IRS tax question

[steve B]

damn, I guess I'll have to be buried with mine. Most of them I have no idea what I paid, or it's so little as to make any sale almost entirely reportable.

When I was doing Ebay I was making less than 1K a month, and we just reported it as income from a hobby business. I think under miscellaneous income. Most years I "lost" money because of storage and stuff I bought and kept or didn't get around to selling. But we reported some small amount anyway. (I believe technically I should have sold the stuff I kept to myself, and "inventory" above what I had the year before should have been counted as profit. But anyone questioning it would have been welcome to count the remaining cheap cards. lets see, last year I had 15,000 81 Topps give or take, how many do I have now? )