@David-fv7zg thereabouts. I sent a batch in about mid June, estimated to finished getting in the system early October

Welcome back! I've been wondering where you went to. Makes sense that Facebook groups are the big thing in Australia. But, yeah, definitely comes with its risks.

I did do a pre-screen on three cards so far, all three of them came back suggested not to send for grading (so basically I paid $5 for what would normally be a $2 elite listing with a better scan). I sent one of them off anyways (a Finest Durant rookie) and it ended up getting a PSA 9. That's been the entirety of my pre-screening experience. I did do a couple of card grading things that ended up really low though, so had I done this, it might have helped me. $5 is just kind of a lot, I'm already like 1/4th of the way to just paying for grading there, so it's hard for me to justify using the service much.

@XYouVandal it's inconsistent. Some colors do seem to more often be a bit more popular though, so may occasionally go for more. Sometimes it seems like hobby box parallels sometimes do a bit better than retail box parallels too. But it's all inconsistent. I haven't noticed red specifically, but I've definitely seen gold /10 or something like tie-dye /25 or cherry blossom /20 go for more than green /5. It's just about what look people like, more demand means higher sales price.

Might do okay, garage sale kinda thing. Not fully confident my geographic area is the best for this though. If i had more time, id love to experiment

Perhaps eventually i will try. But life is busy these days

@tyjohnson692 I hope you are right! I don't know for sure, but it does seem like the pace of greening can range widely. If it hasn't greened yet, still seems possible to me. But I hope they don't! There's some awesome cards in those years.

@JeffreyMello I personally would consider soaking a card altering it, in a pretty similar vein as a slight trim. Both are doing something that may at first be hard to detect, but that are changing the card in pretty fundamental ways. Plus, with the soak, it seems like it could effect the card later too. I had a card once where the cardboard and the chromium layer once just suddenly separated themselves cleanly from each other on a card i bought, I wouldn't be surprised if some sort of soak from a previous owner was the culprit. I don't know for sure, but it makes logical sense that a chemical composition could create that sort of effect.

@davel.9467 that's great! Good luck on the chase!

Congrats! That's a beautiful set, one of my favs of all time

Thanks!

I did find out my nearby GameStop does do that. I might try something like this at some point. Not too soon though, since my summer plans are kinda all over the place, but maybe sometime later... maybe...

If I was doing more with WhatNot, I might. But I'm not likely to do too much with WhatNot from here forward.

Yeah, I did have a bunch listed on there for awhile, but was only selling like a card a month, so I just moved on from it.

That's exactly right.

Thanks for checking it out Orlando!

He's a great example of someone who should use WhatNot. It makes complete sense for how he approaching things. He's spending a lot of time not just with cards but with building community and with connecting with people. WhatNot is good for that

@@scoa What Keane does right is "sudden death" auctions. He starts everything at a buck and there is no time to research comps or anything and after five or ten seconds of bidding, cards valued at $2 sell for $7. You don't even have time to react as the show goes by so quickly. It's wild.

@@LetsStormTheTeaCupRide Yeah, COMC live auctions can be like that sometimes too, if the timing is right. Keane getting a big audience and making high profit on that makes sense. It does really show how off people can be on estimating comps though.

I think the part you say about finding a niche and expanding from there is great advice. Find the spots that work and gradually spiral out from there.

They can have different 'demand' a bit, and with too many parallels people get more picky about 'demand'.

I ordered cards over a period of about two-weeks, then hit the 'weigh all' button, and it took about a month to get my shipment weighed and then another month before it was sent, and then another week before it arrived. All in, I got the cards 2.5-3 months after I won them in auction. That being said, in my recent purchase, they got it to weighing my package within about a week, so they may be speeding up.

I ordered cards over a period of about two-weeks, then hit the 'weigh all' button, and it took about a month to get my shipment weighed and then another month before it was sent, and then another week before it arrived. All in, I got the cards 2.5-3 months after I won them in auction. That being said, in my recent purchase, they got it to weighing my package within about a week, so they may be speeding up.

100%, they are making bank on the hobby. I don't know how they managed to position themselves the way they have. They aren't objectively better than other graders, but they certainly have managed to corner to market

They are definitely raking in the dough. It's crazy to me how massive they are in the hobby space.

Yeah, I could understand that. I did make a video awhile back that looked at the actual fee structure with concrete examples and what I found was that all things added in, the amount COMC takes in the end and the amount eBay takes in the end almost evened themselves out, especially if you do a handful of listings with eBay promotions. I personally use a good amount of my COMC sales to buy other cards as well (either for my pc or to flip on the platform or to flip to sell elsewhere), in which case they don't take that 10%. But I do understand what your saying, that cash-out fee ain't my fav.

Glad you enjoyed it!

I'm actually not sure, now that I think about it. All I can say is that from my experience, I've had 4-5 shipments, valued from maybe $750 at the low end to about $2K at the high end, and I've never had to pay any customs fees. But I'm not actually sure what they are declaring when they ship it off.

That's so clearly not true. China has a massive sports card community, probably second only to the US. Xenophobia much?

Appreciate that, glad you enjoyed the video

Thanks!

It was!

It definitely was a blast.

Thanks man, it was a blast to open those with the fam.