Flipping Cards

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by Frank A

To many people on here have to much to say about what someone does with thier money or cards. If a person wants to flip a card, what business is it of anyone but the owner. NONE. you guys need to lighten up.

Frank,

Who needs to lighten up? I think everyone that posted said they have no problem at all with someone flipping a card.

[andybecker]

if i sell a card, i sell a card. what the buyer does with that card is the buyer's business....not mine.

[ChiefBenderForever]

Its not easy being a small fish in a sea of dolphins, sharks,and whales.

[FUBAR]

I think it is fine to do with what you please. Now if you take advantage of someone that doesn't know and then turn around and make a huge profit, i think that is wrong.

If the guy that found the SHOELESS Joe card for $20 doesnt believe in flipping, then i got a cool $25 for ya! ;o)

[Leon]

If I see a card I know I can sell for $125 for $75 I see no reason not to buy it and try to make $50. Now, if I say I have to have it for my collection and I will keep it forever, weasel you down to $65...then the next day put it on the BST for $100....then that is kind of weasely....Maybe I changed my mind but next time I wouldn't expect to get a discount. (btw, I don't do that) I salute anyone that can buy and sell and make money....heck, I have bought numerous cards from people immediately after they bought them, for a nice markup, as they saw them first and bought them and I needed or wanted them. Absolutely someone can do what the heck they want with a card once they buy it but they shouldn't lie on the front end..... regards

[FUBAR]

i think we all have flipped a card for profit at one point or another, when ebay first started in 1997, i was all over it buying cards for maybe .05 cents on the dollar. I even bought some t206's and 205's for 2-3$ each. One lot i bought for 8$ had a bossy rc i graded with an 8.5 and a few other old rc's, in total about 3500$ worth. I couldnt believe people would send them out for that kind of money. It was like a gold mine at the time.

I sold alot of them at the local shop, i supplemented my income at that time.. you cant really find too many deals anymore on ebay so i dont bother trying.

[drc]

There's nothing wrong with flipping. Nor do I find someone morally superior because he held a card two years, instead of one week, before selling it for profit.

[rhettyeakley]

Originally Posted by Leon

If I see a card I know I can sell for $125 for $75 I see no reason not to buy it and try to make $50. Now, if I say I have to have it for my collection and I will keep it forever, weasel you down to $65...then the next day put it on the BST for $100....then that is kind of weasely....

Like Leon, this is really the only time flipping will bother me. I have sold some things (that I may not have actually had for sale) to someone as a sort of favor to help them along with a project, only to see the item immediately go up for sale at a significant mark-up. It kinda makes you want to help others less for a while, but these situations are few and far between and have never really left a lasting bad taste in my mouth--it is irksome though!

-Rhett