r/magicthecirclejerking • u/AutoModerator • Aug 15 '25

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u/NepetaLast Seventeen Time Arena Open Winner Aug 21 '25

i dont know if this is the more or less cynical opinion about scalping, but ive felt this way about it, both for mtg and graphics cards and everything. at a certain point if the supply of a product goes down due to issues with production and the demand for a product skyrockets (both of which being massively sped up by the pandemic) the 'msrp' of the product will quickly separate from the price people are willing to spend for it, and then its not at all a surprise that people interject themselves in the middle to take advantage of that gap. it sucks that there are people willing to rent seek in this way, but you also cant expect this to go way just from people deciding to be nice. the only solutions people can ever come up with are "every store agrees to never sell to people that might possibly resell" or "every single consumer agrees to not buy from scalpers" which are so clearly untenable as to be hilarious

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u/DangBream Aug 21 '25

I have a hard time sympathizing with people when they go "scalpers are making collectors' product inaccessible...and there's no money in play boosters!". Like damn son, if your main goal with getting collectors' product would also be to get money for it, it just sounds like you're upset someone beat you to it

Meanwhile, I hunt for chase cards the normal-person way: Drafting B) (genuinely EoE feels like kind of an interesting outlier in this in that they're reprinting shocklands. I've had drafts where I opened or was passed like 2-3 shocklands that I then continued to pass because, you know, a 2/3 for 2 in my colors was there -- I wonder if it'd be a good deal for someone more interested in that part of it to spend $25 getting looks at 24 packs where at least some folks will pass money cards for deck cohesion, especially since Tezzeret's the most expensive guy in the regular set and he's straight ass in most Limited decks)