Flipping Cards

[habscards]

Do any of you guys do it? Have you had good/some/bad success doing it?

I have done it a bit and had some success. It just seems as if some people only want to trade or buy cards to flip for a profit.

Do any of you guys flip anything else online and have good success doing that?

[dmaksymyshyn]

Last year when I joined SCF, it seemed like every other person I was trying to trade with was "i want Crosby, Ovie, Kane, Toews", and the sole purpose was to flip and sell. Buy low, sell high, wouldn't even consider other trades...now, it seems to have mellowed out a bit.
Now, in regards to me flipping...the price has to be right, and you have to be ready to invest a pretty big chunk of money up front. I have been on both ends. Last fall, when I needed money to fund my kids preschool tuition, I had to sell off my Tyler Myers collection. I sold it at a fair, but low bulk price to move and get the money. The guy I sold them too was piecing them out and made a nice profit. Almost a year later, I bought a pretty nice collection for around $700, and are in line to make more than double my investment. And I get to keep the best piece for PC. Just remember, it is only worth it if you can get them low...which usually means getting a large quantity.
Hope this helps!

[dmaksymyshyn]

I should probably add that I tried to move as much as possible by avoiding ebay first, and the leftovers have made their way to ebay. Here, you get safer deals, no fees, happy people...

[RGM81]

Yes. There have been a handful of occasions when I've been able to get a steal of a deal, which is really the only time I ever buy non-PC items.

[scottkoz20]

I recently have tried to dip my hand in this side of the business (for no other reason than to fund my habit).

One lesson I have learned is that sometimes, the person you are trying to buy from is not ready for the type of offer they are going to recieve for an entire lot.

I have a friend locally that does fairly well in doing this.

[87sluggo]

I've been buying small lots on eBay for years, taking what I want out of them and then repackaging them up into one big lot plus a few singles once or twice a year. MAYBE I make 60% of my money back, but it's more about getting to look at the cards while I'm scanning them, deciding if maybe I want to start in on something new because one card in a lot I won is sooooo shiny and I want the rest, annnnnd it keeps me busy, because I'm super-dad and two kids hardly take up ANY of my time hahahaaaaaa.

I did buy a 200+/- lot a couple months ago which I'm gonna flip individually, most of it from the last couple years which I really have no interest in, just to see if I can make anything out of it. FUN!!!!

[DeanCrandall]

Not a flipper fan here, simple economics like real estate agents driving the price up on property, flip a card enough times and the prices don't even make sense.
Do it for the love of the card and not the $$$, won't hurt so bad when it all comes crashing down.

[Mike Bray]

I`ll pick up some hockey at the local shows from a few dealers ( they like to bust boxes and if its not Sid , Ovi or the top couple rookies - they dont have a market ))-- for the most part they will give me a great deal if i buy in bulk because there are only a few hard core hockey collectors in the area -- then i`ll bring them on here to piece out or use as trade bait -- its worked pretty good so far --

[max91ess]

If you know me a little, you know thats the only thing i do..lol just kidding but seriously its easy and pretty $$$$


without too much work from 200-1K a month..profit..

[andrewconnors9]

Well ill be the first to say that for the last 4 years I was a student and i did alot of flipping. I got pretty good at it, and learned the market well and always saw a deal. Alot of times though the paypal I made flipping, went to Leafs PC cards (took me 2 months of flipping to save enough to buy the Robbie Earl The Cup Black 1/1 as the owner wanted a rediculous price, but of course its a 1/1 so I had no choice, bleh lol). Whether it was buying lots from one site and selling on another, or hours on ebay watching last second auctions of all hockey cards or searching and finding typos on ebay, I managed to flip alot. Some examples:

Gretzky OPC RC on ebay, ungraded, listing spelt Greztky, got it for 95$ and flipped it a few days after I received it for 250$.

Picked up a Seguin Superlative and Gretzky Topps RC PSA 6 for 150$ combined, flipped the Gretzky for 120$ and Seguin for 80$ the day after receiving the package.

but my baby, was a Darcy Tucker collector who gave up collecting and sold me his whole collection for 300$ shipped, this included a huge amounts of cards with lots of high end, game used, autos, parallels, inserts etc., PLUS a autographed game used glove, several autographed 8x10s, 2 autographed pucks and other odds and ends (IP auto'd cards, little figurines like xmas tree ornaments, a mcfarlane, mini pucks, mini helmets, etc etc)
I kept the Glove which I still have home, kept an in person auto'd card and a puck and put them in one of those side by side display cases, kept all the base/inserts/parallels that were pictured on Leafs for my Leafs PC, kept the small figurines and odds and ends, and kept the mcfarlane. Sold the rest (which was just cards) for just under 350$. Once the accounting was done on it all (this all took about a month after getting the package) i could not believe i profited and got to keep all that stuff, especially the Glove, which was clearly the biggest part of the lot.