Trading / Post Cards

[Slynky]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
That kind of defeats the purpose of buying game cards...

Well, so a lot of people said about Pokemon cards (as people never acutally used them...just collected them).

[Atrocities]

Game set and matched

Great idea David.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Slynky:
Well, so a lot of people said about Pokemon cards (as people never acutally used them...just collected them).

Pokemon is a rather poor game to begin with...

But anyways... the few people I know that buy pokemon cards all buy them to play, as do most people that buy cards of card games.

[Katchoo]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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Originally posted by Slynky:
Well, so a lot of people said about Pokemon cards (as people never acutally used them...just collected them).

Pokemon is a rather poor game to begin with...

But anyways... the few people I know that buy pokemon cards all buy them to play, as do most people that buy cards of card games.

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Actually the presence of ebay & other auction sites has made it almost profitable for those people who can get trading cards in bulk & at low cost to sell the more desireable cards Online at inflated prices, pushing the reason behind getting those cards from actually playing with them to selling & hoarding them for personal profit.

If I had a child today I probably wouldn't encourage them to get into Trading Cards, simply because it's ungodly expensive. $5 to get a pack of 6 cards? Sorry, but I'd be better off on getting a kid hooked on Warhammer where you can learn some contruction & painting skills while collecting.

Why don't we try to convince Aaron to sell 3-d pictures/maps of the Ships within SE, along with a brick of clay that we can then mold into the 3-d Ship. I'm sure this would be cheaper than producing pLastic 3-d model kits; plus we can all renew our love affair with clay/playdoh!

[Slynky]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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Originally posted by Slynky:
Well, so a lot of people said about Pokemon cards (as people never acutally used them...just collected them).

Pokemon is a rather poor game to begin with...

But anyways... the few people I know that buy pokemon cards all buy them to play, as do most people that buy cards of card games.

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I agree with you (kind of). I just collected them because of the prospective potential of value...then I got "screwed" when the bottom fell out... . But, the conventions I went to were mostly dealing with collecting...not playing. Guys (and some girls) rarely pulled them from their protective sleeves. Me included...mine were sealed in pLastic sleeves with a soldering iron and a metal ruler.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

could be interesting...but, as someone said, who would you play with?

[gregebowman]

My main concern is how much would it affect my wallet? I mean, I can't even think about collecting cards anymore, what with them being anywehre from $2-$5 a pack. Sheesh, I can remember when I used to buy a pack of 8-10 cards for a quarter, and there would also be a stick of bubblegum in there also. My, how the times have changed.

[Taera]

just hold old are you?
(just kidding)

[gregebowman]

Originally posted by Taera:
just hold old are you?
(just kidding)

Too damn old, that's for sure. (FYI, I'm 41.) They heyday of my card collecting was probably during my school days. I was collecting baseball & football cards from probably the late 60's until the non-sport cards like Star Wars and other movie related cards from the late 70's and early 80's. I may have stayed with collecting them, but I was more into comic books, and I had to quit anyway when I got married. Just couldn't afford it at the time. My, I sure had sticker shock when I tried collecting cards almost a decade later.

[ January 06, 2004, 17:50: Message edited by: gregebowman ]

[Atrocities]

I have Star Wars Cards.

I have the blue, red, yellow, green, and orange sets or parts of them floating around some place. Now those were GD cool cards. I can still remember all the buzz that star wars created. What a great movie it was and still is.