Why I Stopped Trading Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards

[@GeneralVan]

I don’t trade cards because I’m using my grandpa’s deck which has no pathetic cards

[@WhoIsSirChasm]

...except maybe Kuriboh.

[@AllHailNannerpuss]

@@WhoIsSirChasm That's the first and best hand trap. Wtf you mean.

[@Koutakami0]

@@AllHailNannerpuss he's quoting YGOTAS

[@MrMisterJW]

@@Koutakami0 uncultured swines don't know better

[@zetokaiba5867]

@@Koutakami0 Didn't that fatass kill himself?

[@joshbuckley5902]

Never traded, I just like hoarding the shiny cardboard to myself.

[@Choice...]

Im so bad with this omg, I dont play Dangers so when I pulled Jackalope and Nessie in the mega tins I though ooh yay I can sell these! Nope. One month down the line and Im now buying a play set of the best dangers XD

[@ClovissenpaiDotR]

I've got a great trade for you, you give me one level 8 monster, and I'll let you draw two cards

[@bernardoromero5009]

if there was only a card that just let you draw 2 cards...

[@cax1175]

@Emperor DarK But we actually know what Trade-In does.

[@bernardoromero5009]

@Emperor DarK nobody knows what pot of greed does so don´t pretend to know

[@quinnmurphy1666]

Hello there coolest man

[@theinternetofficer6594]

@Emperor DarK The joke ----> You

[@cax1175]

Because you once traded a Chaos Max dragon for an Infinite Impermanence and realized you completely got ripped off.

[@nathanedwards5415]

CAX117 I don’t think that’s a rip off

[@cax1175]

@@nathanedwards5415 Joke---> You

[@lasweeetchill1951]

Ignorance is a bliss

[@jofx4051]

It depends

[@casinoroyal93]

60$ card for 1$ card kekek

[@Klunkyman]

I would argue that the community should also protect each other too. If you see a person trying to rip someone off you should step in and try to help.

[@payne9682]

I remember trading cards like Machine Duplication and Scrap Recycler thinking those cards would never see play, and oh boy was I wrong. Point of the story, every card has the possibility of eventually becoming great/busted, so don't ever trade your only copies unless you really need to. Day 237 of waiting for new Volcanic support to arrive

[@zekondlyfe2555]

Never give up and finally, one day you Will get your support

[@ebolahh_same8610]

Never give up! 🔥

[@kyonsenzu8799]

@Mister Perfection your such a clown.

[@kyonsenzu8799]

@Mister Perfection your a clown

[@kyonsenzu8799]

@Mister Perfection you still a clown 🤣

[@ScytheNeoX]

So i guess now it should be called: *Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game.*

[@gligarguy4010]

There's a reason why the Japanese card game isn't called a "Trading" Card Game.

[@henryjones8636]

YCG

[@elijahkaiba7986]

Yu-Gi-Oh! Children's Card Game

[@666HeroHero]

CCG is a thing. (Collectible Card Game) Games like Hearthstone, Gwent and Duel Links are all CCGs.

[@vice2792ocl]

Traders hate him, learn the secret that doug has amassed over years of trades.

[@ARMRStudios]

I don't trade either, I just buy singles of what I need. What I no longer need I sell off.

[@danielschmidt5188]

smartest approach. I also just have the staples, 1 meta deck and maybe 1-2 fun decks per format, but otherwise I just hate having stuff around I dont need which I chould sell for at least a few bucks.

[@Serjohn]

where do you sell off?

[@ARMRStudios]

@@Serjohn internet and there was a local store that would buy too

[@arzeenine]

My friends and I don't really "trade" per se, we just give each other cards we need when we need them with the understanding that the other friend will repay the favor later.

[@richardjacksonvalleyanes279]

Same here man. We also trade sometimes but it's still more like As long as I don't need them my self take what you need and I will also take a few cards from you

[@haydenhall7081]

Yeah same

[@GIR177]

You have very trustworthy friends

[@Reac2]

So you dont actually play the TCG, you play the BCG. The Buying Card Game

[@MiguelitoJimz]

When I went to a sneak peak, a kid got ripped of his ultra Trickstar Lycoris for a $1 super, you cannot say "just look at the prices online before trading" to a relative new player because they don't even know about the second market in the first place. If you don't have a friend that can advice you about card prices when you start in the game, you have a high chance to get ripped off

[@turt4967]

Yeah I definitely agree, when I first started playing the game way back in 2016 desires / demise were really new expensive cards, my sisterended up pulling two of them because they didn’t know how much they were worth she ended up trading one for common dark magician girl & something else (not worth it) it’s really sad now that we look back on it,

[@killiantenbohmer81]

Miguel Jimenez lycoris doesn’t have an ultra, only super, common, starfoil and ultimate rare

[@MiguelitoJimz]

@@killiantenbohmer81 oh ok, still that Lycoris was way expensive than the super he got traded for

[@turt4967]

Killian Ten Bohmer I think he ment ultimate rare lycoris

[@iMaytriksU]

I think trading is fun at a locals level. I've never went to events to trade but at my locals, everyone just looks up card prices when trading and when I "minus" by trading my 2 dollar card for 12 cards that equal 1 dollar and 27 cents, I get asked if I'm sure about that n I'm like "yeah" because what I get is what I need and what I trade away is what I literally dont want ever. The only real issue I have with trading is people who bring binders and have cards there that are NOT for trade. Its so annoying to see a card that I want only to get told that it isnt for trade (even for money).

[@kaphity]

iMaytriks U - same at my locals, when cards are at like 2 cents, people just give them away for free sometimes. And more expensive cards are looked up online, so nobody gets ripped off.

[@MasikoY]

Yeah i only trade at locals especially since it's always the same people that come

[@DrewskiTheLegend]

iMaytriks U I actually hate this. Like as long as it’s not a $2 for a $45 card, nickels and dimes are so annoying. You trade up incrementally if you are a value trader.$1 here or there on a $5-10 card or a couple bucks on the higher end. I’m not saying you should rip people off but the apps make trading a chore. The guy who looks up every value of every card that I want of his in the $2-3 range, (many of which are less desirable than my card) to make sure it equals the value of my $15 rare is so annoying.

[@KingGreenHawk]

I’m actually glad you posted this video. So many of my friends have been scammed over the years through trades. Also, I did have a really bad experience with one trade that stopped me from trading with random people ever again. Basically I started YuGiOh at the very beginning, skipped GX, and joined in again at Synchros. Had no idea what was good or even what Synchro summoning was. Pulled an Infernity Barrier. Had 4 people swarm me over this card. I asked for help in getting into synchros and what was good. A guy traded me a huge stack of Yusei related cards, which I couldn’t use any of them it turned out except Stardust Dragon. He immediately went to another table, told people about the trade, and they all turned to me to laugh and make fun of me. I honestly didn’t care about the infernity barrier or the value, did it did teach me a lesson which you did bring up in the video.

[@jofx4051]

That's a bad person; he should never do that anyway (does ever he think what you feel anyway; that's kinda bad)

[@stobie9063]

You met a d-tier yugioh villian

[@godofrasiofernandez]

Oh my god what a bitch, at least he could have stfu and dont laugh in front of you. I mean ok, he got the infinity barrier that was what he wanted, what was the necesity of doing that? Im so sorry that this happened to you

[@randomguy6932]

While I do like trading, there are two things I dislike about it: 1)Since I care about fairness, there's always the sceptical part of my mind that questions whether the trade is fair for both me and the person, and that can be stressful. 2) When people or their friends overvalues their cards.

[@Marsadow]

You can trade any card for three copies of Magic Cylinder. In addition, add them to the deck.

[@squishsquishimafish6348]

That sounds like a card effect that requires your opponent to straight up give you 3 Magic Cylinders.

[@jofx4051]

Sounds like Nibiru OTK trick

[@RevzCards]

I try to avoid trading unless I specifically need something. When I’m not looking for anything but someone wants something from me, it gets so stressful having to look through their stuff for things I don’t need lol

[@benbaylis3977]

Woah Woah Woah, I thought you could only obtain cards by "the cold luck of the draw"? Oh and btw if you give me a lvl8 monster Ill trade you 2 cards

[@RevzCards]

LaughingOutLoud 420 I mean in general hahaha

[@theshipthatflew109]

He doesn’t need to trade when he can buy cards. Probably a lot easier then trading.

[@zakomama6430]

That may not always be the case. It depends on what cards you are looking for. For example, I was once forced to fork up $6 for a Witchcrafter Golem Aruru, even though it was only worth $2-3 max (The guy told me it had sentimental value to him, hence it being overpriced). However, I needed it for my deck and it was the first one I saw. Even the card shop didn't have it for sale. The point being, you sometimes need to trade or buy a card off of someone else because you can't buy the card from a card shop if they don't have it. Trading can be easier than buying and vice versa. At the end of the day, it's all about luck. Even what you pull from packs is all about luck (The exceptions being the guaranteed cards that Konami states for a set, but they rarely ever do that).

[@benk1w242]

@@zakomama6430 Buy cards online. That way you pay the real value and not some sentimantal bs price.

[@zakomama6430]

@@benk1w242 While I could do that, there is a level of risk involved in it as I've also heard horror stories about how the cards get completely ruined in shipping and/or the seller lying about the condition the cards is in.

[@justderek3584]

Benk1w - Value is dictated by who your are choosing to buy from and what a person is willing to pay. Trading/purchasing is one in the same in teachings of economics which explains why markets fluctuate. There are outside forces that will dictate what the values of something could be, but at the end of the day, the value is determined between buyer/seller.

[@benk1w242]

@@zakomama6430 Online market places usually have a safety net for these cases. Also I would recommend to only buy from sellers with good ratings. But in the end I can of course understand your fears.

[@OneWingedRose]

I learned my lesson when I traded my Black Lotus for Wall of Disruption. Sucker actually thought Lotus was worth more.

[@michaelclarke9400]

Wait...what the heck?

[@jofx4051]

Wait... MTG cross trading for Yugioh cards, what?

[@OneWingedRose]

@@jofx4051 Local card stores are full of cross trading among tcg fans, at least they were back in those days when I went there.

[@jofx4051]

@@OneWingedRose I see, how with nowadays?

[@OneWingedRose]

@@jofx4051 I dunno, I ain't traded in quite a few years either, my local card shops here are a bit dead sadly.

[@danielbakergill]

I've been on both sides of this. The most important component is a thoughtful hobby store owner who can thwart abusive trades.

[@Yuan3627]

Since he's now said he's been able to sell all his cards in bulk or otherwise from box/pack opening videos, I think another video that would be helpful to post is one about what kind of vendor(s) he sells to (maybe not the exact name of the vendor(s) if he's not comfortable with it). Also if he sells online or is able to sell locally and how that's able to happen. I've had a recent issue where I had a box of 1,000 commons and no local tcg stores wanted it at all. They flat out told me "no". With online sales, I either had to have more cards to sell to meet a minimum for online stores or post it on like e-bay. I waited maybe 3 months without any kind of hits on it and decided to just toss all those commons in the recycle bin because of how fed up I was with it.

[@franrc265]

Wouldn't a better option be to give away all those commons for free to new players instead of tossing it in the recycling?

[@Yuan3627]

@@franrc265 my local library doesn't have tcg events for kids to donate to and at my local card shops, I haven't seen any new players in a good while.

[@jofx4051]

Even that I think that discarding is not the best way since the card is wastes (if you meet child; I think you can give some to them; I think they will be happy)

[@Marcusjnmc]

he goes to events, event vendors buy bulk , ig

[@BeauxPhades]

I think the hardest I ever plussed was during HAT format. I had HAT completely made and took it to a regional where the deck completely shit out on me. The next weekend in a fit of rage I traded off the entire deck to people at my locals. I didn't care what I was getting for the cards and just wanted them gone for their value at the time (which was pretty high). 2 of the people there ended up getting ignitions and sanctums for a bunch of DRLG cards, specifically mathematician and kuribandit. I ended up with around 12 copies of each once everything was said and done. Well maybe 2 weeks later burning abyss was revealed and suddenly both of those cards quintupled in value. I turned a $350 investment into several decks throughout the DUEA meta.

[@phillipwhite7850]

I stopped trading farirly early on. Someone duped me that an XYZ Dragon Cannon and a Fusion Gate were a good trade for a Raigeki. This was when Raigeki's were extremely hard to pull and I got one out of LOB.

[@FracturedDMR]

I don't bother with trades because it's too much of a gamble on how competent the person in question is going to be, I've met reasonable people and those that are... less so in my time trading. So i decided hey, buying singles is best

[@rudycooper007]

In all honesty over the years i have stopped trading as well due to the fact that this game is dominated by adults more than kids thats have disposable income & cards prices fluctuate very often to the point where overnight you might plus or neg. Also to many people try and juice you for trades & value plays a dominant role now more than ever unfortunately, also i just sell the cards i don’t want & prefer to use the money to buy what i need & that process is repeated. The old days of yugioh are over when it comes to trading & no more trusting others to be fair sad but true.

[@toast6672]

I got a shop by me that usually has sales on sealed products, got a booster box for 50 bucks CAD, which i think is a good deal

[@JDGamingYGO]

Man, this really brings me back. It feels strange to think I started my channel trading, and I think your tips could definitely protect people from some soul-crushing experiences. Also, I still have your beat up Wind-Up Zenmaines tucked in a binder haha

[@sociallywalkward6582]

Great advice. Where do you sell your bulk etc? I have so many cards I've got nothing to do with and am dying to liquidate 😂

[@Choice...]

Havent traded since I was 8 ahah since then Ive either had no Yugioh friends or just had friends who prefer to buy singles

[@CronoWiiUxblCrono]

FANTASTIC video. This should be required watching for all beginning Yugioh players. Unfortunately, I've had only one person actually try to steal from me. My son and I used to bring about 7 binders with us when we would attend a local for trading. I've always watched very carefully and this one guy (whose face I'll never forget) kept taking my cards and putting them in his piles that he already had out. I LOUDLY called him in front of the entire group which he denied but I made him go through all the piles. We found all but two cards (which totaled in value to about $15). I've never allowed people to pull cards out since. Also, shame on all those individuals you take advantage of young or new players. What the heck is wrong with you!?! Again, great video. You gained a sub here.

[@___i3ambi126]

If we are a budget player that only buys singles for the single deck we play and compete, do you think we should open the its packs from tournament entries or simply sell/trade them sealed? (I personally get basically no joy from it, so if opening the packs lowers its average value then I'd rather just not)

[@BLHProductions]

Who hurt you Doug? We'll beat them up.

[@vla1ne]

I got ripped off once when i was younger, and it was exactly the way you described it. Ever since then i've kept an eye out for people ripping me and my friends off, and after getting my eyes opened like that, and seeing how many people try to rip people off hard in similar ways to that, i stopped trading. i seriously started hating my locals, and know way too many people that the same things have happened to. Older people ripping off younger or newer people, like at my sneak, where a prismatic was sold for 50 bucks, is one of the reasons i hear when i ask why people leave the game, or leave the trading scene. It's pretty much always more effort than it's worth, to be on guard all day against people trying to rip me off.

[@shumpdaddy9269]

At the Circuit Break Sneak Peak, I really wanted to get a copy of Borreload dragon. Some one else saw I pulled two copies of In the World Chalice Priestess and they wanted them. And they told me to look through their pulls. I told them the only thing you have that I want is your Borreload but I know you don’t wanna trade that away. The person told me of course they would trade it. I was like really, you know that’s the guy on the front of the whole set right? He didn’t care I just really wanted to build a world chalice deck. I felt bad about the trade but he seemed really happy about it cause he had finial got the last two cards he needed from trades that day for all of the world chalice stuff. After I stopped him and explained to him why wanting to make that trade is a bad idea he still wanted to do it. So I don’t feel to bad about it, it’s not like I was intentionally trying to mislead the guy he came to me and said yes. Kinda like the reverse of how you expect this kinda thing to happen. I still have that Borreload dragon it’s in my mekk-knight deck now

[@missingno1487]

Do you think you could do a video about how to organise your cards. I find this to be surprisingly difficult and personally would like some advice. I know this sounds silly but would be very helpful. In regards to organising staples. And deck cores.

[@ENCHANTMEN_]

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[@Demilich23]

you have just created an enemy for life

[@ENCHANTMEN_]

@@Demilich23 fite me

[@vparsa87]

The biggest reason I don't trade is like you said, time is wasted but you didn't really go into more depth on that. What typically happens when you trade is you take out some cards you want. but then you have to check the prices for each card. Then after however long that takes, usually the prices don't line up perfectly. So then you either have to try and find more cards you want to work out the difference (which repeats the cycle of what I just said before) or you just don't trade and all that time got wasted for nothing.

[@TeamGentlementlemen]

Last time I ever traded was at locals a year ago. I simply couldn't find anything to trade, that a new player wanted for this isolde in my binder. Between every round, we had to stop, take another look, and look up prices, but then I had to start the next round at locals. The entire day was just weird, inconvenient, and awkward. I never wanted to put myself, or that kid through that again. I either had to start giving out cards for free, spending way too much time looking up prices, or simply just stop trading altogether. Didn't work out for me, but I'm sure everyone is different.

[@Dzeeff]

I was always a big fan of watching people go through your binder with all of the entry pack commons

[@TeamGentlementlemen]

@@Dzeeff You can't get ripped off, if all of your cards are worth less than a penny :^)

[@Izadochi]

My trade binder consists entirely of cards I pulled from entry packs and prize packs. The only memories I have of actually buying packs is the occasional sneak peak I attend. That's really more of an event I attend because all my friends are going instead of me trying to plus, because I know I probably won't.

[@David-wq5fs]

100% agree now a days I just buy most of my cards I still carry around my binder if something comes up and don’t feel like spending money but I get too overwhelmed with people coming by and asking for trades especially if I’m already dealing with somebody

[@electrocast]

Amazing video. I rarely traded the entire time I played the game because I just never liked how long it took, but I loved watching others swap binders & trade, especially group trades like you discussed. But I didn't consider selling extra bought cards in the way you described. Amazing strategy, really.

[@powergamingcentral5792]

I think the best way to protect oneself from the problem of information disadvantage is using the smartphone to actually look up the price on plattforms like Yugioh cardmarket on the fly and trade based on these prices. That makes most of the trades fair and protect yourself from taken advantage of.

[@jakecardwell74]

2 things that got me to stop trading with someone: 1. Looking up values on troll and toad for every single card 2. Valuing their stuff at the absolute maximum while expecting me to value my stuff at the absolute minimum

[@iamabrawler92]

I'm really only a collector, so I go with whatever pulls I get from packs. If I get multiples of the same card but they're from different sets, I keep them all as the values can be quite different, rarities for the same card in different sets can change quite a bit at times. I might have gathered 8,000 cards total so far, with maybe 5,000 cards with different names. It's worked well for me so far. I keep my second+ copy of any card from a set in a separate binder, and whenever I have some to sell I go through buylists. I've yet to sell in bulk, as I fear the amount of money I'd get in return would not cover the overall costs needed to ship all of those cards. I have way too many cards (and way too many commons) and keeping track of every card's rough value for trading would be a nightmare, so I prefer not to do trades either.

[@WestonEvans]

Ive plussed off of trades and minus’d off of trades and I got to say both feel somewhat bad to me now. Realistically I was just ripping off my cousins or brother 15 years ago and that’s a tough pill to swallow. I think all those pluses hurt me now more than the minus do.

[@MoneysMark]

I havent finished the video, but I stopped trading after a while too. Now that I have a job I just pay for what I want. It takes less time from me playing the game, and I don't have to deal with people nitpicking me while trading for every individual dollar I also don't worry about getting cards in terrible condition. My least favorite thing was when I was trading down (I trade a $20 card for 4 $5 cards) no one actually wanted to give me a fair trade. Since Im trading down cant I at least get an extra cheap common or something? I felt that was fair.

[@canadianTeej]

I don't play or collect yugioh however with other card games if shops or vendors don't have a card I need but another player does I'll trade whatever for it, most say I'm being ripped off but at the end of the day I see it as a gain if I'm adding something I need or like to my collection, it's suppose to be a fun social game and I don't have time to bust out my phone and make sure I have the optimal trade value, many players that I see regularly for trading will even sometimes extend their kindness as well and do the same for me.

[@flare4488]

The only time I usually trade is to rarity up stuff in my deck. Typically I will buy the cards I need it the cheapest way possible, and will just accumulate the higher rarities through out a few weeks. I usually get a few packs here and there cause it is fun opening them with friends, but typically I just buy what I need online. Also as for the binder thing. Only let 1 person look at your binder at a time, and stay close to it. Make sure anyone who is looking at your binder has your permission first. At my locals it is typical for anyone to ask before looking in someone else's binder, but I have been to some events where people have just grabbed my binder after their friend was done looking at it. Luckily nothing g bad ever happened to me, but some of my friends had cards swiped from their binder before and there was no way of telling who did it.

[@rosewarrior706]

3:01 in the bottom left corner.... im not sure how i should take that

[@geminihero]

Man I am not going to judge you because I am kind of in the same boat myself recently. I am 40 years old and I have been playing Yu-Gi-Oh roughly since the beginning.....so I can honestly say I have some experience in everything you talked about. But recently I found myself being a little reluctant to deal with anything YUGIOH related. In the past I used to bring a 3 ton binder with every card imaginable and it...lol. But as time progressed I wanted to improve on myself so I watched videos that had people explain certain protocol and how to be more considerate to potential traders. In the past I would find myself spending more time negotiating trades and I totally understand what you meant by people who are basically predators feeding off inexperienced players or Yu-Gi-Oh collectors in hopes of getting a score out of them. I am remember one time a long time ago.... at the time Synchro summoning was really big. And one of the hottest cards on the market was fable Raven. So one day I went to a small tournament in hopes of trying out some of my new decks and also hope to get some decent trade with cards I had too many copies or was not interested in making a dick out of them. What is one guy asked if he can see my binder and he gives me his binder. Immediately I spotted his copy of fable Raven....(mind you he had a dozen copies)....so I immediately took it out of the sleeves and ask if he was willing to trade. He told me that that card was worth a lot of money and he would need a lot to justify treating it. So I told him to go through my binder. Well roughly over 30, possibly 50 minutes went by. And this guy took out a lot of cards to the point where I was starting to feel a little bit of pain.... but in my mind I figured as long is I can get at least one copy of fable raven.... i'll live. Why is he holds roughly 50 or 60 cards varying from rarest to ultra secret and even one ghost rare. I asked him if we could trade now and he telling me.....that this huge stack of cards he took out of my binder doesn't come close to the cost of the car that I wanted.....then he tries to pawn off cards from his binder that he knows I already have copies out or is not interested in. Needless to say I was so upset by this man wasting my time then I just packed up my car and left the tournament without playing any cards at all.....😡 Anyway years later I have finally organized myself by buying higher quality binders and have also even organize them to the point where it's almost like I'm a walking Yu-Gi-Oh table of contents!...lol Seriously I have five binders that are color-coded. Each one has a little tab on the spine of the folder that has a little dot which represents what cards are in them..... Synchro and fusion?..... One white circle and one purple circle. Spells and Traps?....One green circle and one purple circle. And in case you're curious pendulum cards are a circle that's half orange and green. So yeah I'm pretty organized. But based on what you just said maybe I'm too organized. I've noticed for a while now that instead of coming to ask me what kind of cards I have people tend to just flat out ignore me. And I think it's because they don't want to deal with someone who knows exactly what they're doing they want to go after the weaker people. The wolves want to go after the sheep.....they do not want to go after the bear!...lol So it's because of this I don't really go trading or go to tournaments anymore. Especially since they're not very close to me and going to one is a pretty long trip.

[@josephabbazia6135]

Just coming back after like a year hiatus and selling all my expensive cards at peak value (which was dope making like $500 towards wedding deposit ) and now I have basically an empty binder and no cards (besides my BA deck , Harpie deck , and fiancés toon deck ) and after being back at my locals again I agree I just don’t have the time to thumb through binders . Just buy what I need and sometimes split a box with a friend if I feel like opening packs . I’ll never understand buying a box to refill your binder .

[@GURKENGOTT]

I got my playset of Impermanence by trading with 3 different people on the internet because I don't have any other options. And as long as you have a trustful trade partner, that's fine

[@benjystrauss2524]

What's really hard to do is plus without ripping people off. In the past I've tried to buy singles online for less than market price so I can trade them at or slightly above for a profit. A quick check of TCGplayer keeps you from getting ripped off or unintentionally making enemies.

[@dbomba]

I don't have locals near me but rarely I go to one 1 hour away from me. The only trade I did was 2 months ago, I gave a Sphere Mode, a Beelze of the Diabolic Dragons, a Dark Master Zorc and a Silent Magician LV8 for a Knightmare Unicorn and a Knightmare Phoenix. I don't think it was a bad deal I mean

[@crystalqueen9711]

I used to trade at my locals a lot, but got ripped off one too many times because when you're a broke high school student, you can't afford to buy new cards, no matter how cheap they are and just decided to give up on trading as a whole

[@constantinwilliams9388]

hi. question: why is Mannequin cat hard to pull in packs, even though it's a common?

[@cheesebuger13]

What I do if I trade is always look for something specfic. I always ask the person I am doing business with if they have a specific card(s). I personally don't do it very often and usually buy the singles. I also don't trade with random people if I do.

[@chaosgilleon6433]

At the Chicago tournament I tried to get ash blossoms and traded my super kiju meck and psychic blader just to find out they were ghosts reapers... I was so devastated. (Thank you for signing my chaos sorcerer at that event) Also NECROFACE, back to 3, come on konami!

[@Marcusjnmc]

'.' gren maju doesn't even use necroface anymore, it's pretty much just a metaphys card now, & for necroface control, which only works at timed irl events , it's a LP stall/deckout deck & not very good, ig it should be at 3

[@callummandragore9004]

I stopped trading mid-2014 when I finished my degree and got a job

[@apocalyptixxeuw4354]

I feel you bro. Last week at locals someone wanted to have my Pistol Dragon(mrd) and Blowback dragon in NM- i just needet vishuda playset and he annoyed me 45 minutes. I wanted an even trade so i offered him few cards + Blowback dragon without the pistol dragon. In the end he didnt want to trade because i didnt give him the Pistol dragon which is alone worth at least two playsets of vishuda...

[@TheLordMillenium]

At my locals we all try to go for even when trading, and I like it that way. Everything's mutually beneficial.

[@Marcusjnmc]

best way

[@SamuriX2010]

From what I hear in the yugioh community、 its taboo to price things as you're trading. I personally dont understand that because as a magic player、 we price as we trade all the time. Knowing the "value" of a card means nothing if they you dont know the actual price of the card. It would negate all the price cheating people do when trading with an inexperienced player/trader and it gets rid of bad feels when something happens in the market to spike or tank the price of a card.

[@shad0w7021]

Every single time I've traded at locals, I've gotten scammed. One guy even bragged about it to his friends after. And yeah, after a certain point, it's certainly my fault. The one problem is, I have terrible connection at locals, so I can't look up values on the fly. I have to shotgun a few, and hope I get a decent price on the rest. I'm so nervous even pulling out my trade binder now. I've put some valuable stuff in there.

[@Interesting_Failure]

I'm a Magic player, not a Yu-gi-oh player, but I've historically gotten the most mileage out of using online card prices as a reference and trying to set up trades that have specific value for each participant (i.e. "I want that card right now for specific reason X"). Much more satisfying that way.

[@kingvire]

I feel ya I mainly just buy and sell. I don’t really do the sealed product thing either as outside of prize support I just buy singles and don’t risk the value loss. Also I don’t actually play yugioh nearly to any kind of level I used to but for all the other card games I play it’s just worth it more to get singles.

[@maxpalmer3212]

I only used to be a collector and a friend of NIN always complained that I didn’t trade my cards and I was tired of it so I started trading to shut him up

[@NextazxzNoExuse]

Lol I remember playing sealed packs tournament and pulling 40$ x saber card at the time. Suddenly like 5 people I didnt know wanted to trade it and gave all sorts of bad offers, I had no idea about the price, but I said "ok meet me here next week", and that was a right move, because I checked ebay at home. Tbh I dont remember if smartphones were widespread at that point, its like 2009

[@AwesomeCardGames]

I'm not surprised. I rarely trade cards, and only trade cards if I have many copies of a card. I have my decks and a collection binder. Everything in my collection binder is to keep for life.

[@richardjacksonvalleyanes279]

I have a friend that always use to say that if we trade cards they have to have around the same price value, and I was like "c'mon man... If you want to have my card and I want to have yours forget about the price" and I said it in both cases, when his card was the expensive one or when mine was

[@narfd.8837]

My main reasons to trade (and I do very rarely) are to A) socialize and to B) grow the community. I don't trade for profits except if someone is aware and willing to let me profit. I rather trade to help newcomers get into the game a bit faster. Just last week we build a deck for someone that basically just had a pile of random stuff. There was nothing of real value in there, but I found some of the Dracoslayer cards and thought that it would not be too bad to have those for experimenting. So I traded those cards for some fundational main and extra deck cards like Tornado Dragon, Decode Talker some level 4 monsters that can provide field presence and some other cards that are just worth playing, especially for newcomers. The guy went in with a pile of shit and came out with a better deck and an extra deck that he could actually use.

[@itachir8290]

Something else to consider is pressure when trading. You feel pressured to make a trade if you are looking through each others binders. If you don't come to a trade it creates negative pressure. This usually doesn't exist when trading with friends though. Some people I dislike is when people want to look at your trades but don't offer their own and sometimes when you ask they say, "let me see if there is something I want." It's easier to just say no trades.

[@AmbitousStylez]

I remember I went to my locals me and my girlfriend bought a box each. We pulled two evolzar dolkka a loggia and a rescue rabbit. I really wanted a wind up zenmaines and this one guy he never liked me idk why. He always looked down on me. He traded me a Nordic deck with all the cards. I thought it was a great deal. I later found out that day I traded a few hundred dollars worth of very new cards from the new box. I was unaware of how good those cards were. But anyways that Nordic deck was worth maybe under a hundred bucks. So I felt completely ripped off. Later on I got the new fire fist brother the ultra rare one and sent it off for a trade with some one online. He never held his bargain up and didn’t even send me his card. After that I pretty much quit playing yugi oh in real life. I just stuck to playing online and I was already getting out of the game as people just left and right stopped playing. It was fun but I can see how people can get upset over this game as it is so expensive just to get the new decks and then it will just get banned immediately. But to that guy who ripped me off he acts like such a wholesome guy and acts so nice to everyone else but idk what I did to him to rip me off so much. Some people are just mean and greedy. As for me I always treat people equal even though I was 22 at the time it was better just to move on. But a lot of guys were like that just mean and rude made you feel like crap for playing a certain deck or just because you wanted to use certain cards in your deck. I still played online I got really good at deck building now when I play online I usually go undefeated for a while in whatever I build but I mainly play for fun. I sold all my cards for less than 200 buck but they just gave me really bad memories of all the times people would pick all my best cards but wouldn’t trade me anything worthwhile. But I had a blast even though I spent at least 2 grand in over a year maybe even four. But now if I was to get back in the game I am a much smarter player in all games in general I know what’s going to be good and what’s going to get banned because I now know of yugi tubers and what not any ways stay safe in your trades everyone take it from me cause I kind of regret giving away all my cards.

[@ezikeel]

I am used to using mcm for trading magic cards. I do the same while trading yugioh (ycm), and also show the person I'm trading with the value of the cards.

[@chessai2121]

When I was a little kid in '04 i got stolen from several times at local shops. I pulled a secret rare 1st edition Jinzo (HUGE back then) at a locals. Being a 8, i showed off my pull, thinking people would be happy for me. It was stolen the day I got it, never even made it home.

[@phobass]

that hurts man... I was that same kid with yata

[@brockaston8241]

First time me and my brother went to a card shop, this one older guy got mad at us because we were looking up the prices for his and our cards to ensure that we weren't getting ripped off. He was not a nice guy at all.

[@alexandergregory5223]

Exactly Dz. Last sneak peek a guy pulled one of the 80 dollar cards *link 4 bow girl* and traded it for the cover card. It happens to much.

[@SushiSuxs]

Here in Portugal in the store that we play yu gi oh no one steals belive it or not, the "pros" are friendly and fair in trading selling etc, and they help you building a deck.

[@tonykidd6937]

at my locals alot of people dont care about price. We trade or buy by what we want or need

[@nintenx1235]

I don’t trade unless I am looking for certain things last minute before locals starts Like the last andal and tamer editor i got from a guy at locals who was really chill and just wanted a common pot of duality for a deck he was making.

[@partyboy51005]

Oh gawd, I started busting out laughing when the Pot of Greed card in the background LMAO

[@josephkim8533]

I 100% with you about buying singles rather than buying packs just to get trade baits. It's really funny how people don't really keep track of the money they are spending. But dzeeff is right about scamming during trading. There are people at regionals who just want a lot of the cards you want, but sometimes they do that make you lose track of the cards you are trading away. Trading at locals is much easier (of course assuming everyone is moral)

[@MrLionniol]

Nowadays you can just pull out your phone and check prices online. How in the world do people even get scammed anymore outside of the lack of effort?

[@scorpshade6123]

The main trade i regret is from back in metal raider days when i was just getting into yugioh. I Didnt understand rarities or even rlly how to play ended up trading a B. Skull Dragon for a Bickurabox because i thought it looked cool ... im still upset with my past self lol

[@TheVincentsValor]

Not with Yugioh but with Pokemon. My wife just started and didn't know the value, had someone trade her a $3 Holo for her $30 Dragon... She liked the way the $3 one looked. I felt bad for her and she almost cried because she was upset about it. It sucks. :(

[@leonsgaming8123]

I havent bought anything new in year so I dont trade. I have recently completed the Leged of Blue Eyes booster set. Its not 1st edition but just having the 1st booster lack completed is an awesome feeling to have.

[@tspisme6612]

I agree it’s a problem when people are messing over newer/younger players but sometimes you can even tell them the value and they don’t care still. So , it’s a weird situation where if both people are satisfied how bad is it? Still agree with you 100% on this .

[@asteryng]

Is this the updated title??

[@afish2281]

I kept on being given cards instead of cash, then the cards I get lose 90% of their value next week. I'm still salty over not getting the $13 for a card.

[@nikolai2271]

Thanks for reminding me dzeeff. I need to organize my trade binders a bit more.

[@spazerdazer8421]

If you trade cards in the TCG does mean you original the cards in the OCG?

[@AnTunZee]

How can you say “trading is free”? You have to get the cards to trade first. At some point, unless you got cards as a gift, trading isn’t free. I remember back in the day I traded using a different method. I gauged value not monetary but how useful the card was for me and/or my trading partner. I got some really great deals back then.

[@switchtalent123]

I agree, I never liked trading, I preferred buying/selling and I’ve never bought a box. It’s practically always cheaper to buy the singles you want then it is to get tradable cards or god for it to get them from a pack

[@womsky4537]

The last time l traded a card was in 2006, to get slifer, sadly l lost all my cards by the years, got none left right now

[@spartanq7781]

Ironic that in a trading card game actually trading is not preferable. I gwt new cards by just buying them.

[@dustinlocke7693]

i occasionally trade, which has slowed down, since all of the friends where i play around with have not much, so i tend to just pass a few cards along (a good example is some red eyes spell/trap support. and bewd support). most recently i sell some cards,

[@oliverludwig4412]

i don't trade but I like to see what other people have. also sometimes i have a bigger connection to an old or pricy card and because of that, trading seems odd for me and i don't trade, unless we are trading useless cards.

[@ImaConfusedHOBO]

I enjoy watching your videos as well but I mainly enjoy listening to you

[@Matsuto77]

I used to trade cards more than 15 years ago n the early days of the game, but ever since I returned In 2017, I haven’t been interested in trading. It’s not that I’m afraid of trading; it’s just that I’m not interested in doing so.

[@wolfpackwarriors]

I haven't played yugioh in 10plus years why am I here hahahahaha

[@TeamGentlementlemen]

The KZbin algorithm works in mysterious ways, and brings all walks of life together, my friend.

[@simpleplan32230]

Now that you say it, trading now seems stupid. I barely buy sealed products as it is. The only sealed products I buy is for stuff I want for my deck. But more often than not, I just end up on the short end of the stick and buy what I need anyway. Kinda seems counterintuitive to the spirit of a trading card game but you’re right.