Packs Day 1
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@ct_tooch said in Packs Day 1:
If anything, how much are your spending day 1 on packs?
I will probably sell EVERYTHING I open the first week or so.
Except LS Trout. I'll keep one of the 4-5 I get via Team Affinity packs.
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Probably $50 dollars worth. Then I'll tell myself I won't buy packs the rest of the year, then proceed to spend 37.5k stubs twice a week on headliners until they are done
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Nothing. I'll play the heck out of the market instead. Last year within a month of launch I was able to afford Trout, but it did take a lot of hustling.
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$0, but wife and I maxing out 5 retirement accounts. FIRE!
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No packs but I’ll be buying all the high diamonds Day 1. Let’s Go!!
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Not a penny. [censored] micro transactions.
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I think maybe 200 or 300 bucks because I can and because for some reason spending money on the game triggers the NMS crowd so there is that element to it as well.
#moneyspentsquad
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@cdnmoneymaker93_xbl said in Packs Day 1:
I think maybe 200 or 300 bucks because I can and because for some reason spending money on the game triggers the NMS crowd so there is that element to it as well.
#moneyspentsquad
us NMS people can careless how much you spend on the game. Your money your choice.
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@bob_loblaw1984 said in Packs Day 1:
$0, but wife and I maxing out 5 retirement accounts. FIRE!
I'm pretty sure you can put Stubs into your 401k, and then use them for MLB 35.
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I open the free packs from the pre-order bonus and use the 25k stubs to buy players I want.
If there is a specific card that I want day 1 that is a team collection, I may just buy a few stubs if I don’t get lucky on any pulls to complete that team out.
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Glad this is a topic. For those of you who work the market, how active is it early on when nobody really has anything? Is it smart to buy cards and hold them for a bit, or flip like normal? I assume the margins will be much smaller which makes sense. Just not sure how rapid the market moves.
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@arvcpa_psn said in Packs Day 1:
@bob_loblaw1984 said in Packs Day 1:
$0, but wife and I maxing out 5 retirement accounts. FIRE!
I'm pretty sure you can put Stubs into your 401k, and then use them for MLB 35.
Haha. People would spend less on [censored] with no value if they thought in terms of compound interest.
457s here. No age restrictions on withdrawals. We’re retiring in about 5 years at age 43.
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@ericulous1_psn said in Packs Day 1:
Glad this is a topic. For those of you who work the market, how active is it early on when nobody really has anything? Is it smart to buy cards and hold them for a bit, or flip like normal? I assume the margins will be much smaller which makes sense. Just not sure how rapid the market moves.
It is very active day one, Some people will flip the best new addition cards day one, Buy them up and then sell and buy them back when they are cheap. People will be buying packs like crazy and selling what they do not want or for sure the duplicates, Yes flip early and often. Some will sell every thing but the Division they are trying to collect, Some do collections by Team, Division, NL or AL. For example, I would do Dodgers, Giants,Padres, Col, AZ, Sell anything I get besides diamonds even then might sell off diamonds that are not in that division or the team I am working on, Then move to the NL East or NLC next start working on the AL divisions.
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@dbarmonstar_psn said in Packs Day 1:
@ericulous1_psn said in Packs Day 1:
Glad this is a topic. For those of you who work the market, how active is it early on when nobody really has anything? Is it smart to buy cards and hold them for a bit, or flip like normal? I assume the margins will be much smaller which makes sense. Just not sure how rapid the market moves.
It is very active day one, Some people will flip the best new addition cards day one, Buy them up and then sell and buy them back when they are cheap. People will be buying packs like crazy and selling what they do not want or for sure the duplicates, Yes flip early and often. Some will sell every thing but the Division they are trying to collect, Some do collections by Team, Division, NL or AL. For example, I would do Dodgers, Giants,Padres, Col, AZ, Sell anything I get besides diamonds even then might sell off diamonds that are not in that division or the team I am working on, Then move to the NL East or NLC next start working on the AL divisions.
Thanks, good stuff. I figured it would be pretty active. Will be interesting with the app on Day 1. That didn't launch until May or June last year right?
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@ct_tooch said in Packs Day 1:
If anything, how much are your spending day 1 on packs?
I don't buy packs waste of stubs
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@ericulous1_psn said in Packs Day 1:
Glad this is a topic. For those of you who work the market, how active is it early on when nobody really has anything? Is it smart to buy cards and hold them for a bit, or flip like normal? I assume the margins will be much smaller which makes sense. Just not sure how rapid the market moves.
Market moves extremely quick the first few weeks. Margins aren't there at all though so quantity over quality is the flipping strategy early on
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@dbarmonstar_psn said in Packs Day 1:
@cdnmoneymaker93_xbl said in Packs Day 1:
I think maybe 200 or 300 bucks because I can and because for some reason spending money on the game triggers the NMS crowd so there is that element to it as well.
#moneyspentsquad
us NMS people can careless how much you spend on the game. Your money your choice.
You are an exception to the rule, most NMS hate on those of us who spend $$. What they don't realize is that without money spenders, NMS people would never get certain cards at reasonable prices.
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@bob_loblaw1984 said in Packs Day 1:
457s here. No age restrictions on withdrawals. We’re retiring in about 5 years at age 43.
457 blows (thanks to no matching). I’d much rather a 401.
PS: my sister has you beat. She retired at 38 (though she had “help” from her husband’s Exxon account.).
6 years, 7 months for me. (11/1/2028 to be exact)
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@savefarris_psn said in Packs Day 1:
@bob_loblaw1984 said in Packs Day 1:
457s here. No age restrictions on withdrawals. We’re retiring in about 5 years at age 43.
457 blows (thanks to no matching). I’d much rather a 401.
PS: my sister has you beat. She retired at 38 (though she had “help” from her husband’s Exxon account.).
6 years, 7 months for me. (11/1/2028 to be exact)
You’ll need to get creative with a Roth conversion ladder or a taxable bridge account if you want to retire early and live off your investments. You won’t have access to that 401k until 55.
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delete please.
