Business question about vintage baseball cards

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Go the online store route- anything anyone wants these days they heck online for it. If the price is the same, they go to the brick and mortar.

Undercut the local card shops by not having a store front. Make a home office, scan each card you want to sell that's high end / star players.

Set up at card shows throughout your region, buying a table for x amount of dollars. I know here in South Florida we have a Dania Beach card show every month. My the biggest event- but your name and basic inventory structure gets some face time with the locals. Business cards and a great personality will go a lot farther than hanging out and goings broke in a dying medium for collectors.

Maybe try to set up contracts with Topps or other companies to presell / stock cases of product of new releases to sell on eBay.

A storefront should only be used these days as a warehouse / office/ sales counter for a well established online presence these days.

Kind of hard to do, but a hobby at night while you work your 9-5 can grow in a few years to a full time job with some nurturing and sound decisions.

As a card collector, I buy strictly online and pass by shows once a year when I have some money burning a hole in my pocket and I want some supplies (another idea for you).

Everyone online undercuts the brick and mortars by atleast 50-60% down here. Most store look like relics from a forgotten decade or when stocked with cool inventory an expensive auction house. Most autographed photos in one store down here are faded because of sun damage- and they still want full price.

Pack pulled game used cards from the 2007 season are priced at $35 bucks and sell online for 99 cents.

Vintage cards have such a high premium for "being old" eventually he'll need to display them in a ziplock bag for their degraded ashes when they never sell.

Maybe offer on various online forums to buy game used cards and rare inserts for .50 cents to $1 a card sight unseen.

In short-
keep your day job, (easiest to say for me, hard for you to want to do)
maker the idea a hobby- and maybe even claim the loss on taxes
develop a strong online presence,
set up at multiple card shows and get your face/ stock out there
Sell supplies
Sell cases/ boxes of big current releases online
Look into drop shipping too- might help with modern product sales.

And enjoy yourself. No one is going to get rich these days in this hobby, but you can make a modest living and enjoy it.

Ps: sorry for all the typos and spelling/ grammar mistakes. Didn't think I'd type this much on my iPhone. GoodLuck with whatever you choose and just try to be happy. You don't have to listen to this 27 year old kid, but hopefully I have you some ideas.