Flipping Cards

[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.

[Fred]

My biggest problem with flipping is that I never complete the second end of the flip. I just can't let go of what I buy...

I don't see anything wrong with flipping in general but what bugs me is when people put buy ads in the BST trying to buy cards and then flipping them.

Why?

Because a lot of time the good guys on this board will provide a good guy discount to the buyer because they think they may be helping someone with their hobby collection (for example, finishing a set or subset). In those cases it just bugs me if someone puts out the buy ad just to try and pick up a card cheap to flip it. I figure if you're going to put in a buy request you could tell the seller your intentions, that way the seller may not feel like an idiot later on when the seller sees that their good deed (giving a discount to a board member) netted someone a nice profit.

[Wite3]

Flipping is fine but on the west coast we called it "leaners"...I was a champ...man, I could get a card to lean from nearly 15 feet as a kid! Huh? What? Sales? I thought we were talking about good old fashioned card flipping fun...my mistake...

Joshua

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by Wite3

Flipping is fine but on the west coast we called it "leaners"...I was a champ...man, I could get a card to lean from nearly 15 feet as a kid! Huh? What? Sales? I thought we were talking about good old fashioned card flipping fun...my mistake...

Joshua

Josh,

As an east coaster, I think your confusing flipping with what we called pitching or scaling. It's two different games!

In flipping, you dropped cards from your hand and tried to either match or mismatch (whatever was called) the other guys cards.

In pitching (also called scaling) you tossed them at the wall or front stoop and tried to get them closest to the wall or leaning against the wall. This game was infinitely worse for corner wear!

[Jewish-collector]

Dealers make their living doing this. A dealer wins a huge lot in a major auction & breaks it up & resells it on eBay or their own web site or at shows. It's not rocket science. Collectors do the same thing to a lesser degree as you've all described in this thread.

As someone who can't afford much, I miss out on the fun because I can't afford to buy anything worthwhile to resell.