Goodwill was bought online. Was alot of junk wax in that lot. I've just in the last month starting to sell sports cards on Ebay. So I'm a newbie trying to get everything figured out.
Good video. My best two card buys in 2023 were at antique toy shows of all places. One guy had a few baggies worth of SI for Kids cards for $5 each at his table and i got those quick. At a different antique toy show a found a bankers box of loose football cards labelled 50 cents each and the dealer came up to me when he saw me looking and said i could take the whole thing for $20 so I did. Mostly commons in there but made my $20 back long ago.
The best way to buy cards is at a store that sells singles then if you have few hundred dollars to buy you can pick out the cards you want if you buy a box you may only get a few good cards maybe not ones you like
Most of my inventory is from a consignment shop near me. The owner puts together bulk boxes of a couple thousand cards and gives them to me for half price at roughly $10 bucks a box. I usually pull 1 card out of the box that pays for the box alone if not by 2-3x. So the rest of the box is pure profit with tons of rookies, stars and inserts i can sell for $2-10 bucks. All the stuff I don't want i put in flat rate boxes and auction those off. Overall it has changed everything for me. I've pulled a minimal profits in sports cards, until I found this consignment shop.
That's the way to do it! That's what I'm trying to get some version of...hard to find people yet that want to "give me a deal" so to speak as a "supplier." Most of the ebay lots I've purchased, which is where most if not all of my inventory is coming from, there isn't much of a long-term deal/partnership...probably because if I don't buy the lot then someone else will at the price the buyer wants. So def. some networking involved here to get that "in" with a good supplier. Tell me more if you don't mind, how did you get that relationship going where they put together boxes for you?
@@CardZooSportsCards I heard about it from a guy at a local show, the owner puts the boxes together for the store not just for me, but I’m the only one whose been taking advantage so he’s been greatful. He buys these massive collections out so he doesn’t want to waste his whole days comping cards and is happy that someone buys them and gives him room.
While I understand your spreadsheet, doing it on a card-by-card basis is very time consuming if you are volume seller. You could do it on a "Per collection" basis, but really it is much simpler tracking it monthly.
Thanks for the tip. I've seen many sellers do their pricing/accounting in various ways (i.e., by card/collection/monthly/etc.). For me, I want to know if I'm making money on a card or not. I use my calculator to price it by card, but ultimately to know if that specific collection makes me money (you don't have to go through each card for collections bought on one purchase because the card cost is the same for that entire collection). To me it's like, if I sell a card at loss, why would I go through the hassle of listing/packing/shipping just to lose money? Thanks for watching!
I just bought a large collection off facebook, ~250,000 cards for $1000. Came with label printer and high end scanner. Tons of great cards, graded and ungraded, Im 1/3 of the way through it and have made my money back 2 fold so far. I don't think this will ever happen again. Only problem, the guy was a big smoker, and the cards take a while to air out. I have bought a few great deals on Facebook too, but you really have to filter through this.
Nice! Sounds like that was a great purchase. Ah the smoking...had that happen to a hockey collection I bought. You don't even think about it when buying it until it's too late and the smell takes forever to go away if it does at all. Thankfully I made my money back on the collection and still have quite a few cards listed to keep that rolling. Happy Selling!
I’ll have to try that. Getting GOOD.l inventory at an affordable price (where you can make profit) has been getting harder and harder through eBay lately but still finding creative ways to do it.
@@CardZooSportsCards It's definitely hard. If you're looking to make money fast, cards ain't it right now. You gotta be surgical just to keep things moving. COMC ports is another possible avenue you can go down, for sure. Good luck!
Haven’t used it myself. I hear some are very successful and some not on it. I think you need a big following to really make money at it based on what I’ve heard. Gotta start somewhere though. Good luck!
I basically store them by letter and then number. So A’s and then smallest to larger number by card number. I do have variation listings in a separate pile so I can retrieve easily. But using that method, I can find any card in 10 seconds or less when I make a sale.
Congrats on the good sales! Have a few tips here. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--VSxyVXPFNk.htmlsi=02Y-IKGM7Ay4VQ18. Everyone does it differently and finds out what works for them. Thanks for watching..
Nice. I've heard of Mercari but haven't used it at all. I like to be around or below $0.50 or $0.60..definitely prefer not to go over $1. Ultimately the price per card comes into play when measuring how much profit I make on a collection..which is also affected by how much I paid for a total collection in the first place - so you have to look at both metrics together (price per card and total cost). Maybe I get a big collection at a $0.10 price per card, but if I paid $300 for it, it's still a long way to climb back to profitability even at the added profit margin. So I use my calculator I showed on screen to measure both when deciding on a collection purchase. Hope that helps!
Yeah like that big YG I referenced in the video, I hit $1.08 per card and a $200 total cost...not my ideal price, but I felt strongly that I could move enough cards to make a profit and I'm almost there. I don't like to go that high...this is where the art of finding great inventory comes into play because a lot of "lots" on ebay are way overpriced (i.e., sellers want buyers to pay a premium for "putting the lot/collection together" and buyers want a discount because they're the one that's gonna do the work of listing by singles)...so lots of strategy needed in the hunt. My most recent collection was a good buy at only $0.04 per card, but it's 630 cards, and many are just base/junk..so won't be an easy profit per se, but the 0.04 helps a lot..especially on some of the cards that go for $5+. Anyways..happy selling!
I’d say anything unopened wouldn’t be a good way to stock your inventory, including junk wax. Sealed boxes from the junk wax era might be cheaper in some cases but the cards also don’t sell that well. As a general rule, I wouldn’t rely on any unopened boxes as a way to stock your inventory if you’re trying to resell for profit. Happy selling!
Thank you. I already have an eBay store that sells Pokémon singles. Looking to go into the sports card market to diversify my card sales. @@CardZooSportsCards
I would stay away from "junk wax" ebay is flooded with them and the time it takes to sell those is not worth the time and takes up listings you pay for that could be used for more sought after cards. Having 400-500 cards that will sell quickly is better than having 2,000-3,000 cards that will take years to sell if they even sell at all. Quality of quantity. Don't list to list. List to sell.
The commons and low-demand players are a challenge to sell. I dabbled in dedicated listings for "team sets" for Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey but that's only because the entire team is clumped together in the checklist. Generally speaking it's pretty time consuming. I've only had 2 sales on that.
@@CardZooSportsCards I was surprised. Never being to one I didn’t know that there are little booths that people rent out. It’s like a massive community of garage sales. There were probably 4 booths with cards. 1 was exclusively cards. Tons of them.
Nice. A lot of those are likely what they call "junk wax" where they mass produced a lot of cards, so might not be worth much but you can have some gems in there depending on the player(s)/condition. Good luck!
Done Facebook, goodwill, eBay lots and other auctions houses. It is mainly looking for deals and getting your price per card as low as possible. I have bought lots/collections that one card in it paid for the whole thing and others that were just junk/base cards that had all the good ones pulled out.
Nice! Love when that happens. I bought a big hockey collection recently that had 630 cards. About half are junk, but there are 30 Gretzky's which is why I bought it that should get my money back (only paid $25).