The KICKSTARTER Concept

Well one of my more junior players ALMOST won the bloodlines auction. He was happy to have the chance to get it, looks like the card reseller won again.

Best
David

The card reseller ended up with 9 of the 12 auctions.

Five of them for within $1 of the listing price.

Be sure to take your business to him!

www.rickvtescards.com/

The point of the thread was not to advertise for the sales, though that did also happen. The point of the thread was to get people to think of new ways to stimulate increased variety in local play.

Here's hoping you will each find a way to get your local opponents to play with enough variety that they enjoy the game for years to come!

It certainly did for me, I started pulling out commons and starters and putting together more viable "here you go" decks.

Adonai wrote:

The card reseller ended up with 9 of the 12 auctions.

Five of them for within $1 of the listing price.

Be sure to take your business to him!

www.rickvtescards.com/

The point of the thread was not to advertise for the sales, though that did also happen. The point of the thread was to get people to think of new ways to stimulate increased variety in local play.

Here's hoping you will each find a way to get your local opponents to play with enough variety that they enjoy the game for years to come!

Really? Rickstock? My opinion of him has lowered significantly because of this. Way to go snatching up auctions that would have benefited new players. That's the last time I buy something from him.

When I sold single cards, the #2 way I would get more inventory was to search for lots being sold on ebay. (#1 was buying new boxes - which is no longer available so much). A distant #3 was for me to post that I would like to buy people's cards, and have that tag on my ebay store - very few people would contact me with cards - and of those who did, their cards were so far away or so many that shipping was too much.

Rick would most often outbid me on auctions, he really needs cards to feed the VTES singles demand worldwide.

So I look at it through a different lens, and don't begrudge him at all - he is the most successful and longest running VTES dealer on eBay I think.

chris

Some of his methods are rather not playerfriendly, to be honest. I cannot understand why he sells vampires in stacks of 10. I, when looking for an old G2 Kiasyds for a friend, avoided him pretty much because of this. One polish reseller sold the vampires in nice and neat packs of two or three, which should be enough of a single vampire in almost any deck, and I felt this way our needs as players were taken better into accord. Some of Rick's stashes are just excessive, for the worse.

About the auctions, I don't think ebay was really the best way to promote them. Princes around would be the first people to know of groups getting started, and of those who actually need the kickstarts. Ebaying might lead into what happened now. Also, when auctioning for kickstarters, the beginners might feel not as welcome as when someone actually is there to take care of them. As in princes.

Now I just can't stop thinking about how the sire and progeny relationship works out in WoD...

It's a wonderful idea you're promoting. Too bad I don't have so high stashes of cards, save for some celerity and presence commons that have come from somewhere.