A question for Magic: The Gathering Online players

[Steve]

It's a very long story, but to put it in a nutshell, I have a notarized statement from my ex-roommate giving me rights to his collection of online M:tG cards so I can sell them and be repaid, at least a bit, for the shitloads of money he borrowed from me. I asked around a bit at a collector's shop I know, but I've been told that these things are mostly sold online. Does anyone know a good site or online store that buys these things? The collection has over 4,000 cards in it, including 100+ rares.

[Jub]

You could try looking up values on a site like Black Boarder and then selling singles on ebay. That would take the most time and effort, but it would also net the most value. Be warned though, most rares sell for under a dollar and unless your cards have been in sleeves or card binders they won't sell at all. Not many people will buy cards that are overly blemished.

[Terralthra]

It's a very long story, but to put it in a nutshell, I have a notarized statement from my ex-roommate giving me rights to his collection of online M:tG cards so I can sell them and be repaid, at least a bit, for the shitloads of money he borrowed from me. I asked around a bit at a collector's shop I know, but I've been told that these things are mostly sold online. Does anyone know a good site or online store that buys these things? The collection has over 4,000 cards in it, including 100+ rares.

You could try looking up values on a site like Black Boarder and then selling singles on ebay. That would take the most time and effort, but it would also net the most value. Be warned though, most rares sell for under a dollar and unless your cards have been in sleeves or card binders they won't sell at all. Not many people will buy cards that are overly blemished.

I've highlighted the word you missed.

[Jub]

Sorry about that. I have no idea about the cards for the online game.

[Steve]

Yeah, looking on eBay it's mostly physical cards.

He supposedly tried to sell them back to WotC in June for "event tickets", then transferrable to money, but OF COURSE it never came because "oh, I screwed up our mailing address".

[Losonti Tokash]

I'm sorry, but why did you accept a collection of imaginary cards as payment for a debt?

Anyway I am fairly sure that you can get certain groups of the online cards converted into physical ones you could sell, but I haven't been in high school for years so take that with a grain of salt.

[Steve]

The online ones also have value from what I've seen, the question is finding an outlet for them.

And frankly it was either this or nothing (well, this and his computer or nothing), and even if I get just a few hundred from the collection it will have been worth it.

(That, and this isn't even the whole payment, it's simply what he could give me at the time.)

[Master of Cards]

http://www.mtgotraders.com/buylist/

This is a collection buyer it has all the things to sell the collection. I wouldn't be expecting more than about 100 bucks unless he has something insane in the collection. You can not sell anything back to WOTC so thats complete bullshit.

There are other sites to do the same thing this is just used as an example.

[Steve]

Actually, I may have mis-remembered it, I think he claimed to have gotten event tickets for the collection and the tickets he could then transfer to money. But it's no surprise to me if he was lying his ass off about it all.

Anyway, thanks for the help, I sent that site a list of his cards.

[Spoonist]

Steve make sure you are allowedto sell his cards. There are some rules set up about only the user himslef can sell etc exists so although you have his permission you could get in trouble as in losing the cards.

[Master of Cards]

Event tickets are just game money (1 dollar one ticket). The only thing WOTC will do to take cards for you is if you want to transfer an entire set into paper from online. You can sell them to other people and use the event tickets to cash out via selling the tickets by Ebay or the like.

[Steve]

I have a signed and notarized statement from him giving me control of his collection.

And I suppose I could have them transferred to paper/physical cards for selling, if nothing else works.

[Losonti Tokash]

That note doesn't actually mean much if WotC didn't give him permission to transfer them to you. They might just delete the whole thing if they decide you've wrongly taken control of his account.

[Terralthra]

Unless they've changed their terms, the only way to transfer them to physical cards would be to have a complete set of one or another expansion set(s).