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Post by seymourbarf on Nov 15, 2017 20:36:52 GMT -5
I sold 300 series 15 die-cut cards today for $160. I'm happy to have sold it all in one lot, but should I have sold it for more? I'm having a bit of seller's remorse this evening.
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Post by tommy4ya on Nov 15, 2017 20:45:03 GMT -5
Depends on condition.
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Post by seymourbarf on Nov 15, 2017 20:47:02 GMT -5
Mostly pack fresh. Ah, damn it.
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Post by seymourbarf on Nov 15, 2017 20:50:34 GMT -5
I will say that I didn't want to sell singles for the next 20 years, or even break it into several lots. I'm happy to have one-and-done'd it. But I had a brain fart when setting the price. How much do you think I cost myself, considering I wanted to sell it all at once?
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Post by tommy4ya on Nov 15, 2017 21:04:40 GMT -5
Well if you are happy you one and done'ed it then just enjoy your 160 bucks. Comparison is the theft of joy, and all that stuff. If you still want to know I can post some estimated prices.
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Post by seymourbarf on Nov 15, 2017 21:08:12 GMT -5
It'd probably be better for my mental health if I didn't know, but yeah, please post the estimates.
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Post by tommy4ya on Nov 15, 2017 21:38:05 GMT -5
So gems go for around 10-15$ each, figure maybe 10% of your stack. One step below that are about 3-5 each. Lower grade than that about a buck each. Really good sets go from 100-150 each. I've seen a best of the best minty set go for over 300. Took multiple boxes though.
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Post by seymourbarf on Nov 15, 2017 22:21:08 GMT -5
Thanks for posting these estimates, they are very helpful. Do these per-card estimates ($10-$15/$3-$5/$1) hold when selling cards in large lots? Because if so, then I royally screwed up.
But I've seen complete pack-fresh variation sets sell for $150 (so, about $2/card), and I've also seen 85-card pack-fresh lots (with a high % of duplicates) sell for $25 (about 30 cents/card). I was trying to estimate a cost for my lot based on those parameters. I didn't have a complete set, and also didn't have as high a duplicate % as the 85-card lots, so I landed at 50 cents per card. I figured since I was selling it all at once, I was going to get less per card than if I had sold it littte by little. I know people sell singles at $3-$5, but I didn't want to spend years trying to sell off my stock.
My gut feeling is that $160 was too little to charge for 300 mostly pack-fresh cards, but could I realistically have expected even $300 ($1/card) when selling such a large lot without there being a complete set? I guess I'm trying to figure out how much I realistically cost myself, assuming I would have sold it all in one lot. Would someone realistically have paid $150 more for this lot? $50 more? This is what's been bouncing around in my head all day.
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Post by Steve on Nov 16, 2017 4:06:00 GMT -5
Get them back and I will give you $500
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Post by tommy4ya on Nov 16, 2017 7:42:55 GMT -5
I mean you could have easily got a dollar each with the same amount of work but nothing to beat yourself up over. Try to get them back if you can, Steve is legit. You might even say 2 legit. Again yours wasn't a big deal in the scheme of things even if you can't get it back, ask Steve about how much he sold his OS1 final for. Thats a heart breaker  |
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Post by seymourbarf on Nov 16, 2017 8:28:19 GMT -5
Hi Steve and Tommy, thanks for the feedback. You've helped me wrap my head around this. I am very appreciative.
I was killing myself all night over this. But I thought more about what Tommy said, and about the condition of the cards I had. Maybe it isn't so bad. Because of the 300 cards, 150 of them came from a high-volume seller, and I paid $100 total for them. I'm assuming he'd already taken out the gem mints and the better cards. So at best he was selling me $1 cards.
Of the remaining 150 cards, 85 came from someone selling his childhood collection & were handled cards.
So only 65 cards out of the 300 were pack-fresh and pulled by me. I screwed up by not sorting out potentially gem-mint cards or $3-$5 cards. But how many of them could there have been?
Given this information, what now would be a reasonable price for this 300-card lot, if sold all at once?
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Post by seymourbarf on Nov 16, 2017 8:28:53 GMT -5
And I'm not going to ask Steve how much he sold his OS1 set for. I'm new here, and I don't want to upset him!
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Post by tommy4ya on Nov 16, 2017 10:31:00 GMT -5
And I'm not going to ask Steve how much he sold his OS1 set for. I'm new here, and I don't want to upset him! Its fine, Steve is like Frank Costanza he isn't happy unless hes upset. |
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Post by seymourbarf on Nov 16, 2017 11:17:28 GMT -5
Frank Costanza once had a silver dollar collection, and Steve presumably collects GPKs, so the similarities are mounting!
I'm not going to beat myself up any longer about these die-cuts. I had a smaller lot of them listed on eBay for months with no interest, and finally sold them after lowering the price to something less than what I wanted. I did not want to go through that again. Based on my experience, it would have taken months more to sell the rest of them. I'm not a professional seller- I was doing this as a hobby but I'm winding down on the selling. If you think I could have sold them in one lot for double what I got for them, so be it. I'll take the $160 now rather than $300 in six months.
Thanks again for your help! I feel very welcomed here.
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Post by seymourbarf on Nov 16, 2017 12:14:35 GMT -5
Now the next question is what should I do with the more than 100 high-grade OS1 singles I have? They sure look pack-fresh to me.
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Post by UKM on Nov 16, 2017 15:22:38 GMT -5
Now the next question is what should I do with the more than 100 high-grade OS1 singles I have? They sure look pack-fresh to me. You can sell them to me for 1 usd each  Sorry I couldn't resist  |
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Post by seymourbarf on Nov 16, 2017 16:24:15 GMT -5
Ha ha!
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