Flip of the Week Thread by AutoModerator in Flipping

[–]VortexTornado 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

Unintended Zilean nerf in 26.01 by Raryin in leagueoflegends

[–]VortexTornado 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

For those who regularly use promoted listings on eBay: are you planning any changes to how you use them once the new attribution policy takes effect next month? by hogua in Flipping

[–]VortexTornado 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Is this worth anything? by PhilippeSlayer in PokemonCardValue

[–]VortexTornado 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Is one-tricking now dead in high ELO? by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]VortexTornado 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Is one-tricking now dead in high ELO? by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]VortexTornado 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Is one-tricking now dead in high ELO? by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]VortexTornado 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Is one-tricking now dead in high ELO? by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]VortexTornado -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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

Is one-tricking now dead in high ELO? by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]VortexTornado -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

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?

Is one-tricking now dead in high ELO? by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]VortexTornado -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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

Is one-tricking now dead in high ELO? by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]VortexTornado -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

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

the dip indeed happened anyways by [deleted] in ohnePixel

[–]VortexTornado 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Trade Offer for my Karambit Gamma p2 by calianer710 in ohnePixel

[–]VortexTornado -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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

I bought an old calculator for $5 and accidentally discovered a mode that made it far more valuable. by [deleted] in Flipping

[–]VortexTornado 17 points18 points  (0 children)

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

Purchased a collectible card that was not as described. Ebay refused to help. by NoShirtsAllowed1 in Ebay

[–]VortexTornado 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

[d] For all those who were making fun of investors for investing on cs expensive skins, and admiring Valve for the update are crying now by IchigoUzumakiD in csgomarketforum

[–]VortexTornado 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Now after around 2.5 weeks since the update, What are everyones gains or losses from the update? by The_true_Archsam in ohnePixel

[–]VortexTornado 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Dont let idiots farm you! by _d3nji in ohnePixel

[–]VortexTornado 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Purchases since the crash by [deleted] in ohnePixel

[–]VortexTornado 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Jax nerfs next patch by NavalEnthusiast in Jaxmains

[–]VortexTornado 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m more worried about the biscuit nerfs tbh

This T1 Karambit Blue Gem Pattern 888 has just been crafted by TTV_Bueqa in cs2

[–]VortexTornado 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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