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Middle-Earth => Bag End => Topic started by: menace64 on July 02, 2011, 11:29:51 AM

Title: I'd like to take this opportunity to brag.
Post by: menace64 on July 02, 2011, 11:29:51 AM
I found a hobby store one town over that has a full stock of LotR cards (and Decipher's old SWCCG!). I bought a Fellowship box for $30 yesterday, and plan on filling out the thinner parts of my collection throughout the summer!

Wooooo!
Title: Re: I'd like to take this opportunity to brag.
Post by: Ringbearer on July 02, 2011, 03:59:53 PM
Ah, fellowship, have  a playset of those :P
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Post by: gambitpryde1993 on July 02, 2011, 04:32:31 PM
Ooh what town. I get my cards on Amazon.
Title: Re: I'd like to take this opportunity to brag.
Post by: menace64 on July 02, 2011, 09:43:27 PM
Ah, fellowship, have  a playset of those :P

I'm pretty close. In fact - and with exception to Hunters block - I nearly have a complete playset for the whole game.

Ooh what town. I get my cards on Amazon.

It's my secret, sorry.  ;) I made the mistake years ago of letting somebody know about a source of cards, and they wound up buying all of it.
Title: Re: I'd like to take this opportunity to brag.
Post by: NappyKorn on July 03, 2011, 09:31:10 AM
I just picked up the Lord of the Rings Extended Editions on Blu Ray. I think I win.
-wtk

I think you just lost some gold for being a smarty-pants. Stay on-topic or you'll be gold poor before you know it.


Sincerely,

The Gold Police
Title: Re: I'd like to take this opportunity to brag.
Post by: NappyKorn on July 03, 2011, 10:16:03 AM
You're a crooked cop.
-wtk

Thumbs up for being a good citizen and making a citizen's arrest :up:.
Title: Re: I'd like to take this opportunity to brag.
Post by: Finisterle on August 10, 2011, 11:52:08 PM
Having a collection which makes you feel wealthy is important.

It's not important if the collections of all the other collectors are wealthier.
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Post by: FM on August 11, 2011, 10:31:00 AM
It kinda is, though, if you think about it. If you have a foil Goblin Armory and every single other person has 4, than that means it's probably not that hard to come by it, so you wouldn't be entitled to feeling wealthy for having one. You could, but you'd just be kidding yourself.
Title: Re: I'd like to take this opportunity to brag.
Post by: ket_the_jet on August 11, 2011, 03:55:40 PM
If you have a foil Goblin Armory and every single other person has 4

I have four...where is OneFathom to say he has 15?
-wtk
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Post by: Air Power on August 11, 2011, 05:18:05 PM
I don't think I'll need boxes of Farmer Maggots to feel wealthy in my collection, even though someone else has that many
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Post by: Doom on August 11, 2011, 05:18:48 PM
I say no dead-thread-rezzing. Some things are better off dead. ;)
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Post by: macheteman on August 11, 2011, 06:46:02 PM
I say no dead-thread-rezzing. Some things are better off dead. ;)

like zombies....
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Post by: Doom on August 11, 2011, 07:13:04 PM
Nazi zombies especially.
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Post by: Elessar's Socks on August 14, 2011, 12:48:17 AM
Although I feel fortunate looking at my collection, regardless of its worth (not much), I doubt I'll ever get back what I spent on it. LotR TCG would not be my idea of a good monetary investment. But it's not like I bought these cards for that, and I value my collection even if its "worth" is little.
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Post by: OneFathom on August 15, 2011, 11:12:02 PM
Although I feel fortunate looking at my collection, regardless of its worth (not much), I doubt I'll ever get back what I spent on it. LotR TCG would not be my idea of a good monetary investment. But it's not like I bought these cards for that, and I value my collection even if its "worth" is little.

Pretty much sums it up best, right here, from Elessar's Socks.  I don't think I've ever once wished I didn't spend the money on my cards because I've enjoyed them so much, and I continue to.  Well put, E.S.
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Post by: Hiddens on February 18, 2012, 08:36:43 AM
I found one very good e-shop, the last in my country, they have many cards of all sets including reflections.
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Post by: ununtrium on February 26, 2012, 12:07:50 PM
Although I feel fortunate looking at my collection, regardless of its worth (not much), I doubt I'll ever get back what I spent on it. LotR TCG would not be my idea of a good monetary investment. But it's not like I bought these cards for that, and I value my collection even if its "worth" is little.

I cannot agree more. I've just finished selling off my remaining trade stock of LotR (close to 1000 rares and promos with several thousand uncommons and commons) and it would have been very sobering, if I'd paid retail prices in the first place.

I had not spent much on the cards and through trading pretty much all the good stuff had already been gone, so it was better to get something than throwing the cards away. Nevertheless, one should never ever see this game as an investment in monetary terms.

I now have a substantial collection that covers everything (except for a couple of bizarre TF foils I am trying to track down...). Getting my money back would be a lost proposition and it would not feel right anyway. From a player's and a collector's perspective, it is the only to perserve the collection and ENJOY it, PLAY with it.

I'll post pictures of my stuff soon ;)