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From my perspective, this was definitely the best market we've had for a legend collection. Enjoy your time off and thank you for all the support and communication throughout the year in addressing our issues and improving market experience.

Looks like the Brice Turang WBC card (earned through event rewind packs) was active earlier today for stub swapping/selling. So September 14th from 10:45AM PDT to 10:56AM PDT is where I'm seeing nearly 100 orders completed in a small window. Also seems to have been active late last night. Hope this information helps so you can keep banning these bozos purposefully and willfully breaking ToS. Is this the best place to report these types of issues Manu? Or should I be doing tickets.

If it had been animated, maybe it would have been more of a chase. I have both, but prefer to use the black one since that to me just looks better. Or maybe instead of just the red diamond accents, it was team specific so became a black diamond for a white sox. I’ve P5’d almost every animated card released this year, so for me that’s definitely a preference. But I would stay away from anything that adds stats based on rarity for competitive integrity.

I would say I pay very close attention to the market, so I will try to answer your questions/observations to the best I can. Feel free to reach out/DM (if that's an option here, or on discord) if any of my answers need more explaining.

Event cards have typically gone up on weeks where the event rewind isn't a reward. It's been one of my better ways of making stubs, buying the dip at 12-15k then selling for 25-35k. This one is higher because this event lasted 10 days instead of 4 days or a week, the last event rewind pack being 3 weeks ago, and the legend collection coming up. Egg series Montgomery and then Biz Mackey I would expect to be higher than the Vintage and Mural ones listed, since you have to have every Egg Series card for Beltran/New Legend and then the negro league baseball series the number required for each legend has increased. Plus with Events, less people are playing multiplayer modes, so for offline players/people who don't play events there are less of those cards available to them.

To your other questions, I have made nearly 250k this week flipping, so would be interested in which cards you've specifically been targeting, since I would say it's been successful for the cards I'm targeting. Yes, there are still bots active, they just aren't doing the 300+ orders anymore to make it obvious. I know you mentioned the bots now moving to doing the orders by every 30 seconds in another thread, and I agree with that and have seen it on cards as well. I called out the Postseason Victor Martinez as being a stub transfer card yesterday (I know there are more, but that one I easily noticed) so you are right again on that. I have never spent money on stubs, and have built myself a great nest egg of stubs spread between roster updates, flipping, and holding onto cards, so it’s been fair in that I’m making stubs in multiple ways. To answer your 'resentment', personally I would only say I hate headliners and chase packs being so bloated, so when I buy those cards those are the only ones I hate the market for, but chase cards have been inflated for the last few years so am trying to get used to it. Maybe I have just accepted the market for how it is, since it's kind of just been inflating each year since '24, but I've definitely noticed patterns the last few years on which cards or series are safe investments and ones to avoid because of volatility.

Working great for me so far. Margins are back and haven’t seen any selling queues of 300+ orders. I did notice that Victor Martinez (Postseason) seems to be active for stub trading. I kept a weekend Classic pack unopened just in case things jump high before the legend, but this is an outlier jumping to 350,000+ and having tons of completed orders in a short amount of time. Seems very suspicious for a card released back in April, so not sure what you can do with that information.

Update #2: Locked out again and logging out and back in not working after another 3 tries. Was mass flipping/juggling 4 cards actively and seemed to be triggering the lock after 40 or so orders, but the first time it let me right back in after logging out. I understand we are combatting bots, but it seems we keep repeating a cycle every week of having the levers too tight, loosening them and then bots just back within 24 hours.

Edited: Logging off and back on worked the third time. Not sure why that one worked. Orders placed for mass flipping Topps Now Jake Rogers. Will update again if more orders go through or if it locks up again.

Getting the same error of “request verification failed, account was not put on a score cooldown” since the update today. Logged out and back in twice but still not working at all. iPhone 12, not on a VPN. Tried both WiFi and 5G, Verizon.

Edited: Started working again after logging out and logging back in twice. Will update if this fixes the next time I’m stuck on the fetching data loop.

App is in a rough spot for me. Will be working just fine, then I will get stuck in the fetching data loop for several hours. Probably has to do with me doing bulk orders when flipping. I don’t know or understand the reCaptcha stuff, but I’m guessing since I mainly use the app for flipping in bulk, each order placed or cancelled adds up fast.

I’m still able to use the game for market orders though, and I’ve got a good stubs bank to work with while this iteration of the app gets fine tuned. My worry is I don’t want to get restricted on the app again like back in April, so just to be on the safe side I guess I should slow down on bulk flipping? Or atleast if I do place bulk orders and get outbid, slowdown on how frequently I change my orders.

Was surprised to not see a few more choice packs sprinkled as hidden rewards. Not complaining though, since the packs from the goals are good. Just seems the last few years they’ve moved towards listing all the good rewards instead of hiding them.

As others have said, lots of packs. I would imagine there will be some of the outdated choice packs, like the launch Legends and WBC choice packs. Might also include some Spotlight Any packs. This is copium, but would love to get a pick any headliners pack. Not that any of the cards are game breaking, but the market has been wild for headliners most of the year.

@Sarge1387_PSN Black Ops emblem creator comes to mind as well. Just wish we could have nice things without degenerates ruining it for everyone.

I would absolutely love to see a feature where you could create your own bats. But then I remember that created uniforms exist and there are too many that should be banned.

This. I’m going to most likely leave the extra packs unopened. Wish there was an exchange for all no sell dupes in the game though. With Team Affinity this year there were lots of the uniform packs that some teams you’d end up with dupes as well.

I only heard of YFK because of the cheater video back in March. All I’ll say is if you were trying to make a point to SDS, you would have continued showcasing cheaters and stayed in that lane. Instead he and his followers played stupid games and won stupid prizes. I do hope SDS continues to target the market bots, stub sellers and cheaters. Those are all areas that need improvement. But trying to pin all the blame on SDS for knowingly breaking ToS is just new levels of copium.

If my kid threw rocks at a neighbor's window and broke them, I am still financially responsible for the consequences. I can't just pass the buck to my child. As a parent, I am 100% responsible to guard over the type of media they consume, and sometimes their actions are a reflection of myself. If true, this is a great teaching moment for all parties.

I absolutely loved seeing this by SDS. I know some of the content creators are trying to say “well innocent people got banned for just using the market to flip/invest.” Well I am a heavy market flipper/investor and back in April before the first legend collection, I did receive a false market restriction/ban. I submitted a ticket, was kind in my responses, and everything was resolved within a week. I know I wasn’t the only one at that time, but just adding my two cents. Hopefully support tickets will get sorted out for those caught in the crossfire, and SDS can continue to ban more people not playing fairly.

@BLAISEBLAISE_PSN If you were doing the program game vs the twins or Phillies, that counts as a moment so no PXP or anything. I thought I had the same issue, so hope this helps.

Same here. App has been working great for placing orders until last night. Hopefully it gets resolved soon, I’m guessing it was an attempt to block bots again.

I think last night the bots came back, but I’ve only been flipping golds the last two days, so can only speak from that perspective. Monday it felt like flipping golds was finally viable for the first time (for me) all year. Then late last night all of a sudden would get undercut by 100+ orders. But even then, these last few days the app has been amazing. Keep pulling the levers as you need to, I can tell there’s a definite improvement for the cards I’ve been flipping.

Edit: Just to clarify, I’m sure much of this was real users seeing the wider margins, so that brought more competition and naturally lowered the profits somewhat. Just the red flag for me is seeing when there’s 100+ sell orders at the same price. I know with silver exchange it’s possible to sit on more than the 20 card limit though. I’ll try and make a better note and screenshot anything I see for the future if that would help, since I can’t remember the exact cards I saw this on last night. But again, improvement all around from what I’ve seen and where I’ve been active on the market.

App has been feeling great for me since last night. Orders being placed as fast as the app allows and no restrictions. Whatever levers you pulled on the backend are perfect. I have not tested enough cards to know if bots are everywhere, just wanted to share my two cents.

Haha I love snarky Manu. While it is unfortunate that we can be restricted after just a few orders, the market feels MUCH better. This morning I went to place orders for the spotlight cards to get that collection done, but after every 3 orders I did have to wait that minute or whatever for the restriction to end. So there are still inconveniences, but definitely the last few weeks are miles ahead of where we were back at launch and April.