Flipping Cards

[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.

[Edwolf1963]

My only issue is seeing a listed card playing everyone up for a fool - using dopey editorial like "Blazer!" or "Wow!", quoting book value for NM when your card is clearly a beater 2 at best, flipping it before you even received it (IE: win auction one night and relisting day after) and then pricing it so far beyond VCP current market extreme, you can imagine Bobby posts it up as the laugh of the day

[drc]

Those are reasonable points, but have nothing to do with how long the seller owned the card. Someone who had a card for 20 years can be as honest or dishonest as someone who had a card for ten minutes.

[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