Done trying to deal with sellers on ebay

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by begsu1013

to take full advantage of tax laws, that's why.

spend $150 to incorporate.
buy up a bunch of your favorite cards
list a bunch of these cards at crazy prices

then write off:

card purchases
percentage of house for home offices
percentage of your utilities
your supplies to house your collecting museum
travel expenses
lunches/dinners
and a million other small justifible reasons if ya have the right tax guy.

like golf and using the rules to your advantage. all completely legal if set up properly. so long as you keep records, your collection can work for you.

at the end of the day, its not really what you make, its what you can legally deduct.

LOL, That is funny and really close to true. There is a little more to it that that but not much. I done it with parrots instead of baseball cards for many years. The great thing about having large birds is after you learn to block them out you can ignore anything. I have not heard my wife complain about anything in years.

[ksabet]

If there is a place that serves good burgers at $99.99 I will never know.

I will also not continually hark about how expensive they are.

[Snapolit1]

We have some pretty good burgers in NY City for $39.00. Seem to sell a lot of them.

[ksabet]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

We have some pretty good burgers in NY City for $39.00. Seem to sell a lot of them.

I edited

[bobbyw8469]

Originally Posted by bnorth

LOL, That is funny and really close to true. There is a little more to it that that but not much. I done it with parrots instead of baseball cards for many years. The great thing about having large birds is after you learn to block them out you can ignore anything. I have not heard my wife complain about anything in years.

What kind of parrots do you have? We have a small yellow sided green cheek conure who is awesome!

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by bobbyw8469

What kind of parrots do you have? We have a small yellow sided green cheek conure who is awesome!

I have a pair of African Senegal parrots. I bought them as babies. Female in spring of 1994 and the male in the fall. I also have a Orange Winged Amazon that I got in 1998. I got it from a guy that bought it in 1981 and was told it was a old wild caught bird back then.

Over about a 10 year period I owned several birds. Like some do with cards I bought, sold and traded them. One of my favorites was a Yellow Collared Macaw I named Sam.

[begsu1013]

Originally Posted by bnorth

I bought, sold and traded them.

you sold petey!?!?

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by begsu1013

you sold petey!?!?

There was a lot of $ in selling/raising birds in the 90's. Never sold one named Petey but probably sold one that got named Petey.

[bbcard1]

One of the things about the industry today is that there are a lot of dealers who do it as a true hobby. In the 80s and 90s, there were a lot of guys in it who didn't have any money and had to hustle. I was actually one of those guys. I needed to generate a pay check so my margins were thinner. A lot of these guys are retired, have other sources of income and are really just doing it to stay busy.

[begsu1013]

...some baseball cards, a sack of marbles, (cough) petey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQeJIVNmfCM