TCG Card Shop Simulator

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Best way to make money??
Do you guys sell EVERYTHING or just things you get the biggest return on?
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Sithy Oct 21, 2024 @ 6:59pm 
Before the most recent patch, you were able to just repeatedly sell the thing that gave you the biggest return on. This is the money flow that most people with max level stores is riding on right now because you got silly amounts within just a day or two of selling stuff. However now I make the majority of my funds selling dupes while trying to complete my collection. Between selling Dupes and selling red/pink bulk boxes of cards, I can generally net around 20k a day.
Llogeyr Oct 21, 2024 @ 7:01pm 
I have done both ways. Neither one is better than the other in my opinion. It's all what you prefer honestly. Just don't waste time with card tables and game tables at the beginning, except the ones you need to get through the tutorial. Take them down after. They eat majorly into your profits. Least with the cards you want to sell the ones that have more profit than your highest profit item.

That's just the way I play is all.
Last edited by Llogeyr; Oct 21, 2024 @ 7:02pm
SeverCD Oct 21, 2024 @ 7:11pm 
Hire someone for the cash register. Restock fully before you open for free labor. Have 4-5 tables of singles and unlock and stock all you can before you open. Buy 5 boxes of the highest red you got. Open 2 boxes, restock singles, open 2 boxes, restock singles, move last box to cash register in case help leaves and open when you can. Restock singles, advance day and repeat.
As many discussions have already stated: selling single cards is the worst in early and mid game regarding profit. As long as you can’t fill the whole table with at least kind of valuable cards (and keep it full) you will miss on lots of other cash you could have made selling more profitable stuff.
Even worse is the fact that customers will role by chance which shelf or table slot they will buy from, and when your shop consists of few shelves but also a mostly empty single cards table, chances are very high that they will just leave again without buying anything after shaking their head in disappointment in front of the empty card stand.
Last edited by [UniR] SillyShibby; Oct 21, 2024 @ 9:06pm
DraikTempest Oct 21, 2024 @ 9:34pm 
Originally posted by Llogeyr:
I have done both ways. Neither one is better than the other in my opinion. It's all what you prefer honestly. Just don't waste time with card tables and game tables at the beginning, except the ones you need to get through the tutorial. Take them down after. They eat majorly into your profits. Least with the cards you want to sell the ones that have more profit than your highest profit item.

That's just the way I play is all.

Really? Cause I got 6 tables running quickly and while the initiation fee for higher level tournaments is an issue on some days, I usually make as much as I sell just from games thanks to it. I've had them like that for a few levels and they make about 2-3k a day.
Gale Oct 21, 2024 @ 10:11pm 
I sell everything and make good profit daily doing it. I couldn't play this game without a nice looking shop and a variety of items to sell. Could use some cosmetic stuff though, like posters and whatnot, now that I think of it. I'm sure that will come in time though.
NerdyHexel Oct 21, 2024 @ 11:06pm 
I go with the middleground on the "one item vs diverse stock" debate.
I sell a bunch of things, but I stock MORE of the things that net the most profit. I have an entire set of 3 double-sided shelves that are full of my latest profit item, but the rest of the store is stocked somewhat normally.
Harouki Oct 21, 2024 @ 11:23pm 
Originally posted by Llogeyr:
I have done both ways. Neither one is better than the other in my opinion. It's all what you prefer honestly. Just don't waste time with card tables and game tables at the beginning, except the ones you need to get through the tutorial. Take them down after. They eat majorly into your profits. Least with the cards you want to sell the ones that have more profit than your highest profit item.

That's just the way I play is all.
without play tables, you'll just be spending more time and money restocking your items. True they aren't worth it early game but once you get the more expensive events then they can make up a good amount of your profits
Oblivion Oct 22, 2024 @ 3:21am 
just stocking 1 high price item is still the best in the game unfortunately. it will make around 2-3X the price of running a normal store. so if you want money.. its simple what to do. and dont listen to the people who say "oh u gota restock more bla bla" everything is automated other than ordering boxes every few days. employees handle the shop just fine without a problem. and after the last update it seems XP gain was increased aswell?
SnowboundGem Oct 22, 2024 @ 4:18am 
I made more even after the update just selling my highest priced box (legendary destiny) before update it was about 60k a day after update it dropped to 20k. I ordered 600 boxes of stock once every 5-7 day's and just ripped packs all day.

The fully stocked shop earns me about 8k profit per day. Both set ups didn't have tables and they also didn't have the singles on sale either. Market price + 10% rounded is my sales price on both set ups.

Once I get the last achievement i am missing for the 2500 cards I am going to take a break from the game to let it cook a bit more.
Last edited by SnowboundGem; Oct 22, 2024 @ 4:23am
SomewhatSolo Oct 22, 2024 @ 4:19am 
Jack the prices up.

So days 1 through 60 or so I did the "stock and sell everything" to make money. Did ok but was a lot of work. Game Tables, Boosters, Boxes, as many unlockables on the shelf I could afford.

Day 60 or so I got rid of all my single packs and game tables and just stocked Boxes and expensive figurines and board games. I made way more money. Focused on the Redish super expensive pre made deck, forgot what it is, Legendary. Think it's the first item on the last row on the Card buy Tab. About $440.00 a box of 18. Price on it fluctuates quite a bit so I would invest all I had when it was at $443.00 (18pk) and sell for about $2 cheaper than market value. Made loads more cash mainly because it would generally inflate to about $450-$460 a day. Buy as many as I could at $443 and make big money.

Day 70 or so, got rid of everything that didn't turn a profit of over $15-$20. Reinvested all the cash into the Legendary (Red) Pre-Made Decks.

The thing I noticed was, one day, even though the Pre-Made pack Market Value ($42.00 PK) was at it's normal Low, I went ahead and jacked the price to $50 per Pack. It still sold more than enough to make up for the decreased sales and then some.

So here on Day 80 something, I have about 30 Cases of 18 Legendary Pre-Made Packs along with about 70% of my store shelves fully stocked with the Pre-Made Decks and just stand there, do nothing. Cashier does all the work. Make 15k-20k a day profit no matter what the market value is.

Tip: Make your prices divisible by 50 cents at minimum. No matter what you sell. The faster you or your employee can cash someone out the door, the faster someone else shows up to buy your stuff.
Last edited by SomewhatSolo; Oct 22, 2024 @ 4:20am
Oblivion Oct 22, 2024 @ 4:21am 
Originally posted by SomewhatSolo:
Jack the prices up.

So days 1 through 60 or so I did the "stock and sell everything" to make money. Did ok but was a lot of work. Game Tables, Boosters, Boxes, as many unlockables on the shelf I could afford.

Day 60 or so I got rid of all my single packs and game tables and just stocked Boxes and expensive figurines and board games. I made way more money. Focused on the Redish super expensive pre made deck, forgot what it is, Legendary. Think it's the first item on the last row on the Card buy Tab. About $440.00 a box of 18. Price on it fluctuates quite a bit so I would invest all I had when it was at $443.00 (18pk) and sell for about $2 cheaper than market value. Made loads more cash mainly because it would generally inflate to about $450-$460 a. Buy as many as I could at $443 and make big money.

Day 70 or so, got rid of everything that didn't turn a profit of over $15-$20. Reinvested all the cash into the Legendary (Red) Pre-Made Decks.

The thing I noticed was, one day, even though the Pre-Made pack Market Value ($42.00 PK) was at it's normal Low, I went ahead and jacked the price to $50 per Pack. It still sold more than enough to make up for the decreased sales and then some.

So here on Day 80 something, I have about 30 Cases of 18 Legendary Pre-Made Packs along with about 70% of my store shelves fully stocked with the Pre-Made Decks and just stand there, do nothing. Cashier does all the work. Make 15k-20k a day profit no matter what the market value is.

Tip: Make your prices divisible by 50 cents at minimum. No matter what you sell. The faster you or your employee can cash someone out the door, the faster someone else shows up to buy your stuff.
jacking prices up increases chance of customers not buying anything. so that has the opposite effect :) should allways use market price unless you want to overprice some cards for a big sale. there is a guide chart if your interested.
SomewhatSolo Oct 22, 2024 @ 4:25am 
Originally posted by Oblivion:
Originally posted by SomewhatSolo:
Jack the prices up.

So days 1 through 60 or so I did the "stock and sell everything" to make money. Did ok but was a lot of work. Game Tables, Boosters, Boxes, as many unlockables on the shelf I could afford.

Day 60 or so I got rid of all my single packs and game tables and just stocked Boxes and expensive figurines and board games. I made way more money. Focused on the Redish super expensive pre made deck, forgot what it is, Legendary. Think it's the first item on the last row on the Card buy Tab. About $440.00 a box of 18. Price on it fluctuates quite a bit so I would invest all I had when it was at $443.00 (18pk) and sell for about $2 cheaper than market value. Made loads more cash mainly because it would generally inflate to about $450-$460 a. Buy as many as I could at $443 and make big money.

Day 70 or so, got rid of everything that didn't turn a profit of over $15-$20. Reinvested all the cash into the Legendary (Red) Pre-Made Decks.

The thing I noticed was, one day, even though the Pre-Made pack Market Value ($42.00 PK) was at it's normal Low, I went ahead and jacked the price to $50 per Pack. It still sold more than enough to make up for the decreased sales and then some.

So here on Day 80 something, I have about 30 Cases of 18 Legendary Pre-Made Packs along with about 70% of my store shelves fully stocked with the Pre-Made Decks and just stand there, do nothing. Cashier does all the work. Make 15k-20k a day profit no matter what the market value is.

Tip: Make your prices divisible by 50 cents at minimum. No matter what you sell. The faster you or your employee can cash someone out the door, the faster someone else shows up to buy your stuff.
jacking prices up increases chance of customers not buying anything. so that has the opposite effect :) should allways use market price unless you want to overprice some cards for a big sale. there is a guide chart if your interested.

Yes I know but from my experience, the increase in price makes up for the loss in sales plus a little extra. This rule would be more true if you had many many different SKUs to sell, but when your limited in items you still end up outselling any loss. In my experience.

I should clarify, just the Pre-Made Legendary decks are over priced, everything else is still below Market Value. So 70% of my sellables, Legendary decks, are over priced, 30% are about $1-2$ below market value. Less sales in Legendary decks but when they do sell, they make up for the lost sales. I still sell a lot of Legendary Decks when the price is high but I'm also not having to re purchase as often or stock as often. I make about 20% more daily profit doing this compared to keeping the Decks at market or below.

Maybe the final version of the game will be fine tuned to reflect reality and I may not be able to continue this method of profit. I didn't develop the game, I just play it and it just works.
Last edited by SomewhatSolo; Oct 22, 2024 @ 4:46am
Bullitxd Oct 22, 2024 @ 5:27am 
just download a mod where u can get more money per customer👍🏻
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