Search options (Page 1 of 12)

What would be the difference between verified and established?

Frankly any limit on "new users can only trade X dollars at once" will be too high for some people and too low for others. So it's already arbitrary, it's just a question of what arbitrary amount annoys the fewest people. What's the threshold for mail fraud in the US? That's probably a reasonable cut-off point (at least at first), that way you have to be verified to trade at a level where not following through might have non-MTG consequences.

rfioren makes a good point; if someone is actively trying to work around whatever trade protections have been put into place, that's already a sign that they aren't trading in good faith, so that doesn't have to be a factor in designing those protections.

Both of those were made before the set announcement, but hey try torpedoing my reputation again

It's certainly not the only option, and without knowing the full history of the site I can't say whether or not it's the correct one. I do know it has worked for other MTG-related sites like MTGPrice, Star City, PucaTrade, and so on. So I totally understand why it would be worth trying.

Kickstarter and other one-time donation schemes are good for infusions of cash, for things like initial print runs or individual features, but they aren't meant to be a recurring source of income.

I wasn't trying to frame it that way, I was literally saying that the majority of MTG players are high school and college/university students, or recent grads, and a very small minority are working professionals who have been in the working world enough to understand the situation sebi is in. Being expected to work for free, or having your work disparaged because you had the gall to charge for it, can be very psychologically damaging.

I work for a news agency that has experimented with an actual paywall since last year, and we've decided to go back to a free model that focused more on ad revenue. But we didn't make that initial paywall decision because we were trying to hurt the community or be greedy; we were made it because we were trying to find a new way of making profit digitally in the 2010s, which is really hard to do. Once we decided it was not profitable to maintain, we cut it because that's what businesses do. The amount of income generated by making previously-free features cost money is usually dwarfed by the loss of income caused by alienating your clients.

When Deckbox launched the Marketplace, they had the same situation; they saw a way to generate revenue that didn't depend on page views. And our community's immediate reaction was to complain and try to find ways to sell cards without having to pay sebi and the team. That attitude of "everything I want should be free because I pay you in good feelings" is not sustainable for anyone who wants to grow their business.

(For everyone suggesting crowdfunding, I think you're overestimating what those are capable of. Look at how many people are complaining about simply being given a choice to pay more for extra features or not; imagine how they'd react if they were asked to just give money with no guarantee of anything)

psrex, have you never heard people complain about SCG's premium fees? You should've seen the outcry when they increased the prices a few years ago.

I think it's pretty sad that the community expects sebi & the rest of the team to literally work for free and pay for all the hosting and maintenance costs for the site out of their own pockets. I've never seen a group so entitled and demanding, while at the same time so unwilling to pay even the smallest amount for their demands. I know that this probably comes from the community mostly being younger, suburban, upper-middle class kids who may not understand how insulting and depressing it is to be expected to work for free, but it still stuns me every time.

Imagine if you spent months of your own time and hundreds of your own dollars building a product, gave it away for free to the community, and watched them thank you and congratulate you and talk about how awesome your product was. Then the second you said "Hey, since you all like this so much, do you think you can help pay me back for all the money I spent making it?", the community responds with a giant "fuck youuuuuu!" Would you ever produce anything for them again? Because guess what, that's exactly what happened when they launched the marketplace, and it's exactly what is happening now.

If not enough people sign up for the premium memberships, they'll either modify the benefits until they do, or find another way to generate the income they need to justify putting any more work into the site.

You'll get a better idea of the value by removing the commons and uncommons first. They're worth barely anything and you'll probably get bulk rates ($10 per 1000 cards) on them at best.

If you do want to sell singles I'd take a few things off your hands.

They just released it with version 3.3, I think all you need to do is add foreign shipping options.

Is this the place to report price discrepancies, then? Because the WPN promo Path to Exile is displaying $0.00 when marked as foil, but gives a real price when marked as non-foil (the card itself is only foil).