Wizards Announces "From the Vault: A Mox in a Box"

squt · Post by **squt** » Mon May 19, 2008 6:08 pm

Jeez...this is an awful lot of cynicism from a group that doesn’t know that many details about the dragon box…

magic-belgium · Post by **magic-belgium** » Mon May 19, 2008 7:25 pm

Do you expect to get $35 worth of stuff in the box ? Really ?

l0qii · Post by **l0qii** » Mon May 19, 2008 7:44 pm

magic-belgium wrote:Do you expect to get $35 worth of stuff in the box ? Really ?

I think WOTC is defining it as $35 worth of stuff. They don't want to price it so low that dealers gobble them all up and sit on them, but if they price them too high nobody will buy them. I assume they believe $35 is the balance on the two.

magic-belgium · Post by **magic-belgium** » Mon May 19, 2008 7:52 pm

We'll see, but I'm not expecting much from them. Though I think the idea is good, I don't think it's worth $35.

The Collector's box was $49.95 and was 302 cards...

Gryfalia · Post by **Gryfalia** » Mon May 19, 2008 9:04 pm

The YuGiOh Gold series was standard Upper Deck 'scam marketing 101'.

Make a box. Give is a kinda cool but 'eh' gold foil treatment.

Put in 22 commons of dubious worth.

Put in 3 Foil Cards (the Gold cards), guaranteed to CRASH the value of all the cards in question. But make ONE card super DUPER rare, the most powerful one in the set. One per case if you're lucky. Aim for a price point of $250 or more on Ebay for that card.

This time around make it Hobby only, so the limited quantities will seem not as large.

Profit...

magic-belgium · Post by **magic-belgium** » Tue May 20, 2008 7:17 am

Apparently, it seems to be working. Children do not realize what they are doing... Which is less funny than the rest of the story...

tetsuo42 · Post by **tetsuo42** » Thu May 22, 2008 4:25 am

magic-belgium wrote:The Collector's box was $49.95 and was 302 cards...

That was, what? 15 years ago?

Apples & oranges.

magic-belgium · Post by **magic-belgium** » Thu May 22, 2008 7:54 am

The price was $49.95.

tetsuo42 · Post by **tetsuo42** » Thu May 22, 2008 4:01 pm

I still do not see how the two compare.

Pricing is relative to the situation. The game was just beginning, and no one could predict wether or not the game would even be the successful.

Are you going to post the price for a third time?

magic-belgium · Post by **magic-belgium** » Thu May 22, 2008 4:44 pm

The game was immediately successful, hence the collector's edition reprint.

I was just comparing two reprint boxes with different contents. And yes, I confirm that the Dragon box is not to b compared to the Collector's Editions, because the latter was more interesting and valueable that the former.

I'm not sure the Dragon box will be worth $700+ in 10 years time.

I repeated the price as your question was ambiguous. "When was that ?" Would have been better.

equi-nox76 · Post by **equi-nox76** » Mon May 26, 2008 10:01 am

magic-belgium wrote:I'm not sure the Dragon box will be worth $700+ in 10 years time.

I would bet immediately that it will not be worth that in 10 years, but I have my doubts if you'd say 100-200$$.
Chris

magic-belgium · Post by **magic-belgium** » Mon May 26, 2008 11:59 am

Hope we'll be here in 10 years time to have a good laugh about this.

equi-nox76 · Post by **equi-nox76** » Mon May 26, 2008 4:34 pm

Well, I bet one six-pack of Jupiler that it will sell for 150 USD in 10 years from now... Do you agree?

magic-belgium · Post by **magic-belgium** » Mon May 26, 2008 5:04 pm

I bet a full night of drinks in the pub of your choice that the price will be far below...

equi-nox76 · Post by **equi-nox76** » Tue May 27, 2008 8:46 am

Chiche!

I just buy many of the boxes and destroy them to be sure I win ... and I can drink a lot

Chris

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