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Hey everybody,
We're by no means trying to 'rip people off', and yes, we're trying something new. We're a community based website and your feedback is extremely important to us and we take it seriously.
This opportunity came up and we thought it was desirable product to offer (and gave us an option to sell some MTG product to international customers). Your feedback is loud and clear, that this drop "doesn't represent good value when comparing the value of the cards to the value of the pack".
To clarify, if the average (expected value) of the cards in the packs is greater than the cost of the pack, then they wouldn't be sold as packs. Similarly, the expected value from a booster pack is less than the cost of the booster pack, and the same holds true here.
That being said, booster packs obviously have other factors involved (easy to draft, new cards, mint condition, etc.). Random assignments of cards are worth less than buying specific cards, so there's a discount associated with that as well. So the analogy isn't perfect, but certainly there.
Point being, the product isn't crap, the pricing just isn't as desirable as people would come to expect from Massdrop. If we sold these for $10 each, I'm certain nobody would be complaining about this being a "terrible ebay scam".
We've talked to our supplier and we're going to reprice this at $38.99 per pack, which takes into account the concerns brought on by the community. In the future, we will be more careful about the cards used for the packs and pack prices.
Sidenotes: -A bunch of the cards are foils, and it's hard to tell by the pictures, I'll get someone to edit the pictures tomorrow to identify the foils.
-First person to post a public GoogleDoc detailing the contents of every pack, with prices (linked) to tcgplayer will get two free packs. (The prices should be in the gdoc, as well as the link in a separate cell)- I have adjusted MSRP from $75 to $50, and will readjust it again if/when we have the exact data.
-People who have already joined, your order will be processed at the new price.