How to Buy Inventory for Your eBay Sports Card Store
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ค. 2024
- In this comprehensive guide, I dive into the art of sourcing inventory for your eBay sports card store. Whether you're a seasoned card flipper or just starting out, these essential tips will elevate your game and maximize your profits. Discover insider strategies, key considerations, and reliable sources to build a winning inventory. Stay ahead in the exciting world of sports card flipping! 🔥🏀⚾ #SportsCardBusiness #CardCollecting #FlipGameStrong #sportscardcollector #sportscardsflipping #collectortips #ebayselling
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Thanks for the great info. Great leads and insights.
Sure thing, thanks for watching.
I won't give you all of my honey holes but I also use whatnot for some inventory. Good for singles, slabs, and some smaller lots.
Nice. Heard a few folks using that. Haven’t tried it yet but may eventually.
Subscribed!!! Interesting video.
Thanks for watching and for the sub!
Good info thanks
Thanks for watching!
Good insights and tips.
All my inventory is from PYT breaks and personal boxes
Nice, good luck!
Thank you for this video Mike! I am looking forward to the next one! Are you able to share the spreadsheet calc that you use?
Thanks! Can you send me a message on our facebook page? I can send you the template that I use. facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088016254673
Hey. Good info. I have bought from Ebay, Amazon and couple times from Goodwill.
Nice. What was your experience buying from Goodwill? Did you do the online option or in store, and did you make any profit or was it mostly junk wax?
Goodwill was bought online. Was alot of junk wax in that lot. I've just in the last month starting to sell sports cards on Ebay. So I'm a newbie trying to get everything figured out.
@@leighlowery7008 Nice. Let me know how it works out! Happy selling..
New Sub as well, great video
Thanks!
Most of my inventory is from a consignment shop near me. The owner puts together bulk boxes of a couple thousand cards and gives them to me for half price at roughly $10 bucks a box. I usually pull 1 card out of the box that pays for the box alone if not by 2-3x. So the rest of the box is pure profit with tons of rookies, stars and inserts i can sell for $2-10 bucks. All the stuff I don't want i put in flat rate boxes and auction those off. Overall it has changed everything for me. I've pulled a minimal profits in sports cards, until I found this consignment shop.
That's the way to do it! That's what I'm trying to get some version of...hard to find people yet that want to "give me a deal" so to speak as a "supplier." Most of the ebay lots I've purchased, which is where most if not all of my inventory is coming from, there isn't much of a long-term deal/partnership...probably because if I don't buy the lot then someone else will at the price the buyer wants. So def. some networking involved here to get that "in" with a good supplier. Tell me more if you don't mind, how did you get that relationship going where they put together boxes for you?
@@CardZooSportsCards I heard about it from a guy at a local show, the owner puts the boxes together for the store not just for me, but I’m the only one whose been taking advantage so he’s been greatful. He buys these massive collections out so he doesn’t want to waste his whole days comping cards and is happy that someone buys them and gives him room.
That's awesome!@@afineproduction3745
Good video. My best two card buys in 2023 were at antique toy shows of all places. One guy had a few baggies worth of SI for Kids cards for $5 each at his table and i got those quick. At a different antique toy show a found a bankers box of loose football cards labelled 50 cents each and the dealer came up to me when he saw me looking and said i could take the whole thing for $20 so I did. Mostly commons in there but made my $20 back long ago.
Nice! Those are the exact types of collections to seek out. Happy selling..
The best way to buy cards is at a store that sells singles then if you have few hundred dollars to buy you can pick out the cards you want if you buy a box you may only get a few good cards maybe not ones you like
Nice, lot's of folks commenting that card shows are a good way to get value cards.
COMC ports isn't a bad way to grab a huge lot of cards. I've purchased 3 and profited on all 3. I'm very picky on what I buy, though.
I’ll have to try that. Getting GOOD.l inventory at an affordable price (where you can make profit) has been getting harder and harder through eBay lately but still finding creative ways to do it.
@@CardZooSportsCards It's definitely hard. If you're looking to make money fast, cards ain't it right now. You gotta be surgical just to keep things moving. COMC ports is another possible avenue you can go down, for sure. Good luck!
While I understand your spreadsheet, doing it on a card-by-card basis is very time consuming if you are volume seller. You could do it on a "Per collection" basis, but really it is much simpler tracking it monthly.
Thanks for the tip. I've seen many sellers do their pricing/accounting in various ways (i.e., by card/collection/monthly/etc.). For me, I want to know if I'm making money on a card or not. I use my calculator to price it by card, but ultimately to know if that specific collection makes me money (you don't have to go through each card for collections bought on one purchase because the card cost is the same for that entire collection). To me it's like, if I sell a card at loss, why would I go through the hassle of listing/packing/shipping just to lose money? Thanks for watching!
I just bought a large collection off facebook, ~250,000 cards for $1000. Came with label printer and high end scanner. Tons of great cards, graded and ungraded, Im 1/3 of the way through it and have made my money back 2 fold so far. I don't think this will ever happen again. Only problem, the guy was a big smoker, and the cards take a while to air out. I have bought a few great deals on Facebook too, but you really have to filter through this.
Nice! Sounds like that was a great purchase. Ah the smoking...had that happen to a hockey collection I bought. You don't even think about it when buying it until it's too late and the smell takes forever to go away if it does at all. Thankfully I made my money back on the collection and still have quite a few cards listed to keep that rolling. Happy Selling!
Card show value boxes.
Nice. Can you believe I haven't done my first card show yet? Hoping to try one this year or next and hunt those value bins!
EBay and Mercari are my go to places. What is your desired per card price when buying a collection?
Nice. I've heard of Mercari but haven't used it at all. I like to be around or below $0.50 or $0.60..definitely prefer not to go over $1. Ultimately the price per card comes into play when measuring how much profit I make on a collection..which is also affected by how much I paid for a total collection in the first place - so you have to look at both metrics together (price per card and total cost). Maybe I get a big collection at a $0.10 price per card, but if I paid $300 for it, it's still a long way to climb back to profitability even at the added profit margin. So I use my calculator I showed on screen to measure both when deciding on a collection purchase. Hope that helps!
@@CardZooSportsCards thanks, yes that was very helpful. I am surprised you go that high per card, but I guess it depends on the collection
Yeah like that big YG I referenced in the video, I hit $1.08 per card and a $200 total cost...not my ideal price, but I felt strongly that I could move enough cards to make a profit and I'm almost there. I don't like to go that high...this is where the art of finding great inventory comes into play because a lot of "lots" on ebay are way overpriced (i.e., sellers want buyers to pay a premium for "putting the lot/collection together" and buyers want a discount because they're the one that's gonna do the work of listing by singles)...so lots of strategy needed in the hunt. My most recent collection was a good buy at only $0.04 per card, but it's 630 cards, and many are just base/junk..so won't be an easy profit per se, but the 0.04 helps a lot..especially on some of the cards that go for $5+. Anyways..happy selling!
Hey guys, I'm a new subscriber. Would you say the same goes with "Junk Wax" unopened boxes?
I’d say anything unopened wouldn’t be a good way to stock your inventory, including junk wax. Sealed boxes from the junk wax era might be cheaper in some cases but the cards also don’t sell that well. As a general rule, I wouldn’t rely on any unopened boxes as a way to stock your inventory if you’re trying to resell for profit. Happy selling!
Thank you. I already have an eBay store that sells Pokémon singles. Looking to go into the sports card market to diversify my card sales. @@CardZooSportsCards
I would stay away from "junk wax" ebay is flooded with them and the time it takes to sell those is not worth the time and takes up listings you pay for that could be used for more sought after cards. Having 400-500 cards that will sell quickly is better than having 2,000-3,000 cards that will take years to sell if they even sell at all. Quality of quantity. Don't list to list. List to sell.
Yes!
I buy on ebay
Nice! Me too.
I have a box of 80 and 90 cards I want to sell.
Baseball cards and football cards and golf the is about 1000 cards
Nice. A lot of those are likely what they call "junk wax" where they mass produced a lot of cards, so might not be worth much but you can have some gems in there depending on the player(s)/condition. Good luck!
Mercari
Nice. Havent tried it yet. Do you sell/buy on there and can you get inventory cheaper than on eBay?
Done Facebook, goodwill, eBay lots and other auctions houses. It is mainly looking for deals and getting your price per card as low as possible. I have bought lots/collections that one card in it paid for the whole thing and others that were just junk/base cards that had all the good ones pulled out.
Nice! Love when that happens. I bought a big hockey collection recently that had 630 cards. About half are junk, but there are 30 Gretzky's which is why I bought it that should get my money back (only paid $25).