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Topic: Best time to buy rotating cards?
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Soldier Boi
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posted July 24, 2012 09:39 AM
      
I want to pick up a bunch of of SOM block cards for casual play. Was wondering when would be the best time to pick them up. I dont want to wait to long because last time I tried to do it after ZEN rotated and everyone already sold their cards to the dealers.
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Solidarity
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posted July 24, 2012 10:15 AM
Uh, you just answered your own question. NOW Cards like Venser, Tezz, Surgical Extraction, GSZ, Phyrexian Metamorph, Batterskull, etc are only a few bucks now anyway. Best time to buy is when everyone else is selling...
[Edited 1 times, lastly by Solidarity on July 24, 2012]
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psrex
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posted July 24, 2012 10:42 AM
 
December is always ideal, if you can wait that long.
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Zeckk
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posted July 25, 2012 03:52 PM
As a trader, the absolute best time is during the RTR pre-release and the FNM when RTR becomes legal. As far as ebay goes, usually 2 weeks before the pre-release is when the demand is at it's lowest.
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jshields
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posted August 01, 2012 08:27 AM
I would tend to agree with everyone else, since this is usually the time of the year when I will bail out on around 70% of my inventory of most Scars of Mirrodin block cards. Sometimes for stores and retailers like me, it is better to break even at the end of a block and trade towards newer stuff or vintage staples, than to see many cards lose an additional 30-50% of their value.__________________
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[Edited 1 times, lastly by jshields on August 01, 2012]
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solistar
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posted August 05, 2012 11:33 AM
The price always starts dropping around June, which is when I always try to dump my inventory of the rotating block. Course it usually continues to go down all the way up to the block actually rotating, closer you get though the less likely you will find the cards you want easily. I've already sold off most of my inventory 
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Soldier Boi
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posted August 05, 2012 04:21 PM
quote:
Originally posted by solistar:
The price always starts dropping around June, which is when I always try to dump my inventory of the rotating block. Course it usually continues to go down all the way up to the block actually rotating, closer you get though the less likely you will find the cards you want easily. I've already sold off most of my inventory
Yea, I figured I would start buying soon. Right now I am just waiting for my bonus since I just spent like 600 on dual lands already lol.
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mm1983
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posted August 09, 2012 04:28 AM
I've dumped my sets Sword of Feast and Famines and Sword of War and Peace and also my play sets of foil scars dual lands when they were at their high. With so many lands in modern I really have no use for scars lands so I was happy to get about $500 total for all of the swords and the foil lands. Those same cards now I could probably buy for $200-250.
[Edited 1 times, lastly by mm1983 on August 09, 2012]
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