Flipping Cards

[Star_Cards]

I flip, but it's all base player lots. I do very well, but takes work and time to get enough cards to build lots of as well as building the lots. I don't do it as much as I have in the past but it's still worth my time.

I've never been a fan of speculation flipping. That's a lot more risky. Buying in bulk or buying full collections and breaking down is much more effective from my experience anyways.

[Star_Cards]

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.

Nice flip. I recently bought a 1,000 card Micheal Jordan here on the site --sorry guys I know it's not hockey :) -- I bought it based on it would all be base cards. I knew there were some inserts included, but when I got it there were over 300 inserts and parallels and a lot of premium stuff. I don't have exact profit totals, but after breaking them into smaller lots on ebay I sold it all in about 6 weeks and probably quadrupled my money.