What’s the secret to selling cards on a large scale?

[homerunhitter]

Burbank sports cards sells millions of dollar cards each year so there is definitely money in selling low dollar cards in bulk. Burbank sportscards is a multi million dollar a year business that specializes in selling cards in bulk.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by homerunhitter

Burbank sports cards sells millions of dollar cards each year so there is definitely money in selling low dollar cards in bulk. Burbank sportscards is a multi million dollar a year business that specializes in selling cards in bulk.

What do you consider low dollar cards? Burbank has many expensive cards for sale.

[G1911]

Burbank uses stock images for their low value stuff, and photo only one card in each grade and then re-use that image.

In fact, for vintage, if you pay more for the VG grade card they will send you the fair grade card used in their fair grade listing stock photo. If you ask them what's up with sending the cards in their fair grade stock cards when you paid more for the VG listing, they will block you.

[homerunhitter]

Ben
I’m not going to keep playing tennis with you (going back and forth and back and forth and back and forth on this thread) kids play that game and i ain’t no kid! I will no longer be responding to your comments!!! And I would appreciate the same from you!! Bye Felicia!

[G1911]

Originally Posted by homerunhitter

Ben
I’m not going to keep playing tennis with you (going back and forth and back and forth and back and forth on this thread) kids play that game and i ain’t no kid! I will no longer be responding to your comments!!! And I would appreciate the same from you!! Bye Felicia!

Lot of exclamation points for a proclamation of maturity lol

[babraham]

Originally Posted by homerunhitter

Ben
I’m not going to keep playing tennis with you (going back and forth and back and forth and back and forth on this thread) kids play that game and i ain’t no kid! I will no longer be responding to your comments!!! And I would appreciate the same from you!! Bye Felicia!

From what I can tell, it seems that Ben was attempting to "be productive and answer your questions". But then you get mad at him.

Originally Posted by homerunhitter

No worries, it came off to me that you were trying to be a funny guy or smarty pants! (Instead of trying to be productive and help/answer the question)

[steve B]

Ok, so I was one of those sorting guys pre-factory set.

The local dealer bought vending cases, and "paid" four of us to assemble sets. Piecework and so much in trade per set.
I sorted differently than the other three guys, and had a ton of cards laid out on the desk in number order for groups of 10. Plus a bunch of 10 card complete stacks. Hadn't turned in any sets yet, so I was "way behind" the other sorters...

Then one day they had an order for 20 sets and offered a bonus to whoever got them together the quickest. Half an hour later I was done. Got a nice prewar card for myself with the bonus.


When I was doing Ebay I did pretty well with cheap cards. (well before the fees made it impossible. ) Once the fees got too high, I moved to bulk lots, usually 400 cards for 9.99 or $5. I'd moved along most of the thousands of duplicates I had by the time people stopped buying random boxes of junkwax commons. Including one sale that was 15,000 cards I delivered locally at some really cheap price per thousand. I think it was maybe $50 for the whole batch.

I could have done a lot more volume if I was more organized, or didn't try to give the buyers a good mix and just stuffed the first 400 I grabbed into the box.

To me organization is the key because you can be way more efficient.
Bens point about buying is also key.
There are places that will buy any cards at all, but at insanely low prices. The local guys moved and sold about 2.5 million cards to one of them for I think it was 1000....

If you want to do it, try a bit, and find an angle or way of doing things that works for you. Hopefully it works out and makes you rich.