Sneak Peeks
These events are an easy way to get ripped off. People will always overvalue cards that they pull, that is why you need to do the same. If you pull anything here you need to move it for as much as possible. Do not attach some sort of sentimental value to it because this is the perfect opportunity to make some amazing deals. By amazing I mean "on any other day what you have pulled is absolute crap but today you can take advantage of the idiots that don't know any better". Also you need to be prepared for what is hyped and be able to Supply people with what they need to make their new decks work, for example everyone was pumped for spellcasters but then people realized decks using all the old spellcaster support were pretty bad about 2 weeks after the sneak. Cards like Secret Village of the Spellcasters jumped $20+ in the months before REDU was released. The same thing will happen for Harpies when they realize that in comparison to the meta they are bad (they could get good support and I'll eat my words but aside from channler there's not much hope).
Casual Players
Casual players are great to offload the cards that the cluey player would often dismiss. Some examples can include the core of most dragunity, glads, blackwing, etc. decks and fan favourites like Dark Magician and the like. They enjoy the nostalgic stuff such as Warriors, Spellcasters and Dragons and you can usually trade with them for good staples. People you need to avoid however are little kids who will only waste your time, give you grief and get their parents on to you. It also makes you look a little bad if you constantly rip them off. Little kids and sometimes idiots will put the only good stuff they have on the front page of their binder and when you point to it they will say "no, not for trade". This is your cue to get up and leave. The player that thinks they know what their doing offers more promise than the complete idiot.
Sealed Product
You should all know by now boxes are bad and packs are worse. Special Editions and cases are only worth it if there is good promos, the set has a good spread of decent cards like ORCS and you have a efficient method for moving all the cards you pull in the space of a few weeks. If you really want to buy a box and opt for a reprint set.. Don't. Just don't. Our reprint sets suck balls. You can buy playsets of all the decent cards in a reprint set for the same price as the box (usually). Cases or tins however are an excellent product to buy because you can make a calculated investment. With all this sealed product it MUST be bought and sold at the time of the release. One method that isn't seen that often is buying a case of this. You get 96 of everything and if you sell each Kageki, United, Dark Hole and smoke signal for $1, each Kizan for $1.50 and each Fiendish Chain for $3 you make $816. You could quite easily hike up those prices as they aim to either match or undercut the lowest completed listings on eBay. You could easily make at least another $50 with what's left over.
Prices
Everything will depreciate. This is not debatable. If you pull the money cards you need to sell them if you don't plan to use them because every moment you hold onto them you will risk losing money. One last thing I need to include is that if you want the best bang for your buck buy collections off people. Collections contain the good-mediocre stuff without all the crap you have to get when buying anything else. You have no reason to complain about reprints because now you've read this.
Hope this is helpful to someone. Some of this stuff is common sense and you've probably heard it before but hey, I wrote this because I can.