We've all had them, the times that people have been a complete prick when trying to trade cards from you, so let's have a thread about it.
Any type of trading (TCGs, Miniatures, etc.) welcome.
Tell us your stories of how you were sharked, undercut, insulted, or just generally had a really bad time trading/selling with someone.
Had a lovely one today.
>Put my trades up on a MTG Trading Facebook page I've been using for the last 6 months >Have had 99% good experiences with it, most people are friendly, do their research, and try to meet in the middle as far as travelling to meet up >One guy who is notorious for foiling out his Jund deck PM's me wanting my Foil Collective Brutality and Grim Flayer >Have heard and witnessed a couple of storied about this guy, but I figure he'd know what he's talking about because he has a foiled out Jund deck and would know about the recent play with both of these cards >Say I'll meet him at a legacy tournament at a LGS, he says great because he lives close to there >I drive 20 minutes to the meet up point, message him that I'll be there in 5, he's happy, all good so far >I get there, sit down and talk to my mate who's playing the tournament >10 minutes later he gets there, just drops his folder in front of me, no words or anything >Looking through the folder, this guy is loaded, tons of foil Modern Staples, thousands of bucks worth of cards >I pull out the cards he wants, and say that I need Blackcleave cliffs to finish off my own Jund deck >I tell him that Brutality is $15 sold out and Flayer is $35 sold out on SCG, and that TCGplayer and other sites are a bit more
Jack Harris
>Halfway through telling him we'll just use the lower price because I don't care much for foils when he flips out, saying it costs too much >Says that he checked SCG LAST NIGHT and that brutalities were $7 tops (a blatant lie), and just gets up and leaves, shouting that I'm wasting his time >Goes over to one of his "friends" and starts loudly talking shit about me, saying that the prices will drop and it's not nearly worth that much >mfw I drove 20 minutes and he drove 5 tops, did no research, and just completely insulted me >I sit down and watch my buddy for a while, fuming, and then leave
I don't normally go to that area to play, but if I'm ever there for a tournament and I see him again, I swear there'll be problems.
Isaac Morgan
>RTR prerelease, I've only been playing since M13 so I'm super casual and have no idea what I'm doing >decide to start trading shit because I really want a Rakdos >find a guy who pulled one and he's down to trade it >looks through my shit >I had a Liliana of the Veil I wasn't using >he says he'd trade the Rakdos for it >I say yes >Yay, Rakdos >Liliana of the Veil ends up worth more than fucking JTMS >Rakdos is $2.50 Once I figured out what happened I was salty as fuck.
Alexander Howard
What, was rakdos $2.50 then? You traded a planeswalker card for a $2.50 card?
Isaac Thomas
>Prerelease Rakdos must have been at 20-25 same as lily at that time. Lily went up after RTR pro tour after the banning of eggs left Jund as the top dog in modern. ust think about it DRS, BBE and lily in the same deck.
Daniel Cruz
When I was a kid I'd just trade away whatever I opened in packs for whatever because I didn't know singles even had prices. I also had godlike luck. I think I opened a foil Jitte in my first pack of Betrayers and traded it away for junk I can't even remember.
I also bought a pack of Nemesis around that time because it was the oldest set they had in stock and I was curious what was in there. Some older guys saw it and had an exchange like "Well there is nothing good in that set." "Not true, I bet he is going to open a foil Tangle Wire." I then proceed to open a foil Tangle Wire and trade it to the guy for almost nothing. Was still happy.
Robert Phillips
I don't understand how anyone could rip booster packs and trade without knowing the value of the cards.
As soon as I was past my first draft, I knew that I'd have to look up every card before I traded it.
Joshua Lopez
Why not just show from your phone? Or was the place in area that had no kinds of network to tap into?
Nolan Rogers
>Time spiral comes out >Going into store and buy one booster pack just to see what cards in there >Rare card is ancestrall recall >Being new to the game, and not playing blue asking the counter guy if he trades the card for another booster pack >He says ok and that doesnt have the prices for the new cards yet >Mfw they selling it for 30 euros 2 days later
