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All The Hype
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I've seen it talked about before and it always sounded fun so I thought I'd give it a try.
The idea is to buy one card for $1 and see what you can turn that into over time.
If you haven't heard of the one red paperclip guy (made 14 trades over a year to go from a red paperclip to a house), it's the same idea. Here's the site for that, pretty interesting story: LINK
I think I'm going to try to keep it to one card at a time because I want to keep it moving. I don't want a situation where I buy three cards and sell one, but hold the others, etc. I want it to be a repetition of single-card buy, hold, sell.
Starting at $1, the hardest part will likely be getting going...because there aren't a whole lot of low value cards that fluctuate in price by very much very quickly. Once I get into values of double digits and beyond, it should be easier to move a little faster.
If there is ever any leftover money after I buy the new card, it will be saved to be available for the next card purchase. For example, if I sell one for $15 and buy the next for $13.50 the remaining $1.50 will be saved until the next time I buy a card, at which time I can use it to help make that purchase.
I will be documenting exactly what cards I trade for/buy, so at the end I will have a chain of cards that links the first dollar card with the final card (whatever that may be).
Seems like a fun idea and I invite anyone who is interested to join me in this little adventure. It's not a competition, it's just for fun. But I think it would be cool if a few people tried this out and then we could share results at the end of the season or something and see how far we've all come.
I'll try to keep a running record of the cards and their prices in this thread for anyone interested in following. Feel free to share any thoughts.
Total Purchases: 2
Current Estimated Value: $3
Card-Price Bought-Price Sold
Randal Grichuk Topps Pro Debut Blue Parallel- $1 - $3
Item #2- $3 - ?
The idea is to buy one card for $1 and see what you can turn that into over time.
If you haven't heard of the one red paperclip guy (made 14 trades over a year to go from a red paperclip to a house), it's the same idea. Here's the site for that, pretty interesting story: LINK
I think I'm going to try to keep it to one card at a time because I want to keep it moving. I don't want a situation where I buy three cards and sell one, but hold the others, etc. I want it to be a repetition of single-card buy, hold, sell.
Starting at $1, the hardest part will likely be getting going...because there aren't a whole lot of low value cards that fluctuate in price by very much very quickly. Once I get into values of double digits and beyond, it should be easier to move a little faster.
If there is ever any leftover money after I buy the new card, it will be saved to be available for the next card purchase. For example, if I sell one for $15 and buy the next for $13.50 the remaining $1.50 will be saved until the next time I buy a card, at which time I can use it to help make that purchase.
I will be documenting exactly what cards I trade for/buy, so at the end I will have a chain of cards that links the first dollar card with the final card (whatever that may be).
Seems like a fun idea and I invite anyone who is interested to join me in this little adventure. It's not a competition, it's just for fun. But I think it would be cool if a few people tried this out and then we could share results at the end of the season or something and see how far we've all come.
I'll try to keep a running record of the cards and their prices in this thread for anyone interested in following. Feel free to share any thoughts.
Total Purchases: 2
Current Estimated Value: $3
Card-Price Bought-Price Sold
Randal Grichuk Topps Pro Debut Blue Parallel- $1 - $3
Item #2- $3 - ?
(that's a nice bounce ffrom 1 to 7)
