I am a savvy businessman

[braden]

So in an effort to dramatically reduce my amount of cards on hand, I've taken to completing near-complete sets and selling them. The other day, I realized I was six cards short of a 450 card Pacific base set. Found the cards on Sportslots and paid about $4 delivered.
Put the set up and sold it for a whopping $0.99 plus $10 S&H. Just shipped it (Canada to US) for no less than $14.38. I could've sent it for $11 but they said it would take up to 4 weeks.

So, all told, I spent about $8 to get a complete set to some guy in Illinois. Pretty funny stuff.

I could've recycled, burned, donated, anything these cards and had about $8 more walking around money. Truthfully, I couldn't care less; I'm glad to have 450 less cards to worry about in the house.

 

[pujolsjunkie]

Re: I am a savvy business man

You're a savvy businessman.

 

[Nikobaseball]

Re: I am a savvy business man

You're a savvy businessman.

 

[Tomlinson21RB]

Here in America that kind of thinking gets you promoted to the top of many fortune 500 companies.

 

[hofmichael]

Why not try selling them on Sportlots?I make an extra few hundred every month on there.I have more ******* cards than I know what to do with.I have been slowly listing them all.Hell I even sold an 88 Donruss card the other day.
Mike

 

[brumbach]

Yup, I discovered about 5 years ago that selling sets sucks. Base sets, parallel sets, sets with all of the short-prints, didn't matter. At least everyone will be happy that you ran an auction instead of one of those horrible fixed price listings, hopefully the buyer won't bang your DSR for shipping cost.

 

[VizquelCollector.com]

Here in America that kind of thinking gets you promoted to the top of many fortune 500 companies.

Excellent.

 

[pigskincardboard]

Since eBay's new policy discounts transactions where Canadians buy from Americans, I certainly hope that Canadians are getting dinged on their DSRs.

I was pretty much furious when I read that "International Transactions Won't Count Towards your DSRs"

Because it meant "I CAN CHANGE 7 DOLLARS SHIPPING AND IT WONT MATTER!"

 

[MartinFFcollector]

I agree listing commons is the way to go. Although it's very time consuming. I used to give away, toss whatever all my base. Started listing them on Sportsbuy a few months ago and have sold about $300 since. Also found a Heritage SSP in there that I sold for $90 in there !

Here's my savvy story.

Christmas 2008- Avon cologne gift set. Not my style. I sell on ebay and after it's all said and done I spent $4 out of pocket to get rid on my unwanted gift.

Christmas 2009- Pez boxed set. Not my style. I sell them and buyer claims they were opened. I lose $8.

Christmas 2010- I will not ebay my unwanted gifts. lol

 

[f2tornado]

I will sometimes discount shipping rates for larger lots to avoid freaking out the buyer with an $8 shipping fee and simply hope extra bidding will cover the difference. I usually lose this battle. I still like the idea of discounting shipping on these items but in the future I'll have to bump up the min bid price a bit.

 

[Bob Loblaw]

We've all made these undercutting shipping mistakes. I hate 'em too.