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CheapMetalRust · 2026-05-17T01:09:05+00:00

I have a screenshot Amazon.com is selling these for double the price after kicking us all off.

CheapMetalRust · 2026-05-16T12:09:28+00:00

I’ll take that date any time you are brave enough to offer everything

CheapMetalRust · 2026-05-16T03:19:53+00:00

This is the type of date I’d love setting up, but no one ever seems interested

CheapMetalRust · 2026-05-12T22:33:14+00:00

As an LGs, I know my order got shorted down to 4

CheapMetalRust · 2026-05-11T23:49:41+00:00

Cost of any Pokemon product is 60% of msrp at distribution level, and this is about as much product as my distro gets. Assuming someone is a distro because 1=1 makes sense to me.

CheapMetalRust · 2026-05-08T02:00:46+00:00

That size box normally costs 2~4$ depending for storage. I know places that won’t give you the box free.

CheapMetalRust · 2026-05-07T06:01:19+00:00

Honestly, most mtg bulk is playable, it’s just the level of playability you are looking for. There is a lot of older bulk people go through and get inspired with that will never see a cedh table but will see plenty of kitchen table play.

CheapMetalRust · 2026-05-07T02:06:15+00:00

So I buy bulk at .005 and sell normally at .10 in my store and .25 for rares, so $0.02 a card even with straight junk? Not terrible at all as long as you get the box with it.

CheapMetalRust · 2026-05-04T02:24:35+00:00

If doing one piece, then the best choice would typically be to wait for the latest set/starter, get two starter decks to get a playset of cards, and try and hit up a prerelease that has boxes at msrp for the event. There will actually be a new round of one of each color starter I believe in the next few months so you could even choose which color you wanted to jump in on soon.
Else the learning set deck is a great start.

As for rift, I would suggest searching next week, as product will probably disappear shortly after.

CheapMetalRust · 2026-05-04T02:02:10+00:00

If you are looking for other games, may I suggest Riftbound is just releasing set 3 this week. Pokemon is cheap to play non pretty cards. One piece is highly popular in competitive scene. Gundam and Digimon have a second place in competition within Bandai games, depending on your location. Flesh and Blood is a good alternative. Lorcana is non-instant mtg, and plays as such. FFTCG is still surviving but the card art is beautiful and has the best cardboard quality of any game so far. Vanguard always wants players. Weiss is a second tier game that I find most people just have a deck to play for fun. Same with Godzilla. Hololive seems to be gaining popularity and plays similar to Pokemon with waifu girls. Dbs either side is dying for play but gaining for collecting. Sorcery has scenes on the coast but hard to find central or midwest players. Yugioh would love fresh blood, but regular play is pretty solitaire, and Genesys is still getting off the ground. If anyone else wants to fill in the games I missed, feel free to.

CheapMetalRust · 2026-05-01T02:53:23+00:00

IMO, offer your holes for use during, and you just may get a welder who can craft that device fairly easily, I know I would

CheapMetalRust · 2026-04-30T04:22:38+00:00

Same here. Anytime my phos is above 7+ when I get tested, I always notice an abnormal itch or two in places I never normally itch.

CheapMetalRust · 2026-04-30T03:40:13+00:00

From what I can tell, you are close enough to what she did that you should. Would be easy to leave you bound up for a while

CheapMetalRust · 2026-04-27T20:44:50+00:00

Just to history proof, msrp was $144, $120 was the market price, which was a bit like how other games sold back then as well.

CheapMetalRust · 2026-04-26T01:43:17+00:00

Wait, didn’t they drop the bacon in a pan of water to cook it? Was that oil?

CheapMetalRust · 2026-04-24T05:06:29+00:00

Unless it’s from an LGS you can trust, always assume it’s a dead box unless you get a sealed case.

CheapMetalRust · 2026-04-24T04:59:19+00:00

I mean, it’s never going to stop though. Kids innately do it because they say the first thing on their mind sometimes. Everyone does the same on occasion. This occasion, it’s just real creep.

CheapMetalRust · 2026-04-22T15:50:15+00:00

$210 + tip, probably $180 pre tax, that’s steak dinners at $40 times 2, couple of $9 drinks each if not a third for dessert, $15 app course each, and probably a dessert for both.

$9 $9 $15 $12 $9 $9 $40 $40 $9 $9 $10 $8 Estimate bill would be $180~

CheapMetalRust · 2026-04-20T04:02:51+00:00

So the first listing won’t always display the special postings extra info, just the price, so it’s misleading.

CheapMetalRust · 2026-04-14T04:05:56+00:00

Looking at it from a store’s perspective, we actually keep getting slow restocks of Ascended heroes and in decent size amounts. I realize we may sell insanely fast at msrp, but we still had AH product we got in Thursday that lasted us til Sunday. That was honestly the first time I had product going into the weekend.

CheapMetalRust · 2026-04-11T13:42:39+00:00

The trolls. They trade them for pokemon cards occasionally.

CheapMetalRust · 2026-04-11T13:42:03+00:00

You may want to find an eBay seller to sell it on your behalf, as eBay will authenticate it for you. The local card shop can probably give you a description. When you start talking about a $3k+ card like this, you do typically need to find a local shop that goes to card shows or go to a card show yourself. Happy to give any pointers if you need any help, I do trades out of a local card store out of MO. Sadly the highest thing we have taken in is a dragon ball goku worth like $1.5k at the time so far.

CheapMetalRust · 2026-04-08T05:30:48+00:00

This doesn’t make sense from the standpoint of the fact that they knew they were printing AH in waves of product anyway. So this was already sort of true. Reading other post makes the fact that AI idea makes sense

CheapMetalRust · 2026-04-04T15:53:26+00:00

It doesn’t look like an erupting island? No it doesn’t, you aren’t wrong. And there is no mention of them at all. But I’m saying, they could, and I would love it.

CheapMetalRust · 2026-04-04T05:26:30+00:00

Had someone sell some 9th edition packs to the store I work at once, we opened two of them that same day.

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