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Card Dealer (Patreon)

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2026-06-14 04:52:49
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2026-10
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When I look back at my long history with Magic, almost every time I've tried to spec on a card (and it's pretty rare when I do), it's backfired in my face. The lesson I've learned is you should just buy what you want and need. Then, if the price happens to go up, it's just a bonus because you're using the cards anyway. And more often than not, the cards I want to use are probably garnering interest with the wider play base!

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Rose

As a card dealer, every time I've speced on a card at full price, it's blown up in my face. Being a card dealer is hard. I purchase things I like in hopes that if I like them, so will other people. We buy cards at a margin and sell them at a higher margin, so I can continue to eat, pay rent, and also justify holding a lot of stock so that when people want something, we have it. As a card dealer (/store) leave the speculation to the players. Figure out what margin we need to have to continue surviving and growing, and buy and sell cards at those margins of the current market price rather than worrying about any sort of speculation.

Rose

You may have noticed, I relate a lot to this one XD

Tzu-Chi Hsu

All the Karlov Manor play boxes I bought off my LGS have finally gone up!

Cardboard Crack

I think it’s good to tell people about this perspective. Many people have misconceptions about how card dealers actually make money.

Rose

I agree with this strongly. I run into misconceptions all the time, the biggest being that people just don't consider some of the expenses involved. Like the $8K or so the business spends on shipping orders each year.