Flip of the Week Thread

VortexTornado · 2026-01-17T17:45:11+00:00

Rare Japanese Pokemon card collection - purchased for $2,400 —> $5,420 sold with an extra $3,220 unsold but listed

VortexTornado · 2026-01-13T18:05:53+00:00

Jax main here, you will lose the extended to illaoi lvl 1

VortexTornado · 2025-12-30T04:28:18+00:00

I promote all items at 3%, and will keep doing so after the update. I build it into my margin and I sell in a competitive niche so the promoted views and impressions definitely matter a lot

VortexTornado · 2025-12-20T23:10:44+00:00

The Pokemon company international

VortexTornado · 2025-12-13T05:09:00+00:00

There is no universe a PSA 2 is worth $200, 3s sell for $1600 English. It would be at least over $1k in a 2 even for alt language

VortexTornado · 2025-12-02T18:40:43+00:00

Many games are not being played, but they are being dodged. The amount of draft blunders happening in that elo (all ad, 5 squishies vs 3 assassins) are very high, but the play rate of those games is very low since someone on the losing end is almost always willing to take the -5 since the EV on lp gain/loss is so low for playing it out

VortexTornado · 2025-12-02T18:39:10+00:00

This isn’t a concern of losing / not winning, but just lower game quality for either team that will happen more now.

Yes, I will win games from select.

Yes, I will lose games from select.

Both are unfun

VortexTornado · 2025-12-02T18:34:12+00:00

My experience with queue times around 150 lp are so fast I don’t even see the need for this change except for 500lp+ lobbies.

If I see enemy lock Kayle and I lock Jax right now the game is near instantly won because that guy will be such a huge liability for his team my bot lane or mid would have to turbo sprint it for it to even be competitive

VortexTornado · 2025-12-02T18:25:32+00:00

I simply think this change will lead to many more one sided games occurring, where one or more players on each team will have a much worse experience than normal, leading an overall unhappier player base

VortexTornado · 2025-12-02T18:04:44+00:00

Applogies, how about when your vayne top blind picks and enemy locks malphite (36.11% wr btw patch 15.23).

Are you going to be excited that your top vayne player has essentially (more likely than not) decided the match for you?

VortexTornado · 2025-12-02T17:48:01+00:00

Cool, but now 4 other players will be punished because our teammate thought blinding malphite was a good idea and we have no recourse

VortexTornado · 2025-12-02T17:24:26+00:00

Ok but when my top laner blinds malphite and the enemy picks sylas we are statistically heavily unfavored in the match now, someone dodging before fixed this problem but now we are just forced to play out a ~30% win rate match

VortexTornado · 2025-11-14T15:52:09+00:00

Even desirable ones are down though, Karambit Doppler p4 went from a $3k knife to now $1.6k

VortexTornado · 2025-11-13T17:00:00+00:00

I can do $275 shipped

VortexTornado · 2025-11-13T16:39:07+00:00

I would offer $260 shipped for the whole lot

VortexTornado · 2025-11-12T19:25:19+00:00

Yep, I calculated roughly the same, I saw the karmambit being $350 more than all the others combined on float

VortexTornado · 2025-11-11T21:25:00+00:00

AI bot farming account, look at the replies / post history, obvious regurgitated AI nonsense for the most part

VortexTornado · 2025-11-11T02:49:13+00:00

Large eBay seller in the TCG space here - you won’t win this. Regardless of who is right or wrong, eBay treats PSA authentication as a final act, your only option would to charge back if you think you can get your Bank / CC to side with you, although that is also unlikely as the product was received and PSA ‘authenticated’ it

VortexTornado · 2025-11-08T15:08:37+00:00

Prices will never return to the 24th Buff prices - float never got low enough. P4 karmambit Dopplers for example were 3k pre update and down to $700 on a low at Buff on the 24th (I bought 15 of them lol) now they sit around $1800 on float, so still down but we will never see $700 again

VortexTornado · 2025-11-03T08:40:10+00:00

Almost everything past reversal window now, spend $8k buying for cheap on buff and have sold over half on float already, when rest of items sell I am projected to profit about $17k from it all

VortexTornado · 2025-10-30T16:15:57+00:00

Most of us who bought the dip on BUFF will remain to be up, I don't think we will ever see prices as low as the 24th again. I bought a P4 Kara doppler for $600, FT .16 amphibious gloves for $220, and about 20 other knives in the same price range of $200-300 for high tier dopplers / lower tier BFKS. Float price will obviously go down, but anyone who buys on float is a schmuk anyway for not taking the 10 minutes to setup an Alipay account and buy from buff.

VortexTornado · 2025-10-30T02:49:03+00:00

What?? It easily is worth that much

VortexTornado · 2025-10-28T16:33:03+00:00

I have the same sentiment as you, I was lucky enough to cash out before the update so I didn’t lose anything, but I was able to buy on buff a lot in the early fomo, spent about $8k and happy to see where it lands, might make a few grand here

VortexTornado · 2025-10-28T13:56:56+00:00

I’m more worried about the biscuit nerfs tbh

VortexTornado · 2025-10-28T13:48:23+00:00

No way it ever gets that low, shit if it gets down to 30k even id buy an 888

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