/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>50852153
Personally i don't like the boxes investment. I mean, if you are like Rudy and don't know shit about the game and it's mechanics, it's the way to go since it's pretty much risk-free if you target old boxes (and by old, i mean pre-8th). But you have to keep in mind you will have a lot of cash idle for a while, and the liquidity for them is REALLY low and a chunk of your margin end up being eaten in package insurance and shipping fees. It aint cheap to send a fragile 1Kg box compared to a 2gr individual card.

Personally since the only gift i have is to be extremely good at evaluating cards' potential, i don't hesitate to target singles in preorder in each set.

Even though my biggest "coup de génie" over the years was to see the potential of buy-out for old border foils before everyone (rare old border foils pre-Torment have basically the same printrun as Alpha rare lol, but nobody did the maths before me apparently), and aggressively -but discretly- targeted few popular EDH staples up until i was owning basically 80% of the supply availible in the EU for few cards.
Then i listed them back for a huge mark up one by one and it triggered the shit out of the pricing bots. Everything spiked like x10-15 instantly on the charts and it snowballed out of proportions worldwide as ppl didn't want to miss out.

Since then the prices haven't come down, and i made an absolute killing with what was just a risky bet (i've put 5k down on this bet initially, in retrospect i wish i'd put 15k).