A lot of people here buy and sell on eBay. What do you buy? Do you buy eTopps? Anything else? Always interested in other collector's collections and their stories.

Tim

Just started collecting etopps so I have been buying quite a few of those lately, I was purchasing quite a few baseball hobby boxes of 2003 Topps Chrome but people are starting to get outrageous on there S&H charges so I am looking for other sellers. I don't mind paying $5 or even $6 dollars a box if they are being shipped seperately but $8 or $9 dollars is nutz when it doesn't even include insurance...

I've been buying and selling on ebay for more than four years. I buy on ebay what I need which I think will save me money: inkjet cartridges, Sony PDA, camcorder, watch, camera film, birthday and Christmas gifts, etc. I also buy a few cards here and there that are graded, mostly recent baseball rookies like Jose Reyes.

In the golden year of '99 when you could sell anything and make money off it, I did a lot of that and sold off my collection of Rush memorabilia as well as plenty of other stuff. My attitude is if I can make something from nothing, I'll go for it. And I have.

I buy porn on eBay! Hahaha, can you even get porn on eBay? Anywayssssssssssss, I'm pretty much just an etopps guy on eBay but I do buy some odds and ends here and there like beer collectables.

haha....actually you can buy porn on ebay.....i usually buy gu cards on there that i really want although right now i have no money.....i also sell a lot since my dad has an antique shop and i sel stuff out of it for him....i make quite a bit since he lets me keeps 30 percent and he pays the listing fee

I just buy a lot of GU and auto. Tutall, how old are you? Your dad has an antique shop? Does he have any old books? Just wondering. I am bored today :)

Tim

Iggy, what's this thing with you and porn? Don't tell me you're the guy at the Pitt football game who wore a button that said, "Born for Porn" when the game was televised on ABC.

Originally posted by plunge
Iggy, what's this thing with you and porn? Don't tell me you're the guy at the Pitt football game who wore a button that said, "Born for Porn" when the game was televised on ABC.

That is awesome! I'm sad I missed that great moment in Pitt Athletics. I only made it to one Pitt football game this year and that's because the opener was a saturday night game. Iggy and 12 Noon don't mix well on Saturday's.

I buy and sell garbage pail kids cards --- these cards sell like crazy.

I've got some 1st series cards (the most expensive ones), which have writing on them, sticker borders peeled off, creases, etc. and I can still get $0.40 per card.

Even when I describe the cards as being in POOR condition, they still sell out.

But try selling sports cards in anything other than near-mint condition, and you've got to discount them heavily to get someone to buy it.

have the entire collection, series 1-15th, about 1200-1300 or so cards, all placed in soft sleeves and then in top load card holders.

I am always looking to buy wax boxes of sports cards at cheap prices on Ebay.

Ebay is the best place to buy ink cartridges...try going to a retail store like Best Buy, and it'll run up upwards of $25-35 for ONE!!
Love opening wax packs and seeing what I get.

Buying packs and boxes is always fun, it's one of the most exciting aspects of this great hobby.

Tim

Originally posted by plunge
My attitude is if I can make something from nothing, I'll go for it. And I have.

I wish I wasn't so caught in the financial services industry, back in 99, cause I would have found ebay and I could have made a lot of dough, It suck now I had to lower all my gu, auto and #'d cards to sell them. man oh man, but I sell alot of books self-help are my fav's cause you can always improve I have over 300 I am going to try and get them listed today.

and the reason is... to many people sell for a hobby and not for a business and I believe it is more more demand than product and I don't think the economy is helping any.

I will find another avenue, I refuse to go back working for someone else. It's been 3 years and I don't think I can take orders from some boss that I believe is an idiot. The only way I would is if I felt I can could get a deep discount on the products so I can see them.

gio

Good for you. Hope your own business ventures work out, congrats.

Tim

Originally posted by IggyWH
can you even get porn on eBay?


Like you don't know! :rolleyes:

i buy alot of mantle stuff mainly graded cards if i can find a deal and always buying 2001 baseball etopps which i hoard sold all my other etopps man did i take a bath on 2001 last spring

BGray, exactly what I was thinking :)

Tim

PORN!!!! :D Anyway, with myself jobless, i buy the cheapest rookie GU and auto cards. Say like Jesse Palmer, Tim Carter, Marquise Walker, ect.

Dave

Originally posted by BGray
Like you don't know! :rolleyes:

I don't... why look at porn when you can have the real thing, poor wifed up guy!

I mainly collect gu, autos and etopps. I also buy oddball cards from the past that I always wanted but couldn't find until ebay, like the 89 Fleer Billy Ripken F*ck Face card.