Fuck. I’ve enjoyed playing board and card games with friends, truly, but the more I hear about Magic the more it sounds like an elaborate DSM assessment measure.
About 10 years ago a card shop I went to had one that was in bad condition (mild creases) with an actual tear in the card in the top corner. The owner had it in the display case with a price tag of $4,000 on it just to attract attention with no intentions of actually selling it. Apparently someone at a point later came in an bought it for the $4k price he had it listed for.
Some people are stupid with money, or they just have too much.
I used to work in a whisky bar and we were going to host a Yamazaki tasting. We bought a bottle of the 25yo for like $3000. I put it on the menu for $10k as a joke, some guy came in said “what’s your most expensive whisky” and I mentioned that bottle. He bought it, had one shot out of it and left. Never came back. I let that bottle sit on the shelf for two years (we normally only give people six months to finish the bottles, not legally allowed to take them out of the bar) before just taking it home and drinking it myself.
Had to buy a new bottle for the tasting and the supplier was shocked he sold even one of them at the $3k price lol. It’s now $14,000 retail for a bottle.
When I was a kid, the local game store had a framed Black Lotus. I have no idea what PSA it was, but they wanted $400 for it, and my thinking was, geez, I would never pay $400 for a card.
And to be fair, that is still true. I would never pay $400 for a card, but also if the me back then knew that one day it would be worth $50,000, I might have thought differently about it.
Correct! An ungraded version is worth about $50k and a PSA 10 (“perfect” condition) can go for more than $2M.
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Fuck. I’ve enjoyed playing board and card games with friends, truly, but the more I hear about Magic the more it sounds like an elaborate DSM assessment measure.
About 10 years ago a card shop I went to had one that was in bad condition (mild creases) with an actual tear in the card in the top corner. The owner had it in the display case with a price tag of $4,000 on it just to attract attention with no intentions of actually selling it. Apparently someone at a point later came in an bought it for the $4k price he had it listed for.
Some people are stupid with money, or they just have too much.
I used to work in a whisky bar and we were going to host a Yamazaki tasting. We bought a bottle of the 25yo for like $3000. I put it on the menu for $10k as a joke, some guy came in said “what’s your most expensive whisky” and I mentioned that bottle. He bought it, had one shot out of it and left. Never came back. I let that bottle sit on the shelf for two years (we normally only give people six months to finish the bottles, not legally allowed to take them out of the bar) before just taking it home and drinking it myself.
Had to buy a new bottle for the tasting and the supplier was shocked he sold even one of them at the $3k price lol. It’s now $14,000 retail for a bottle.
When I was a kid, the local game store had a framed Black Lotus. I have no idea what PSA it was, but they wanted $400 for it, and my thinking was, geez, I would never pay $400 for a card.
And to be fair, that is still true. I would never pay $400 for a card, but also if the me back then knew that one day it would be worth $50,000, I might have thought differently about it.
What happened in feb 2022?