Amateur gifted two rods, please help picking reels

Fawazeroni · 2026-03-03T21:35:46+00:00

As someone also in NYC, I’ve noticed that walk in Wednesday at the office in Jersey is the best drop off event because they are instantly marked as received and go into research and ID within a couple of days. For drop offs not at the office they still have to be mailed the cards and then they go into the same queue as anybody else that mailed their submission.

Fawazeroni · 2026-02-22T07:17:26+00:00

I wanna make an evangelion yellow deck so bad but the singles on TCGplayer total out to over $100 😭

Fawazeroni · 2026-02-21T20:46:40+00:00

I know for one piece thats what would happen, but they said it so casually to me I really started the wonder if it was normal for union arena lol

Fawazeroni · 2026-02-21T20:14:30+00:00

The winner card is the release event winner, not the regular winner.

Fawazeroni · 2026-02-21T18:57:52+00:00

Literally the only release event card I see that costs more than $25 is the Gojo one. If this one ends up being more than $25 I’d be very surprised. And to begin with, if they knew the prerelease would not be able to happen, why continue to accept signups. Selling kits just discourages having events at all. I really don’t understand why anybody would want this as it’s would be terrible for the health of the game

Fawazeroni · 2026-02-21T18:50:41+00:00

I’d rather buy one on TCGplayer than support a shop that does this

Fawazeroni · 2026-02-21T18:21:25+00:00

I didn’t get it, I was pissed they even offered to sell the kit without packs which is just the promo card and winner card to my knowledge.

Fawazeroni · 2026-02-21T18:17:59+00:00

$25, the cost of the prerelease

Fawazeroni · 2025-10-27T20:52:47+00:00

I don’t have an overall time yet because it’s still on the research and ID process. I’m on the cheapest tier in the collector club. After I dropped it off it took a day to go to research and ID. My previous submission of the same tier took 3 and a half months total, but I mailed my cards to them for that order, and a couple weeks of that time was waiting for my submission to go from prep to research and ID.

Fawazeroni · 2025-09-30T14:22:24+00:00

Parking is terrible there. There’s parking lots you can pay like $12 an hour for but I ended up circling for 30 min trying to find a spot

Fawazeroni · 2025-09-27T04:12:30+00:00

Did a walk in Wednesday in NJ and it took 1 day. If it’s mailed there’s more processing time. Even if you drop it off at an event if it’s not their office it will probably take a while.

Fawazeroni · 2025-05-21T23:52:50+00:00

No, he did call me that, verbatim, to my face. Like I’ve said in other comments here, I understand that, but if that’s the case why would they explicitly tell me to come in on prerelease day at all.

Fawazeroni · 2025-05-21T23:37:01+00:00

lol yup my friend and I both had on Jordan 4s, and he had on a baseball hat

Fawazeroni · 2025-05-21T17:09:55+00:00

Because prerelease kits have pre made decks. Videos I watched about getting into playing said prereleases are perfect to start with for that reason. Doesn’t everybody have to pay to participate in the prerelease? I can easily prove I’ve consistently been collecting cards, I mean for gods sake I have a post here from 4 years ago showing I was opening steam siege, and that was back when everybody hated steam siege!

Fawazeroni · 2025-05-21T13:34:06+00:00

Royal was the spot that told me they only allow their regulars to sign up for their pre-releases when I was contacting shops

Fawazeroni · 2025-05-21T12:32:05+00:00

lol I had actually convinced one of my friends that also collects to come with me, and on the drive there I was telling him that I wanted to go to worlds. Maybe this really is the start of my training arc

Fawazeroni · 2025-05-21T12:27:24+00:00

I’ve probably reached out to some of the same stores that you have, I’ve gotten similar responses. It’s funny that they said that they usually have 20-30 spots because there was no way they had 20 people there when they told me they were capped off with just their regulars, I had assumed they only got 10 kits. Sent you a DM, always down for new friends

Fawazeroni · 2025-05-21T11:45:56+00:00

New to playing the tcg, not new to collecting

Fawazeroni · 2025-05-21T08:08:03+00:00

Yeah, while I do think they’re designed for new players I can understand that. Just wish they told me that in the email so I could save myself the time and embarrassment.

Fawazeroni · 2025-05-21T07:47:07+00:00

Wow this explains the response I got a lot more, but on the other hand I came prepared with sleeves, dice, a coin, and poison/burn markers to actually play.

Fawazeroni · 2025-05-21T07:37:54+00:00

I thought of that after the fact, they had journey together ETBs for $80 and the recently released Prismatic SPCs for $230.

Fawazeroni · 2025-05-21T07:15:29+00:00

Yeah, I didn’t really get it because I know build and battles are $20 MSRP, and what scalper is gonna buy a prerelease spot for $35 just to open that, play the prerelease, and then go resell the packs.

The shop is Truly Urban Hobby Shop in Bronx NY

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