{"id":69346,"date":"2018-11-08T15:18:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T21:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=69346"},"modified":"2018-11-08T15:19:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T21:19:34","slug":"digital-dabblings-29-personal-favorites-and-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/11\/08\/digital-dabblings-29-personal-favorites-and-trading\/","title":{"rendered":"DIGITAL DABBLINGS #29 \u2013 Personal Favorites and Trading"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3985098802\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><div>\n<div id=\"m_7666716513776088370yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1515654530380_12538\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div id=\"m_5654533946247094831ydpe038d8a5yahoo_quoted_7129685892\" class=\"m_5654533946247094831ydpe038d8a5yahoo_quoted\">\n<div id=\"m_5654533946247094831ydpe038d8a5yiv5679443746\">\n<div class=\"m_-3910917021571199224ydpbbebd316yahoo-style-wrap\">\n<div>Some time ago I put out the call for story ideas, not something I do often since the calling-card of a good journalist is one who can create their own stories. \u00a0Sometimes though you need a bit of help, and one of our readers Luke S. came up with what I think is a great idea and one that I\u2019m going to touch upon today: \u201cDoes the fact that some people pack cards or spend weeks\/months trading for them mean that their perception of trade value is more based on the stress of getting the card which could cause it to rise?\u201d<\/div>\n<div>Individual fan-favorite superstars definitely play a part in the ease or difficulty in obtaining their cards in the app via trading or the secondary markets. \u00a0Collectors who specialize in obtaining master-sets of their favorite performers will often not even consider trades for those cards simply because that\u2019s their collection! \u00a0For example, I now collect cards of six superstars, Finn Balor, Becky Lynch, Ronda Rousey, Asuka, Chris Jericho and Bret The Hitman Hart. These performers represent my all-time favorite WWE Superstars, past and present and as such I really am trying to get all of their cards in the game. \u00a0That said, I also realize there\u2019s no way I\u2019ll ever obtain every single card of each of them, it\u2019s just too daunting of a task, especially when Topps keeps releasing new cards of each of them on a regular basis. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2018\/11\/slam-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-69349 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2018\/11\/slam-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2018\/11\/slam-2.png 689w, https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2018\/11\/slam-2-300x192.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><br class=\"m_-3910917021571199224ydpe63dff6ekix-line-break\" \/><br class=\"m_-3910917021571199224ydpe63dff6ekix-line-break\" \/>Now if you ask me to trade a single of any of those six performers I\u2019ll outright refuse. \u00a0But here\u2019s the thing, if you ask me to trade a dupe of those I\u2019ll often turn it down as well, unless I\u2019m getting a need from one of my other \u201choards\u201d (though this is technically the wrong term, and I\u2019ll explain a bit more later.) \u00a0Player collections are one thing, but what about those cards in your collection that you worked tirelessly to acquire? Maybe you gave a bit too much, maybe they\u2019re your \u201cwhite whale\u201d.<\/div>\n<div>One of the members of the Facebook Group \u201cThe Syndicate\u201d, Jeff F. says one of his favorite cards is a Kane Orange Heatwave award from 2016. \u00a0In order to get one of the 289cc cards you had to collect 8 daily Orange Heatwaves at an insert rate of 1:60 for a 5,000 coin pack. Or basically spend about 2.4 million coins. \u00a0Remember, this was back in 2016, about 6 weeks after the app started, so to be able to spend that many coins that early either you had to do a lot of Tapjoy offers, OR you had to spend real cash to buy coins. \u00a0Jeff says \u201cI&#8217;m not a Kane fan, but I remember how many Tapjoy Surveys I had to take to pull the Orange everyday. I bet at least half are in dead accounts and it&#8217;s just a cool looking card, Kane with the fire background.\u201d \u00a0At the time of my Heatwave Set review way back in Digital Dabblings #12 I mentioned that the Kane award went for about $4. It might be a bit higher these days, but it\u2019s hard to really gauge value since there are absolutely no sales or listings for it on ebay in the last 90 days. \u00a0So while it\u2019s a card that really isn\u2019t worth much monetarily, it means a ton to Jeff and he\u2019ll never trade it, or he\u2019ll wait until he gets an offer he can\u2019t refuse.<\/div>\n<div>Really that\u2019s the key as well, everything\u2019s available for a price right? \u00a0Personally I remember the hassle I went through to obtain the Finn Balor Demon King Signatures, and what I had to give both in cash and in trade to get them. \u00a0They\u2019ve both been locked up for a long time, and I will never, ever trade either one of them\u2026unless I got an offer I couldn\u2019t refuse. It\u2019d have to be a really good offer though, with cash as a part of it, and no, this is not me soliciting offers for my Demon Kings, I really do not want to trade them. \u00a0Nor do I want to trade any of my low CC awards, many of which I obtained by collecting them all and earning the award.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2018\/11\/slam-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-69350 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2018\/11\/slam-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2018\/11\/slam-1.png 1029w, https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2018\/11\/slam-1-218x300.png 218w, https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2018\/11\/slam-1-768x1059.png 768w, https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2018\/11\/slam-1-743x1024.png 743w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Putting together the Bret Hart Excellence of Execution set wasn\u2019t easy I\u2019ll say that, and it was one of the few sets where I had to trade for the award. \u00a0When the app was brand new and the EoE set was released I was newly unemployed and not in any place to spend cash on the app. I did as many Tapjoy offers as I could but I still could barely pull one of the elusive Pink themed Bret cards. \u00a0Over the next several months as my fortunes increased and I was able to pull better cards I managed to trade for all of them, including the award. That set is not going anywhere. Really none of my Bret singles are.<\/div>\n<div>Another example for me is the Finn Balor Pixel Art award cards, those ugly little things. \u00a0I hated the design when I saw it first, and I am still not a fan today, but even still the amount of coins and cash I had to put into the app to get the entire set so I could earn the awards makes it such that I won\u2019t break the set nor would I ever trade the singles.<\/div>\n<div>So what\u2019s your story? \u00a0Do you have a specific card or several that you wouldn\u2019t trade because you spent time, energy, effort and money to obtain them? \u00a0Let me know in the comments below. I\u2019d love to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the difference between a \u201choard\u201d and a \u201cplayer collection\u201d?<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Hoards originally began over on the Star Wars Trading Card App, though I wouldn\u2019t be surprised to find out that people were hoarding cards on Bunt and Huddle first (Star Wars was the 3rd app from Topps). \u00a0Basically it\u2019s trying to amass a large number of a single card, typically a white base card. Star Wars collectors started doing this because after a few weeks of collecting typically they had tons and tons of white base dupes just sitting there, and by starting a \u201choard\u201d they were at least getting some good trades to happen. \u00a0You\u2019d give someone their hoard for 9 of your hoard. Topps even aided and abetted this endeavor by offering \u201cmonument\u201d cards of specific white base, where you could either trade in a massive amount (in the thousands) of a card for a special variant, OR they\u2019d just award a card to the collectors who had the most copies of a specific card. \u00a0This translates well into the Slam app where you can easily get hundreds of white base of your favorite performer and boost your trader rating at the same time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>A Player Collection is when a collector decides they want every card of a specific performer, as I detailed above, I\u2019m endeavoring six Player Collections currently, though only one of the six has any actual chance of ever being complete (if I ever get a hold of that 2016 Lime Green Bret Hart that only has 10cc out there). \u00a0Sometimes collectors will do both, player collect and hoard certain performers, and want to get as many dupes as possible of every card possible. To me that\u2019s a bit extreme, but even I dabble in it occasionally. Besides having ALMOST every Bret Hart card in the game I also own over 700 of his 2016 white base, and almost 700 of his 2017 white base. \u00a0They haven\u2019t been so kind on Slam as to offer monuments or rewards for hoarding cards, though when they do the Maroon base card exchange it does help to have multiples of at least the teal and green base.<\/div>\n<div><em>Don\u2019t forget you can find me in game at GRENDELSEN, and I\u2019m always happy to trade or answer any questions you might have.\u00a0 Leave questions or concerns here and I\u2019ll see you next time.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div id=\"m_7653336482324468032m_-5838044787577144430yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503197183433_8404\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div id=\"m_7485006918182513210yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505788699990_5066\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div id=\"m_840703259626027792yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508199456840_5158\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div id=\"m_4710290450738061770yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513037197127_4998\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div id=\"m_2136778502949941925yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1514945897609_4586\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>My Collecting Blog \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/budgetscd.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/budgetscd.blogspot.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1503367275849000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE4sa6AJcNl2_fcQxwy6FlIjbpXmw\">The Budget Collector<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"m_7653336482324468032m_-5838044787577144430yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503197183433_7901\" class=\"m_7653336482324468032m_-5838044787577144430signature\">\n<div id=\"m_7653336482324468032m_-5838044787577144430yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503197183433_7932\">The Daily WiLL \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/willaday.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/willaday.blogspot.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1503367275849000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEU7gP3-e7Ie2-ybA5B8vXvTVbJ_Q\">http:\/\/willaday.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>NOW CHECK OUT LAST WEEK\u2019S ARTICLE:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/09\/08\/digital-dabblings-28-first-survey-3-results-top-25-singles-in-the-game\/\">DIGITAL DABBLINGS #28 \u2013 First Survey #3 Results &amp; 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