I know what he charges ME, I meant the price us English sellers price our cards.
Alright, I did my research... here's how this works.
The WOWTCG economy in China is now officially broken. Retailers are opening boxes/cases of FOH like Wonka bars, because apparently you can get cases for around 620-650, and the El Pollo Grande sells for 650USD. That's right... 650.
So... it's the tried and true method of what happens in these situations. I buy 10 cases, I open them, I sell my chickens, I'm now even. What to do with all of the cards? Rationally, I sell them for ANYTHING I can get my hands on. Price and value have absolutely no merit in these situations. It's a plague right now.
Currently, the FOH ones are the only set having this sort of impact. The other loots in Chinese editions are stable like ours, it's why this is so FOH specific. The mount has apparently hit a nerve and people are going insane trying to get them.
The reasoning behind the prices of these cards being even cheaper than our market is because to the sellers over there, ANY sale on ANY rares is basically sheer profit. They arent trying to make their money back on a case, they're entirely in the green zone with every sale they make. And the more they sell, the more they can open, and the chain keeps going.
So in summary, yeah... these cards are legit.
But I'm not done.
To Happysalex:
Coming into our forums claiming anything any of us do is "overpriced" while you openly know everything I just said is true is ludicrous, and you should know better. These circumstances surrounding why you have so many cards and why they are so cheap has literally nothing to do with the USA/EU market, and there's no way whatsoever any of us would know about it. When we get foreign language cards, they are naturally worth more to us than the regular English ones, so taking that into consideration when we are trying to make sales is how we do business.
No one over here knew anything about the WOWTCG crisis going on in China when it came to set 5. I surely didnt. I purchased my cards the weekend the set came out, before the mass flooding of the market took place. The prices were around normal, what I'd expected them to be, because the set was literally BRAND new and no one had it yet. Hell, one of the Singapore vendors at the World Championships didnt even have the singles yet. That's how new it was. Had I waited three weeks and bought my singles from my contact now, I would have known something was wrong.
So, good luck. I hope you manage to sell off your stock. I also hope the game over there recovers from this nightmare. It's like the FOO situation here in the states times ten, back when Tigers recouped more than the cost of a case.
