Itchy fingers eager to open some packs. I went and bought another 110 packs again... As an experiment (good excuse, I just wanna flip packs!), I wanted to see if buying beta packs can be as profitable as how alpha packs used to be.
The Experiment
This time, I bought it from @smartmonsters as they offer one of the best deals in the competitive Steemmonsters market.
- $200 for 110 packs
- 10% steem power payback by @steemmonsters
- 1% loyalty rebate by @smartmonsters
With that, my total expenditure is just $178
Again, my luck at flipping packs is really bad. The 110 packs are very average with only 3 legendaries, a few GF common and rare. No GF epic, no GFL...
Then, I created an excel with all the 550 cards and copied the lowest price of the cards from the market. If you are interested, take a look at this excel to see all of them. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1MQGDab2awO4Asc8FicM-18mEmxP2FMmU7Ev70hEj2Q0
The total price of these cards are only worth $95.93. Meaning I had a loss of $178-$95.93=$82
But its ok. I am still lacking Death, Neutrals, and Epic Summoners card. So I am keeping those while selling the rest of the excess cards to recover some of the investment.
More Perks!
While writing this post, I saw a new update from @smartmonsters.
@smartmonsters is an account with almost 9000sp. A 5% upvote is worth only $0.01. But if I buy another 80 packs, I will reach Tier 2 and stand to get up to 20% upvote worth $0.04, everyday (not sure if it is everyday, I think they will tweak it along the way). Not too bad!
Furthermore...
Even Better!
Also an upvote from @smartmarket! An account with 143000sp! Wonder what % voting weight we can get. I am eager to see how these @smartmonsters upvotes work out.
Overall, I had been really satisfied with @smartmonsters. If any of you wants to flip some packs, make sure you get your packs from them!
2 more points!
- I think this works. @steemmonsters has an affiliate program that rewards 5% to the referral. You can, therefore, buy packs using an alternate referred account and get 5% cashback.
- If you do this experiment 5 times, you will gain the Maverick status and be eligible for a 45% @steemmonsters upvote worth $2 every 36 hours!
Last but not least...
If you are lucky and open a Gold Foil Legendary card, you would have made back all the investment!
Disclaimer: I don't work for @smartmonsters or @smartsteem. Just sharing a good service for all steemmonsters friends.
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Thank you for this great feedback!
Regarding the Steempower powerup by @steemmonsters, it is actually 10%.
And our upvotes increase linearly based on the packs you've purchased. Since you bought 120 packs, you received a 3.4% vote. If you buy 80 more packs, you'll receive a 5% vote the next time.
Also, the votes are daily. So every 24 hours you're able to get another vote.
We hope this explanation was good enough.
All the best,
Smart Monsters
Ah, yes, it is 10% sp. Will update my post.
Linear upvotes based on purchased packs, yeah that sounds fair. Thanks for the great service!
Awesome thanks for the news
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I love the fact you said it was an "experiement" cough cough cough hahahahaha
Haha!! At least there are no lies in this experiment post, pure facts :)
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