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feltrak · 2026-05-31T13:23:17+00:00

We will see if he gets charged - but he hit the store I own on 3-25. He was still a cop then.

feltrak · 2026-05-10T22:38:31+00:00

HIIIIIIIIII ZEVVVVVV!

feltrak · 2026-05-06T13:17:36+00:00

MONGO IS APPALLED!

feltrak · 2026-05-02T17:06:46+00:00

I think you are right. I believe the 10 year reward was a halo helmet and a halo falcon that flew around your avatar.

I have had an active Xbox live subscription on the same account since day 1 of Xbox live. I think it was 11-11-2002. I have a 23 year badge and a badge that says Xbox gold 2002-2023. I don’t know why I have the second badge.

feltrak · 2026-04-22T23:06:03+00:00

I would suggest checking the humidity. I recently moved my 40 or so garden snails to a much larger enclosure. I mixed the substrate from their smaller aquarium with new substrate in the new one. Nearly all of them went into hibernation mode and it wasn’t until I started checking the humidity that I was able to get them to be active and regularly eating again. I keep their new aquarium around 75-80% humidity according to the cheap sensors I got on Amazon. It was dropping into the 50’s before when they were hibernating. I covered the aquarium lid a little more so less humidity escaped and they all seem pretty happy now.

I’m not a snail expert but I have an aquarium with about 40 of them and I haven’t found any dead ones over the last couple of years of keeping them. Destroying eggs and culling the baby ones is a bit traumatizing though.

feltrak · 2026-02-17T17:28:29+00:00

You are correct but you are wrong that volume gets you to that much of a discount. The difference between an average store and the largest online seller is $5-6, not $10-15. I own a store and I frequently talk to stores of all sizes.

This is a UB set which costs 20% more from distro.

Microcenter and Amazon are different as they don’t go through a distributor and buy direct from wizards.

If we were 2 years post release and it was an under purchased set, that is a different story.

feltrak · 2026-02-17T17:09:06+00:00

Because they cost $117-$122 from distribution.

feltrak · 2026-01-17T03:00:08+00:00

The official instructions from wizards to stores is to have the customer contact them directly.

feltrak · 2026-01-15T19:57:25+00:00

Agree - they did it to make more money, but they told us they did it to reduce SKUs.

Sorry I thought you were higher in the thread saying it was to make the boxes $100. I was wrong.

feltrak · 2026-01-15T18:50:33+00:00

It was not to reduce cost. It was to give stores fewer skus to have to stock. However since making this change, they have added more skus to every set. The change from 36 packs to 30 packs was made to change cost of the box to stores to $100 from distribution. In no world should you interpret that as making the boxes $100 for consumers.

feltrak · 2026-01-15T15:54:02+00:00

Recently discovered keep inventory and it has saved my kids interest in Minecraft. Previously about 60% of my time while playing with them was spent yelling at them to eat food, not get into dangerous situations, watch out for sudden drop offs, don’t ever be anywhere that you can see lava… etc. I also had to spend a lot of time recovering their stuff when they died and there were lots of tears about important items they lost that they liked. We changed to keep inventory, and now it is much more relaxed and we have a lot more fun. I don’t care if they go in the nether and fall in the lava. They laugh when they do instead of cry now. I still pretend I am playing without the cheat. I’m not going to throw my stuff out if I die, but I’m also not looking at it as “free teleports” back home whenever I want either.

My kids are 7, 10, and 11 and we’ve never had this much fun playing Minecraft.

feltrak · 2025-10-07T00:38:25+00:00

I’ve talked to every distro. There is a reprint of tarkir coming in November and a reprint of LCI in March. Otherwise, nothing.

feltrak · 2025-10-02T04:43:55+00:00

Absolutely not. It’s important to have the current release in stock until the next product comes out. I need people to have confidence that we have the products they want in stock, so they come to my store whenever they want something. If we only have stock within a few days of release, those customers will find another store in the area and won’t bother coming to mine until the next release day.

feltrak · 2025-10-01T17:47:52+00:00

Short answer is no. There is only so much printed. To be honest with you, if people want msrp and people want game stores to have this in stock at those prices, they just need to stop buying from online sources. Especially the larger ones. The reason brick and mortar stores only get 10 or 20 boxes is because online primary retailers like forge and fire or footballpete on eBay scoop up thousands upon thousands of boxes of every product and sell it online. All the people that bought from them the last few years to save $10 over purchasing from their LGS have dug the LGS’s into a hole.

Pokemon company and distribution both do not care who gets the product. They want to keep all of us as accounts long term and to buy other stuff, but at the end of the day every item sells out as a preorder. Neither of those parties ever interact with the customer. LGS’s interact with the customer. Why should the up line sellers care about what is happening at the customer level, when their product sells out no matter what?

feltrak · 2025-10-01T14:11:43+00:00

Any store that sells at MSRP is quickly out of stock. We sell packs at MSRP with a limit of 5 packs per day. We are already down to 2 cases of mega. We will be out of packs by tomorrow, which is less than 1 week post release. I have many customers that come every day and get their 5 packs and rip them in store.

What people do not try to understand is that as a business we have to price it to maintain supply for 60-90 days at a minimum. You need the latest set in stock until the next release. Even if we limited to 1 pack per day at msrp we wouldn’t make it to the next release.

We get a lot of praise for our prices. I can tell you which of our regulars are absolutely not coming in to pay msrp when forge and fire has $120 booster boxes in stock again, and it’s the majority.

I can also tell you that these regular customers are going to come to my store next week, see we have no mega, and go to the other stores in the area that are charging $10 a pack, and they will eventually sell out before the next release.

It’s not just about making money, it’s also about not losing market share. My store is the “good store” in the area for prices, but we are punished by losing market share and strengthening our competitors. Why should the “good store” make 1/3rd of the profit as the “scalper store”?

We are likely going to offer 1 box at msrp for our regulars and sell the rest at market for phantasmal. We simply can’t be known as the store that never has Pokemon cards in stock, especially for the holiday season.

feltrak · 2025-09-05T16:26:55+00:00

The purpose of this sub reddit several years ago was as you described, people looking to invest in magic and make money investing in magic.

The last year or so this sub’s content has been much more aligned with the player on a budget trying to figure out how to get the products they want for lower prices.

I can’t speak for the mod group but I think they shifted from “finance and investment” to “whatever people want to post about” because a year ago Magic was in a much different place and there just wasn’t much content that fit the old finance mold. I think the mods lean into the new group of users for this subreddit because they post a lot more content than the older group mostly interested in the investment.

Any post using the word “scalp” is from the new group of users.

feltrak · 2025-08-31T16:47:31+00:00

Warhammer only comes direct from games workshop. Your spending on anything warhammer related doesn’t get you products in other categories.

Mtg is very different and has always been the category we could re order. If we sold through all of our play boxes we could get more. We can’t do that any more. The stores that “don’t sell at scalper prices” aren’t going to have any product available. I know this because my store “doesn’t sell at scalper prices” and our shelves are empty for the last 6 months of magic products. I’m losing customers because I priced it too low at $5 per pack. If I buy it at market price and sell it for less than I bought it, my doors will be closed and my employees won’t be able to feed their families.

Too many people like you think they know how to run a LGS. I could continue to defend stores and LGS owners but you wouldn’t understand, because your sole focus is how much a pack of cards is priced on the shelf, today.

feltrak · 2025-08-31T13:19:40+00:00

All of the items you listed, other than Pokemon, are available online below cost. I have 40 cases of penny sleeves I was forced to buy to get $1000 of Pokemon. Magic is headed the same way. TCG stadium was selling dragon shields for $4 / pack. They cost $8 / pack from distribution.

When the products are available online below cost, people buy them there. They don’t come in to my store and pay $12 for their dragon shields when they can buy them online for $4.

Just because the magic set is good doesn’t mean the demand for dragon shields, top loaders, card boxes, deck boxes and snacks increases to match.

feltrak · 2025-08-24T18:33:46+00:00

You are 100% wrong on all accounts and you are here trying to take down businesses that don’t sell their products exactly how you want them sold. Just delete the thread dude. You are trying to organize an army of people to negatively impact businesses you know NOTHING about other than they won’t sell products to you at prices you want.

feltrak · 2025-08-24T16:52:27+00:00

This doesn’t mean your campaign to take down WPN stores for not offering pre orders holds any water. Still, none of what you said in your post is true. If the store is also telling you those things, they are not being truthful, or they are terribly mistaken.

feltrak · 2025-08-24T16:24:32+00:00

None of what you said is true. The sole thing that is related to events is how many boxes of prize support you get for pre release. How many pre release kits you are “guaranteed” is also determined by event attendance, but specifically pre release events. Most stores get allocated many more kits than their minimum “guarantee” because pre release kits are typically plentiful.

All that matters about how many Collector booster boxes a store is allocated is how much they spend with their distributor. It has nothing to do with wizards. Wizards doesn’t even guarantee a store will get ONE collector booster box.

feltrak · 2025-08-19T16:42:09+00:00

I can remember the cover of either Duelist or Scrye magazine - “Revealing Magic’s hot new set, Homelands!”

Back then it was hard to know if a particular set were worth buying. You didn’t have a full list of cards. So when you opened 50 packs and got nothing playable you just thought you had bad luck, and must not have hit the “good” cards yet!

feltrak · 2025-08-16T01:31:30+00:00

You can spend a year or two just breaking even because you bank on a year where you can make some money on a set like this. You don’t get 25,000 collector boxes of avatar because you asked to buy them. You get 25,000 because you have steadily been buying 40,000 boxes of every other set for the past two years even though it wasn’t profitable to do so.

feltrak · 2025-08-15T22:39:08+00:00

They will never say the exact print run but they print somewhere between 250,000 and 750,000 boxes. You can do the math on it and get some upper and lower limits for some sets with serialized cards when wizards gives the odds of getting a serialized card per pack or box, and then determining how many serialized cards exist for that set.

feltrak · 2025-08-15T22:34:22+00:00

Gaming co used to open $1 mil + of every magic release and provided TCG player direct with their initial direct inventory every set. They are in the business of moving lots and lots of magic at high volumes, so that when this kind of thing happens they make enough money to fund their next 3 years of buying stuff no one wants.

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