That was my initial thought, maybe i'm really unlucky, out of 500 games with cards i only got 8 foil cards. I prefer 2-5 cents more for each booster then for that little chance of a foil (which i may not be able to sell it at a good price, i had foils which i "had" to sell at 0,18€)
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I got like 9 in like 220 card drops, and 1-3 each week when I used to buy gems to make booster packs everyday and sell cards for profit, now sack of gems has 7 days of no trading/market period, and resultant cards too :(
I used to open like 4-7 booster packs per day at that time I crafted booster packs.
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I don't get that many foils, but once I got lucky streak when I dropped one foil for fresh not-bad game (that quickly appeared in bundle, which is why I had it) for around €2-3, and then one foil for Aerena's New Version, which someone bought for €10.
Yes, that's €10. I was so surprised when my wallet grow larger, at first I thought I sold tons of some normal cards or something during night. But no, turns out some good soul decided to help me with over €8 after Valve-tax.
Beside that, I think I dropped maybe 4 more foils (and that's from around 1000-2000 cards idled), but those were cheap.
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Apparently the (average) drop rate is 1:100 so 1 foil drop for every 100 card drops.
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If they were from the same booster pack that's pretty damn impressive luck. And even if it's just 30 cent; as they say in Zombieland "Gotta apreciate the little things". ;)
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But you might get a foil card. I'd not sell the booster pack if the difference is only 2-3 cents more for the booster pack compared to the average price of 3 cards..
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Open. You will almost always get more for selling the cards than selling the booster pack, e.g. there can be foil cards in it.
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Open. Not that I actually get any though. Got 2 when I first started out with a couple games. Now have 107 eligible games and haven't seen one for about a year.
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Honestly, for max value you got to check the probabilities like in poker. You have a 99% chance to get a normal (let's say it's so) and 1% to get a foil. So you make the calculation. Open value = 3x(0.99x[arithmetic mean of normal cards sale prices]+0.01x[arithmetic mean of foil cards sale prices]). Don't open value = pack sale price and then you pick the one with higher value.
Of course, it's a ridiculous calculation that will most likely give you 3 cents or so. You may also want to consider how you'll sell a foil and raising card prices too. Don't forget that you get stuff for completing a badge.
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Booster Packs: Sell or Open?
What do you do? Sell the booster packs or open them?
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