The Art of Listing - Lazy Buyers

Hey Guys, 

I don’t necessarily know if this is considered a trading technique, but it probably should be! Knowing how to list your cards is absolutely vital for how much profit you make, but also allows you to make coins when you may not need them. Let me explain. 

Let’s say you have a 9-5 job, which I know some of you do! If you aren’t actively playing Fifa, why not list your team? Of course you may not want to, but what if you could make a lot of profit and buy them cheaper? 

For the best example, it’s time we reference our Lazy God, Rontsen! Rontsen is an OG in the Discord and a long-time supporter. He’s a busy guy, so he found an easy way to make millions of extra coins each year. 

In this first example. Rontsen is using a numbers trick. FUT Birthday Maximin was selling right around 1 million coins at this time, but Rontsen listed at 2 million coins. Why would someone buy this? They’re simply confused. They likely looked at the cheapest on Futbin, but didn’t use a filter for their search. They misread the numbers and Rontsen made around 1 million coins profit simply from keeping his card constantly listed. 

Can this be applied on smaller numbers? Absolutely. I just pulled up SS Kante on my phone and he sells at 230K. If I was using this numbers trick, I would list at 320K. It is very very easy to misread these and I’ve done it myself. 

In terms of ethics, I find this completely fine. When trading, we’re naturally using our market knowledge and experience over those who don’t have it. If they choose not to use a filter, buy a wrong version of card or overpay that is their fault after all. If they searched by the cheapest, it could never happen. 

Other times, we hear of players new to the game who just look through a few pages of a player and buy on that appear cheap. This is due to them not understanding the market well! 

Listing like this works very well because it naturally keeps other listing higher, too! 

Next, I’ll use another example from Rontsen. When TOTS arrived, Rontsen was listing alternative version of TOTS cards for their TOTS price. In this example, he sold a FUT Birthday Havertz for TOTS price. How does someone mess this up based on completely different stats, color and position? I have no idea. LOL. 

These are both extreme examples showing how profitable it can be. One other example that I’ve personally used is listing informs at their second inform prices. It can be tough to distinguish the difference as they are both informs. 

Lastly, you can just list at random prices. It works. Cards sell occasionally at absurd prices without rhyme or reason. The key is simply to list. 

Now, let’s talk about how to list cards for trading. Let’s say you win a card cheap for day trading and you know what price you want to list at? How should you approach it? In this case, I list all my cards for 1 hour as often as I can until I fall asleep. Overnight, I list for 6 hours.  

The reason I list 1 hour at a time is because it provides the most opportunity for “lazy buying”.  If people see a card listed they may think it’s cheap and buy it. They would not have an opportunity to double-check if it’s near expiring. 

I highly, highly recommend listing hours until you no longer can. I could go on further, but I think I’ll leave you with this for now! 

Jake