Newbies: Introduce yourself here!

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[Nienna]

 



 

[savage727]

Welcome Geek Boy and like others have said you are a youngster compared to some of us!  

[Nienna]

Too true!

<-- is growing old disgracefully!!

[mcgonagall]

is growing insane and old disgracefully lmao  ( kids ) lmao

[Nienna]

*mwahahahahaha*.... yes that's one of the things that kids do to us!

Oh ... and what's this 'thing' called a memory? D'you know what it is?
Nope! I can't remember what it is either!!

[mcgonagall]

as my kids say
I only remember what they have forgotten to do instead of what they have done lol
And what about peace and quiet i seem to remember something about it

[Roz]

as my kids say
I only remember what they have forgotten to do instead of what they have done

That's not old age - as far as I can make out that's just motherhood

[flobo2020]

Hey guys!

I've joined this forum a little over a week and I've decided it is time I introduce myself. My name is Stephen and I live in Toronto, Canada. I am 15 years old and I am new to Harry Potter Trading cards. I first read Harry Potterand the PS when I was 6 or 7, I can't remember. The book just came out and my mom wanted to buy it for me. I read alot at an early age but I thought HP sounded stupid so I was not interested. My mom bought it anyways and it turned out to be one of the best books I have read. My first copy of HP is now worn out (it was the very first printing with the man with the brown beard on the back- Flammel?) but I noe have all hardcovers and I collect the special editions. I don't really like the movies as they leave way too much out, but I like the third movie. That was my favorite book and so far the best movie (though they left out Griffindor winning the quidditch world cup- how could they? My favorite movie is the LOTR, I loved the movies since I saw them and everyone in my school knows me as a LOTR freak. I used to play the LOTR TCG but I got  pissed (can I say pissed on these boards? ) with Decipher and dropped it, though my love for LOTR is strong. I then turned to Rittenhouse Archives for their Stargate SG-1 Costume Cards as Stargate is my all time favorite show (I'm know as a Stargate freak too ). Sadly nowhere in Toronto sells HP or SG-1 cards so I buy individual cards on E-bay (don't ask how a 15-year old got an account - I'm responsible so no one notices). I joined these boards because I love all the same things you guys do and I don't know much about the cards. I plan to be an involved member of the boards but I may ask many questions- sorry. I don't have a job as I have school right now, but I get my funds from saving my lunch mony and allowance- yes, 15 and get an allowance- If I save all my money and go with out lunch, I have $70 a week which is not bad. My name on ebay is flobo2020 and I buy mostly Stargate and Hermione Costume Cards. Sorry about the very long intro and hope to be friends!!

[Roz]

Welcome welcome! It's nice to have more Canadians too as we are rather dominated by the UK (me) and US folk at the moment with a strong band of Aussies and I think just one other Canadian (Crystles).

I am gonna get all rude now and tell you to at least get a banana with some of your lunch money so that you don't do yourself some kind of injury by not eating. Do you have breakfast? (if you do then that's ok because I never have breakfast so I guess we are even).

What upset you about the Decipher cards? The sheer quantity? (250-300 cards a set is not uncommon) or did the rules get too easy/too hard for playing them?

From purely an aesthetic point of view many of the decipher cards I have seen have been beautiful!!! Some of the foils are very cool indeed (admittedly some work less well but it's all swings and roundabouts).

P.S. Questions are welcome - I bet you will be asking what many people are wondering

[flobo2020]

Thanks for the welcome Roz! you guys are really nice! The thing that made me drop Decipher was that the first 10 sets were pretty good but for the final 9, they changed the rules to "liven it up" and now whole cultures are unuseable. Now you have to build a deck around a new culture. They are starting to faze out sets and you now can't use cards from the first block (first three sets) which had really good cards. They have made promos almst imposible to get. Before, you used to get promos in magazines and DVDs but now, you have to go to Gencon to get an exclusive promo, go to France to get another- it's crazy. If you ask me, they are just trying to get more money and I don't like it. I then heard of Rittenhouse and I had a feeling that they were a smaller company than Decipher. I like this because then they would be more likely to listen to the customer and be more down to earth. Also the cards are great! . I still like LOTR very much but I can't spend money on something that I can't use. The Stargate cards are fantastic and I like them better than the LOTR TCG. Sorry, I've seem to ramble on again! See ya guys later!

[savage727]

Hello and welcome flobo2020!  

I know what you mean about Decipher's LOTR's CCG!  I never did play but I do collect the cards.  The recent change in Promo card distribution is very upsetting and I know of several people who have left the game and or collecting due to the rules change and Promo card craziness.   There is no way I am going to shell out $80 to $200 for the new Promo cards - there are 10+ new ones out as of today and more seem to pop up almost weekly!   If they keep down this path they will lose me as well as I cannot afford them nor get to the venues where these cards are offered!    

[sketchqueen]

Hey Flobo!

I'm lucky enough to work for Rittenhouse as the Customer Service manager And yeah - we're small, only 5 employees (and that includes the boss!!) but we all love what we do

[flobo2020]

Hi sketchqueen!

I want to thank you guys for your extraordinary cards and tell you to keep up the good work! I love the cards!

[Nienna]

I only wish Rittenhouse had the licence for the LOTR cards instead of Topps .... just imagine how much different the sets would've been and what fantastic Customer Service we would've had!

I think you'd have to love what you do otherwise you wouldn't be able to do it!  

A big 'Hello' to Stephen from another Brit ~ the more the merrier eh Roz!

[Anna]

I figured I should properly introduce myself to the forum, so here it is.

My name is Anna (I’m not creative enough to think of a cool forum name) and I live in southern California (about 20 miles south of Los Angeles).  I’m 45 years old (much older than most of you) and I work at one of the large aerospace companies here.  I’m not married, but I live with my significant other (thankfully he’s not into trading cards, we’d be broke otherwise!).  We’ve been together now for 17 years and we have no children.

In August of last year I was out on disability from work (neck problems stemming from two car accidents years ago).  The first couple months I was pretty much bedridden, but when I started feeling better, I began surfing the web to amuse myself (I don’t watch TV much).  Through an ebay seller, I discovered this forum (can’t recall which seller).  Well that was the beginning of my financial disaster!!  I got interested in the Harry Potter cards!!  Since I was late for the original set, I decided to focus my efforts on the update set.  I’ve almost completed that set, so my main concentration is now on the original set (which is pretty pricey!).  Thankfully there aren’t as many cards to collect!!

I’d been lurking in your forum since October, and have enjoyed reading everyone’s comments, speculations, case/box breakdowns, etc.  You all are very helpful and supportive to each other and I found that endearing.  I finally registered to be able to view your new price guide (what an amazing guide – kudos to Mark and Roz!).  Since then I’ve been dutifully entering auction prices into your guide.  I work with data a lot at work so I’m interested in trend analysis.  Although at work we don’t have pretty card pictures to go with the data.  

[Roz]

My name is Anna (I’m not creative enough to think of a cool forum name)

Join the club - I use Roz - short for Rosalind

In August of last year I was out on disability from work (neck problems stemming from two car accidents years ago).  

Oh dear - bad luck there. I am glad to hear you are better and back to work. A close personal friend of mine is currently having both her legs reconstructed and is learning to walk again after a particularly nasty accident too. I think we often underestimate the danger that we can be in when we climb into a car.

I’d been lurking in your forum since October ...  I finally registered to be able to view your new price guide (what an amazing guide – kudos to Mark and Roz!).  

Yes we are evil - in case you guys don't realise (because you are all obviously signed up) you can't look at the values contained in the price guide until you have signed up to the forum.

It was mostly to ensure that the number of users gave us some reflection as to how many people we had using the price guide too.

Since then I’ve been dutifully entering auction prices into your guide.  I work with data a lot at work so I’m interested in trend analysis.  Although at work we don’t have pretty card pictures to go with the data.  

And it's much appreciated - you have entered hundreds of values already single handedly - so thank you.

If you want easier ways to "trend analyse" card prices then don't worry - we are getting pretty graphs into the guide too but we wanted to wait a while so that the guides had a few months data to work by.

[MakTheYak]

The pretty graphs will come I promise! I've just got to figure out how to do it....!

Welcome Anna and thanks for all your hard work on the 'guide!

[Morrisap]

I'm a newby for a few months.
I found this site on Topps LOTR stuff
I live in Cincinnati but originally from Cadiz, KY
I am into Harry Potter & LOTR & Batman

How do you move up the rank to a Yak?  I am a calf

[Nienna]

Hi Morrisap!

To move up the ranks you just keep posting on the Forum ... simple as that!

[jediknight]

hi

my name is Jedi knight and i would like some tips on what to do here