24, 2009
I think this was an unfortunate situation where two individuals saw things in a very different light. Personally I thought the comments were innocent, although I did not really agree with them. I definitely think SCG overreacted by pulling the show from their site. I wrote up a much longer response here if anyone is interested: http://dkoontz.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/the-wrath-of-pete/