I sell mostly low end cards in my 60K item store and am currently running a buy one get one sale on all items priced at $2.49 and under (most with free shipping). Just like you mentioned, most people are still buying just one. It's so wild.
Have you ever tried offering free shipping after buying more than one? I’m just wondering if it’s possible so you do not lose money with single card orders.
Cool video as always. Dollar tree used to have 80 envelopes for $1.25. They cut them down to 40 for $1.25 so the Walmart envelopes are probably the best deal now. I used to buy out all my dollar trees in the area. I do eBay and TTM so I was using 200-400 envelopes a week.
From a business accounting perspective, the cost of holding inventory is a cost. The longer you hold the inventory the more expensive it becomes because your capital is tied up in it. Most resellers and retailers in other industries look at inventory turn, and are always trying to turn the inventory as fast as possible. The whole "profit per hour" is very salaryman; a $15/hr employee can run an eBay store. That's $2,400 a month full time. This gentlemen could've just hired someone to do the work, taken a profit, then invested his time into other ways to make $ from his store, such as bulk lots for wholesalers, mid to high end, etc. He had a chance to make this scale, by replacing himself at a lower cost to babysit the low end because he's worried about profit per hour from his labor, rather than thinking about profit per hour off someone else's which is more inline how people who scale businesses think.
Don’t forget FICA/FUTA plus I gotta train the kid to use my custom software, follow all of my processes, and then pray he doesn’t just leave and do it on his own after I’ve invested a bunch of time and money into educating him. Then I gotta take on a bunch of overhead for managing the payroll, getting an office, buying hardware for his work station, etc etc. Too much risk/headache for my side biz that I do to relax when I’m not taking care of client work in my main biz.
@@paulcarlcards9050 There is risk in any business. Saying something doesn't scale bc you can't personally stomach the risk of managing a $15/hr laborer is laughable.
@@puntpassclick that’s not what the barrier is. The barrier is a 100,000 limit to how many singles you can list on eBay and then, if you upgrade to the $3,000/mo Enterprise store, you only get up to 180,000 listings (iirc). The program that gave a lot of other singles sellers millions of free listings is ended and isn’t coming back. The people who are grandfathered in to it are worries they’re going to lose it too. You can’t carry a $0.05/mo listing fee on hundreds of thousands of low end singles that could easily take over a year to sell (on top of a $3,000/mo store sub). The math just doesn’t work out. I considered continuing on my own website that would be promoted to eBay customers, but ultimately it made more sense to “productize” the inventory and offer unique listings that no other seller offers at prices that destroy what customers would pay to buy them as singles. We’ll see if this experiment plays out well.
If you are selling the majority of your cards @ $1.75 free ship, then your net is somewhere around 45 cents. That accounts for all shipping supplies and fees, but does not account for the cost of the card. I get where Paul is coming from as a man would have to sell 500 cards per day to net $225 in profit (and that is if all cards were free). I cannot wrap my head around some of the guys who sell sub $5 cards full time.
They have to have a mix of some higher end cards in there too as well as regulars who buy tons of cards at once. A big trap in selling bulk at volume is just like the ripping wax trap: you’re chasing hits (and for the bulk seller, hits are those 20+ card orders).
The problem with people buying 1 card at a time is that most buyers have no idea how to use the cart. Most of my multiple card buyers buy them 1 at a time and I just combine them when I ship them.
To kind of bypass the 150 is to do a variation listing. You can list 250 cards I'm one listing and it counts as one. However, he most likely has a dollar amount limit also. So although he can bypass it, it can't go over the dollar amount threshold
What kind of cards are your biggest seller? Are they commons, numbered, parallel, or lots? Edit: oh, I see; just went to your site either way 16k+ listings. Just subscribed. Maybe I can learn how best to get rid of 400,000+ cards, or at least perhaps the 20k cards of stars, rookies, and HOFers. Thanks!
Hey!!!! stop with all that tape it's a waste. Card, Penny Sleeve, Top Loader, Team Bag....TAHDAH! I've shipped over a million card no tape. Together you too can prevent tape being used. Give a Hoot dont Pol...use tape. Great video and dont give up people trading card selling is up and down but remember its fun and we help collectors find their treasures. I personally find mystery packs/boxes to be the easiest and most profitable way to move junk wax and low end cards. Hey are you still taping that card up!!! 🤣
hahaha love the comment buddy! this works for me its actually very little tape. id have to test it out but feeling wise, i'd think the team bag and then still some tape to make sure it doesnt slide around in the envelope would wind up costing more for singles
Hello , Thanks for the advice ! I am curious for the reason of wrapping the top loader card in paper ? I just tape the top loader card in an envelope. Not saying my way is better.
Making 60k a year selling low end is wild. I’d say that’s close to if not the best you can do selling low end. How did dude not think it was worth it lol you made it in the low end scene!
Hey been watching for a week now and gotta say, this channel has helped with what I want to sell and helping save with shipping expenses. I have just under a year of experience in the reselling hobby and Currently selling low end, numbered or short prints on my free eBay store. I want to get a scanner for the future to list more in the future but a scanner is expensive to me (~$600) is there a scanner that you would recommend around the $200 ballpark? Thanks again!
I'd like to know how you print the postage and address to and from on the adhesive labels I was thinking about getting a label printer which would make it easier instead of taping the dam printed label on regular paper to the envelope
Hard to imagine being able to do cards full time if I didn’t buy collections while I was teaching for 12 years without selling. My selling started in 2020.
I started selling in 2020 also. Could not pass up the numbers on some of those cards. It was probably a once in a lifetime thing to see prices like that. I just continue to add listing as I can and if they sell, cool, if not they can chill.
So I like the comment about bulk box selling and I got a hold of a large collection of 1960’s up to junk wax era that I am consigning for someone and splitting everything 50-50. However, I’m stuck with a lot of junk (literally tubs and tubs full that I don’t want to sell on eBay. Is that what you would sell in bulk boxes? Will people really pay to buy boxes full of commons?
@@paulcarlcards9050 thanks for the encouragement, I put together 10 bulk boxes in medium flat rate USPS boxes today. Hopefully this helps clear out all the bulk commons.
Why... why has it never occurred to me to put the label on the flap side of the envelope?!!?! Also what's with the extra two pieces of tape you stick on the edges..? Is that just to keep the card from moving around in the envelope?
Those Walmart envelopes rarely stick when you wet them, and the width varies, so it’s hard to fit the paper in at times, but I deal with it because they are so cheap.
@@TheFlippingSportsGuy you know why I should start doing that because I'm losing a lot of money with these cheaper cards I don't even know how to sell them on eBay do the fact that the bubble mailers cost more than the cards.
Really cool that you’re talking about my pivot! I did a video on the numbers and logic behind it if anyone is interested. I’m up to talk about it with ya in more detail if you want, maybe record it for TH-cam content too?
Hey, I’m confused by what’s happening with everybody, I started with a store about two months ago and I’m up to over 4000 listings. Are you trying to fill up your allotment quickly or are you doing a small chunks at a time and building up?
He had a hundred thousand cards but was not selling enough 5k is low in my opionion for that many cards I have three hundred cards on my eBay and average 700 a month. So he’s sells my 5k worth of cards so I’m guessing he was licking around three thousand enevelopes a month his time spent had to be pretty high for that many cards. Lost on the other hand allow more of your inventory to fly off the shelve so he could be doing enough lots to exceed 5k per month and probably 10 percent the time shipping as before. With that being said there is too many dollar card sellers on eBay that’s absolutely killed the market and crashing it into the ground. By next year people will have to sell cards for ten cents to make a sale. Mahomes and Brady parallels that once sold for ten dollars a card are .50 cents on comc and eBay now. It’s a mess and this will kill cards for another three decades.
@@paulcarlcards9050 that’s ok I guess but I’m guessing you would have to also include doing this on a Saturday and Sunday as well? Either way lots are definitely easier then dealing with 50 cent cards.
I learned a ton and made pretty decent money doing it as a part timer. I figured out how to add thousands of cards per hour to an ebay store too (did a video on it if you’re curious). Will give lots a shot for a year too now and then if it isn’t working out the way I hope then I’ll probably delete all of them too and start a new experiment. 😝
Selling 5000 $1 cards is terrible. Stop listing commons. Unless you are selling vintage commons Pre-1970. I'm sorry selling 1988 Topps Sam Horn will get you nothing. Anchor store $249 monthly, Auction Fees and PayPal is 17% minimum. Remember 30 cents transaction fee every paypal transaction. Plus shipping supplies and acquisition cost. Your time means nothing selling like this. $10 to $20 is the sweet spot.
Burbank is still selling 30,000+ per month on BMP of mostly $0.50 cards. The profit per hour is much higher than you’d expect when the work is done efficiently (this is where 99% of sellers screw up). That said, without having unlimited free eBay listings you can’t really scale the bulk commons volume game there which is why I switched to lots.
@@paulcarlcards9050nothing but love for an entrepreneur working hard and then pivoting after realizing they couldn’t get the results they wanted. Thanks for sharing your experience with us. Lots to learn if you keep an open mind. There is no failure if you keep going and pivoting.
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I sell mostly low end cards in my 60K item store and am currently running a buy one get one sale on all items priced at $2.49 and under (most with free shipping). Just like you mentioned, most people are still buying just one. It's so wild.
Have you ever tried offering free shipping after buying more than one? I’m just wondering if it’s possible so you do not lose money with single card orders.
Good idea ^^
Great idea sticking the label to the back side of the envelope! I feel dumb for not figuring that out after 100+ envelopes, lol. Thanks!
haha thanks! i forget where i saw it myself but i was like omg this is genius. appreciate you watching
Cool video as always. Dollar tree used to have 80 envelopes for $1.25. They cut them down to 40 for $1.25 so the Walmart envelopes are probably the best deal now. I used to buy out all my dollar trees in the area. I do eBay and TTM so I was using 200-400 envelopes a week.
From a business accounting perspective, the cost of holding inventory is a cost. The longer you hold the inventory the more expensive it becomes because your capital is tied up in it. Most resellers and retailers in other industries look at inventory turn, and are always trying to turn the inventory as fast as possible. The whole "profit per hour" is very salaryman; a $15/hr employee can run an eBay store. That's $2,400 a month full time. This gentlemen could've just hired someone to do the work, taken a profit, then invested his time into other ways to make $ from his store, such as bulk lots for wholesalers, mid to high end, etc. He had a chance to make this scale, by replacing himself at a lower cost to babysit the low end because he's worried about profit per hour from his labor, rather than thinking about profit per hour off someone else's which is more inline how people who scale businesses think.
Don’t forget FICA/FUTA plus I gotta train the kid to use my custom software, follow all of my processes, and then pray he doesn’t just leave and do it on his own after I’ve invested a bunch of time and money into educating him.
Then I gotta take on a bunch of overhead for managing the payroll, getting an office, buying hardware for his work station, etc etc.
Too much risk/headache for my side biz that I do to relax when I’m not taking care of client work in my main biz.
@@paulcarlcards9050 There is risk in any business. Saying something doesn't scale bc you can't personally stomach the risk of managing a $15/hr laborer is laughable.
@@puntpassclick that’s not what the barrier is. The barrier is a 100,000 limit to how many singles you can list on eBay and then, if you upgrade to the $3,000/mo Enterprise store, you only get up to 180,000 listings (iirc).
The program that gave a lot of other singles sellers millions of free listings is ended and isn’t coming back. The people who are grandfathered in to it are worries they’re going to lose it too.
You can’t carry a $0.05/mo listing fee on hundreds of thousands of low end singles that could easily take over a year to sell (on top of a $3,000/mo store sub). The math just doesn’t work out.
I considered continuing on my own website that would be promoted to eBay customers, but ultimately it made more sense to “productize” the inventory and offer unique listings that no other seller offers at prices that destroy what customers would pay to buy them as singles. We’ll see if this experiment plays out well.
Printer ink is about .10 a label. Huge cost hit when selling .99 cent cards.
unless the ink somehow stumble off a truck
No ink anymore, using label printer that uses heat to print.
If you are selling the majority of your cards @ $1.75 free ship, then your net is somewhere around 45 cents. That accounts for all shipping supplies and fees, but does not account for the cost of the card. I get where Paul is coming from as a man would have to sell 500 cards per day to net $225 in profit (and that is if all cards were free). I cannot wrap my head around some of the guys who sell sub $5 cards full time.
They have to have a mix of some higher end cards in there too as well as regulars who buy tons of cards at once. A big trap in selling bulk at volume is just like the ripping wax trap: you’re chasing hits (and for the bulk seller, hits are those 20+ card orders).
The problem with people buying 1 card at a time is that most buyers have no idea how to use the cart. Most of my multiple card buyers buy them 1 at a time and I just combine them when I ship them.
Yeah. There is a shocking amount of eBay users who have no idea how to use the cart or coupons.
I believe I also don't know how to do the cart. When I try the shipping doesn't get discounted.
@@shakascloset1700 It depends on the policy the seller has set up for shipping.
To kind of bypass the 150 is to do a variation listing. You can list 250 cards I'm one listing and it counts as one. However, he most likely has a dollar amount limit also. So although he can bypass it, it can't go over the dollar amount threshold
What kind of cards are your biggest seller? Are they commons, numbered, parallel, or lots?
Edit: oh, I see; just went to your site either way 16k+ listings. Just subscribed. Maybe I can learn how best to get rid of 400,000+ cards, or at least perhaps the 20k cards of stars, rookies, and HOFers. Thanks!
Hey!!!! stop with all that tape it's a waste. Card, Penny Sleeve, Top Loader, Team Bag....TAHDAH! I've shipped over a million card no tape. Together you too can prevent tape being used. Give a Hoot dont Pol...use tape. Great video and dont give up people trading card selling is up and down but remember its fun and we help collectors find their treasures. I personally find mystery packs/boxes to be the easiest and most profitable way to move junk wax and low end cards. Hey are you still taping that card up!!! 🤣
hahaha love the comment buddy! this works for me its actually very little tape. id have to test it out but feeling wise, i'd think the team bag and then still some tape to make sure it doesnt slide around in the envelope would wind up costing more for singles
Thank you ! I only ship in team bags without this tape nonsense. Every time I get mail from eBay I could freak out because of this shitty tape.
Hello , Thanks for the advice ! I am curious for the reason of wrapping the top loader card in paper ? I just tape the top loader card in an envelope. Not saying my way is better.
I think I Bought a card from him before and he messaged me to pick out a free card. I didn't pay attention to the free second card.
thats awesome that he did that! i know most sellers wouldnt even entertain it which is sad.
What printer are you using for your labels?
Making 60k a year selling low end is wild. I’d say that’s close to if not the best you can do selling low end. How did dude not think it was worth it lol you made it in the low end scene!
Hey been watching for a week now and gotta say, this channel has helped with what I want to sell and helping save with shipping expenses. I have just under a year of experience in the reselling hobby and Currently selling low end, numbered or short prints on my free eBay store. I want to get a scanner for the future to list more in the future but a scanner is expensive to me (~$600) is there a scanner that you would recommend around the $200 ballpark? Thanks again!
So I sell player or team lots anywhere from 3 to 12 cards do you think I’m better off with singles?
I'd like to know how you print the postage and address to and from on the adhesive labels I was thinking about getting a label printer which would make it easier instead of taping the dam printed label on regular paper to the envelope
Print the ESE label directly on to the number 10 envelopes. This is the fastest and cheapest way.
New to channel - what type of label printer/paper you using? Is there a video on it?
Hard to imagine being able to do cards full time if I didn’t buy collections while I was teaching for 12 years without selling. My selling started in 2020.
I started selling in 2020 also. Could not pass up the numbers on some of those cards. It was probably a once in a lifetime thing to see prices like that. I just continue to add listing as I can and if they sell, cool, if not they can chill.
So I like the comment about bulk box selling and I got a hold of a large collection of 1960’s up to junk wax era that I am consigning for someone and splitting everything 50-50. However, I’m stuck with a lot of junk (literally tubs and tubs full that I don’t want to sell on eBay. Is that what you would sell in bulk boxes? Will people really pay to buy boxes full of commons?
Yeah. The bulk boxes are super popular. One seller I found in Terapeak did over $40,000 in a year off of just one of his bulk lot listings.
@@paulcarlcards9050 thanks for the encouragement, I put together 10 bulk boxes in medium flat rate USPS boxes today. Hopefully this helps clear out all the bulk commons.
Why... why has it never occurred to me to put the label on the flap side of the envelope?!!?! Also what's with the extra two pieces of tape you stick on the edges..? Is that just to keep the card from moving around in the envelope?
yes its just to keep it from moving around
Great video sir. Thx
thanks for watching!
Sam’s club has those same peel and stick envelopes in 500 count boxes. Think they are about $12 a box
Nice job Paul
thanks Mike!
Thanks for the content. Have a wonderful week.
i don't get how you can sell a card for 1.99 and free shipping!! The Post office will charge $5.60 for a card even in those plain white envelopes.
1 card shipped ebay standard envelope is .63.. at 1.99 with fees and shipping you've make .75 a card
Not with the tape and top loader and ink and gas to the post office
the top loader is under 10 cents, tape is maybe a penny. if you have a thermal printer, its 4 cents for the label with no ink cost
@@TheFlippingSportsGuy please tell me where i can buy top loaders that cheap
columbiahobby.com/trading-card-sleeves-and-toploaders/
awesome stuff man new sub keep it up love your setup there too dialed.
Those Walmart envelopes rarely stick when you wet them, and the width varies, so it’s hard to fit the paper in at times, but I deal with it because they are so cheap.
theyre also seen as cheap to customers
how does a customer know where you got your envelope from?
I can't believe how fast you are doing that mail .
A team bag for 0.1 cents and you could save customers that annoying adhesive tape.
majority are 1.75 free ship cards i dont think many customers at that price point care which
I don't think I would ever bye Paper Envelopes for shipping and I'm no way near rich.
What do you use to ship cards?
I use bubble mailers. They are more expensive but the customer like them much better.
i do that for any cards over $10, i dont agree with the $20 cap EBay uses.
@@TheFlippingSportsGuy you know why I should start doing that because I'm losing a lot of money with these cheaper cards I don't even know how to sell them on eBay do the fact that the bubble mailers cost more than the cards.
I just didn't want to send them in PWS in case that left negative feedback.
Great content!
thank you sir, appreciate you watching!
Brian call them and ask for an upgrade .
Really cool that you’re talking about my pivot! I did a video on the numbers and logic behind it if anyone is interested.
I’m up to talk about it with ya in more detail if you want, maybe record it for TH-cam content too?
I was capped at 250 as well. A month later I’m now at 700 a month.
Hey, I’m confused by what’s happening with everybody, I started with a store about two months ago and I’m up to over 4000 listings. Are you trying to fill up your allotment quickly or are you doing a small chunks at a time and building up?
Dont you pretty much break even after the fees and cost of the top loaders?
only on $1.40 & $1.50 with promoted fees, its why im upping everything to 1.75 and going to cut offers at 1.60 unless people buy multiple.
I hate when someone sends my card in a regular envelope
He had a hundred thousand cards but was not selling enough 5k is low in my opionion for that many cards I have three hundred cards on my eBay and average 700 a month. So he’s sells my 5k worth of cards so I’m guessing he was licking around three thousand enevelopes a month his time spent had to be pretty high for that many cards. Lost on the other hand allow more of your inventory to fly off the shelve so he could be doing enough lots to exceed 5k per month and probably 10 percent the time shipping as before. With that being said there is too many dollar card sellers on eBay that’s absolutely killed the market and crashing it into the ground. By next year people will have to sell cards for ten cents to make a sale. Mahomes and Brady parallels that once sold for ten dollars a card are .50 cents on comc and eBay now. It’s a mess and this will kill cards for another three decades.
Shipping worked out to about an hour a day on average. Depending on several variables, I could pick/pack/ship 80 to 120 cards per hour.
@@paulcarlcards9050 that’s ok I guess but I’m guessing you would have to also include doing this on a Saturday and Sunday as well? Either way lots are definitely easier then dealing with 50 cent cards.
@@MarioLuigi-vb3rp yeah, I was shipping every day. I usually work weekends anyways though.
the amount of time it took to list 100k cards and then delete it all makes zero sense
I learned a ton and made pretty decent money doing it as a part timer. I figured out how to add thousands of cards per hour to an ebay store too (did a video on it if you’re curious). Will give lots a shot for a year too now and then if it isn’t working out the way I hope then I’ll probably delete all of them too and start a new experiment. 😝
that lenovo is ancient brother
100% thats the full time jobs stuff haha
Selling 5000 $1 cards is terrible. Stop listing commons. Unless you are selling vintage commons Pre-1970. I'm sorry selling 1988 Topps Sam Horn will get you nothing. Anchor store $249 monthly, Auction Fees and PayPal is 17% minimum. Remember 30 cents transaction fee every paypal transaction. Plus shipping supplies and acquisition cost. Your time means nothing selling like this. $10 to $20 is the sweet spot.
Burbank is still selling 30,000+ per month on BMP of mostly $0.50 cards. The profit per hour is much higher than you’d expect when the work is done efficiently (this is where 99% of sellers screw up).
That said, without having unlimited free eBay listings you can’t really scale the bulk commons volume game there which is why I switched to lots.
@@paulcarlcards9050nothing but love for an entrepreneur working hard and then pivoting after realizing they couldn’t get the results they wanted. Thanks for sharing your experience with us. Lots to learn if you keep an open mind. There is no failure if you keep going and pivoting.
I have found ebay to be very accommodating with all my issues when I contact their customer service dept.
i've gotten lucky so far and not had to deal with their customer service dept other than a couple times. thanks for watching
Lost me with the scotch tape. Bad idea
Whats wrong with the scotch tape? Its not on the holders, its on paper?