I love the feeling of first time glancing through a big haul. You are not green and you know what you are doing. I personally have never spent that much per card on a bulk lot that big, so I couldn't get real excited just from what little was breezed through. But, that doesn't mean anything, I am only sharing a little more grounded feeling because of the work it takes. I've never done that whatnot thing, buying or selling, but sounds like you will easily dump chunks of it to claw some investment money back quickly. I hope you film more of going through and processing them, so fun to watch.
Daniel, I think from what I see so for that if the 46 boxes were all about the same volume of what you went through and consider the extra room the rigid sleeve are taking up, I would say 600 cards per box not counting the albums. That total would be 27,600 postcards. If you sold 3000 postcards at $5.00 each you would have $15,000.00. Easily not a bad investment on your money. Good luck, see you on whatnot.
Wow,, you are going to have fun making discoveries as you go through your haul. I was just in TN searching for postcards without much luck. Maybe your guy had them all!
So fun to have this overview and your real-time reactions. Congratulations! I think the per piece price you paid was very good. Especially if you are not counting the album item quantity in that calculation. A lot of those Santas would be worth your time and effort to list yourself. But obviously someone will be super happy to get the Santa lot on WN. Happy for you!
It would be cool if you put together a quick reference laminated sheet that has all or the most important identifiers to look out for and offer them for purchase, similar to those coin collector reference sheets that you can buy at the book store.
Your estimate of roughly 30k cards seems about right. The buy price around 30 to 35 cents per card is fair to both parties. The TN dealer is able to unload everything at once and exit the business. You are set up well to maximize the collection by selling the better state views and other cards you like at the maximum value over time and sell the rest of the collection on your new WN outlet to others. By the way, I was the one who mentioned interest in the QSL/Ham radio cards. If you put a bunch together I'll buy them even though those appear to be newer the I normally like. I keep an eye out for a lot on WN...
Thanks! I’ll have one on Wednesday - no worries if you don’t want them. The ones I found were different than the ones shown in the video, but similar. I found dates in the 1930s and 1940s, but most appear to be 1950s-1960s.
I kind of had the same experience, and bought a lot of ~20k postcards last month via FB, but I only paid $900CAD! Though you have much much better cards. To my surprise, 80% of the cards came in pretty much brand new sleeves!
Very interesting! I'm just a small collector of post cards so have no idea but it sounds like you got a great deal! I'm in the learning process. If you list that Billy Sunday card, I will be interested in that.
I was shocked and had to do a double take when I was watching the Money Guy show and saw you at the start of their video from a year or so ago. I was thinking what's the chances...lol!
Yeah I was on an episode or two! Wrote shows for years, though. I think you are the first to make the connection but I know some people that watch me also watch TMGS!
Great video, still watching.... maybe you answer this soon but how did you trust in the dealer, you send certified check, etc ? what if he walked away? thanks. congrats !
I sent a check to him a couple days before pick-up, which was in his bank account by the time they were picked up. I had bought from the dealer a couple times before, but as “insurance” I had a paper trail (emails) and I didn’t think he wanted to go to prison for robbing me of $10,500.
I love the feeling of first time glancing through a big haul. You are not green and you know what you are doing. I personally have never spent that much per card on a bulk lot that big, so I couldn't get real excited just from what little was breezed through. But, that doesn't mean anything, I am only sharing a little more grounded feeling because of the work it takes. I've never done that whatnot thing, buying or selling, but sounds like you will easily dump chunks of it to claw some investment money back quickly. I hope you film more of going through and processing them, so fun to watch.
Daniel, I think from what I see so for that if the 46 boxes were all about the same volume of what you went through and consider the extra room the rigid sleeve are taking up, I would say 600 cards per box not counting the albums. That total would be 27,600 postcards. If you sold 3000 postcards at $5.00 each you would have $15,000.00. Easily not a bad investment on your money. Good luck, see you on whatnot.
Several years ago, there was a show called "Shipping Wars", in the likeness of "Storage Wars", and it was all about UShip drivers competing for jobs.
Wonderful haul to go through! There were enough illustrated cards to keep me happy 😊
Wow,, you are going to have fun making discoveries as you go through your haul. I was just in TN searching for postcards without much luck. Maybe your guy had them all!
I think you did great plus most of the cards are in sleeves. Thank you for taking the time to share.👍
So fun to have this overview and your real-time reactions. Congratulations! I think the per piece price you paid was very good. Especially if you are not counting the album item quantity in that calculation. A lot of those Santas would be worth your time and effort to list yourself. But obviously someone will be super happy to get the Santa lot on WN. Happy for you!
It would be cool if you put together a quick reference laminated sheet that has all or the most important identifiers to look out for and offer them for purchase, similar to those coin collector reference sheets that you can buy at the book store.
Great buy! I think the price was fair for both parties. It is a plus that they are sleeved & boxed
Looks like a great collection. You could sell some of those albums as is on whatnot and not break them up.
Great video enjoyed going through the boxes with you for the first time.
Oh, wow, how much fun! It is like Christmas! Thank you so much for sharing :)
Good deal! Thank you for sharing!
Epic Haul Daniel. Congrats. So much fun.
Your estimate of roughly 30k cards seems about right. The buy price around 30 to 35 cents per card is fair to both parties. The TN dealer is able to unload everything at once and exit the business. You are set up well to maximize the collection by selling the better state views and other cards you like at the maximum value over time and sell the rest of the collection on your new WN outlet to others. By the way, I was the one who mentioned interest in the QSL/Ham radio cards. If you put a bunch together I'll buy them even though those appear to be newer the I normally like. I keep an eye out for a lot on WN...
Thanks! I’ll have one on Wednesday - no worries if you don’t want them. The ones I found were different than the ones shown in the video, but similar. I found dates in the 1930s and 1940s, but most appear to be 1950s-1960s.
I kind of had the same experience, and bought a lot of ~20k postcards last month via FB, but I only paid $900CAD! Though you have much much better cards. To my surprise, 80% of the cards came in pretty much brand new sleeves!
You are postcard drunk 😂. A little giddy? Congrats on scoring on these! See ya on WN!
That Rough On rats cat trade card alone sold this August for 35$!
Very interesting! I'm just a small collector of post cards so have no idea but it sounds like you got a great deal! I'm in the learning process. If you list that Billy Sunday card, I will be interested in that.
You are the 2nd TH-camr that I will congratulate for your perfect pronunciation of Schenectady!
Wow that’s surprising because I’ve never even been to the state of New York 😂
I was shocked and had to do a double take when I was watching the Money Guy show and saw you at the start of their video from a year or so ago. I was thinking what's the chances...lol!
Yeah I was on an episode or two! Wrote shows for years, though. I think you are the first to make the connection but I know some people that watch me also watch TMGS!
The top loaders take up some space so I would have estimated maybe 300-350 a box in those
Yeah, that sounds about right. It’s split between those with top loaders and boxes without that have maybe 600-800+ cards.
Great video, still watching.... maybe you answer this soon but how did you trust in the dealer, you send certified check, etc ? what if he walked away? thanks. congrats !
I sent a check to him a couple days before pick-up, which was in his bank account by the time they were picked up. I had bought from the dealer a couple times before, but as “insurance” I had a paper trail (emails) and I didn’t think he wanted to go to prison for robbing me of $10,500.
What's the printer you have in the background?
Thank you!
It’s a Rollo wireless thermal label printer!
Are these all used?
No not Niagara Falls!
6:20 - How can you list 1000 cards in 3 hours?
I can only do 100 in 3 hours, I think it would be impossible to do 1,000 unless you had the help of AI.