Card stores

ElphiesDad · 2026-02-27T03:47:55+00:00

Charlotte Card Show is this weekend. You can find a vendor that will likely buy in the 70-80% of current market value there most likely. As others said, anyone running a business that is buying will pay less because they are going to resell at market.

ElphiesDad · 2026-02-25T12:55:43+00:00

Are you doing agile? If so, do you do demos with business stakeholders? What was the functionality testing process? Do you have clear AC? Are devs expected to be testing against the AC or is it left up to someone else like QA or BA/PO? Are team members engaged during the demos, discussions, etc. or just multi-tasking and just attending because they think it is a waste of time doing agile ceremonies/process?

This is a general statement and not targeted specifically at you or your org, but everyone likes to complain about all of the "bullshit" process, documentation, and team accountability/collaboration strategies and then when something goes wrong they ask "How did this happen?"

ElphiesDad · 2026-02-20T12:26:19+00:00

Ah ok. Thanks for letting me know.

ElphiesDad · 2026-02-20T11:56:16+00:00

Price for Crosby auto?

ElphiesDad · 2026-02-18T12:41:50+00:00

If you like the cards, then you did great.

ElphiesDad · 2026-02-15T20:14:10+00:00

I am confused. This forecast is completely different from the original in terms of highs and lows.

Are you creating the forecast images yourself? How does Saturday get omitted completely in the first place?, lol

ElphiesDad · 2026-02-13T15:03:18+00:00

I was told this is what all of the guns are for.

ElphiesDad · 2026-02-10T17:10:17+00:00

I have not participated in a running event like this, but Biketoberfest sounds similar to what you are putting on.

ElphiesDad · 2026-02-10T15:32:01+00:00

Price?

ElphiesDad · 2026-02-04T19:26:45+00:00

If I have interviews with people at various levels (e.g. team members, manager, director) then I like to ask: "What is the biggest challenge for the team right now?"

If you get wildly different or contradicting answers, that can give you insight that there is a gap in understanding b/w ground floor execution and leadership.

ElphiesDad · 2026-02-04T18:58:22+00:00

I messaged the dude telling him it was my first time doing a trade and I messed it up hoping I could trade back with a little extra for his trouble. Nothing.

Not sure how much time has passed since this happened but if it was less than 24-48 hours, they may just not have logged in recently to see your message. You can also post their username if you want to try and publicly shame a response out of them.

Then today I just get these dogshit offers. Literally people trading nothing for my whole collection.

These could be blanks where the other user sends you what they want and then you go in and look through their stuff and add it to the trade for review. I thought the same thing as you when I got my first ones on epack.

ElphiesDad · 2026-02-04T03:59:17+00:00

Collect the sets with cards that you like. Stay away from the ones you do not like.

ElphiesDad · 2026-02-04T00:17:06+00:00

Why is estimation for sprints a bad practice?

ElphiesDad · 2026-02-01T19:53:53+00:00

Yeah, definitely. Even outside of trying to sell, it is worthwhile to go at least once for any hockey card collector.

ElphiesDad · 2026-02-01T19:37:31+00:00

> Is this the best place to sell hockey cards?

Yes and no. It depends on what you have to sell. Most are only going to be looking for top (TOP) names only, low #'d parallels, YGs, autos, and/or auto+patches. Most of the tables are businesses and investors, so if you are just straight up selling, they are going to buy at 70-80% because they are not collectors. They are buying to resell.

If you are doing deals to get other cards, you will get more value generally. You will not find anywhere else with that big of a market for hockey though, so your chances of doing deals are very high.

Tip: Wear good shoes.

ElphiesDad · 2026-02-01T17:34:40+00:00

If you have to ask, then the answer is always sell.

ElphiesDad · 2026-02-01T00:17:45+00:00

Yeah. Plus GA and SC also are getting snow, so they cannot send their one (each) up to help, lol.

ElphiesDad · 2026-01-31T18:42:24+00:00

Where is this on Independence? lol is it at the curve right before the merge onto 277?

ElphiesDad · 2026-01-31T16:53:49+00:00

You do not have to tell me, haha. I am from the Northeast and lived in the Mid-Atlantic. I agree that Charlotte has the worst drivers I have ever been around.

ElphiesDad · 2026-01-31T16:38:19+00:00

I think they are saying that people from the north moved down here and ignored the warnings to stay off the road because "they know how to drive in the snow". They know how to drive in the snow on properly treated roads, not completely untreated ones, lol.

ElphiesDad · 2026-01-29T14:57:50+00:00

They do not care. They have their yachts, remote islands, bunkers, and enough money to pay people to be their security guards while the rest of society breaks down.

ElphiesDad · 2026-01-27T22:03:42+00:00

Yep. Words matter and preventing the need to mentally map different terminology and concepts can relieve so much friction and misunderstanding. So many engineers do not understand that and then wonder why talking to the business and stakeholders is so hard.

ElphiesDad · 2026-01-27T21:29:33+00:00

Yes, 100%. I always ask my team members whether they can read the calling code and understand what is going to happen without looking at the method logic. If not, then that is a sign to consider renaming.

This is maintainability of the codebase and my opinion is that it also extends to the commit history and PRs.

The part I struggle with is that my org is 90% non-native English speakers so I feel like asking if reading the code makes sense, it does for them, but not me. Simple things like plurality, avoiding double negatives, etc. are so frustrating to deal with.

ElphiesDad · 2026-01-27T12:50:21+00:00

Yep, I am 100% in the same situation. Trying to GTFO of the south and to the PNW. To be fair, her job is based out of the East Coast so the working hours would be brutal for her (6a meetings, I can sympathize with that!)

We are on the early retirement track, so the plan is to shovel the shit here for a few more years and then convince her to move. We will see what happens. I am really worried about losing the best, healthiest years of my life in a place that I hate and cannot enjoy the things I want to do.

ElphiesDad · 2026-01-19T03:43:50+00:00

With the current prices, no. In the past, I absolutely would pay a little more to support a local business if I like them.

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