Raith
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Lots of airing stuff is on my list. Notable entries being:
Boku Dake ga Inai Machi (really enjoyed that first episode. Reminds me of Butterfly Effect which is a big +)
GATE (more of the same, which is fine because I really enjoyed the first half)
Musaigen no Phantom World (not t sure how I feel about this one, but the visuals have really caught my eye. Will keep watching to see where it goes)
Prince of Stride: Alternative (the first sports anime to catch my attention. Now to see if it can hold it..)
Sekkou Boys (Mars kun makes my heart go doki doki <3 )
I am currently working on many different manga series as well, but the main 2 I have been focusing on as of late is Durarara Yellow Scarves Arc and Tokyo Ghoul:RE. Both are great series for those interested.
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Overwatch, Fates, Zelda Wii U and the new Final Fantasy 3DS game (dungeon explorers or something?) are the only ones that come to mind.
The only reason I am excited for the Final Fantasy game is because I plan on co-oping it with some friends which should be a blast.
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Probably to try and hang out with the friends I had more. I had a small group of 3 or 4 friends in high school that I really only hung out with while in school. So when we left high school they kinda stayed together as close friends while I lost touch with them. I spent too much time playing games and whatnot and not making connections with other people.
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The values you're listing for your cards are on the high-end. For example, if you look at sold US Ebay listings, all of the recent sales for Tharja SR, Tiki SR, Lucina SR are in the US$20-US$30 range, not US$40 or more; Camus SR is US$10-US$15; Kamui promo is US$5 at best. The cards were indeed selling for more on Ebay a couple months ago back when Cipher was first released, but now that more people have boxes and there are more cards around, the values have lowered. This is pretty common for TCG after-market values; you get the best bang for your buck right at the beginning when demand is high and supply is low. It's good to look at sold listings, but you can't go back too far or you'll get a distorted picture of the value.
That said, you did get a lucky box, yes, since a lot of your SRs (Lucina, Tharja, Tiki) are of the most popular characters available as SRs, and your R+ (Inigo) is an in-demand card for people who like to bling out their decks because Inigo is a very popular deck at the moment.
You also paid kind of a lot for your box, though. You can get a box for about US$41 + shipping if you order from AmiAmi. It's much easier to recoup your money if you're paying less to begin with. :)
For myself, I managed to make enough money selling pulls to buy a second box. :3 I've got 2 boxes on order for Series 2 and will probably use the money selling singles from that to put towards purchases of Series 3, etc.
The 3 most recent listings for Tiki SR are 32.99 with $10 shipping, As a seller of Magic Cards, I can tell you for a fact that it doesn't cost $10 to ship a card, and it is just a way that sellers like to make their listing more attractive and still get the price they want. So basically, you are probably making around $30 from a single card, which is almost half the price of the box (around $6 shipping and 10% Ebay final value fee)
Also, I should have mentioned that I am from NFLD Canada, so all these prices are in CAD instead of USD. hat could be where the prices are getting messed up between us as well :P (and why my box was a bit over $70 instead of $40... even though I bought from amiami as well)
It is common for people to have these cards when they purchase box sets. There're people got signed Marth card, SR Gaius, SR Tharja in the same box.
Here's the thing. What you see may not be what other people see, if you know what I mean.
For example. I have a B01-080SR Tharja card, which is actually just about 1300 yen -1500 yen (~11 USD) on the Japanese market, and I want to keep this card. Then this card can be priceless.
But if I want to sell this card on the US market, and priced it at 35 USD. It still worth nothing UNTIL I make that sell. If there's no one wants to pay that much for this card or they simply cannot afford it, then it is impossible for me to make profits from it, even it is indeed very valuable. Buyer's market and seller's market are totally different things. No matter how many cards you have, you can't actually say "this card alone can pay for this whole box" if no one buys it.
I am NOT saying it doesn't worth it to buy box sets. I myself bought 6 boxes, and I gave most of my extras as gifts to my friends. But it is important to know, depending on which markets you are looking at and the relationship between demand and supply, the worth of these cards can be very different. Especially box promo, they are not actually very rare on the market. Other promo cards, such as P01-003PR~012PR, are much more exclusive since you can only get them at first-hand if you are in Japan. (since people can get 013-015PR through magazines/guides so they are rare but not THAT rare.)
There's no signed cards can go up to 100 USD. Most of them are around 20 to 30 USD. For popular characters like Marth and Lucina, they could be around 50 to 60 USD top. Don't trust pricing on eBay... A lot of people just put whatever prices they like to fool people. :/
Well, not USD, but the most recent signed Lucina SR that sold on ebay (only a week ago) was for $95 + $10 CAD. I am assuming that equals around 60 USD, but still a single lucky pull like that and your box is covered. If you wanted to flip it faster, you could always undercut the competition and go for like $80, which still covers the price of the box.
I get what both of you are saying though, with most boxes probably not going to churn out as much value as I am expecting. I just thought it might be a cheaper way of completing the set, as completing a set in any TCG is never cheap, but for some reason the cards in this game are going for stupid amounts of money.
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So, I was wondering after I opened my booster box what others pulls were like, because my box was nothing but value. I was wondering if I just got a lucky box, or is this a card game / set that just yields great value from its boxes.
For example, I pulled the following from my 16 packs (value is based off of average price of sold listings on ebay, the same way my local card store finds prices for other card games such as MTG):
SR Warrior From a Grim Future, Lucina - $40
SR Mage of Dark Obsessions, Tharja - $40 - $45 ($35 low)
SR Sable Order, Camus - $25 - $30
SR Manakete Princess, Tiki - $40
Box Promo - $15
R+ Man of Flowers Fragrance, Inigo - $25
As you can see, my box that cost me about $85 got me well over that in value from just a few cards. This isn't including all the rares I got obviously, which would well push it over $200 I would say.
So, to those who also bought boxes, were you able to make back the price of the box from your pulls? I have been thinking it might be better to just buy boxes to complete my collection, since I can just sell off everything I don't need to help pay for the boxes, potentially saving me hundreds of dollars if I were to just buy them. Especially the signed cards, which seem to go for upwards of $100 each depending on the card. If I pulled one of them from a box, that alone would pay for it.
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My parents used to rent a NES at the video store when I was like 3 to play Mario and Duck Hunt. Basically ever since i could hold a controller / comprehend how to play a game I have been doing it.
My fondest memories are probably from 98' when I got my first console, the ps1. Such great games and I played it for many, many years.
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Newfoundland, Canada.
Over the past 10+ years that I have spent on the internet, I have only ever met 2 others who are from here. One was on a forum I frequent quite often, and the other is a pretty famous anime youtuber (Arkada for those who may know him)
Wonder if anyone here comes from this small corner of the planet?...
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I urge anybody to check out this all-girls Japanese fusion/avant garde rock band. I NEVER thought I'd say that, cause I don't listen to music like that at ALL. Seriously, these girls are bloody incredible. If you like them, I would love it if you spread the word about them. It's one of the first times I've actually felt like this for a new band. For any music geeks, they play in complex time signatures, such as 9/8, 3/4, 6/4, 7/4 and 11/4. To translate for non-music geeks, it's technical, complex, but fucking awesome.
Cool song, will have to check them out later. For some reason made me think of this:
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Current seasonal stuff I am watching:
Aoharu x Kikanjuu (sort of... only watched ep 1 and need to catch up)
Charlotte
Classroom Crisis
Durarara x2 Ten
Gakkougurashi! (School Live)
Gangsta
GATE
Non Non Biyori Repeat
Rokka no Yuusha
Ushio to Tora
Current leftovers / ongoing that I am still watching:
Ore monogatari
Food Wars
Kyoukai no Rinne
Naruto Shippuden (It's finally out of fillers
)Other stuff:
Love Live (just starting because I am addicted to the mobile game)
Eden of the East (kinda confusing but I guess all mysteries are like that in the beginning)
So anyone else watching much of the seasonal stuff, and if so whats your jam? I am currently loving GATE, and of course Food Wars is just awesome.
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Just thought I would introduce myself, since I just joined up to the forums.
I go by Raith, and I have been playing videogames since 97', but only started playing fire emblem games about 4 years ago when I received Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones from the 3DS Ambassador program. Loved it, and then when Awakening came out fell in love with the series.
Though I have not played many games in the series (Sacred Stones and Awakening are currently the only ones I have beaten) I have beaten them many times over, as I find they are fun games to run through again and again going for 100% and trying different things in. Currently just started Shadow Dragon on the DS, and loving it as well.
I guess the main reason why I joined was because of Fire Emblem: Cipher, which I have just recently sunk my teeth into. I bought 2 of the starter decks a few weeks ago and had some fun playing against a friend, and I also just received my first booster box of it (which had some really awesome pulls in it!). This place seems to be like a cool gathering place for players, so I thought I would check it out.
Anyways, I think thats all I had to say really. Hope to meet you all over the next little while.
Thanks for reading and take care!
What anime/manga are you following right now?
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Non Nn Biyori <3 Probably my favorite SoL series, they seriously need to make more.