You're an inspiration bro. Been following you for a month and started selling on ebay last week cause TCG put my account under review before I even got to list. I've already made over $130 in just a week. Cheers !
What you've done is truly impressive, and anyone bashing you just doesn't understand. Ignore them and keep doing what you're doing - it's obviously working Probably part of that working is to always be changing, like you said. You can't keep doing what worked in the trenches 3 years ago, the trenches are different and the zombies are coming up the hell right now. This ain't a cutscene press a!
I made direct after three times being denied thanks to Rob. I go slow now sit out releases and open stuff people don’t like and has a better margin. Take your time and don’t cut your own throat to make a sale
Thank you for all of your videos, Rob. I started selling cards at-home because I want to transition to owning a card store someday. Your videos have helped motivate me to be the best seller that I can be and to try to make all of the people who buy cards from me happy. I hope to get more updates from you and listen to whatever topic you have off the top of your head to try to make the card game community a better place for both buyers and sellers.
As always we appreciate your content. You drop the most gems, even if you feel your ranting, we appreciate you. Thanks for always relatable to everyday people.
At the rate these marketplace websites are charging, it'll be more profitable to just advertise through youtube content and sell on a personal dedicated business site. Either route will take blood, sweat, and tears, so why not create your own
Always played the Pokémon games but just got into the cards when 151 came out and now starting to venture off into flipping and selling and the biggest takeaway is patience is key 💯like you said don’t treat cards like a hot potato it’s okay to sit on inventory sometimes and that’s something I’m learning rn. Also anyone ever tell you you look and sound like bill burr? 😂 great content tho
I'm finally attempting to make this a full time gig for myself in a year and a half or so. I'm on the fence about direct since realistically me being by myself and only need around 1.2k a month for all my bills. I'm attempting to just buy boxes on sale with good EV's, and seeing what happens after that. But your channel has been invaluable and I appreciate all your info!
Idk why at home "hobby" sellers (myself included) try to get the newest sets and flush them as fast as possible. They likely don't have distro connections so they're paying near retail and dumping inventory so the margin has got to be razor thin or negative. Order boxes that are a couple sets behind that are slightly discounted and have stable card prices.
These are generally people that have very little financial prospects in their lives. They spend their few hundred bucks on new product and just sell it out. Sometimes for a few dollar gain. Usually at a loss after fees are factored in. Then they feel like they are “participating in commerce”, and call themselves a store.
It's unfortunate you are feeling attacked. I'd love nothing more than seeing your business thrive. Your content is informing and you put on a good show. I wouldn't take the people frustrated personal as it isn't about you.... it's about WotC driving prices to the moon for a GAME people love and they hate seeing their game ruined by greed from WotC (not you). Hang in there and thank you for your videos!
Good content. I was thinking about mass box opening bloomburrow but now I’m not going to waste labor hours with employees. Sealed product sells well enough for me.
@@mj23it1 If you factor in weekly events there isn’t a lot of need to open boxes imo. You just need more customers. Let’s do some quick numbers 117 Play box at wholesale cost 15% transaction charge on tcg players after fees and other seller costs 30 mins per box of opening, sorting and listing (let’s say $6 charge) You’re looking at needing an average EV of $190 (which is super high on standard sets) to achieve a 25% margin (which is still fairly low) If you simply sold the box at $155 in store you get the same with no time spent Even better, you sell as packs at $5.5 each and make $196.
A video about selling on EBay would be pretty cool. I’ve ramped up tcg player recently and have been on the verge of attempting Direct after reconditioning my cards more strictly. I’ll have to reevaluate and see if eBay is right for me. Thanks for the videos and your point of view - you’ve been helpful in my journey from occasional seller to where I’m at now.
I reevaluated and decided to not do Direct right now and do eBay instead. Will do Direct later once I have listing and fulfilling on both EBay and TCGPlayer under control.
Great video! As a customer I never understood direct; I'm not paying $5 for shipping when I can just not do that with normal sellers. Good to hear it's kinda crap from a seller's POV as well.
Totally right about the at home sellers and price depression. Another thing to is it has caused bigger stores to adjust. The Gaming Co literally controls the price of a lot of lower end cards now and is pricing 10% under market with thousands of copies and is consistently repricing to low. I’m definitely going to try to transition over to eBay also
Just getting started and listed my first 50 cards for sale on TCG. Found your channel and subscribed. Thanks for the great tips and insight. It makes me anxious waiting around for my first sale. Whoever takes a leap of faith and can give me my first rating will be huge moment. But getting started in general seems so daunting rn.
Yeah i sell cards as my primary source of income , and there is NO WAY i could surivive if i didnt have my own ways , this market is WAY too competitive and has too many hobby sellers who dont need to get market value bc its not a job to them. In my paint business for instance my main competitors are other actual businesses, but with cards there is 20,000 little 8 year old timmys selling their collections for lowest ls8ted price every day , there are ways to do it , but you have to think outside the box for sure , no way your going to sell the exact same way as every other seller and expect worthwhile results.
I've come to value customer service and trust more than the lowest possible price at this point, and I've only been collecting TCG's for about two years I think. Oh, so maybe IDK what I'm doing on tcgplayer, but IDK how to see that items are from sellers I've bought from while browsing for specific items. Also, IDK how to favorite a seller either. And I've bought on there quite a bit for deck singles.
Man I’ve been trying and saving trying to buy a little here and there to try and get some inventory. I don’t make much and have a family so it’s difficult. I’m not giving up though. Did you make the Amazon video? The video that got me on your channel was your initial investment into the brick n mortar but that was 2 years ago lol so I got to look for it
i agree seems like direct making changes, do you buy from direct too? i've noticed the QC has been way better, anything I used to be older than swsh "NM" was more like MP but its been way better lately think with the 2% error threshold they've def been stingier and maybe sellers have been more careful as well
this is what ive been telling people for about a year and a half now direct just isnt what it once was and is constantly getting worse and its even worse for me as a primarily yugioh focused business between a flooding of sellers dumping everything they can on direct and the horrible ri change of which ive had 20 ris come back and out of those 20 i sent 17 back and they got accepted its just to inconsistent grading (which is the reason the 2 percent change is dogshit) wise and a race to the bottom for me to care anymore.
I still use direct but it’s no longer good for new releases, it’s great for those higher value cards that have a direct premium or a product that has been out for a bit.
TCGplayer is rough, people dumping, for some reason they don’t offer standard envelope for sellers. Would be nice bc I wouldn’t have to be worried about loosing out on a $15-$20 card and not paying $4.50-$5 for shipping.
I’m at Level 3 with 29 sales selling Pokemon. My inventory is at 7000+. Which Magic deck boxes would you recommend for me to help me reach Level 4 and adding Magic to my inventory at the same time? Awesome video btw.
@@rng-gamez man i thought about that too, you are probably right. my initial plan was to list every card, but in pokemon some cards are like 3 cents and im not sure about those
@@rng-gamez on direct that works great, im just not sure if those move if im just a regular seller. im one of those nasty at home sellers you inspired lol. 6000 cards live, 90 sales in 3 weeks, i hit level 4 3 days ago and took off. im just not sure about what cards to not list lol.
@@rng-gamez just watched your video from 1 year ago on packing big orders in PWE. Did a 54 card just now 🫣, it weights 4oz hopefully it goes through lol 🤫
@@rng-gamez thanks dude. Started selling a couple months ago and got direct. Been loving it so far but when I buy lots on FB marketplace I feel like I have to pick up things at 60 percent to make it worth it which is tough. Love the content bro
@rng-gamez Ok thanks for the reply.I found a guy who has a huge collection a black lotus, time walk 2 timetwisters all beta and thousands of cards from urzas, tempest , mirage era..think I should buy it all? he is selling below buylist on stuff. Got a mint grim monolith for 200 Canadian. Thoughts?
And he still doesn't get that he's getting hate because he's buying wholesale prices and charging secondary market prices when a product goes up,. Then cries when it's a dud of a set and he's not able to gouge his buyers. I really wish wizards would give an MSRP and mystery shop all the LGS and pull product from the scalpers.
@@VitoD226 their condition issues, the fact I have to pay for 2 day shipping, but they just mail back any extra inventory. It became such a hassle it wasn’t worth dealing with.
Not to mention, I source the cards, condition and organize, and they take up 50% of all cards under $3.00. I sell on marketplace only now and don’t have to worry about sei.
@@rng-gamez being negative and realistic are 2 different things. I made a few career mistakes in my life and was trying to help others avoid the same thing.
@@rng-gamez fair enough. Just knowing what I know now I regret the years I wasted making shit money. Just trying to save others from the same inevitable regret if they get into this stuff. I get your point though.
Damn. Most of that should have been for your therapist. Are you really just saying that if you were to start over again, you just wouldn't? Thanks for the motivation bro. I'll just give my cards away to make room for the real players like you. Sorry for trying to get into the market. I'll let my kid know that he's going to go hungry so that you can keep your market share. On a real note: get help brother.
The advice of choose a different path is probably accurate and good advice for 95% of people lol. Bankroll, know how, connections, and HARD WORK most people don’t have.
Dude honestly your content is my fav bro. It’s just real and helpful haha. Not a lot of real advice out there
💯 no sugarcoating. Straight from the trenches
I wish everyone who collected knew how hard it was to actually make money in this business.
You're an inspiration bro. Been following you for a month and started selling on ebay last week cause TCG put my account under review before I even got to list. I've already made over $130 in just a week. Cheers !
What you've done is truly impressive, and anyone bashing you just doesn't understand. Ignore them and keep doing what you're doing - it's obviously working
Probably part of that working is to always be changing, like you said. You can't keep doing what worked in the trenches 3 years ago, the trenches are different and the zombies are coming up the hell right now. This ain't a cutscene press a!
This guy drunk again
I made direct after three times being denied thanks to Rob. I go slow now sit out releases and open stuff people don’t like and has a better margin. Take your time and don’t cut your own throat to make a sale
Thank you for all of your videos, Rob. I started selling cards at-home because I want to transition to owning a card store someday. Your videos have helped motivate me to be the best seller that I can be and to try to make all of the people who buy cards from me happy. I hope to get more updates from you and listen to whatever topic you have off the top of your head to try to make the card game community a better place for both buyers and sellers.
As always we appreciate your content. You drop the most gems, even if you feel your ranting, we appreciate you. Thanks for always relatable to everyday people.
At the rate these marketplace websites are charging, it'll be more profitable to just advertise through youtube content and sell on a personal dedicated business site. Either route will take blood, sweat, and tears, so why not create your own
Always played the Pokémon games but just got into the cards when 151 came out and now starting to venture off into flipping and selling and the biggest takeaway is patience is key 💯like you said don’t treat cards like a hot potato it’s okay to sit on inventory sometimes and that’s something I’m learning rn. Also anyone ever tell you you look and sound like bill burr? 😂 great content tho
I'm finally attempting to make this a full time gig for myself in a year and a half or so. I'm on the fence about direct since realistically me being by myself and only need around 1.2k a month for all my bills. I'm attempting to just buy boxes on sale with good EV's, and seeing what happens after that. But your channel has been invaluable and I appreciate all your info!
How has the journey been?
Idk why at home "hobby" sellers (myself included) try to get the newest sets and flush them as fast as possible. They likely don't have distro connections so they're paying near retail and dumping inventory so the margin has got to be razor thin or negative. Order boxes that are a couple sets behind that are slightly discounted and have stable card prices.
These are generally people that have very little financial prospects in their lives. They spend their few hundred bucks on new product and just sell it out. Sometimes for a few dollar gain. Usually at a loss after fees are factored in. Then they feel like they are “participating in commerce”, and call themselves a store.
😂
It's unfortunate you are feeling attacked. I'd love nothing more than seeing your business thrive. Your content is informing and you put on a good show. I wouldn't take the people frustrated personal as it isn't about you.... it's about WotC driving prices to the moon for a GAME people love and they hate seeing their game ruined by greed from WotC (not you). Hang in there and thank you for your videos!
Cyberpunk universe beyond would be sick
I am very professional sir. Even working out of my closet 🤣🤣
Good content. I was thinking about mass box opening bloomburrow but now I’m not going to waste labor hours with employees. Sealed product sells well enough for me.
@@dominicmetzger3246 that’s great!! Yea if sealed sells well I’d stick with that.
Agreed. Margins are sometimes better (once you COMPLETELY sell through), but not always when you account for the extra labor.
@@mj23it1 If you factor in weekly events there isn’t a lot of need to open boxes imo. You just need more customers.
Let’s do some quick numbers
117 Play box at wholesale cost
15% transaction charge on tcg players after fees and other seller costs
30 mins per box of opening, sorting and listing (let’s say $6 charge)
You’re looking at needing an average EV of $190 (which is super high on standard sets) to achieve a 25% margin (which is still fairly low)
If you simply sold the box at $155 in store you get the same with no time spent
Even better, you sell as packs at $5.5 each and make $196.
A video about selling on EBay would be pretty cool. I’ve ramped up tcg player recently and have been on the verge of attempting Direct after reconditioning my cards more strictly. I’ll have to reevaluate and see if eBay is right for me. Thanks for the videos and your point of view - you’ve been helpful in my journey from occasional seller to where I’m at now.
I reevaluated and decided to not do Direct right now and do eBay instead. Will do Direct later once I have listing and fulfilling on both EBay and TCGPlayer under control.
Love your videos man. Wish you would upload more lol Keep grinding!
Seems like I often find more sealed deals on eBay these days than TCG Player. Singles are a whole other story!
Great video! As a customer I never understood direct; I'm not paying $5 for shipping when I can just not do that with normal sellers. Good to hear it's kinda crap from a seller's POV as well.
This man is seething inside lol.
Totally right about the at home sellers and price depression. Another thing to is it has caused bigger stores to adjust. The Gaming Co literally controls the price of a lot of lower end cards now and is pricing 10% under market with thousands of copies and is consistently repricing to low. I’m definitely going to try to transition over to eBay also
Invaluable info thank you so much
We appreciate you!
Just getting started and listed my first 50 cards for sale on TCG. Found your channel and subscribed. Thanks for the great tips and insight. It makes me anxious waiting around for my first sale. Whoever takes a leap of faith and can give me my first rating will be huge moment. But getting started in general seems so daunting rn.
Don’t fret about ratings. I started about a month ago and no news is good news. If someone doesn’t rate you it automatically gives you a 100%
Yeah i sell cards as my primary source of income , and there is NO WAY i could surivive if i didnt have my own ways , this market is WAY too competitive and has too many hobby sellers who dont need to get market value bc its not a job to them.
In my paint business for instance my main competitors are other actual businesses, but with cards there is 20,000 little 8 year old timmys selling their collections for lowest ls8ted price every day , there are ways to do it , but you have to think outside the box for sure , no way your going to sell the exact same way as every other seller and expect worthwhile results.
Lookin lean my guy. Keep it up!
I've come to value customer service and trust more than the lowest possible price at this point, and I've only been collecting TCG's for about two years I think.
Oh, so maybe IDK what I'm doing on tcgplayer, but IDK how to see that items are from sellers I've bought from while browsing for specific items. Also, IDK how to favorite a seller either. And I've bought on there quite a bit for deck singles.
you realize it's mostly stores that are coming in and listing their cards 5 dollars below the next lowest listing, right?
Alpha Quest update? 😊 cheer.
Man I’ve been trying and saving trying to buy a little here and there to try and get some inventory. I don’t make much and have a family so it’s difficult. I’m not giving up though. Did you make the Amazon video? The video that got me on your channel was your initial investment into the brick n mortar but that was 2 years ago lol so I got to look for it
Yuuuuup. Tried it once. Didnt work out right. Scrapped it. 1:29
i agree seems like direct making changes, do you buy from direct too? i've noticed the QC has been way better, anything I used to be older than swsh "NM" was more like MP but its been way better lately think with the 2% error threshold they've def been stingier and maybe sellers have been more careful as well
this is what ive been telling people for about a year and a half now direct just isnt what it once was and is constantly getting worse and its even worse for me as a primarily yugioh focused business between a flooding of sellers dumping everything they can on direct and the horrible ri change of which ive had 20 ris come back and out of those 20 i sent 17 back and they got accepted its just to inconsistent grading (which is the reason the 2 percent change is dogshit) wise and a race to the bottom for me to care anymore.
I still use direct but it’s no longer good for new releases, it’s great for those higher value cards that have a direct premium or a product that has been out for a bit.
Hey Brother,
Question... to confirm you are still suggesting marking cards at Market price and they will sell still?
TCGplayer is rough, people dumping, for some reason they don’t offer standard envelope for sellers. Would be nice bc I wouldn’t have to be worried about loosing out on a $15-$20 card and not paying $4.50-$5 for shipping.
I’m at Level 3 with 29 sales selling Pokemon. My inventory is at 7000+. Which Magic deck boxes would you recommend for me to help me reach Level 4 and adding Magic to my inventory at the same time?
Awesome video btw.
Any Commander decks at a good EV. Most Wanted is a good one if you can get it around $35
7000+ inventory with 29 sales? Lower some prices. Don't fire sale stuff sure. Low $ yugioh singles got me to level 4 really quickly.
Can confirm I love buying on eBay
i do pokemon on TCGplayer and i am considering direct for one reason. The damn 30-60 card orders that are $5-7
Set up a floor price I’d say .15-.25 cents should solve that problem
@@rng-gamez man i thought about that too, you are probably right. my initial plan was to list every card, but in pokemon some cards are like 3 cents and im not sure about those
@@gregesparza5857 yea I stick to a market of .05 for Pokemon and floor price of .15 for everything
@@rng-gamez on direct that works great, im just not sure if those move if im just a regular seller. im one of those nasty at home sellers you inspired lol. 6000 cards live, 90 sales in 3 weeks, i hit level 4 3 days ago and took off. im just not sure about what cards to not list lol.
@@rng-gamez just watched your video from 1 year ago on packing big orders in PWE. Did a 54 card just now 🫣, it weights 4oz hopefully it goes through lol 🤫
If you’re buying on tcgplayer at release, how are you making money on eBay when prices drop after release?
@@555-phish it’s only on certain things, works great on once expensive reprints that people dump. If I believe the price will recover I’ll buy them.
when it comes to eBay what % should I be using to promote, is a flat 10% good or should I go with the suggest at 15%?
New card buyer here. I don't mind paying a bit a profit to help lgs
You are much appreciated!
Nice shirt ❤
If you did exclusively pokemon would you think the same way?
@@tjpalme4298 yes for sure, even more so
@@rng-gamez thanks dude. Started selling a couple months ago and got direct. Been loving it so far but when I buy lots on FB marketplace I feel like I have to pick up things at 60 percent to make it worth it which is tough. Love the content bro
What tools are you using to list cards on ebay?
We just want you to tell us when Fetches will hit bottom
@@Wabu1 they are there right now lol buy them up
You don't sit on a few cases of product long term?
@@ChaseDaTruth not really I’ll only sit on special stuff like MH3 and fallout collectors
Hey man I have a pretty large inventory of reserve list stuff and vintage. Could you help me get direct?
@@Capt_McNugget that unfortunately doesn’t do well on direct.
@rng-gamez Ok thanks for the reply.I found a guy who has a huge collection a black lotus, time walk 2 timetwisters all beta and thousands of cards from urzas, tempest , mirage era..think I should buy it all? he is selling below buylist on stuff. Got a mint grim monolith for 200 Canadian.
Thoughts?
@@Capt_McNugget if it’s too good to be true I’d stay away.
@rng-gamez Guy doesn't know magic and cards are all real.
@@Capt_McNugget well done than go for it. If you’ve done your due diligence
You still dont understand that these dump prices are caused by overproduction of the product and similar chase cards in each set do you?
And he still doesn't get that he's getting hate because he's buying wholesale prices and charging secondary market prices when a product goes up,. Then cries when it's a dud of a set and he's not able to gouge his buyers. I really wish wizards would give an MSRP and mystery shop all the LGS and pull product from the scalpers.
Ham dog😅
Show off :D haha.
Direct sucks, it only got worse when EBay bought TCGplayer
Why does it suck?
@@VitoD226 their condition issues, the fact I have to pay for 2 day shipping, but they just mail back any extra inventory. It became such a hassle it wasn’t worth dealing with.
Not to mention, I source the cards, condition and organize, and they take up 50% of all cards under $3.00. I sell on marketplace only now and don’t have to worry about sei.
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For anyone looking to do the same the best advice you’ll get is to choose a different career path guys.
It’s negative people like this that make people not even try. Let people figure out their own path. It’s always doom and gloom with you people.
@@rng-gamez being negative and realistic are 2 different things. I made a few career mistakes in my life and was trying to help others avoid the same thing.
@@JohnSmith-mj7cz I bet you are the person today because of them. Let people figure it out for themselves and I bet they’ll be better in the end
Nfts.
@@rng-gamez fair enough. Just knowing what I know now I regret the years I wasted making shit money. Just trying to save others from the same inevitable regret if they get into this stuff. I get your point though.
Damn. Most of that should have been for your therapist. Are you really just saying that if you were to start over again, you just wouldn't? Thanks for the motivation bro. I'll just give my cards away to make room for the real players like you. Sorry for trying to get into the market. I'll let my kid know that he's going to go hungry so that you can keep your market share.
On a real note: get help brother.
I’m thriving brother
@@rng-gamez sounded like depression and regret.
@@zero380kyle I think you hear what you want to hear.
@@rng-gamez did you like your own comment? Lmao
The advice of choose a different path is probably accurate and good advice for 95% of people lol. Bankroll, know how, connections, and HARD WORK most people don’t have.
Played assassin creed game is shaaat would not recomend fallout gta and skyrim is where it's at