Selling on TCGPlayer: 2 Tips I Wish I Had Known

[@southVpaw]

I'm a struggling single father. I just cracked open my closet and started counting all of my cards between Yu-Gi-Oh, Magic, Pokémon, and 3 different DBZ games. I'm halfway through pricing everything out and I'm at $1500 so far 🤘

[@mountainghoti1671]

Good luck man. What's your TCG player name? I'll try to get something from you.

[@The_Surge8760]

I started selling in 2019 before the pandemic hit. I went through everything you mentioned but didn't think about looking around for advice 😅. During the pandemic, I doubled down and bought all my supplies in bulk. Thousands of top loaders at 55 cents a piece before the shortage happened, and prices jumped. For the orders with multiple 15-cent cards, I would put them all in a team bag with 1 top loader to reinforce the pack. Mail them in a yellow clasp envelope with a stamp from pitney bowes that only charged the weight. Print their address and rubber stamp mine. I kept my bulk cards in a box by set and non bulk in folders by set. Good memories, and I'm diving back in, but I wanted to see if things changed first. They haven't. Thank you for this video and your knowledge.

[@MadTownHobby]

It's always a fun time to get back into the industry. Good luck out there!

[@bradeaton9589]

I hadn't thought about not going live until you've listed everything. Seems like good advice

[@MadTownHobby]

The audience there is enormous. Gotta maximize where you can.

[@Oneidos_Gaming]

Sounds like solid advice! I've only traded cards hand-to-hand in my life, mainly due to lack of knowledge on things like shipping costs, customs etc.

[@professorfloop2400]

Here is my big question. Where are you getting your cards? Are you just buying collections or will you actually buy boxes of new stuff?

[@MadTownHobby]

Collection buying is the best way to go about it to ensure there should be some margin for you. Buying new product can also work over longer time periods if you find deals and wait for supply to dry up a little before ripping it.

[@thehubtcg]

Great tips!

[@Vse8311]

Well said

[@DemonEmpire-jv3zv]

TCGPlayer only available in US ?

[@MadTownHobby]

Only US sellers. International buyers can purchase if the seller has turned on international shipping.

[@PMTCards]

Eh I disagree with the keeping cards high. I’ve had cards just 1 penny higher.. like a 2 cent card I had at 3 or 4 cents it just never sells and there will be 30+ cards at one cent for a common card that will never sell. I just list all and hope I can get more 1-4 card sales for a penny than 20+ card bulk buys

[@MadTownHobby]

You can for sure play around with the numbers to adjust the "flow" of sales volume. I always recommend starting high while you get the system and process in place. So many beginners get discouraged by those large bulk orders coming in before they are ready to handle them.

[@PMTCards]

@@MadTownHobby right but that’s why TCG player has the level system. I think you can only list up to 100 cards as a level 1 seller to begin with. And if your goal is to be able to list a decent amount of product, then the opposite strategy is actually smarter, list lowest possible to get the amount of sales you need to unlock level 4 seller. Where your strategy of list a ton at once and people will buy from you just to combine purchases only really works when you have cards that can actually sell for a higher price that will then attract people to browse your bulk. But outside of large personal collections, somewhat expensive lot purchases, etc..the average person trying to subsidize the hobby or just starting with small investment will not have multiple couple dollar or more cards. 75% of the “hits” in a set these days barely sell for more than a penny, let alone 25 cents or even a dollar.. if you’re not coming up on the first 1-3 pages of near mint lowest price (especially without decent feedback, etc), nobody is going to look at your stuff. And if your strategy is to post everything at 25 cents or higher cause they will sell, that only works if you have a good number of your cards that are actually worth that amount while Still being the cheapest prices. If I’m trying to finish off the last 15 reverse holos I need for my set, I’m not looking at your card when it’s on page 15 of 17. You might get super lucky if I have to use 5 different sellers for those 15 cards and you have enough of them to make it cheaper than the penny plus shipping.. cause I’m still paying $3.75 for the 15 cards, plus the shipping.

[@danielkinney5451]

The lip smacking is insane...only 3 minutes in

[@TheSnackAttackingSnorlax]

Real pro tip, just don’t sell anything under $2/3 …. Leave the bulk for the chumps.

[@MadTownHobby]

We all had to start somewhere and I respect the grind of the bulk seller. 😄

[@andrewvanness1473]

Anything over $.20 is cool if you know what ur doing. But you probably dont lol

[@TheSnackAttackingSnorlax]

@@andrewvanness1473 I just value my time more than that. It’s a real grind for .20 cards. I’m just more about quality than quantity. 🤷‍♂️ just my style.