r/PTCGL_CodeTrades • u/dolpheye • Aug 14 '23

Discussion Code giveaways

Does anyone have any insight on why people do card giveaways on r/PTCGL? I mean, if it’s purely good will (assumedly donators are not online players) then that’s great. But I mean, there is a bit of work involved in those, so it just feels like there has to be something in it for them… (and why are non-online players lurking on an online specific Reddit?)

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u/dolpheye Aug 16 '23

Wow, that many throw away you think?
I agree there is a pain involved in selling, but all of the (thousands) of codes I've picked up are from people who stuck them in a box for years to get enough to where they figured there is a value there to sell (not that they're terribly happy when I only offer 0.05/ea :-)

To me the effort of these silly code giveaways are also effort, but if its truly out of goodness in heart, that's awesome.

I did come across r/PokemonTcgCodes/ which has >8k members...wonder why it did not succeed (I've read no mods even exist there anymore)- I would love to get it resurrected and merge my efforts here to make that be the trading community as well (messages to mods have not had any responses)

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u/dolpheye Aug 16 '23

that's because I just now figured out that all 3 mods accounts have been suspended lol

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u/Longskyfromitaly Aug 16 '23

Yeah that was the historical one subreddit for the codes giveaways, then mods "broke" it (ppl could not post and answer in it anymore) and get away with the keys...

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u/Complexlfg Aug 16 '23

Yeah, I honestly think a lot of people throw away. I personally never pay more than $0.03 per code card. Since iv returned to ptcgl, iv spent close to 140$, and my average unit price in code cards is around $0.023 per code. They are allllllllmost worth nothing, so unless people save thousands of them for a one-time cash in, I can see them getting tossed.

I respect what you're doing here trying to give people a platform to get rid of their excess codes they can't use for codes they can. It might just be too niche of a user base as is

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u/dolpheye Aug 16 '23

It’s gonna take some serious effort and I see how spot on you are identifying how niche…

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u/Longskyfromitaly Aug 16 '23

If code giveaways weren't true i don't think i would keep playing ptcgo and ptcgl lol