rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad

derange

17 messages from 12 participants · 30 July 2002 – 31 July 2002
original thread on Google Groups

Cartman

I bought my last Derange from Sorrow for 7.50$. The previuos one for over 30$. Do you think that the decision to reprint the card has reduced its value so much? It still will be a rare (1 x box if you're lucky), and in my opinion is more powerful than before (you can mix Malk and !Malk to cancel all the vote on the table!). Opinion?

Tom, Mad & Co

Cartman <federi...@libero.it> escribió en el mensaje de noticias RTu19.17213$n04.5...@twister2.libero.it... [ quoted text not captured ] Camarilla edition is a 385 cards expansion, with 80 rares. So the odds are 1 rare per 3 boxes, i guess. What you will have at a rate of one copy of each per box will be uncommons.

James Coupe

In message <RTu19.17213$n04.5...@twister2.libero.it>, Cartman <federi...@libero.it> writes: >Do you think that the decision to reprint the card has reduced its value so >much? Does it matter? People who collect the cards to invest in some roller-coaster stock- market are missing the point. Any and all cards can be reprinted at the drop of a hat. -- James Coupe PGP 0x5D623D5D you say one or two amusing things, but so EBD690ECD7A1FB457CA2 did Herman Goering (does that sidestep Godwin?) 13D7E668C3695D623D5D - SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome

Pepijn Kok

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:14:23 +0100, James Coupe <ja...@zephyr.org.uk> wrote: >In message <RTu19.17213$n04.5...@twister2.libero.it>, Cartman ><federi...@libero.it> writes: >>Do you think that the decision to reprint the card has reduced its value so >>much? > >Does it matter? > >People who collect the cards to invest in some roller-coaster stock- >market are missing the point. Any and all cards can be reprinted at the >drop of a hat. And rarity schemes aren't fixed either... Would have loved all those rare reprints being common..:)

Thomas Pichler

Cartman schrieb: > > I bought my last Derange from Sorrow for 7.50$. > The previuos one for over 30$. > Do you think that the decision to reprint the card has reduced its value so > much? I think you just got lucky... at least, Disarm seems to have recovered from being in SW quite well. Thomas

LSJ

"Tom, Mad & Co" wrote: > Camarilla edition is a 385 cards expansion, with 80 rares. So the odds are 1 > rare per 3 boxes, i guess. What you will have at a rate of one copy of each > per box will be uncommons. That's 85 rares, actually. 70 R1s and 15 R2s. -- LSJ (vte...@white-wolf.com) V:TES Net.Rep for White Wolf, Inc. Links to V:TES news, rules, cards, utilities, and tournament calendar: http://www.white-wolf.com/vtes/

James Coupe

In message <ai60mn$8op$1...@nsnmrro2-gest.nuria.telefonica-data.net>, "Tom, Mad & Co" <t...@almadrava.net> writes: >Camarilla edition is a 385 cards expansion, with 80 rares. So the odds are 1 >rare per 3 boxes, i guess. What you will have at a rate of one copy of each >per box will be uncommons. Assuming that there is a Malkavian starter, there is nothing stopping a copy of the new Derange being in there. Disclaimer: I have no inside knowledge etc. [ quoted text not captured ]

Jon Stahler

"Thomas Pichler" <tom.p...@aon.at> wrote in message news:3D468F97...@aon.at... [ quoted text not captured ] Perhaps this is due to the fact that you still can't get a Disarm in a box...I've bought three boxes of SW boosters and none of them had a disarm.

Frederick Scott

James Coupe wrote: > > In message <RTu19.17213$n04.5...@twister2.libero.it>, Cartman > <federi...@libero.it> writes: > >Do you think that the decision to reprint the card has reduced its value so > >much? > > Does it matter? > > People who collect the cards to invest in some roller-coaster stock- > market are missing the point. Any and all cards can be reprinted at the > drop of a hat. I don't think he was asking for a moral judgment. I think he was asking if reprinting justified a price drop from $30 to $7.50. With all due to respect to Jeff Thompson's observations on the matter, I still think a card being in print is necessarily going to have an affect on its price, no matter how useful. To my mind, $30 is _so_ high a price that any substantial new supply can't help but profoundly affect it. VERY few people are willing to pay $30 for any Jyhad card. Not that many people are willing to pay $7.50 when it comes right down to it. It's just that on EBAY, it only takes two bidders to set a price. So it doesn't take much to knock the foundation out from underneath a card's price. Fred

Thomas Pichler

Jon Stahler schrieb: [ quoted text not captured ] Same should be true for Derange (presumably, there'll be a 100 card print sheet for rares like there was for SW, and Derange will be R1 like Disarm was), unless it happens to be in the Malkavian starter. Putting it in the starter, on the other hand, would be a perfectly good way of guaranteeing no new player is ever going to own one of those because they'll be sold out two days after release, so I rather hope WW isn't stupid enough to do that. Thomas

Joshua Duffin

"Thomas Pichler" <tom.p...@aon.at> wrote in message news:3D46D1BC...@aon.at... [re: Derange] > Putting it in the starter, on the other hand, would be a perfectly good > way of guaranteeing no new player is ever going to own one of those > because they'll be sold out two days after release, so I rather hope WW > isn't stupid enough to do that. I don't think that makes a lot of sense. If you're right that existing VTES players would buy zillions of CE Malk starter decks to get a Derange from each, White Wolf could perfectly well keep printing them until they've made zillions of dollars. Right? If the Malk starter is the only one that people would want so many of, that could be a problem with the way their precon- starter-distribution system is currently arranged, (ie in boxes of six decks, one for each clan) but that could always be changed if necessary, I think. Josh demented

Immortalgrapplecards

"Cartman" <federi...@libero.it> wrote in message news:RTu19.17213$n04.5...@twister2.libero.it... [ quoted text not captured ] Well in my time selling cards I think a number of factors have may have to do with this, I think the most obvious one might be why would I want to use my money to bid against another bidder for a card I might just get in that shiney new box of CE, especially when the potential cost of that cards would be a good chunk of a box of boosters or if I am not lucky enough to get it mabe my buddy who also bought one might. I always find a dip in the market when a new expansion comes out, people are holding on to there money to buy boxes etc. I guess, although I have seen an increase in emails this past week, Another smaller point might be that people want the new print verison as to the old one I know for a fact I a big on having all new printed verison cards but then that just might be me :) Anyone want some vtes 2nd trad's?? and Majesty? :)

Immortalgrapplecards

"Immortalgrapplecards" <immorta...@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:AzA19.75610$f05.3...@news1.calgary.shaw.ca... [ quoted text not captured ] Oops! I forgot to sign off on that last post to busy checking my spelling whcih was probably still wrong I aslo for got to mention which Thomas has already pointed out that the Starter contents are not known yet so that would be a good reason to wait a cards price has been affected more by being included in a starter than any other in my experience. Errol

Thomas Pichler

Joshua Duffin wrote: > > "Thomas Pichler" <tom.p...@aon.at> wrote in message > news:3D46D1BC...@aon.at... > > [re: Derange] > > > Putting it in the starter, on the other hand, would be a perfectly good > > way of guaranteeing no new player is ever going to own one of those > > because they'll be sold out two days after release, so I rather hope WW > > isn't stupid enough to do that. > > I don't think that makes a lot of sense. > > If you're right that existing VTES players would buy zillions > of CE Malk starter decks to get a Derange from each, White Wolf > could perfectly well keep printing them until they've made > zillions of dollars. Right? > Right. However... > If the Malk starter is the only one that people would want so > many of, that could be a problem with the way their precon- > starter-distribution system is currently arranged, (ie in > boxes of six decks, one for each clan) but that could always > be changed if necessary, I think. > Could be. Wasn't for the entire first print run though, so if there's Derange in the Malk starter (or Disarm in the Brujah one, or whatever), it'll mean that out of every starter display, one deck will go missing within no time, and while that won't be so bad for a display or two, beyond that, it'd be a surefire way to tick off retailers. Thomas

Cartman

> > >Do you think that the decision to reprint the card has reduced its value so > > >much? > > > > Does it matter? > > > > People who collect the cards to invest in some roller-coaster stock- > > market are missing the point. Any and all cards can be reprinted at the > > drop of a hat. > > I don't think he was asking for a moral judgment. I think he was asking if > reprinting justified a price drop from $30 to $7.50. With all due to respect > to Jeff Thompson's observations on the matter, I still think a card being > in print is necessarily going to have an affect on its price, no matter how > useful. To my mind, $30 is _so_ high a price that any substantial new > supply can't help but profoundly affect it. VERY few people are willing > to pay $30 for any Jyhad card. Not that many people are willing to pay $7.50 > when it comes right down to it. It's just that on EBAY, it only takes two > bidders to set a price. So it doesn't take much to knock the foundation > out from underneath a card's price. Thanx, this is the kind of opinion I was asking for.

evil_poot_cat

"Jon Stahler" <sta...@ilir.uiuc.edu> wrote in message news:<AIx19.7540$m7.7...@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>... > Perhaps this is due to the fact that you still can't get a Disarm in a > box...I've bought three boxes of SW boosters and none of them had a disarm. Isn't disarm in the !Brujah starter?

The Lasombra

On 30 Jul 2002 18:56:29 -0700, evilp...@yahoo.com (evil_poot_cat) wrote: [ quoted text not captured ] No. It still isn't in any of the precon decks. http://www.TheLasombra.com/decks.htm#precon Carpe noctem. Lasombra http://www.TheLasombra.com