How do you determine what price to sell your cards at? In the example you gave, you mentioned selling 200 Eldrazi Skyspawners for 14 cents each. How much are you pricing them at? Do you have a minimum?
What's the cheapest (or maybe typical?) price that you have for your junk commons? For example, lets say you're listing 100 Giant Spiders for sale. Mind if I ask you a few follow up questions about your process? There is no such thing as a worthless magic card.īest post I've seen here in ages, thanks.
Trash cards for balanced Cubes, draftable repacks by set, playsets of non basic lands, tokens, checklists, art cards, preconstructed casual commander decks, bulk lots, tribes of every type in existence all have true real-world value the average mtgfinancier will never understand, and there are thousands of guys like me making good money off that fact every day. The reality is that while grinding buylist can be profitable, so too can grinding bulk, and often more so if you do it correctly. We are nothing to wizards' bottom line and the secondary market as a whole, because if we were the local game store would simply not exist. The average mtgfinancier can no longer see the forest for the trees as far as what magic is to the majority of the population. Im generalizing like crazy here, and I'd be lying if I said it was easy, but the "loss" you see in this "bad" order OP used as an example becomes laughable as years pass, and is pretty much the largest barrier when coupled with the thought process that bulk is bad and not worth the time to list. Yes, it can be annoying picking 1200 cards that you'll ultimately pay $9 shipping in via flat rate padded envelope, but it's great selling 200 eldrazi skyspawners for 14 cents each, and profits compound quickly when you turn large amounts of bulk you paid $4/5 per 1k for into $140/1k, especially if you've already moved the picked clean bulk at a profit, creating a zero cost basis of every single you list individually that turns fees into an afterthought. He really enjoys that convenience of one stop shopping and refuses to accept any type of shipping refund regardless of how many orders he puts together that I'll ship one time. When he buys one pile, he'll message me to hold shipping until he's finished digging through my store and will buy 800 or more of these "worthless" cards over 3-4 orders in a week. I have one particular buyer that will order from me 50-100 times a year. However, they'll buy it from me for 2-3x market price because I have a bunch of other stuff they wanted, and they've already covered my shipping fee by bundling 25+ other cards in a single order, so paying that price is still cost effective not only by overall cost, but also convenience of checking in one order vs 25 little ones to save 50 cents or whatever.Īs time passes, people remember your store. Many times, I'll have a bunch of c/unc competitively priced at 8-15 cents or whatever, then I'll have some bulk rare at 25-35 cents, where technically a buyer could buy it for 8-12 cents elsewhere. Shipping and other business expenses are all deductions come tax time, which lessens that out of pocket cost immensely. Currently, my average order for 2022 after tcgplayer takes their fees is about $6.50, with about 200ish orders of cards totaling under $1 + $1.59 - $2.20 shipping (I change shipping costs depending on how hard I want to work doing that week, and am constantly adding inventory so I'll take breaks with $2.50 shipping to weed out smaller orders that would take up more time) Second, while these orders don't actually make a bunch of money, on a long enough timeline that's not really important due to many factors, such as:įor every order like this there will usually be 8-10 others where people buy $7-10 worth of cheap cards, usually in playsets or buyouts of your entire inventory, and that's where the real money comes from. Im not one to let anything go for 2 cents like the post, but often I'll have MP or HP cards that can get pretty close to that number, because my model involves carrying 70% or more c/unc from every set, regardless of actual listed value.įirst off, if you keep shipping over $1.59 you won't lose money shipping orders like this. Heya! I've been selling bulk for over 14 years now, with a 217k listed singles inventory, many of which are 10 cents and under.
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