Any advice for someone trying to start at home first then move into a brick and mortar? Is that even possible? There is a huge need in my area for several product lines.
Turn it around: you make a tcg you sell a box for 100 and someone else sells it for 200 and the amount of boxes you can make is limited. Why would you sell those boxes for under 190? yes it is not good for longlivity but in the angelo saxon businessmodel everything is about short term gains over long term. Shareholders, banks, employees everyone want short term gains!
At 5:11 you said "you can do 30, BUT -" . I have watched this video several times and have always wondered what you were gonna say there. What is the but with shipping between 30-32 in two stacks?
This game gonna be dead soon No locals in my area, all cancelled $900 a case for the new set - WHAT?! I usually buy cases not boxes. Again the point I am making to people is this is a Disney owned franchise, they can’t afford a printer than can handle demand? And to fantasy flight games, if this game lives, which I doubt it will, I’m never buying your games again. I’ll stick to Pokemon, they seem to know how to print cards with the money they have. Disney seems to be sleeping here and letting fantasy flight do whatever. Or they’re pissed and we aren’t hearing it.😂
Im pretty sure they are spreading out the second set release vs shipping nearly all of it out the door in the first couple weeks like set 1. Once people stopped whining about ffg killing games off and realized it was fun everyone started scooping it up within days. a few stores got a couple boxes a month to keep people coming in for drafts…It doesnt help that people are buying way more than typical to chase the showcases and low number of legendaries per box.
hey man I started selling on tcgplayer a while ago, but I remember watching your vids for help when I got started. RU-vid algorithm randomly put one of your videos up and reminded me about you. Thank you. I'm completely into buying and selling, but your videos helped me with the shipping and understanding TCG.
Hey, I just found your videos, some good information there. I have a collection where I started playing back just after beta, then I stopped when Homelands came out, and started bac up recently. I have boxes and boxes of cards, old and new, old decks where all my lands are duel lands (probably going to hold onto these), to boxes of commons from revised, dark, etc, to lots of new stuff that I bought cheap and is now worth a lot, like I bought a bunch of Hedron Crabs for like 10 cents years ago for a deck and now I see they are worth $8 - $10. I'm trying to decide whether it's worth it to sell the bulk of my old stuff to get a decent chunk of money from it for adult things like my house and bills, but I don't know if I'll have the time to start up a TCGPlayer business, and I'm not super comfortable just sending my cards to somewhere like Card Kingdom or Card Conduit. I also have a pretty decent collection of Yu-Gi-Oh cards I picked up when I was playing with my stepson 10+ years ago. Do you have any advice for someone like me looking to do a one and done kind of sale with the bulk of my stuff.
By the way, has there been cases where game has been popular but not easily available and gone dead because of that? There are plenty of big games right now that have been forecasted as being dead because they are available for players but is it really what's killing the games? I understood reasons for dead SW games before were different.
Here is the thing a game being popular because the boxes are double or triple MSRP are one thing. We will need to see how those people interact with the game after the booster boxes are available and under MSRP and wildly available. I can only go off the data I have and it is zero interest in playing, people just want to buy it.
Rob let's chat, we share many of the same thoughts an ideas. I have a few things I'd like to share with you one-on-one not for public consumption. Hit me up if you can. Thanks, man! Best of luck brother!
I was reading where Asmodee was cancelling people’s pre-orders that were ordering directly. I don’t understand how they didn’t see the hype from the first set and think “huh, we should print more”
I’ll wait to set 3-4 before stating the game is dead. Also, criticizing and not holding events seems weird. By the way I’m just a player and I got a case for set 1 and I already have 4 boxes preorder from local game stores
@@rng-gamezyeah, strange but possible. I live in a not huge market and we’ve had 3 showdowns in town with over 20 people each, draft events usually get between 10-20 people, and there are weekly plays at 3 different hame store, with two of them still giving pack as prize support. So I guess it also depends on region. Also set 2 is supposed to go out in waves. Now if they didn’t adjust set 3 printing numbers after the initial demand then I’d be inclined to say the future is grim, but set 1 and set 2 printing orders were made at least 6 months, if not more, ago
@@rng-gamezvalid, but from my perspective, small area, plugged in to the 3 main card shops around here, there’s myself a a few other guys who simply don’t have time to play locals..but we were able to make the same showdown and it’s just that we have been collecting and obtaining cards to play locals..guys are making decks and practicing online but none of us actually have the time to go downtown and play lol. Because of this I am selling all my extras. Will be seeking set 2 cards. The chase is fun, having cards to play when we actually can is fun..but other guys and kids at the shops see us as scalpers because from their eyes they just see us coming and buying up packs. Truth is I love the game as much as they do, probably love the cards even more 🤷🏻♂️
@@rng-gamez I think for a lot of people it is. I like it as a player/collector who cant keep up with 10 sets of MTG per year. It is never going to be the biggest game but can be a very successful niche game with backbone. Not great for a store though I agree on that!
@@rng-gamez slow steady gains in box prices since release and some very collectable chase cards holding value so far. And if you love old magic this game is THAT. Actually a better game than magic in my opinion but that is probably a hot take for anyone who loves magic and never played Sorcery.
I agree with you about the player retention due to lack of product, but I don't agree with you that it's direct selling by Asmodee that's the issue. Southern from all accounts has been able to provide far more product than Asmodee to stores, which would hint that the bulk of the product is going there when preorders from the Asmodee site to consumers are being canceled. Remember, Asmodee probably makes more net profit selling to stores directly than selling to Southern that resells to stores, yet I have heard Asmodee having far smaller allocations to stores than Southern by several magnitudes.
@@rng-gamez Sure, but they sold what ten thousand boxes of set one in the first week? How many game stores carry SWU and how many got twenty or so boxes from Southern and a couple from Asmodee? I think several magnitudes of difference went to Southern where Asmodee benefits the least from box sales. Which would signal it's not them being shady that's causing issues, it's just poor print run management.
@@Techpriest yea true I just think it’s a bit of a conflict of interest to have a retail facing business while simultaneous wholesaling directly from the company
@@rng-gamez There's a truth to that, but I might be used to it by now as many companies do similar things like GW for example. The problem still seems to be a supply issue ultimately, as if there was enough supply for stores to comfortably sell it at 100 a box versus their direct 120 price there wouldn't be much of a conflict. Though as a whole the card game space is kind of a mess.
Two months before Sparks was launched I asked a LGS if they would have it and they said NOPE because the company had a history of massively f ing up and they warned me. Seems they were right. I could have spent 3k on that game and instead switched to buying lorcana and magic
Quite honestly, I'm surprised companies like Asmodee, Hasbro, Fanatics etc don't just do direct themselves and cut out the middle man for the sake of maximizing their profits. Yes, it would screw so many small business owners and distros, but that seems to be a potential future.
New tcg games are mostly a scam, i will go no where near the next big thing that fails in a few months. Thousands of failed card games. If i am going to spend my hard earned money on a tcg uts only going to be ones tested and true for decades.
For real. That is one of the reasons I have stayed clear of FaB, Metapoo, Sorcery, etc. Just way too high of a chance that a new TCG will fail. I contemplated Lorcana but I’m just not really a fan of the IP tbh. So I’ll stay with Magic.
LOL Didn't you guys JUST get Lorcana, like a few weeks ago? And the 4 sets are getting dumped on you almost all at once? I really wouldn't use a release like that as some kind of baseline for comparison.
@@Florellea well we got all the cards and they are everywhere, Still cant get star wars, even singles, so easy to see who is winning. nobody even talks or asks for star wars anymore
@@8bitgoonies You really don't see the irony of you using the popularity of Lorcana (the game that only became available in your region 10 months after it's original release) as a some kind of positive comparison to SWU?
@@Florellea I am just saying what im seeing, everyone is playing Lorcana and Magic and Pokemon and One Piece and all the other games, Nobody is even mentioning Star Wars, and it seems like this isn't just my area...
@@rng-gamez I could see it being one, they also bought and now operate Miniature Market. So they technically have 2 customer facing sides, as well as retailers
Bro, long time business man here, we are same age and I look up to you. I wish I'd have your personality to show my face on camera, keep up the good work man. More videos of the front of the store and day to day use
A store I go to has free commander nights, they also put the code up, but they offer a pack every half hour if you enter it. I'm not sure what you get from it, but it might be something to try.
Lol whoever belives they wont print more collectors is laughable. The cash cow ain't gonna fold for the whishful thinkers. You'll find mh3 in mystery boxes at the local big box stores in a couple of years.
