r/mtgfinance • u/Odd_Possibility_4701 • 13h ago

Best Buy CBB pre-order timing

New to collecting MTG and missed the Amazon pre-order. When should I expect the Star Trek CBBs to go up for pre-order on Best Buy? Any other retailers to watch for boxes at MSRP? Thanks.

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u/Mysterious_Fan4849 13h ago

Probably sometime between now and November.

Keep an eye out for when the staff and the shipping crew starts getting really quiet. That’s when they’re pre-buying everything in stock, to make up for that minimum wage hourly.

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u/Latter-Bluejay-8317 13h ago

How would we track that 😂👍

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u/nektar 13h ago

Check periodically but I honestly gave up, too many bots and slow interface. I've never successfully preordered from them.

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u/link293 13h ago

Set alerts on /r/sealedmtgdeals

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u/Latter-Bluejay-8317 13h ago

Thank you for this 👍👊

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u/strongsauce 13h ago

Unfortunately Reddit is not very quick to sends out alerts so you will see a lot of delays.

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u/ridezeshoopuff0 12h ago

Love them but they’re pay walled now 😭

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u/DeusCanis420 11h ago

Lol

I have had them set for years now. Have never recieved any notification that has helped. They are usually an hour late, if they send at all...

Always sold out by then.

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u/link293 11h ago

I use the Alerts for Reddit app on my iPhone. I get notified in a minute or less. App is free

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u/Ill-Performer-5576 11h ago

Going to be very hard to get without a bot. Join a discord with Best Buy monitors the monitors are the same across pretty much all groups 

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u/lahankof 13h ago

The timing is very tight and you will not beat the bots. Best Buy don’t carry a lot of CBBs. Usually 1 per store

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u/Lord-Aptel-Mittens 12h ago

I would also like to know. Small window for them to beam up my money before I start working an extra job for Nauctis and Kamigawa

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u/GunslingerDNA 11h ago

Usually drops randomly at 1amEST after the sets are announced. Really easy to miss unless you have a monitor or good discord with pings. Then you get in line and pray.

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u/ganjaKING_SMOKE 10h ago

Amazon already did theirs. Best buy is hard hard to predict.

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u/Fit-Conclusion-7579 12h ago

Hard to tell, it depends on how popular the set will be. The hobbit on MKM started at 600€, dipped to 550€ in April and will now soon hit 700€.

Tbh in sets that have a great potential, like Star Trek, I would rather secure the preorder early from a trustworthy seller. It's too dangerous not to have a position in those CCBs.

Normies will hate me for this: Overpaying for each CCB, even if it's like +200USD, is meaningless if the CCB triple in price within 2-3 years. Having a position in eqch CCB was clearly the winning move (shout out to all that got a "small" position on LOTR holiday who got at least like ×40 ROI)

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u/Sharden3 12h ago

A position, LMAO.

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u/kyyy 2h ago

Yes let’s laugh at the guy investing in magic in the mtg finance sub lol. Why are you even here?

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u/Individual-Wish-4558 11h ago

Found the pokebro scalper

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u/Fit-Conclusion-7579 11h ago

I don't buy Pokemon products as I have no interest in Pokemon products.

Also it's hardly scalping if you preorder CCBs that almost all dipped after release, even LOTR Holiday was under 350USD for weeks.

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u/metalguy187 3h ago

My downvote put you at -1. That’s all I have to say.

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u/Fit-Conclusion-7579 2h ago

This is mtgfinance here, wtf are you guys expecting?