My no-flipping/just playing-experience
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I’m collecting all the American League and selling everything else. I have used the stubs I earned to buy cards to complete teams. And way over spent on Tek which set me back a bit but I don’t care - he’s awesome
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@Teak2112_MLBTS said in My no-flipping/just playing-experience:
If you are good enough to make 1000 in the first place, you dont need Beltran.
If I had 9 Beltran's, I'm still not making 1000.
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@MarioMendoza935_XBL, but what if you had 9 Scott Hattebergs?
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@MarioMendoza935_XBL said in My no-flipping/just playing-experience:
@YOSHI24_XBL said in My no-flipping/just playing-experience:
@MarioMendoza935 How is your experience going ?
So far, so good. I have resisted the urge to flip. Now... full disclosure... I did pull Ohtani a few days after launch and I sold him. I don't consider that a "flip" as I didn't buy him. Some may disagree, but... I stand by my decision.
I will say that NOT flipping has been far more satisfying this year. I'm enjoying the game more, working towards "earning" cards (i.e. Diamond Quest) and grinding the programs. I'm looking forward to that sweet 50-pack at the end of the Multiplayer program...
Well, it is kinda flipping but in my view flipping is getting more than 1 card from the market to eventually make profit off of it.
In recent years I always bought multiple cards, held onto them and resold them. Or I bought some cards at low prices just to sell them of immediately.
That means getting the card (or something else, equipment, …) via the market just to sell him … that is flipping at its highest
I pulled Judge yesterday. If he gets supercharged today and his price rises to say 250K, I will sell him and rebuy him when I do collections.
I sold some other guys (Crews, Basallo, Skubal) I pulled from packs the exact same way because they did not make my team better at that time -
@YOSHI24_XBL said in My no-flipping/just playing-experience:
Well, it is kinda flipping but in my view flipping is getting more than 1 card from the market to eventually make profit off of it.
I'll give you that. I think in my mind "flipping" is buying a card explicitly to sell it later at a profit. So, I haven't done that this year. For the first time since it became available, I didn't download the app to avoid the temptation of flipping.
I used the proceeds from Ohtani to buy up the "cheap" LS series teams. At this time, I still need the Guardians, Royals, Angels, Mets, Braves, Pirates (!), Dodgers and Padres. It will take a while, but I'm in no rush.
P.S. If you told me two years ago that Pittsburgh would have an LS card that was over 60k in 2025, I would have assumed that the Pirates had been relocated.
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@MarioMendoza935_XBL said in My no-flipping/just playing-experience:
I think in my mind "flipping" is buying a card explicitly to sell it later at a profit. …
P.S. If you told me two years ago that Pittsburgh would have an LS card that was over 60k in 2025, I would have assumed that the Pirates had been relocated.I am not buying the card for the intent to sell it later at a profit too … Let‘s see, how our little experiment fares over the course of the game cycle
(in other words: I will come back to you :). So be sure that I will stick to that mode And yes, the Pirates, but Skenes is awesome
… I will wait collections out until prices drop. I am sitting at 375K with Judge and Marte in the Books. I only did the Braves because I wanted Justice and I pulled 3x Sale and bought Acuna off of it -
@MarioMendoza935_XBL said in My no-flipping/just playing-experience:
@YOSHI24_XBL said in My no-flipping/just playing-experience:
P.S. If you told me two years ago that Pittsburgh would have an LS card that was over 60k in 2025, I would have assumed that the Pirates had been relocated.
If you had told me 10 years ago that we still wouldn’t have Andy Van Slyke in the game, I would have assumed…Well I don’t know what I would have assumed! Lol
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@YOSHI24_XBL said in My no-flipping/just playing-experience:
- Packs are more fun for me again, e.g. today I was really happy pulling Judge
This was a LOOONG way to go just to humblebrag you pulled Judge.
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@SaveFarris_PSN said in My no-flipping/just playing-experience:
@YOSHI24_XBL said in My no-flipping/just playing-experience:
- Packs are more fun for me again, e.g. today I was really happy pulling Judge
This was a LOOONG way to go just to humblebrag you pulled Judge.
I just translated „humblebrag“
… To make it more precise : Packs would still be more fun even if I did not pull Judge. But in 24 I would have done LS by now so pulling Judge would then only be „more stubs“ -
A ton of YouTuber’s channels in MLB started by showing how to flip cards. There’s a reason those guys don’t make those videos or talk about it anymore, the margins and tiny and there’s no risk free flips like there use to be.
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@Dinger_Dan19_PSN said in My no-flipping/just playing-experience:
A ton of YouTuber’s channels in MLB started by showing how to flip cards. There’s a reason those guys don’t make those videos or talk about it anymore, the margins and tiny and there’s no risk free flips like there use to be.
they do that every year (at least over the last 5). But this thread is not about how to flip
