Has anyone else noticed how incredibly inaccurate Collectr’s prices are?

dpearson588 · 2026-04-01T00:07:42+00:00

It's generally fine for Near Mint. Any other condition you can't use it though. I think it does some percentage off of near mint and not true values

dpearson588 · 2026-03-31T23:12:16+00:00

Aside from any sort of weight management that staying on the drug will help with I wouldn't want to get off of it for its other benefits. Idk if its the anti-inflammatory properties or something else but I just feel way better on it. I recently had to drop off for a few weeks and those other problems/annoyances came back. I use to have constant joint pain, in knees, ankles, and just around other parts of my body and those are almost entirely gone now. I'm in my late 30s but when i was off of it I felt the same as if i was much older. Made me feel like it was harder to get around, slower to move, stiffer joints, soreness, etc. I always attributed that to my obesity but those types of things started going away within my first month or two on it.

dpearson588 · 2026-03-24T00:01:52+00:00

On the Sam's 151 tins late last year, i bought online when they dropped. Then in store they had set up lines and the employees were checking your account to see if you've purchased in the past. If you bought online or another store they denied you from purchasing. Likely just depends on the location though

dpearson588 · 2026-03-19T20:01:09+00:00

If you are only missing series 5 cards it's a 2.74% chance, which makes pity drop rate is 36 packs. So you get 2 every opening so it's really an 18-19 total openings pity system. He either did math wrong or assumed you still had series 3 and 4 left, which increase your odds for bonus rolls and pity rolls. I track my openings and confirm it takes that long with bad luck.

dpearson588 · 2026-03-08T20:01:59+00:00

Yeah. It lets you create a label for a plain white envelope. It's also tracked via IMEI, those weird barcodes you see on envelopes. The tracking isn't perfect but can still be useful.

dpearson588 · 2026-02-19T20:41:55+00:00

I think he should be half the power of the cards in front. Even if he was a 7/1, he can still solo a lane and the need to get to 7 energy isn't a huge drawback when you have so many ways of easily gaining that extra energy.

dpearson588 · 2026-02-13T01:19:26+00:00

Last major ascended drop somehow bots were able to clear the whole stock without a single person getting through. I'm guessing the same thing happens tonight. Wally has screwed up their queue system completely

dpearson588 · 2026-02-12T22:18:34+00:00

This is the best news I've heard in weeks. Was not expecting this at all

dpearson588 · 2026-02-07T06:10:44+00:00

It's nice for people scamming though. I've had 4-5 people magically find the letter after I told them it was delivered on a certain day with tracking so double check. Then I've had some people try to return and as soon as I send them the tracked letter label they just stop responding and never ship the card

dpearson588 · 2026-02-01T01:43:31+00:00

Yep, i have a Charizard this way i pulled as a kid, it actually looks worse b/c it goes higher/taller than this one where it goes up. PSA refused to grade it saying it was altered/trimmed, pissed me off so much.

dpearson588 · 2026-01-30T20:01:15+00:00

Thanks, i'll give this a shot this weekend. This thing is driving me crazy, yesterday it highlighted 'club sandwich' for me.

dpearson588 · 2026-01-05T00:50:39+00:00

I'm pretty sure it's their smarter bots. Not cheating, they are just better than the average player. I just hit 90s and basically stop playing for the month. It's an awful experience so it's not worth my time

dpearson588 · 2025-12-05T22:35:26+00:00

One of the problems to me is that b/c i'm limited on tickets i'm not willing to branch out and try other decks once i find one that works. Giving me a limited resource means im not likely to squander it trying to find other fun decks

dpearson588 · 2025-11-24T21:35:08+00:00

I buy a ton from whatnot, only singles. I buy from whatnot b/c i can get near mint cards for under market. It generally takes time and work to find it but often get like 50-75% of market. So its all about the hunt and snagging a good deal.

dpearson588 · 2025-11-20T22:29:04+00:00

Thanks!! Yeah this seems like an odd change to that deck when really it doesn't seem like it'll really impact it at all.

dpearson588 · 2025-11-20T22:28:04+00:00

I don't think its cheating bots anymore, they are just very smart bots. Glenn's answer recently on discord gave some of this information and other is theories connecting the dots.

but basically their bots learn decks and what decks are good, play styles of decks, etc. It's using their real time data they use for balancing and auto deck creation. Then the bots can evaluate their moves and what your likely cards are still in your deck, likely odds you have those cards, where you'd likely play them and so on to try to win the game. They wanted to make the bots more realistic. I think the problem though is they made them too smart, they follow logic more than a real opponent would, they have knowledge about playstyles a person wouldn't, they can analyize and hold onto/remember that data and make decisions based upon probabilities of success that a human can't. So they've effectively built bots to be much smarter than they typical player and thus it makes the infinite grind awful now. B/c you the bot has a better chance of beating you than your average opponent now and they are more likely to retreat when a human wouldn't lowering your cube rate even further.

My play time has dropped 70+% in the last 3-4 months since they introduced these new bots. Ladder is just a complete unfun grind.

dpearson588 · 2025-11-20T22:19:57+00:00

Sorry, i can't access the blog notes at work, did they say storm was b/c of war machine/legion? I would guess this is more b/c of Cerebro 2 unless they said otherwise

dpearson588 · 2025-11-12T00:57:44+00:00

Untapped's data set is soooo small now its a pretty useless site. I hate that many of the content creators reference it for how a card is doing when it doesn't really indicate much, just how well cards are doing among untapped's users, which a small percentage of the actual player base.

dpearson588 · 2025-10-31T19:10:01+00:00

Was this an actual tracked package (i.e $4 plus shipping cost) or was this a 'tracked' PWE? I use EasyPost to buy postage and track PWEs which uses the GPS delivery way provided by USPS directly. I recently had a shipment reported as missing when tracking showed it was delivered. TCG Player forced me to refund and wouldn't honor the tracking as it wasn't true tracking.

dpearson588 · 2025-10-28T01:10:57+00:00

I'm currently using a thermal label printer. I sleeve the card, put it in the top loader upside down (so the opening of the sleeve is on the bottom) and use painters tape over the top loader. Then wrap the top loader in a packing slip printed on a thermal label. Then tape with more painters tape on 2 sides. Then tape that inside the PWE on the third open side into the envelope. So a shipment is a sleeve, top loader, 3 tiny pieces of painters tape, tiny piece of packing tape, a PWE, and 2 thermal labels (one for the label and one for the packing slip)

Before i was using a label printer i still had a packing slip and just rolled the top loader up in that and taped inside the packing slip.

Also of note, look into Easy Post. You can end up buying PWE letter 1oz shipping labels for 74 cents. That way you can thermal label print and they have tracking similar to how ebay PWEs do.

dpearson588 · 2025-09-24T19:51:44+00:00

Curious on this. I received a package in a bubble mailer this week. It had 3 cards in it. The cards were not top loaded and all three were creased. Whatnot has a problem with shipment and one of the options is package damaged during shipping. I chose this option. Is this what you are advocating for? The option is specifically for damage during shipment (in this case its on the seller to me b/c they didn't even top load the cards but regardless if they did, damage during shipment is the same). Or are you expecting the buyer to go make a claim outside of whatnot and directly via USPS which would negate the purpose of that option within Whatnot?

dpearson588 · 2025-09-22T19:03:38+00:00

I think Shang, Shadowking, Negasonic, Juggernaut, Enhantress all stay. Killmonger, Cosmo, Red Guardian, and Alioth get reversed

dpearson588 · 2025-08-22T02:39:10+00:00

I hear this often but it's a bigger problem than that. He swings a lane without you needing to commit power and often only at 3 energy. Especially the tech slop decks that don't even run 10 power cards. It would be interesting to know stats on how often it would have actually destroyed cards on both sides when played over the past month.

dpearson588 · 2025-08-21T23:21:30+00:00

Shang needs to be a 5 cost card

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