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@@ColeMueller uhmmmm I’m getting my selection ready for tomorrows stream! I’m not too sure how many from this particular video will be available tomorrow, but the good majority of these cards will eventually be sold starting at 1$ 10 second sudden wins on my whatnot streams, im starting to want to expand into offering all 3 major sports and then also variety cards like for example, Disney, wrestling, super hero cards, movie cards, stuff that’s popular with wide audiences that can ultimately make it where I can keep a lot of my inventory and burn through it more slowly.

@@ruffasportscards remember comue82047 wants numberd stuff lol

He was okay with it as well, just something I know I can get more money than expected and anticipated, so I wanted to give him his original asking price. I don’t have to worry about it though, because I saw him at a recent show and he said he wasn’t worried about it.

That’s a good deal, yea I like the cardboard gold ones, I might try out some different ones eventually but not sure. Thanks for the suggestion :)

That spectra parallel is pretty nice! Always fun to add spectra stuff to the inventory :)

@ruffasportscards no juju watkins at end not juju smith Schuster

@@joelkaplan2157 😅😅😅 honestly amazed you got that far! Thank you for the support and yes that Juju is so sick, a way bigger card than I thought just based off my first guess and the information given. I appreciate you for watching that far and being able to notice that :) saved that nice one for those who do. If you don’t subscribe make sure you do so you can enjoy more content, and if you do already subscribe then thank you for your support again very much so

@@ruffasportscards I'm subscribe

Instagram would be the best place to do so, I have an email in my bio also. But if you comment your Instagram username I can follow you and maybe that will solve the dm issue

Yes it is! One of the higher quantities of cards I’ve sold in a single streams, especially by only doing 1 and 2 card auctions for the most part

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Which jones card may you be referring to in specific, I’ll try to watch the video in detail but might save me a lot of time

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Ohhhhh yes the Daniel jones! I was gonna list it on eBay for 20$ eBay standard envelope, but I could do 16$ for a direct sale using pwe and I’d get a tracking number associated with the plain white envelope

The profits were ~ 300$ but yes a very nice stream! The total sold is referring to before fees and shipping, the “revenue” is what is paid out to me after printing out the shipping labels :) but I’m still very happy with the stream this week, I went double over time on it and they wanted me to do another encore streamed for like 4 hours and 50 minutes and still ended up getting every single package shipped out by the end of the next business day :). It was very nice meeting you in person! As always I appreciate your support

I ship on eBay and rarely use top loaders. Penny sleeve then team bag and between two pieces of cardboard. Always get good reviews for my shipping packaging. And I’ve hardly sold 472 items in the last 2 years on eBay. Thinking I need to get over on what not asap

I make sure to ship every single card either in a toploader, a card saver, or a one touch. I’ve found I just would rather give the customer the best service possible and ensure that they are happy when opening their package up. For me, eventually I’ll be putting every single card into a new Toploader as well, if the Toploader gets too scratched up I don’t send it in that one, but the lighting in my house isn’t the best so sometimes I might miss our on ones worst than I would want to send. Also what seemed to have helped me is just going for it, I mainly do football so I stream in the football category but I sold some baseball, some basketball, and some Disney cards all during this weeks stream. I think it would be different for baseball streamers though because a lot of baseball fans like baseball alot more than other sports and might only collect that one. But if you do varierty, sometimes you gotta have cards that might be more popular cards for the ones you don’t usually do. Like if you ran a game used Dwayne wade patch during the baseball crew, typically more people might be interested in that card than something like a xavier worthy card who’s a rookie wr for the chiefs

You definitely have to grow your whatnot in order to be comfortable with the prices you realize for cards that you sell on there, it’ll be a lot of sales that you might have been able to get a bit more for, but the nice thing is once you grow an audience and do take those risks and chances you can then start to make higher margins, I’m currently hoping to increase the number of streams I do each week, which then would in turn increase the reach and then in turn increase the prices I get hopefully as well

@@ruffasportscards have you ever figured out how much you spend to actually ship a $1 card? Thats the whole reason I stopped using top loaders. I used to send everything in them until I realized some sales I was only making .$40 in the end after packaging and shipping. Top loaders are pricey unless you buy them in huge bulk orders. I haven’t had any negative reviews ever on my shipping and most people give good feedback for my safe shipping. But I guess 472 sales in a day you can make a little less per card 😂😂

@beliedat2457 that’s an amazing question :) I offer the first class mail letter program; so on orders with 2-5 cards when I’m able to I send them in a card saver in a plain white envelope, for single card orders I send them in a envelope in a Toploader because the Toploaders are just slightly cheaper, and typically you have more cards you acquire in Toploaders. This also allows me to stockpile Toploaders each week whenever I don’t use them because of the 2-5 card orders, doing that 40 or so times can really increase the supply and thus increase how long my supply of Toploaders last, I haven’t had much complaint other than the occasional one with shipping via this method because of the cheapness of the shipping program, where they save on shipping, I can then make it directly and then also cut costs as well by not having to offer a bubble mailer, Toploaders for every card, and stockpiling supplies. But it would really depend on the situation; like if they only bought a single 1$ card it would cost me the price of the envelope which is 2 cents, the cost of half a piece of paper, which is about .5 cents or so, the cost of a team bag which is about 2 cents as well and a shipping label which seems to cost me 1 cent; so I’m only spending 6 cents to ship a single 1$ card order. For 2 card lots I use a card saver costs me 13 cents (now cheaper tho because I bought a case which new cost would be 7.664 cents) but the two Toploaders I would potentially gain saves me 7.364 cents I would’ve instead spent later on for Toploaders, then the 2 cents on the envelope, 3.357 cents for a graded card sleeve (I’ll look into cases for these next purchase I do) and then half a piece of paper which is .5 cents so as of now it costs me 18.407 cents for 2-5 cards, but averaging it down, The 2 card lots cost 9.2035 cents per card, for 3 cards 6.135667 cents per card, for 4 cards 4.60175 cents per card, and for 5 cards 3.6814 cents per card, which the money I’d then would have spent on the Toploaders I potentially got off the cards I put into the card saver would have then been higher! I’m gonna make a video on this because I’m amazed with this that I’m technically saving money by shipping cards, but sometimes you buy cards with stickers on the Toploader so those become useless but I’d say at least 50% or so of the cards I get come in useful Toploaders. For orders with 6 cards and more that would be a different equation and conversation however.

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I have a video where I go over all of the profit and numbers actually 😅 and yes it would make sense to go and work fast food and make more, for my current situation it makes more sense for me to build something. I’m making TH-cam content, building a Whatnot, building relationships with vendors, and I’m in profit! I’m building a personal collection, I’m building skills to run, manage, and grow a business and social media’s all from scratch. I’ve had plenty of jobs, and I’ll either be able to never have one again, or I’ll be able to work at a fast food place and do this as well. My ultimate plan is to get a job once I move out of my current place and then do this as well, I’ll be grinding my butt off most definitely hoping by next year. I’ll be working, doing whatnot, doing TH-cam, and selling on eBay, as well as direct sales. And then I have other business ventures I’ve always wanted to start as well. So yes it might make sense in the short term.. but long term I’m going to be just fine and even better off than if I had never started doing this.

The simple version: doing something bigger > doing something > doing nothing

you be working at fast food?🤣

😂😂 fast food was my last job I had, but the comment was just saying I could go work fast food and make more so wanted to say why I wasn’t

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I probably more than likely won’t be attending that one , I’ll probably be going the Sacramento card show instead which is a couple of weeks afterwards, I just wouldn’t have enough time to try to recoup funds for both shows more than likely because they are so close together

Make sure you subscribe if you havent already so you can enjoy more content l post in the future :) And Most definitely I agree with you there, I like patches and all that because it’s just a natural short print; if you get a blaster and it’s either you have a chance or you get one per blaster, the checklist can still be like 50 patches and then have more subsets for the patches (example being rookie threads from donruss and then donruss threads from donruss [one’s vets one’s rookies]) but it’ll be like you have a very slim chance to actually get that particular patch out of the box, and people still really like to collect them, it’s better than just a standard base random rookie at the least :)

I love me some dollar boxes! Can’t get enough of the value bins!

I hope you decide to subscribe so you can enjoy more content I upload in the future :) I have a ton of videos currently out that you might enjoy also! Luckily I don’t have anyone to explain myself to, except my mom 😅😂 but it’s really reassuring knowing that you are doing the right things and staying cash positive and maintaining cash flow! Yes the inventory that you have stashed away can be very very nice to have as extras; my main examples are I have an entire Barry bonds toploaded box probably about 4-500 or so just purely Barry bonds cards. I’m located in California and even I LOVE Barry Bonds to the point where I don’t mind having a nice little collection of him… but I have also decided the best idea 💡 to move the inventory and to get the MOST amount of money with them is just to do a complete 1$ box of Barry Bonds cards and I’m already in profit on the year and I would be in profit on the buy at probably around 50 cents a card for that particular buy I did.. and I have about a 100 or so nice baseball cards I got from that lot! Examples being a Tommy John autograph, Enrique bradfield auto, both being around 20$ cards in and of themselves :)

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Most definitely you can find some amazing deals every now and then online, but the more consistent deals come from card shows forsure. I’m in California, so there’s not an abundance or plethora of value bins that will absolutely knock your socks off, but I’m sure not every show has the best of the best value bins. I usually 95%+ of the time buy lots. And I don’t typically win many auctions anymore tbh.

@@moisesotano2835 business model; if I’m able to purchase 2,500 cards and move them all. I can save some for eBay, put some aside for pc, and build something on whatnot, also it gives me something to do each week and slowly over time I’ll be able to get a lot more for cards. It’s also nice because it means I can just go through inventory, I don’t have to have 2,000 cards in my house at all times; I move about 200-300+ each week no matter what else I do, this gives me more headspace to know that I’m not just hoarding cards and I believe in the growth of live selling platforms over the next years to come :) also if you give good deals and people can make some money or get cards they enjoy for cheaper than what they think something is worth, then you’ll have a customer until they no longer feel that value is there

@@moisesotano2835 make sure you subscribe if you haven’t already and would like to be able to easily enjoy more content I upload in the future and great question though :) there’s a lot to it and a ton of reasons to sell them how I do, and I ton of reasons to not sell them how I do :) this has just seemed to work for me! I am actually currently starting to list cards on eBay again so that will be a BIG help and a BIG thing I’ll start to source for again. But at the same time it’ll be nice to sell all what I do on Whatnot to be a baseline of what I make each week :)

@@ruffasportscards Makes sense, it's also great content, and will make people want to see other great deals happen even if the card isn't going to them. It's exciting to see someone else get a really nice deal too lol. Good luck, and yea I sub'd.

@@cjthund3r make sure you subscribe if you haven’t already for more content in the future :) and what particularly about shipping? I usually just do the mass bulk create labels (after I’ve adjusted any label that needs to be adjusted) and then mass print them out. It will be marked as shipped automatically once there is a scan in at the post office. I usually always make sure to get a receipt and make sure that they’ve all been scanned in before I leave so that I have proof it was dropped off. But you can also mark them as dropped off directly after you print your label, tho for insurance purposes you still need to have at least one scan before you are in the clear.

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The really nice thing about whatnot is that the growth you can see by taking chances! Its definitely a different environment and it’s all about the entertainment value since it’s a live selling platform it’s not just a go onto eBay and doom scroll, it’s they gotta be having an experience. You want them to come back whenever they see your channel live, one of the big things I’ve also realized is if you end up sending your upcoming shows to ALL of your top buyers it helps out those slow days just a bit more, because usually you’ll get some to go back in there and be like oh yea I can get some nice deals from this stream :) there’s a lot of times that even I’m confused on how they don’t get bids or how they go for the price they do, but there’s some times I’m amazed also

@@ruffasportscards you nailed it and I totally agree. I haven't been able to go live the last two weeks due to some major family issues that had to be addressed. I haven't even been in a stream but about 10 minutes. I am looking to be back live by the end of the week.

I’m sorry to hear that, It’s always a necessity to put yourself and family first before the whatnot streams, I’ll have to try to stop by and check your stream out if I can

@@ruffasportscards I appreciate the encouragement. I will tag you when I go live next.

If you haven’t already make sure you subscribe so you can enjoy more content I upload in the future :) and I have a video about all the places to buy and sell sports cards, I didn’t go into depth on how to get deals on cards but I could always make a video on exactly what I do and try to look for. Typically you can kind of tell who is and isn’t willing to do a good deal on cards just by asking them a certain few questions. I typically every single time I find a table that I think has decent enough inventory for me to scavenge enough through, I will ALWAYS ask them at the START, “If I pick out a ton of stuff, are you willing to work on the prices?” Typically this will answer your question about if someone will work with you, Approximately 95% of the time you’ll end up hearing them say, “Yes, Yes ALWAYS better deals in bulk.” But the other 5% or so of the time you’ll hear them say that they would want to be close to their sticker no matter how many you buy. What I’ve found is that the people who say that they are FIRM to be close on their sticker prices I typically can’t ever really get many cards from them; I mean sure I grab out as many as I can in all instances but typically for me there just isn’t enough room to work with at those types of vendor tables. The ultimate goal is to build something with someone so in the future whenever you see them at different or same shows they remember you and point you out and say, “ Hey I got more stuff for you” or something along those lines :)

Make sure you subscribe if you haven’t already :) and very good question :) So yea after fees and supplies and all of that you really don’t make too much money most of the time you aren’t going to be in profit by selling the cards for 1-2$ unless if you had a really good purchase you did. For 2$ wins it’s a lot better than the 1$ wins, each 2$ win you get paid 1.20$ about so it helps out you get about 2x what you would for the 1$ win and the 3$-10$ wins are really where you start to see the biggest difference in the amount of money you earn. For 1$ wins you get paid approximately .57$ with supplies to ship it’ll cost you another 15 cents on average (just completely estimating) for first class mail letter orders and that’s per order some might cost you more and some might cost you less so at the end of it if someone wins a 1$ card and you have to pay 15 cents for all of the other shipping supplies you need you get about 42 cents. But that’s the name of the game usually most of the time it won’t be people who purchase only one card and usually the cards that sell for the 2-10$ or so will make up for the cards that sell for 1$; as you can see after the calculations it’s actually not as bad over the long run and sometimes the stuff that goes for 1$ is just stuff I want out of my house so I can focus on the next buys.

I appreciate your support, make sure if you haven’t already that you subscribe so you can enjoy more content in the future and Nice :) yea I’ve never graded before I’m actually trying to prepare my first psa submission here in the next days hopefully get that sent off but the cool thing about cards is you can do it so many different ways :)

I did the math for a different comment down below here; if you are referring to all time spent on getting inventory, all time spent on recording videos (which increases the audience I have to sell my inventory to) and the amount of time it takes me to sell the cards I’ve estimated it’s probably somewhere close to 3$ an hour (in pure profit) if only talking about the act of selling it’s closer to 11$ an hour. Since you say before taxes I’m guessing you mean the gross income / taxable revenue incurred.

But that’s not including all of my pc, all of my eBay stuff I still have put aside, the cards I’ve shown in the video and a bunch of other inventory as well that I haven’t sold yet / have other plans for :) that all at this point would be the boost that would get me to see bigger earnings

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@@Kmac23YT well I’d make sure to ask an accountant for your own personal taxes, but based off of what I’ve learned at school and online you only pay taxes on your gross income, which would be the amount of money you make minus certain taxable deductions. Net revenue / income typically refers to your revenue / income after you’ve paid your taxes. But again ask a licensed accountant for a forsure answer regarding anything to do with your own taxes. I accidentally said the wrong term in the video, but I just meant pre tax net revenue. But yes a lot of things for the tax code and questions people might have are easily searchable on google, again I’m just answering for my own situation / scenario and please ask an accountant or do your own research.

I’ve heard from someone that the 90s is in right now, but honestly a lot of the time you have to have the right cards and type of cards for them to be worth much more than the cardboard they were printed on. It’s always worth a shot to look up some of them, I’ve found some hidden gems in that era no one probably wanted to consider buying

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Yea it’s given me a nice little starting point for when I do go to file my taxes :) also helped me realize how much profit I’ve made and with the amount of inventory I still have I feel good with it

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@@beliedat2457 I have a ton of videos all about my journey selling on whatnot :) make sure you subscribe so you can enjoy more content I post and all the whatnot videos :) but yes I’ve sold on eBay, I haven’t listed any new cards to my store in the last 6 months or so, so for me I’ve been mainly selling on whatnot growing that aspect of things, I’ve been stashing away inventory slowly for my eBay store! But definitely have some amazing videos that you’d really like to watch I can tell

@@ruffasportscards I’m subbed now. Just found your channel 👍🏼 I’m top rated plus on eBay. But it seems that what not is now where to sell cards.

I appreciate your support very much! Okay, soooo there’s a bit to it. My complete and honest recommendation would be to ask an accountant / your accountant about any questions related to taxes, but typically most answers can be answered online as well. Not in particular answering your questions but given the scenarios that you’ve said, The way taxes work is it wouldn’t matter if you decided to “cash out” (eBay doesn’t even really have the option to “cash out” or keep the money on the platform to spend Mooney on it [at least to my knowledge]) on eBay or not because you’ve still had that revenue occur and it wouldn’t matter what you spend your money on, unless it was for more inventory that you do end up selling, certain other tax write offs, and the main thing that matters is usually you’ll want to actually “write off” the tax “write offs” after you’ve sold the item associated with the deductions. Again ask an actual accountant and don’t listen to me at all for anything associated with your own personal finances. Also you only pay taxes on the “net revenue / profit” that you incur when selling items, so in my own instance if I did determine I had no more actual revenue or expenses I would file my taxes and say my net profit / net income was 3,4__.__$ and pay the taxes associated with that amount of money. Again ask a licensed accountant and someone who would be able to give you a forsure answer.

The whole tax situation is definitely a hard one to discuss just because of the importance and implications behind it, so definitely ask someone who is fully licensed and able to give advice for certain situations, sadly I didn’t finish school for accounting but I’ve completed 3/4, but definitely not enough to give a stamp of approval or to say anything forsure, again I’m stressing this information please ask a licensed accountant regarding anything to do with taxes :)

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I appreciate your support, make sure you subscribe if you haven’t already so you can enjoy more videos in the future :) Yea I wasn’t technically doing business value, I was just saying what I’ve made profit wise, what I’ve bought and what I’ve sold in first 6 months of this year. I have about 3-4 different collections I’m working on over time also that are actually starting to stack up pretty decently, inventory wise I’m doing really well also :) I figure the more inventory I have stashed away the less hectic it becomes for buying and the less impulse decisions I might make that I don’t need to :)

How many hours did it take roughly to sell the inventory to get those numbers?

@MissingWilson that’s an amazing question! Uhmmm it would depend if you mean just selling them or the act of getting everything ready to be sold and packaged up also or even the sourcing aspect too, but in short my guess is it has taken me to sell and package up all the orders I’ve had this year about 300 hours! The way I estimated that was 10 hours each week for strictly whatnot orders and I’ve done that for about 25 or so streams; some didn’t take me 10 hours sometimes it was quicker, and I usually just ship everything out on the day I do my whatnot streams now, but I haven’t posted much on eBay so listing stuff has been minimal time wise this year for me. Sourcing inventory would be probably be around an hour and a half a day; sometimes I do more sometimes I don’t search for inventory at all, sometimes I spend all day looking for stuff at shows. So probably another 300 hours for sourcing inventory or so; but when you consider I pretty much only work one day and could easily increase the work I’m doing threefold if I had the proper access to inventory then you can see a lot more increases in sells and time spent too :)

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@@ruffasportscards definitely Have subscribed and I am learning so much from you!

Im not too positive but I think you’d be able to access all of the extra information like the videos and all of that on a laptop potentially. You don’t need a tablet from what I know, but I do also have an iPhone so I’m not too sure. From what I do all that I need is a Phone, a Laptop (to print out labels) and then a printer to print out the labels (also any sort of packaging material or anything like that you might need.

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@@isbilly1 make sure you subscribe if you haven’t already so you can enjoy more content in the future :) I’m looking to get it graded first, but I can keep you updated on what it graded and see if you might be interested in it after it comes back, it’s actually an error card it’s not his rookie year and the card says “rookie ink” and the highest graded of the card is a psa 8 so I figured even if it graded an 8 it would add a nice premium to it

If you haven’t already, Make sure you subscribe so you can get enjoy more content :) and it realty just depends; you can find cards worth 1$ or less that could potentially be worth it to grade, you could find cards worth even 1,000$. The main thing you want to look for / at when grading is if the card you graded end up getting the lower end of the grade you think the card will get, what would it sell for and how much would you lose / would you still be in profit. I actually even have a video out about the type of cards I personally would look / try to submit for psa grading. It’s called “STOP GRADING THESE CARDS AND GRADE THESE INSTEAD” or something along those lines was uploaded probably within the last 2 weeks.

@@ruffasportscardsthanks will check it out!

@@KT-qw1ws yep for the most part that would be all that I recommend to grade as well :) actually was just preparing my first submission as you typed that message, gonna make a video on it when it comes back, maybe before also as well, guessing the grades and trying to figure out the grading scales so that in the future I can grade with more and more confidence!

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