Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2022 3:44 am
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This is the part that just straight-up breaks my brain. How are you sold out when there are multiple empty tables? I'm not convinced that charging table rental for Commander is the best business move, unless they're doing this as a casual event and thus also handing out WotC's prize support to everyone who enters -- which, come to think of it, might be related to the cap if they're doing that -- but really, turning people away who want to play in your store is a bad idea. People who are in there to play will buy cards, and sometimes snacks and drinks if you sell them. People who just leave after finding out that you're not going to let them play, obviously, do none of that. Daft business decisions aren't rare, of course, but this one seems pretty out there.
I think this is the silver lining. Your daughter's random emoji strings are such a highlight of your presence here. She seems like a great kid and probably deserves your time more than the halfwits who won't even sell you a seat for a game of EDH.
RxPhantom wrote: ↑2 years ago*sigh*
I went to my LGS today to play some Commander. I only make it out every four weeks at most. I go in and start to make my way to one of the two open tables, and one of the staff asks "are you here for Commander?"
"Yep," I say as a barely break stride.
"Well, we're actually selling tickets now."
*quizzical look* "Ok."
"We've been doing it for three or four weeks now."
"It's been about a month since I've been here. What do I do?"
"Actually, we're sold out, but you can buy a ticket for next week or the week after."
I just turned around and left. I looked into it further, and they have been capping it at 16 spots. This is a pretty big LGS too, and there were two open tables when I walked in. I'm not the kind of person who yells at the help, so I said nothing. I had been looking forward to this for weeks. This has been a long week, and to top it all off, I had to fire someone today. I don't know if any of you have ever had to do that, but it's awful. But hey, at least I get to play some Magic tonight! Oh wait, no. No I don't. I don't mind paying a venue fee, especially since Commander play doesn't exactly help the store rake in the cash. I don't understand the 16-player cap. This store has massive amounts of room. The numbers don't add up either. At $5 per head, they're only making $80 in ticket sales/venue fees. I was also planning on spending at least $30 in singles.
I'm really disappointed and angry. I was just starting to feel good about Magic again. I started coming to this store because mine closed, and now the next closest is ~30 miles away. My daughter was really happy see me though.
For images I always use imgbox.com whenever I need to upload an image to the site. It's a free site specifically meant to share images, so you can link the image directly to MTGNexus without having to upload it/attach it to a post. While simple and free to use, do note that you have to click something at the bottom if you want to show the entire image without it being clicked on when copying their preformatted img.ISBPathfinder wrote: ↑2 years agoI tried taking a pic and uploading it but @Feyd_Ruin has weird restrictions on images to the point that I can never upload real images here. No clue how to make an image smaller size.
Yeah, the amount of counterfeit cards has exploded in the past ten years. WotC added the holofoil sticker as a way to mitigate the problem, but counterfeiters are a clever bunch and work tirelessly to fool us. I too have noticed some odd things lately: for example, I have an intuition that feels a tad thin for tempest-era cardstock, but it passes the internal blue paper tests and a few others, but it doesn't stop me from wondering.ISBPathfinder wrote: ↑2 years agoSo, I guess take this with a grain of salt being that this is a post from someone you don't know on the internet..... but I just sold fake cards through cardkingdom.... Just opened some cards and I had a few Lotus Fields (YES A MODERN PRINT $5 CARD) that seemed a little funky. I noticed that one of the three doesn't even have the hollographic in the bottom and they all feel a bit odd like they might be a touch thin perhaps. Whats really screwing with me is that they seem to all pass a lot of inspection outside of one of them clearly having no holographic and one of them looking a little smugged on its print job but bad printing is kind of common in the magic community so what the hell. Now I am suddenly very paranoid as these pass a lot of my casual inspection and not for the fact that one had no holo I don't know that I would have even looked closer.
Help internet, what the hell do I do other than reach out to them. I often buy from the big card shops because I felt it gave me a level of insulation from this kinda %$#% happening. Now I am paranoid as %$#% about the rest of my collection as I often don't look that closely at a lot of the under $50 kinda stuff.
I tried taking a pic and uploading it but @Feyd_Ruin has weird restrictions on images to the point that I can never upload real images here. No clue how to make an image smaller size.
With the number of print errors I've run into just opening packs, it wouldn't shock me if they were verifiably real. I've seen badly damaged holograms and visibly-shifted-out-of-place holograms, both straight out of packs, and sometimes both at the same time, so while missing ones would be a new one, it wouldn't be too surprising if a more played copy had had one of the badly damaged and shifted ones become pretty destroyed, or even just accidentally omitted out of the pack. Come to think of it, I have some fuzzy memory of someone else opening a card that was really bizarrely misprinted (fresh from a pack, that is) with regard to the hologram, and it might have been that it was straight-up missing. As for the thinness -- that's something I run into a lot with cards from that approximate era. It's kinda suspect, but they could also be real easily enough -- which ultimately means that in a very real sense, they are real cards, whatever their source, be it official WotC-sanctioned printing presses or not. As @TheAmericanSpirit points out, the value "realness" has is down to our perception of it, since they derive their value from our belief that they have value.ISBPathfinder wrote: ↑2 years agoSo, I guess take this with a grain of salt being that this is a post from someone you don't know on the internet..... but I just sold fake cards through cardkingdom.... Just opened some cards and I had a few Lotus Fields (YES A MODERN PRINT $5 CARD) that seemed a little funky. I noticed that one of the three doesn't even have the hollographic in the bottom and they all feel a bit odd like they might be a touch thin perhaps. Whats really screwing with me is that they seem to all pass a lot of inspection outside of one of them clearly having no holographic and one of them looking a little smugged on its print job but bad printing is kind of common in the magic community so what the hell. Now I am suddenly very paranoid as these pass a lot of my casual inspection and not for the fact that one had no holo I don't know that I would have even looked closer.
Help internet, what the hell do I do other than reach out to them. I often buy from the big card shops because I felt it gave me a level of insulation from this kinda %$#% happening. Now I am paranoid as %$#% about the rest of my collection as I often don't look that closely at a lot of the under $50 kinda stuff.
I tried taking a pic and uploading it but @Feyd_Ruin has weird restrictions on images to the point that I can never upload real images here. No clue how to make an image smaller size.
was lotus field printed in a secondary pack that might not have a holofoil? I haven't opened any of the challenger decks or anything. or promo packs?ISBPathfinder wrote: ↑2 years agoSo, I guess take this with a grain of salt being that this is a post from someone you don't know on the internet..... but I just sold fake cards through cardkingdom.... Just opened some cards and I had a few Lotus Fields (YES A MODERN PRINT $5 CARD) that seemed a little funky. I noticed that one of the three doesn't even have the hollographic in the bottom
Honestly, it's been 24 hours thereabouts and I'm already sick of hearing about it. Such a non-issue. Neither guy acted well, but I get why it happened. As a presenter you're obliged to make some jibes at the attendees, I think Rock just chose the wrong target. As a husband it's crappy to have someone make fun of your wife's auto-immune disease in front of room of her peers.
All true, but to be fair, she chose to have a shaved head for half of her life so how was anyone to know it wasn't by choice that day, too. *shrug*. And I wouldn't be surprised if Will is on an antidepressant or some other psychotropic / mood altering pharma because he was all over the place emotionally. I observed the same behavior in a (adult) friend who was on meds for ADHD. Anyways, yeah. Good points.toctheyounger wrote: ↑2 years ago. . it's crappy to have someone make fun of your wife's auto-immune disease in front of room of her peers.
I'm told she's been pretty outspoken about her diagnosis. But yeah, Will is a bit all over the place. I wouldn't be surprised if he did have some mental health problems, not shaming though - I've been on anti-D's myself for the last decade. At the very least though, he's at least not as bad as Kanye, not by a long way. That guy clearly has issues, and clearly isn't being treated. It's no longer funny what he's doing to the people in his close circle, it's abusive behavior.Legend wrote: ↑2 years agoAll true, but to be fair, she chose to have a shaved head for half of her life so how was anyone to know it wasn't by choice that day, too. *shrug*. And I wouldn't be surprised if Will is on an antidepressant or some other psychotropic / mood altering pharma because he was all over the place emotionally. I observed the same behavior in a (adult) friend who was on meds for ADHD. Anyways, yeah. Good points.toctheyounger wrote: ↑2 years ago. . it's crappy to have someone make fun of your wife's auto-immune disease in front of room of her peers.
There's hope. I had a bad experience turned good with Card Kingdom. I've ordered from them many times. Once, I ordered a $200 near mint judge foil but received one in the mail that looked like a tank rolled over it. I mean it looked like a $200 piece of garbage. Long story short, I sent it back as instructed for a replacement. They reportedly never received it, but they sent me a new one anyways, no questions asked. And the replacement was NM/M.ISBPathfinder wrote: ↑2 years agoI did reach out to cardkingdom via their support. I have yet to hear back from them. I hope they offer something better than me paying for shipping to send them back to them as that is not really what I am going to want as the cost in $$$ and my time isn't nothing and we are just talking about $15 worth of cards here. I am more miffed just at the point that their reputation is a bit on the line here for me at least. I shop with them very regularly and I will be very mad if they don't make this right for me. We will see what they come up with though.
So...... they offered for me to ship it back to them and they would verify the cards and send me replacements if they were fake and gave me a scan code for free shipping. I complained that it was $15 of cards and they wanted me to wait 2-3 weeks to have them verified and returned to me when it already took them a week to send them to me in the first place given low worker numbers and high shipping times and they agreed to give me a reimbursement of the funds given my transaction history with them (literally tens of thousands of dollars of business with them). They do want me to send them back though still so... I guess I need to do that but at least I don't have to wait for them to recieve and process them to order more.Legend wrote: ↑2 years agoThere's hope. I had a bad experience turned good with Card Kingdom. I've ordered from them many times. Once, I ordered a $200 near mint judge foil but received one in the mail that looked like a tank rolled over it. I mean it looked like a $200 piece of garbage. Long story short, I sent it back as instructed for a replacement. They reportedly never received it, but they sent me a new one anyways, no questions asked. And the replacement was NM/M.ISBPathfinder wrote: ↑2 years agoI did reach out to cardkingdom via their support. I have yet to hear back from them. I hope they offer something better than me paying for shipping to send them back to them as that is not really what I am going to want as the cost in $$$ and my time isn't nothing and we are just talking about $15 worth of cards here. I am more miffed just at the point that their reputation is a bit on the line here for me at least. I shop with them very regularly and I will be very mad if they don't make this right for me. We will see what they come up with though.
Back in the day, back when the world was young, store employees knew a hobby "trade" or two - cards, toys, comics, etc. Nowadays, stores hire whoever they can get. Maybe they know their stuff, maybe not.ISBPathfinder wrote: ↑2 years agoI was shocked that fake cards would go through a major store without being caught by those taking in inventory or those sending it out.