Making Money - Other

Packs

The infamous bronze, silver and gold packs, where there is a chance of getting a million coin player, but a very small chance, about 0.01% according to latest statistics, meaning you would have to buy 10,000 packs to guarantee yourself an amazing player. Many players have wasted thousands of coins/MS/money on packs, and never got anyone. However, in some cases there are ways to maximise the pack potential.

Bronze Packs

The Bronze pack method is quite a well known method within the realm of Ultimate Team, but can bring you 300-400 coins profit. The Bronze Pack Method involves buying a 400 coin bronze pack, and then sending all the players, contracts, fitness and healing cards to your trade pile to sell for 150 coins. This works quite well, especially when you get a healing card, which can sell for 200-250 coins, leading to overall sales of around 750-900 coins depending on what/who you get in a pack. Healing cards are on average in 1 in every 3 pack, so the chances of making a decent relative profit with this method are quite high. However, this method is quite time consuming, as you could go for days without selling anything, meaning that this method is  only suitable for those who are patient, and willing to wait some time for profit.

Silver Packs

These have a potential profit of between 0-50k coins, depending on who/what you get in the pack. These packs have probably the least chance of making any profit, as only a few 74 rated silver players will sell for more than 1k coins, and so with the packs priced at 2500 and 3750 coins, you would have to get a fairly rare 73-74 rated silver player to make any profit at all, as silver contracts, fitness etc only sell for around 200-250 BIN.

Gold Packs

These have the biggest potential for profit from 1k – 2million coins, depending on which cards you get. If you pull a Messi/Ronaldo/Rooney, then the potential profit can run into hundreds of thousands of coins. However, I would only recommend this method if you have thousands of coins to spend, or MS points, as the potential loss is huge. Most players that you will get will only discard for 300-350 coins, whilst contracts, player attributes, fitness etc will only sell for 150-300 BIN, meaning each gold pack is on average worth 1500-2k coins, and a potential loss of 3k -4.5k depending on whether you buy a premium gold pack/normal gold pack.

There are also special packs, during happy hour (Friday 5-6 GMT.) These can range from premium gold jumbo packs, which are essentially just 2 premium gold packs for 15,000 to player packs for 12,500 – 25,000. This is probably the best time to buy packs, if any because the chances of getting an IF player from TOTW is 3 times higher, and so there is a 3 times chance of making a big profit of around 50k.

 What time should I buy the cards?

The profit potential is greatly increased depending on the time in which you buy the cards. Cards are at their most expensive, during the period 4pm – 4am British time, as this is when the majority of players are online, and therefore there is the most demand for the cards. To get a good deal, you should attempt to buy early in the morning, or around 8am, when there are fewer people online, and therefore less demand for the cards. There are also some anomalies. Prices seem to dip due to the 7pm phenomenon, (described above), and on Saturdays around 10am – 2pm, whilst on Sunday afternoons the prices seem to be especially high. Therefore to make 1-2k per card all you need to do is buy and sell at the right time, which therefore could bring very large profits, for relatively little effort.

Example

We stay up until 1 am British time, and then start scrolling through the Markets, where it is clear less players are on, the demand is less and therefore prices are lower. As a result we find a Clichy for 2100 BIN, which when the markets recover due to more players being online, we could sell for 9000 leading to an approximate 6.5k profit after tax.

Ebay/Giveaways

Some other ways of making money are from Ebay/Giveaways. On Ebay currently, coins are trading at around £12/100k. This is a good way of making money, as coins are very cheap for the amount you are getting, whilst this is a much quicker way of making money than simply playing matches/trading. On average you can make 700 coins/game or 3000 coins/hour from playing matches and 5000/hour from trading if you’re not a professional trader. Therefore, it would take you over 12 hours of solid playing to make 100k, and so you are valuing your time at just £1/hour by not buying 100k coins off Ebay.