The Rental Market EXPLODES at Season End as Players Try to Pull New Cards
In an enormous show of strength, the Splinterlands Rental market had a one day bonanza as players who were largely starved of rewards all season decided they wanted some of those new cards.
After a lackluster build up to the 3rd end of season rental market ramp that made it seem like it wasn't going to happen, the market exploded higher. Some of the cards you'd expect were soaring like the Gold Foil epics and rares which are great for building quick power but also tons of cards I didn't expect.
Here are some notable rentals that surprised me.
Plain Epic Alphas were going for between 150 and 350. (mainly around 190)
A plain level one Silvershield bard went for 45
Epic Golds went for 1099 while the beta Epic Golds when for as high as 1299 and I may have been underpricing because they went pretty quick at that price.
Gold Legendaries went for 3299 and that may also have been too cheap because again, quick.
Alpha gold Alric and Malrics 1300/1400
Gold rares mostly around 250-300
Gold Commons 50-125
Plain non-alpha/beta epics 50-150
Gold Mylors 350-400
Kron 450-500
Llama 900
Most of my cards were already rented out for much cheaper prices. ANything that was expiring I cancelled to relist which was probably about 30% of my portfolio. Also it took me quite a few listings where I just couldn't wrap my mind around what people were paying so I way underpriced many of them. For instance I was listing a lot of gold epics for 300 and was giddy about them renting before I realized they'd rent just as fast at 1099. DOH!
Still though, after a dismal season of renting out cards, the last day hit with a bang and almost doubled my best day to date. Still, I think overall, last season was better than this one but yesterday made up for an awful lot of it and I'm very grateful 😀
Today is back to the grind though. I rented out the kitchen sink yesterday and changed all my prices so now I have to go through and rebuild this beast.
How about you? Were you prepared for the explosion yesterday? Were you able to take advantage of it? Did you get caught up having to rent out cards at those prices?
(It touched 98k at one point but this was the highest screenshot I captured)
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I keep reading about these end of season rental market bonanzas, but haven't been able to take advantage myself...
Do you just pull all your regular, lowball prices on the final day of a season and bump them up?
What is the best way to ensure I'm not just giving someone a gift, low priced rental on my cards at the end of each season?
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Im already pretty active in managing my inventory so I just see when the prices start moving and then I start cancelling and repricing according to current prices and even a little above expecting they'll keep rising. I start with mainly anything gold and especially gold rares, epics, and legendaries and of course any cards I see moving.
Peakmonsters is a godsend here since you can compare what you're renting at and what the current lowest price is.
Then it's just watching prices and realizing people are probably paying far more than you'd dream they'd pay.
The last two seasons finales there was a bit more of a slow ramp up that ended in a frenzy. This time we had about a 10% boost in market activity for a few days that started to fizzle out and then it was like someone fired the starting pistol 24 hours before the end and the frenzy was underway. I was caught way off guard and spent a whole lot of time in front of my computer cancelling and relisting cards.
I messed up this time by underpricing. I'd have a card like a gold foil giant squid that usually goes for 2 dec and in prior ramps have gone for 20 to 40 dec and I saw that suddenly the cheapest available were like 300. I thought that was just silly dreaming so I put mine at an insane 75 not even expecting it to rent but figuring I could lower from there to find the ceiling. It was gone in seconds. Still I couldn't get through my head that it could be higher so I gleefully rented a bunch of them around that price before I finally wised up and tried higher prices.
What I found was the top of the market (those posting for 300 in this case) was a little over ambitious and usually would take a while to rent out, but 200-250 would rent just as fast as 75 did.
So I started using others as a guide but usually stayed 10-20% lower and every now and then I'd try to go a little higher and see what happened. When you rent something out for 25x what you'd usually rent it out for though, even finding out it could have been 75x doesn't feel so bad.
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