TOPIC: Pre-GenCon 8k? Or post-West?

Fred K wrote: PM sent regarding delivery. For quite a few of us, delivery at Gencon is likely a necessity. Fred

As noted in the opening post, I can hand-deliver at GenCon, Pax West, or Pax South, in addition to being able to ship.

I'm volunteering Wed 5-9 PM
Thu-Sat 10-6 (and a run 6:38 Thu)

Here's the harsh reality:

If we can pull in the #s for the Condensed bits that the last successful auction pulled,
If I pay $75 for every Onyx UR that isn't pulling $75 (which gets us over the 34 PYP at $105+),
If I pay $40 for each Tooth of Cavadar,
If I pay $10 for each Mask of Mayhem, and
If I charge the highest Reserve bids on the Wish Ring and Dragon Orb,

We're looking at $7417 - and I'd end up paying over $1000 for 4 URs, 8 Teeth, and 4 Masks

Probably just too many of these have already been done and the market's had all it can bear.

Singsalot wrote: Here's the harsh reality:

If we can pull in the #s for the Condensed bits that the last successful auction pulled,
If I pay $75 for every Onyx UR that isn't pulling $75 (which gets us over the 34 PYP at $105+),
If I pay $40 for each Tooth of Cavadar,
If I pay $10 for each Mask of Mayhem, and
If I charge the highest Reserve bids on the Wish Ring and Dragon Orb,

We're looking at $7417 - and I'd end up paying over $1000 for 4 URs, 8 Teeth, and 4 Masks

Probably just too many of these have already been done and the market's had all it can bear.

Perhaps you'd be best off breaking them out into trade goods next time instead of sealed packs. Even if they don't sell for as much, you'd be getting 9-10 URs and maybe a Golden Ticket to keep or sell.

Neither here nor there, but he moved to trade goods instead of packs. And he's got the random URs in.

Mike Steele wrote: Perhaps you'd be best off breaking them out into trade goods next time instead of sealed packs. Even if they don't sell for as much, you'd be getting 9-10 URs and maybe a Golden Ticket to keep or sell.

If I'd gotten bids of $2/pack, it would be more than the goods are currently bringing in, and nearly what the last auction got on goods. If I got $3/pack, it would be significantly more (enough to make the rest of the auction work.) I was hoping some new players might be interested in a 50% savings on packs.

As it stands, I'm auctioning off all 9 random ultra rares, and we're still not going to make $7.5k

Personally, I'd pay $900 for 300 packs to make an auction work, but I can't go 3k for 960.

I think the timing is particularly bad.

Between order deadlines and token discussion, it isnt a great time of year.

I will try to start one up post GC, super condensed, and if it fails it fails. There is a lot of fun to be had in trying.

I'll probably bid on it; though I'll have more flexibility to spend after West.

(also, some late bids in: at this rate, if the rest of the Condensed stuff gets bid up to where the last successful auction was, and I overbid on some stuff, we could actually make)

Singsalot wrote: I'll probably bid on it; though I'll have more flexibility to spend after West.

(also, some late bids in: at this rate, if the rest of the Condensed stuff gets bid up to where the last successful auction was, and I overbid on some stuff, we could actually make)

Good luck! I hope you make it.

To that end, I'm going to make some more bids, to sort of display where it could go.

From now on, all "DM" bids only need to be met by other bidders, not beaten.

And at that, we're still 1k short, I'm bidding on enough stuff to transmute 3 ~300-350 tokens, but I'm spending more than a CoA.

Currently at 7021.25 with me contributing 1300 for 6 UR and various trade goods

I wanna thank everybody for playing, but unless we get some major bids out of nowhere in the next couple hours, we missed it.

Guessing by now its officially over?