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dogheels
Rising Ace
4 days ago

Tax

Personally, I don't see any purpose in the tax applied to sales of articles or players. First of all. Its a bias one sided implementation. The seller is taxed for sales. While the buyer is not. I can argue that the tax is to control the trade scale regarding over pricing articles, players. But it is this game that is responsible for the abundance of certain cards being issued. Buying a card at 100,000 coins today, is not the same as selling it a month after, where it has depreciated to 80,000 coins. And by selling it at that price, not only are you losing 20,000 coins from your original purchase cost. But you pay an additional 4000 coins for doing so. Bringing your loss to 24,000. If this tax was initially meant to keep in check market value and pricing. The idea is a fallacy. Have to remember. Its this franchise that continually brings out new cards, devaluing the previous ones. And to charge one a tax on a devalued product you have initiated. Makes no sense at all. The game at present is flooded with cards from the 70s to mid 80s. And their values have all decreased from their original set price by auction. Get rid of the tax.

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  • The tax is meant to provide diminishing returns for people who flip cards on the AH.

    It prevents people from buying a bunch of cards at 5k each and relisting for 5.1k. It's not a perfect system. But in a larger scale, if you buy a sought after card for 200k, and you want to make coins from reselling it, your break even price is 210k. So you'd be listing at 220k for only 10k profit. 

    Chances are, people who see the price of 220k won't buy though.

    It means that you really have to know what cards are listed at below market value to make coins.

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    dogheels
    Rising Ace
    3 days ago

    Its not a matter of its intention. Its the reality of the loss for everyone selling, as opposed to buying. One sided coin.

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    dogheels
    Rising Ace
    3 days ago

    I do understand the premise you are making here. But let's look at it in another venue. The packs. Over priced, with odds that are truly against you pulling a decent card. If one is lucky, they may exceed the cost of the pack with the content it holds. But thats rare. Usually the value of the content is worth half the cost. They do not upgrade the contents of these packs, where cards like 79 to 85 should be expired. Especially since the cost either rises, or stays the same. Now the value of those lower rated cards has decreased as time goes on, but they still fill packs with them. Ea has no problem taking from you, whether its the pack cost, or tax. So when I say the tax is nothing more than a scam, cloaked in absurd logic. Its why it serves no purpose, other than deleting your coins, so you will be directed to other avenues, like buying.

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