Events and Singles Questions

[Bohemian Rap City]

EVENTS) When I schedule an event, should I run the same event every day, or should I rotate events. Does the event get better turn out if I cut the fee to below the other shops, or should I charge more?

Single Cards) I only have two displays of singles. This is because I have a hard time keeping the tables full as the cards fly off. I read that low value singles will go and keep a customer from buying a high priced alternate item. However I spend all my time busting packs to get singles worth $10 or more.

I also raised price of singles to 20% over market value and they still fly off the display. I marked them to 30% over market and people start whining that they are overpriced. It lowers my shop rating, but they still sell out.

Is there a good formula to stock singles and not have the tables empty? Should I have only 1 table and use an ultra high markup?

[Oblivion]

1: just run the highest one available at all times and youl be good suggest never going past market price for events since customers will flat out leave sometimes then.

2: this will differ for people on opinion obviously. but 1st never sell cards unless they are duplicates, early game cards are a great source of income, but once you play abit they will just lower your daily income and not be worth the hassle "since no matter the cost of a card its only 10xp" hopefully will change in the future "... customers will also go look at empty tables even if they arent refilled wich is a pure profit loss

3: 20-30% on cards is perfectly fine aslong as your willing to wait abit "but as i mentioned in 2" if a customers goes and look at that card and think its to expensive there is a chance they leave without buying other stuff" wich is just a loss of profit and exp

4: end of the day run the shop the way you want, everything will work fine.
there is literally no way to "Fail" the game currently unless your "early" game and forget about rent 2 weeks and suddenly go into huge debt you cant escape from.

[wildmick]

there are 12 events. i rotate thru them sequentially every 10 days. In my next playthru i'm going to make the events every 30 days. If you stick to one event, then eventually your gonna skew and/or screw the values on some of your cards, while some will go up.. others will go down.

i stagger my single prices. I have 7 sets of 3 tables joined together, 1set at 30%, 2 sets at 20%, 3 sets at 10% and 1 set at market. plus a single table just for duplicate ghosts that i sell for 40%

i make approx 5-10k a day from single card sales. on average i sell 50 cards a day.

day 460, shop lvl 84

[Feyd]

Originally posted by wildmick:

there are 12 events. i rotate thru them sequentially every 10 days. In my next playthru i'm going to make the events every 30 days. If you stick to one event, then eventually your gonna skew and/or screw the values on some of your cards, while some will go up.. others will go down.

i stagger my single prices. I have 7 sets of 3 tables joined together, 1set at 30%, 2 sets at 20%, 3 sets at 10% and 1 set at market. plus a single table just for duplicate ghosts that i sell for 40%

i make approx 5-10k a day from single card sales. on average i sell 50 cards a day.

day 460, shop lvl 84

And you're using what mod to cheat in order to keep these singles stocked or are you selling garbage that's worth like $7?

Even at fastest rate, you can only open ~192 packs a day over the 13 hours. Even with good luck, you won't get enough cards to make it worth even putting a card table down at all for an entire day. Just having a singles table cuts your item sales by about 30-40%.

If I open packs for a week straight, I can spam cards down on tables for one day and already be down to selling stuff worth single digit values before close. Where are you getting all these singles from that are worth a damn?

To the OP: Just run holo event and don't worry about singles. I have consistent ~10k profit every day(not revenue, profit) running 9 play tables (just for synergy) and selling every product available at less than 10% markup. The thing about holos is 20% of all cards on average will be holos. 50% of all the cards available are holos(every card has a holo version). It doesn't drop your non-holo cards that much and you get better, consistent, regular revenue from your tables at the $45/hour per person rate. If you box up your singles table, you'll see your item sales go up about 50%. If you really want to sell singles, then open packs for a week, then spend 1 day unloading your highest value ones on the table. Then box it back up when you run out of good stuff and repeat the cycle. There's no way you'll keep them worthwhile without cheating via mods.

[wildmick]

Originally posted by Feyd:

Originally posted by wildmick:

there are 12 events. i rotate thru them sequentially every 10 days. In my next playthru i'm going to make the events every 30 days. If you stick to one event, then eventually your gonna skew and/or screw the values on some of your cards, while some will go up.. others will go down.

i stagger my single prices. I have 7 sets of 3 tables joined together, 1set at 30%, 2 sets at 20%, 3 sets at 10% and 1 set at market. plus a single table just for duplicate ghosts that i sell for 40%

i make approx 5-10k a day from single card sales. on average i sell 50 cards a day.

day 460, shop lvl 84

And you're using what mod to cheat in order to keep these singles stocked or are you selling garbage that's worth like $7?

Even at fastest rate, you can only open ~192 packs a day over the 13 hours. Even with good luck, you won't get enough cards to make it worth even putting a card table down at all for an entire day. Just having a singles table cuts your item sales by about 30-40%.

If I open packs for a week straight, I can spam cards down on tables for one day and already be down to selling stuff worth single digit values before close. Where are you getting all these singles from that are worth a damn?

To the OP: Just run holo event and don't worry about singles. I have consistent ~10k profit every day(not revenue, profit) running 9 play tables (just for synergy) and selling every product available at less than 10% markup. The thing about holos is 20% of all cards on average will be holos. 50% of all the cards available are holos(every card has a holo version). It doesn't drop your non-holo cards that much and you get better, consistent, regular revenue from your tables at the $45/hour per person rate. If you box up your singles table, you'll see your item sales go up about 50%. If you really want to sell singles, then open packs for a week, then spend 1 day unloading your highest value ones on the table. Then box it back up when you run out of good stuff and repeat the cycle. There's no way you'll keep them worthwhile without cheating via mods.

no mods, i restock the singles after the shop is closed. i open 256 cards packs a day.
the minimum value of cards are around $30.

[Jaali]

That math aint check out on 256 pulls. I average over 64 pulls 5x 30 dollar cards, and one 100ish dollar card over 128 pulls. 800 dollar average is well short of 5k a day. So unless your RNG improves each day played and each level achieved (I am level 50ish around 100 days), that non-modded math is fishier and a fishmongers.

[Assume I have 400 Ping]

Originally posted by Jaali:

That math aint check out on 256 pulls. I average over 64 pulls 5x 30 dollar cards, and one 100ish dollar card over 128 pulls. 800 dollar average is well short of 5k a day. So unless your RNG improves each day played and each level achieved (I am level 50ish around 100 days), that non-modded math is fishier and a fishmongers.

Which pack?
I just opened 256 Legendary Destiny packs and only counting my duplicates, my 6 most valuable card pulls are worth £4k - The next 20 or so cards are all above £30 then it gets into 20's. Around 6k-ish.

If I don't count my duplicates, I earned several new cards in the £500-700 range. So easily 10k+. Full Art / Gold Shiny / Ex Shiny are all worth a ton in these packs. It's very, very easy to get high value cards.

It's perfectly reasonable to earn around 5-10k per day from 50 individual legendary destiny sales. I average personally around 50 sales a day with 2 tables, but usually closer to 1-4k per day as i'm opening Tetramon packs normally.

[Bohemian Rap City]

OK a lot to take in here. My shop is lvl 30. I have to open a LOT of packs to keep 1 table stocked with cards that I can sell at $20 (after 30% mark-up). If I run more than one table, or I only sell dupes, I end up putting cards in the $2 - $10 range. I would love to only sell duplicates, but I cannot see a way to fill a table with $20 cards and keep it stocked all day without spending the day opening cards.

I have 12 tables and keep them fairly filled but I don't know whether to discount them for events, or charge the market rate. I also worry that running a low tier event will hurt my business.

[Dreagon]

I personally don't bother with selling singles. I'm not opening that many packs because I'm currently spending all my money on resupply and upgrades so basically all my duplicates aren't worth anything. I decided to give up on selling cards and got rid of my card table. The next day my revenue increased by 2000 euros.

[Bohemian Rap City]

Originally posted by Dreagon:

I personally don't bother with selling singles. I'm not opening that many packs because I'm currently spending all my money on resupply and upgrades so basically all my duplicates aren't worth anything. I decided to give up on selling cards and got rid of my card table. The next day my revenue increased by 2000 euros.

I just took down my two card tables and found that I raised my daily rating because my only bad ratings over the last few days is over lack of singles, or overpriced singles. I decided that rather than sell low price singles, I would stop selling singles, and lo and behold I have all 4 and 5 star ratings.