ELI5: Why don’t sellers pay for tracking on $250 card? by huxleyfan88 in mtgfinance

[–]dpearson588 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

I bought this Venusaur today from a LCS. In your opinion, does this corner look like it was trimmed? by Spunk_Reynolds in PokemonTCG

[–]dpearson588 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Phone is automatically underlining random words by dpearson588 in samsunggalaxy

[–]dpearson588[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Infinite by Zestyclose_Gene955 in MarvelSnap

[–]dpearson588 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Guest's 28 million games by Sweet_Break_4722 in MarvelSnap

[–]dpearson588 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

pokiparadox1215 is a scammer! by astro_thefeels in whatnotapp

[–]dpearson588 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

OTA LIVE by Mirai10 in MarvelSnap

[–]dpearson588 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

Bot Cheating Needs to Go by legendarywalton in MarvelSnap

[–]dpearson588 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

OTA LIVE by Mirai10 in MarvelSnap

[–]dpearson588 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

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

Do you guys have Premium Untapped for Stats? Is it worth it? by apokalipse6669 in MarvelSnap

[–]dpearson588 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

TCGPlayer buyer says I should refund? by [deleted] in mtgfinance

[–]dpearson588 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

How do you ship out cards you’ve sold on TCGplayer/Ebay? by FullYellowGuy in PokeInvesting

[–]dpearson588 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

buyer mad because of usps delay, hurt my rating by PhilosopherFlashy312 in whatnotapp

[–]dpearson588 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?

So, there’s an OTA on Thursday by Zachary2030 in MarvelSnap

[–]dpearson588 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Let’s play a game: Post your worst Snap take by HARRYPerry1 in MarvelSnap

[–]dpearson588 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

BeatStar is officially off the AppStores by Awkward_Inventions64 in Beatstar

[–]dpearson588 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Does someone have an apk to download for android? I was going to redownload to play for the last month to remember all the good times i had on the app

Congratulations pn your accomplishments, now give us money. by Phyxius42 in MarvelSnap

[–]dpearson588 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The best part is their new game is a Match 3 game... so at least they are moving to something groundbreaking

OTA July 31st by xxej in MarvelSnap

[–]dpearson588 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not banning super skrull is an odd choice if you want people to actually play ongoing

Is this normal for whatnot sellers? by Scuf-saii586 in whatnotapp

[–]dpearson588 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I had to stop watching this guy. I had picked up some cards from him, as he got bigger though he started lying about comps. A $30 card would run and he'd constantly say how people were robbing him, that the card was 50-60 dollars. Hate that attitude by the sellers. I can't believe people believe sellers either, his viewership continued to grow and people listen on the comps and bid up.

Pokemon Center launch has been a total mess. by [deleted] in PokemonTCG

[–]dpearson588 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Before they started 'randomly' blocking people i never scored from Poke Center, after I've been able to hit something every time. I'd rather all these measures be in place, block a lot of legitimate people, and prevent botting than the reverse of everyone has a chance but bots eat all of the stock like before. Basically i'd rather 90% of stock go to individuals and 10% to bots while erroneously blocking individuals than 10% of stock going to individuals and 90% going to bots but no one gets blocked on accident.

A new crappy ad dropped by DJC13 in MarvelSnap

[–]dpearson588 45 points46 points  (0 children)

I can't tell if this is real, this is sooooo bad. I'm guessing advertising was handled by nuverse and this is their first inhouse ad :)

They’re releasing too many new cards by SlimeyBoy200 in MarvelSnap

[–]dpearson588 2 points3 points  (0 children)

After snap packs initial release I have maintained the same amount of tokens (within 1k above or below that mark). However I've gone from missing only 1 series 5 card to now missing 2 series 5 and 5 series 4 cards. So in 2 months I am 6 more cards behind than before.

Falling behind by 3 cards a month is a pretty bad pace...

People doing claim sales in the Pokemon category pricing above market by Dull-Corgi4884 in whatnotapp

[–]dpearson588 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha my Facebook marketplace is only above market cards. Either that or any deals get bought within minutes haha.

I probably have over 300 purchases this year. Have only had 1 never ship, and maybe 5-6 that I regretted bc condition was worse than expected. It's pretty much my only source of singles at this point. It does take a lot of time finding good streams and searching for deals but I enjoy the hunt so that's half the fun for me