Anatomy Of A FOTF Walter Johnson

[webdox]

Leading up to Thursday I had already completed the Tigers and the White Sox FOTF missions.

Was not sitting on any Indian diamond cards so I knew it would be a long shot and didn't know who the player was but I banked on my Tigers and the ALC to be a good Topper card division to focus on. Thought it would be Cobb but alas he's a topper topper.

Anyhow, I had no KC diamonds Thursday either and had no designs on completing the Brett mission as the reward for having the card had well diminished below the sum of its parts.

Watched the show Thursday night with intent and got my marching orders when I saw Walter as the division prize topper.

I DID have 14 different Cardinals diamonds/perfects and was able to complete that fast. Sold the Stan 225K quick. I think the first or 2nd to sell.

Used the profits to buy the Indians Diamonds I was missing and got the Feller. Sold him fast for 240K again 1st or 2nd, that is really important. The sell prices go down exponentially once the AH start getting flooded and people start under bidding one another.

Didn't have to spend anywhere near that to get those two cards. Made a nice profit but didn't document exact amts.

Time to go after the KC diamonds now.

Spent 399030 for the (6) KC cards, overspent on several.

Sold the Brett for only 109802 profit, so many were listed I had to undercut to sell fast.

Opened up the 3 Diamond Pack prize and sadly 3 common low end LIVEs. Sold for 12,000

Listed the Johnson and netted 765,000

So I basically made 487772 on his card vs buy price.

Oh, and had 72 other packs prizes for completing the missions that were released that night. No perfects but tons of diamonds lives and historicals that I sold off.

So I wasn't a huge fan of the FOTF missions sets, however, I did fairly well completing 16 of them and ripped so many prize packs completing sets that I was able to sell off countless diamonds and perfects to finance the Q every other Thursday release schedule. I doubt I can complete them all but am pretty satisfied having achieved what I set out for.

[allenciox]

I want to know how you got six KC diamonds AFTER the FOTF missions were posted, especially for < 70k apiece. I check it fairly often and for awhile I never saw ANY KC diamonds listed, and finally they started appearing, but mostly > 200k apiece. They have come down a bit, now there is a Darrell Porter 150k to start/200 BIN, and a George Brett with a 195k bin, but at current prices, it would cost well over a million to complete KC. How did you do it so cheaply?

[webdox]

Originally Posted by allenciox

I want to know how you got six KC diamonds AFTER the FOTF missions were posted, especially for < 70k apiece. I check it fairly often and for awhile I never saw ANY KC diamonds listed, and finally they started appearing, but mostly > 200k apiece. They have come down a bit, now there is a Darrell Porter 150k to start/200 BIN, and a George Brett with a 195k bin, but at current prices, it would cost well over a million to complete KC. How did you do it so cheaply?

Incessant refreshing of the AH for 18 straight hours I reckon. From about 2300 Thursday night until 1430 the next day. Some sellers weren't keen that the KC Diamonds would be the bottleneck and would slip and list one for under 60K. I knew they would be but was unwilling to buy the KC cards until I knew the Topper would be worth it. When I saw the first sold almost immediately for 875K I jumped and started the buying process.

Once every couple of hours a card would be listed for well under what others knew they could get and I would grab it before the ink dried.

One very nice Forum/Discord member sealed the deal with card #6 for a mere 66,667. They know who they are

I see the prices for the KC card now and know I was very fortunate to strike while the coals were still warming up.

Soria 89999
Saberhager 72500
Holland 72000
Soria 2 55999 (oops purchased 2 - 2nd one showed up white so I bought - bug that it didn't show as a duplicate)
Damon 105000
Porter 66667
462165


Dupe Soria 63135

399030

[One Great Matrix]

Originally Posted by webdox

Leading up to Thursday I had already completed the Tigers and the White Sox FOTF missions.

Was not sitting on any Indian diamond cards so I knew it would be a long shot and didn't know who the player was but I banked on my Tigers and the ALC to be a good Topper card division to focus on. Thought it would be Cobb but alas he's a topper topper.

Anyhow, I had no KC diamonds Thursday either and had no designs on completing the Brett mission as the reward for having the card had well diminished below the sum of its parts.

Watched the show Thursday night with intent and got my marching orders when I saw Walter as the division prize topper.

I DID have 14 different Cardinals diamonds/perfects and was able to complete that fast. Sold the Stan 225K quick. I think the first or 2nd to sell.

Used the profits to buy the Indians Diamonds I was missing and got the Feller. Sold him fast for 240K again 1st or 2nd, that is really important. The sell prices go down exponentially once the AH start getting flooded and people start under bidding one another.

Didn't have to spend anywhere near that to get those two cards. Made a nice profit but didn't document exact amts.

Time to go after the KC diamonds now.

Spent 399030 for the (6) KC cards, overspent on several.

Sold the Brett for only 109802 profit, so many were listed I had to undercut to sell fast.

Opened up the 3 Diamond Pack prize and sadly 3 common low end LIVEs. Sold for 12,000

Listed the Johnson and netted 765,000

So I basically made 487772 on his card vs buy price.

Oh, and had 72 other packs prizes for completing the missions that were released that night. No perfects but tons of diamonds lives and historicals that I sold off.

So I wasn't a huge fan of the FOTF missions sets, however, I did fairly well completing 16 of them and ripped so many prize packs completing sets that I was able to sell off countless diamonds and perfects to finance the Q every other Thursday release schedule. I doubt I can complete them all but am pretty satisfied having achieved what I set out for.

Mostly couldn't follow...but glad you're satisfied.

[bailey]

I bought it on the AH.

[SF Giants]

Originally Posted by webdox

Incessant refreshing of the AH for 18 straight hours I reckon.

That's like double shift. How many times have you done something like that?