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deek

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Sports Card flipping is FOR REAL
« on: March 06, 2020, 09:23:31 AM »
Anyone been looking into the hype around sports cards recently?

Recent activity:

Pete Alonso graded topps rookie cards bought last weekend at $35 a piece (x6)
Flipped 3 last night for $205 - purchased a $210 Yelich that I anticipate will be easily $400 before all that long (I still have 3 Alonso's which are currently selling for $70

Bought a Juan Soto Topps chrome graded rookie last year for $35 - it's currently selling for $125 before the season

Purchased 2 Wander Franco bowman graded cards for $15 a piece a few weeks ago - currently selling for $25-30 a piece

Purchased 2 Fernando Tatis Jr graded topps RC at an average of $65 last week - currently selling for $90-100 a piece

This summer - I will have paid off the rest of my car loan with sports card funds. Love it.

Car Jack

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Re: Sports Card flipping is FOR REAL
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2020, 12:32:36 PM »
So long as you're not selling on eBay.

Son sold a card (not a sports card) to a buyer who had zero expertise.  Buyer didn't see a certain brand mark on the card.  This series of cards was the ne plus ultra of the type and a genuine one would not have that brand mark.  (it was genuine).  eBay sided with the buyer because eBay always sided with the buyer.  My son got zero and the buyer didn't have to return the card.

deek

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Re: Sports Card flipping is FOR REAL
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2020, 01:29:20 PM »
So long as you're not selling on eBay.

Son sold a card (not a sports card) to a buyer who had zero expertise.  Buyer didn't see a certain brand mark on the card.  This series of cards was the ne plus ultra of the type and a genuine one would not have that brand mark.  (it was genuine).  eBay sided with the buyer because eBay always sided with the buyer.  My son got zero and the buyer didn't have to return the card.

Sold most of my stuff on ebay and haven't had any problems yet. With the volume I will be doing, it will happen. But you have to be extremely cognizant of everything and be very clear about everything.

chuckster

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Re: Sports Card flipping is FOR REAL
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2020, 04:35:57 PM »
because eBay always sided with the buyer

Haha, not me! Must be my luck!

I purchased a group of items off ebay, paid for it, and when I got the package, half the stuff was missing. I emailed the seller and he said "if you want more, pay more!" because the other half of the items weren't included.

I checked the listing... and he edited it after the sale! The archived listing did not match the listing I was emailed when I bought the lot.

So I filed a complaint with ebay saying I didn't get the stuff I ordered, and included the screen shots of the original listing and the edit.

The seller's response to the complaint was to forward the tracking info on the half-empty package. Ebay took one look at that, said "You got the package", and denied my claim! Case closed.

So, yeah, they don't always side with the buyer!! haha

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Re: Sports Card flipping is FOR REAL
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2020, 01:31:56 PM »
Any suggestions for good sites to value cards?  I have a bunch of old baseball cards to get rid of.

Thanks!

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Re: Sports Card flipping is FOR REAL
« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2020, 08:30:23 PM »
Back when I was collecting sports cards, I used Blowoutcards.com for most of my transactions. Try browsing the forums. You'll see many veteran members will host a case opening for other members. You buy a spot into their opening, they'll post a live video and you'll receive whatever team (or the format they setup) assigned to you. Just do your homework before buying into any of those groups.

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Re: Sports Card flipping is FOR REAL
« Reply #6 on: April 27, 2020, 01:24:33 AM »
I
Have a ton of cards from the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.

Are any of these worth anything?

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Re: Sports Card flipping is FOR REAL
« Reply #7 on: May 03, 2020, 12:04:54 AM »
I
Have a ton of cards from the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.

Are any of these worth anything?

Guess not. I’ll wait a few more years

affordablehousing

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Re: Sports Card flipping is FOR REAL
« Reply #8 on: May 04, 2020, 10:57:11 AM »
The real money is in forgetting you have the cards, then dying, then letting your kid have them, him forgetting them, then to have his kid have a friend who knows about cards discover them and find out you have $200K in your closet.

That happened to me, I still remember the shock of finding a suitcase full of baseball cards in my friend's house with ab unch of early Willie Mays and Micky Mantle cards. I remember the father coming home, stopping the play date, driving me back to my house and poring through my Beckett catalog. I was like 7 years old at the time but it taught me the power of buying, holding, forgetting, and forgetting some more.

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Re: Sports Card flipping is FOR REAL
« Reply #9 on: May 06, 2020, 07:16:07 AM »
Was going to post to see if anyone else has been doing it and found this post.  I got back into it last year and have been buying mostly basketball rookies and unopened boxes (this is really where my ROI has been best).  Pretty much BGS 9.5 or PSA 10.  I haven't sold any of the singles but sold enough of the unopened stuff to cover my cost while still having a large amount of inventory left.

The card market was crazy prior to COVID-19, took a slight dip, and is basically at original or higher levels.

There are a lot of sneaker heads and other types of investors entering the market and driving prices.  You also have Gary V talking a lot about it.

Sports Illustrated just came out with an article and I'm sure that'll add more fuel to the fire.  Worth a read.

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Re: Sports Card flipping is FOR REAL
« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2020, 07:39:06 AM »
I
Have a ton of cards from the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.

Are any of these worth anything?

Guess not. I’ll wait a few more years

Nope. I have a ton of cards form that era and gave the majority of them to my son who just has them shoved in a closet. Luckily being a Niners fan in the 80's, I stocked up on a few Rice rookie cards dirt cheap and some other decent ones. None are  PSA 10 but possibly an 8 or so.