My no-flipping/just playing-experience
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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
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Little additional update here:
My strategy paid off big time. I sold everything I had … until friday. Then the market took a hit. That was my time to buy all the NL live series cards I did not have. I got all except Soto with prox 720K stubs.
With the Weekend-league packs, I made prox 60-70K so I could afford the last piece with Soto.Now on to the AL (Blue Jays already done) :).
This is fun, more fun than 2024
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Little update:
- NL Live series done
- AL West done
- I am sitting at 70K stubs and just missing the 3 AL boys Judge, J-Ram, Witt ( I could afford every other LS card)
- Still not a single flip done
- Got every program collection except the New Threads and Egg-Program
- Well prepared for the big collection (maybe I sell some cards I have not logged in)
Today I pulled Trout and I was really happy. That has not been the case in the last 3 years because I could afford every card I wanted.
I repeat mysef: This is a lot of fun !!!
If I go on like this, I will have Beltran in the „3rd inning“ -
@MarioMendoza935_XBL The flash sale was my biggest test so far. Man, that was hard … I had my finger on the 90K-Buy-Now on Randy and some 50K on Polanco … to make stubs off of them … I did not pull the trigger because I want to stay on course (in this thread) … I got J-Ram for a little discount and bought a lot of cards from the egg-program for some cheap stubs.
Now I am only missing Judge and Witt -
@YOSHI24_XBL said in My no-flipping/just playing-experience:
The flash sale was my biggest test so far. Man, that was hard
Was there a flash sale today? I am literally in the ER right now (partially ruptured Achilles). I'm also on morphine so I'm a little loopy. Nice job on the LS progress. I'm behind you. I'll take a look once I get home. I'm very happy NOT flipping this year.
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@MarioMendoza935_XBL Yes, there was one … Chase Pack 5 and 85-Lives-Series (that was it). In addition they gave out the community challenge packs which had egg packs in it … Therefore Randy and Polanco went down that much (Polanco is still at 64K)
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One big guy to go and I finish the live series collection.
What did I do since my last update:
- I still sticked to my strategy, so no flips (man, there are that many opportunities (another flash sale where I could have made tons of stubs :))
- When Rolen came out, I knew I had no chance getting him, since my focus was on the live series collection (which is still the better route imo). So I sold a lot of cards that I could buy later (sold all of my egg cards)
- Together with the new conquest and new mini season, I made tons of xp and I am sitting on 100 packs … which gave me the last inning-pack (sold Gibson right on the spot)
- That in total gave me 240K stubs so I bought back Judge which gave me a big bullpen piece with Darren O‘Day
- So, Bobby Witt is the last one standing. Maybe I get lucky with the above mentioned packs. Anyway I am pretty sure, that I will get him after the next weekend-classics (at the latest)
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@YOSHI24_XBL said in My no-flipping/just playing-experience:
One big guy to go and I finish the live series collection.
You're way ahead of me. I'm plowing through the online program to try and get another 50 pack. Didn't pull anything from inning 1.
I'm sitting on about 800k stubs, waiting for any kind of price drop. I assume that won't happen until July at the earliest. I'm not close to Rolen either, but that's ok.
Still standing by my choice for a "no-flip" season. I'm enjoying using the players I have.
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I never flip, just not something I’m interested in nor have the time to do
I’ve completed all content (conquest maps, mini seasons, programs etc), and need Judge to finish the AL
I’ve had decent pack luck but I don’t have any of the big NL names (Ohtani, Soto, Ketel) so still quite a ways away
I’m more interested in getting Clemens asap and then finishing the NL and getting Beltran when prices eventually drop
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@MarioMendoza935_XBL Which big boys are you missing?
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What a weekend, I have been struggling to get/flip stubs this year so far amd my pulls have not been great..... until this weekend that is, since Friday I have pulled Glasnow, Gilbert, Judge, and now Trout X2, I am over 100k for the first time and actually feeling like I could get the LS collection done by June.
Now missing
AL
Jose Ramirez
Bobby Witt JrNL
Juan Soto
Fransico Lindor
Bryce Harper
Zach Wheeler
Ketel Marte
Mookie Betts
Freddie Freeman
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@MarioMendoza935_XBL Uh, that is a lot. My advice would be: Keep the stubs until the second inning ends. That will not help on Ohtani and Judge (the latter being upgraded for sure imo). But you should get all the other ones. You could focus on one league, that could be done too …
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@YOSHI24_XBL said in My no-flipping/just playing-experience:
@MarioMendoza935_XBL Uh, that is a lot. My advice would be: Keep the stubs until the second inning ends. That will not help on Ohtani and Judge (the latter being upgraded for sure imo). But you should get all the other ones. You could focus on one league, that could be done too …
So my question is, keep Judge or wait for him to be upgraded and find out how much he goes for?
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@samguenther1987_PSN I would not sell him. He will definitely not go under the 90, so he will be as rare as Shohei. That means his price will rise … at least in the upcoming 6-8 weeks, until more people have live series done. Fore reference: I sold him for 249K a few weeks ago … and I rebought him for 236K. So I took a prox 11K loss (but I bought Ohtani with those stubs for 405K)
