Best way to make money doing this on the side?

[JEguitars]

I have long been a collector, have always loved cards, always will.
Now I am wanting to get a little more serious about it, and want to start ripping and selling. I now have the liquid capital on hand to do so, so why not make a little side business out of what I love?

Anyone willing to PM me and get me in the right direction as far as best ways to buy and sell, I will give some VERY nice cards to. Make it completely worth your while.

[BSEBALLCOMMISH75]

Greetings:
PM SENT!!!

[the 'stache]

Jump in your Delorean, go back to the year 2009, and buy up every Mike Trout Bowman Chrome auto you can find. Travel back to 2013, list them on Ebay...profit.

I wish you luck, JEguitars. A lot of people have tried to make money from selling cards. The hobby, and the sport itself, are so fickle. It's difficult to make a profit, even with a substantial amount of cash to invest.

[joeylion]

Ripping & selling is pretty much guaranteed to NOT make money. 90% of boxes won't even make a 30% return on investment (i.e. a $100 box of cards, you would be LUCKY to make $30 back on it) This is why hobby shops don't open their own boxes to sell singles. The only ways to make money in the hobby is to:

1) Open a hobby shop and sell boxes/cases
2) Buy large lots of cards at a discount and sell them individually (very time consuming and not always enough room to make a profit)
3) Prospect - buy tons of cheap mid-end prospects and hope that 5 years down the road they make it big (risky and no immediate results)

[stojanowski]

And I think we can close the thread now...

Ripping & selling is pretty much guaranteed to NOT make money. 90% of boxes won't even make a 30% return on investment (i.e. a $100 box of cards, you would be LUCKY to make $30 back on it) This is why hobby shops don't open their own boxes to sell singles. The only ways to make money in the hobby is to:

1) Open a hobby shop and sell boxes/cases
2) Buy large lots of cards at a discount and sell them individually (very time consuming and not always enough room to make a profit)
3) Prospect - buy tons of cheap mid-end prospects and hope that 5 years down the road they make it big (risky and no immediate results)

[darkshadowdog123]

Agreed. Collecting for personal enjoyment is really the only way to go.