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minusonebit · 02-19-2007, 11:48 PM

And if any of you are selling... I am buying. :-)

Yes, I actively buy and sell. eBay is a great place to buy cards and a horrible place to sell them. You can only get 10% or so of low book on there. 30% is the very high end of eBay sales unless you have a Mantle or something really fucking good.

I only dump my shit (dups, crap autos, etc) on eBay, I don't sell anything good there as there is no money to be made on it. Not to mention dealing with eBayers is a pain in the ass in general... they want a new box, want to choose the carrier, bitch about using used boxes, insist on PayPal so they can charge me back for any reason or no reason at all, etc. When I go to sell good stuff, I set up at a show or make a consignment deal with a card shop.

The real good stuff these days runs upwards of $300 a pack. But good stuff can be had in the $20/pack range. Good ones to buy right now (as soon as they come out) are Upper Deck SPx 2007 ($1700 a case retail - if you want the Beckett review on it let me know I'll scan and e-mail it to ya) and Upper Deck Premier. Both are due to be out at the end of the April. SPx is running $15 or so a pack so the word is, $180 a box, $1700 a case retail, Premier is running $300 a pack, no one is going to be able to afford a case of that, lol.

I have two cases of SPx paid for and committed to by my local store's distributors. I'll probably be the only one in the country to get a hold of that many... there are only going to be... 2,800-something cases made... and most stores are being told they can only have 3 to 5 hobby boxes. Thankfully I have a good local store who has the connections needed to secure quantity of stuff when the numbers are tight. I am also committed on four packs of premier, which is all they can get ahold of for me. They are getting six... but wont sell me the other two since they want to have some for their store.

There is still money to be made and fun to be had, but you have to be smart about it. Thankfully, the massively over-produced 90s are over with and most cards have at least some value today because runs have been cut and there have been several innovations.

02-19-2007, 11:48 PM
minusonebit So Fucking Banned Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: [email protected] Posts: 7,391	And if any of you are selling... I am buying. :-) Yes, I actively buy and sell. eBay is a great place to buy cards and a horrible place to sell them. You can only get 10% or so of low book on there. 30% is the very high end of eBay sales unless you have a Mantle or something really fucking good. I only dump my shit (dups, crap autos, etc) on eBay, I don't sell anything good there as there is no money to be made on it. Not to mention dealing with eBayers is a pain in the ass in general... they want a new box, want to choose the carrier, bitch about using used boxes, insist on PayPal so they can charge me back for any reason or no reason at all, etc. When I go to sell good stuff, I set up at a show or make a consignment deal with a card shop. The real good stuff these days runs upwards of $300 a pack. But good stuff can be had in the $20/pack range. Good ones to buy right now (as soon as they come out) are Upper Deck SPx 2007 ($1700 a case retail - if you want the Beckett review on it let me know I'll scan and e-mail it to ya) and Upper Deck Premier. Both are due to be out at the end of the April. SPx is running $15 or so a pack so the word is, $180 a box, $1700 a case retail, Premier is running $300 a pack, no one is going to be able to afford a case of that, lol. I have two cases of SPx paid for and committed to by my local store's distributors. I'll probably be the only one in the country to get a hold of that many... there are only going to be... 2,800-something cases made... and most stores are being told they can only have 3 to 5 hobby boxes. Thankfully I have a good local store who has the connections needed to secure quantity of stuff when the numbers are tight. I am also committed on four packs of premier, which is all they can get ahold of for me. They are getting six... but wont sell me the other two since they want to have some for their store. There is still money to be made and fun to be had, but you have to be smart about it. Thankfully, the massively over-produced 90s are over with and most cards have at least some value today because runs have been cut and there have been several innovations.