As a local card "dealer" how fair is pricing?

[bangsportscards]

I am starting to sell cards locally to a guy....other notes this person is not a friend, he owns a fencing business, and has a family with kids......he bought $30 the first time we dealt.....now I have what seems to be an easy $200 sale next as he has some money to spend it appears and really is gitty on getting specific cards of his favorite college team.....this second time I bought 13 cards online for $130 and figure I would sell these to him for $200.....all the cards are of our local college team.....so as you can see I will make back about 50% of my output.....or that is $70......I figured I invested a good 2-3 hours in getting all these cards.....it seems I did pretty decent.....I know I am not overcharging much if at all but maybe I could get a tab more?.....the best thing here is probably get a feel for the specific sitiation and go from there right.....any thoughts out there about all this, if I am right on or maybe need to look at it another way.....why I mention a tad more is because some of the cards were fairly limited of which I may have gotten good deals on.....I am basing my resale price off the money I have in the stuff, that these are cards of a local college team, along with time put in but also want to factor in partly the value range for more limited items.....I want over think things too much here, just looking for general insight into this type of scenerio to gain more knowledge.......and I feel pretty satisfied currently with how this may turn out.......thanks, Brian

[pwaldo]

I always price stuff according to how I get it. If I paid almost nothing for it I can let it go for way less than eBay because I don't have too much into it and like to help people out with their collections. But for other cards if I have more money into them or they are incredibly popular players or rookies you can ask for more. The same applies to very low numbered stuff that is hard to find.

[chakhae1]

My thoughts are somewhat mixed here. Firstly, you have pc items for a guy that wants the cards you have and is willing to pay a premium to have and that means they won't be flipped for more profit. In that case selling them is fine since both parties are happy with the transaction from a hobby point of view which is what collecting should be about.

Secondly, you are looking to make more money from your cards which from a certain point of view might make sense since you found a guy that wants them and a little competition might boost up the price, but it might lower it as well and you might end up with nothing. I would personally make the sale to the guy you currently know, take your profit and walk away..

[bangsportscards]

My thoughts are somewhat mixed here. Firstly, you have pc items for a guy that wants the cards you have and is willing to pay a premium to have and that means they won't be flipped for more profit. In that case selling them is fine since both parties are happy with the transaction from a hobby point of view which is what collecting should be about.

Secondly, you are looking to make more money from your cards which from a certain point of view might make sense since you found a guy that wants them and a little competition might boost up the price, but it might lower it as well and you might end up with nothing. I would personally make the sale to the guy you currently know, take your profit and walk away..

Yeah I kinda agree here. Seling to a true collector leaves the asking prices open broadly. They are getting what they want and this can add a definite premium. On the other hand I agree in part to passing along deals based on what you invest in something even if it is less than say eBay.

[Mamunrud]

You might not want to sell them all to your customer at once, maybe hold some back for another future sale. If you try to get big dollars out of him you may shy him away from buying so much from you. Keep feeding him cards a little at a time and you'll probably have a long time customer that will spend more with you in the long run. You can also try to get a better profit on the smaller sales too. An example is, instead of trying to get a $70 profit with the guy spending $200, try to get a $40 profit with him spending $100. If that works then you should have another sale lined up for another $40 profit on the next sale.

Another thing I do with customers is try to get a want list of stuff they'd like you to help them find for them. This leads to almost certain sales when you can knock off items from the list, just be sure to let the customer know right away so they don't find one before you can get it to them.