Getting rid of surplus commons
Online Magic forum
Posted on July 6, 2015, 5:50 p.m. by hyena69
Any advice on how to find a good bot to sell off some surplus commons? After doing well in the new player phantom drafts and winning a deck builders essentials I have a lot of surplus junk. Since I usually buy from Marlon sellbots, I wonder if they have buy bots as well (no point in building up credit with bots I'm not going to buy from)
Just hold onto them? They're pretty much worthless and not worth the bother of selling them off unless you're willing to just give them away to clear out space. The good thing about MTGO is that commons, uncommons and a lot of rares are worth like a penny, so it's cheap to play. At the same time though, it means you don't have anything of value when you go to sell bulk. Even the penny cost is only because that is the lowest possible denomination. In reality they aren't even worth that much so what you get for selling them is pretty much zero.
...Hence... get rid of them if you'd like but there isn't anyone out there that's going to be interested in buying them off of you for even 50cents unless you're sitting on like 100,000 cards or something nuts, which it doesn't sound like that's you... what with doing phantom drafts and the like.
My point is, you're better off not putting too much thought into who you get rid of them to... since your time is probably more valuable than the 10cents you'll get for your spares.
July 10, 2015 3:52 a.m.
Thanks for the advice, that's just the thing I love about MTGO is how dirt cheap the cards are, even Moxen and a Lotus are affordable. And it's good to be able to train my tournament skills without being humiliated by someone face to face (I utterly s*** at noncasual play...)
July 10, 2015 12:50 p.m.
Heck, I'd just sell them "bulk". Individually, they're all but worthless, but sell a 200-300 at a time for $10 + shipping... It's affordable and fair.
August 3, 2015 12:46 p.m.
Not really looking for cash for them, sorry if the title is missleading, more like dumping them on a bot for event tickets (I wish) or botcredits. So far I have 3 surplus evolving wilds, so it's not like it is a pressing issue :-) But thanks anyway :-)
RussischerZar says... #2
I like GoatBots and secondarily supernovabots although I think supernova doesn't trade in low value items. I also usually check which bots gives me the highest prices for my stuff and which sells for the lowest.
Haven't really had the issue of surplus commons yet but there are plenty of bots or even players that you can gift them to. Most bots that actually buy commons only give you a tiny fraction of a ticket (like 0.0003 or something) which is just as good as not getting anything. Maybe look for something like buying 1000 commons for a ticket or similar.
Edit: I should probably not have even replied here since I didn't actually give you any useful answer, sorry :[
July 9, 2015 12:54 p.m.