/biz/ - Business & Finance

I bought a fair amount of Pokemon a couple of years ago.. Now I am buying 3 different card games that the herd haven't quite gotten onto yet. Having said that 2 of them have been bubbling up recently, the 3rd has been gradually rising for a longer period (I think it could go parabolic).

>>19425086

Ha looked into the Rarefrens thing, how limited is the 1st edition?

Daily reminder that this is the most retarded thing to do with your money. Like it's what someone would invest in if they were an adult with the consciousness level of a nine year old.

>>19425261

I payed 2 dollars for my near mint copy of this. Retarded investment, right?

>>19425086
unironically there's a few super rare Pokemon prize cards and booster boxes coming up at Heritage Auctions, I was debating whether to sell some crypto for them but I can't bring myself to pay that much for cards

Casino memorabilia. Here's a pretty standard page on my chip books. I don't buy/sell very often, but I've been building a collection as I'm out and about around town. Wish I had gotten more of the $5 hard rock chips though.

I sold a stamp in London in December and got 5 mil

The world is red Chinese stamp

Grosvenor philanthropy

STOP FAGGOTS. Buy GOLD/SILVER...wait 18-30 months and buy REAL ESTATE. QUIT GAMBLING

MAGA hats are also pretty damn interesting for collecting. There are quite a few retired hats out there that are being sold, but like one or two at a time. This is rarest one, short of a legit Trump signature.

>>19425086
Arrow videos Blu-rays sold one for 300

>>19425086
Didn’t read not telling

I buy limited edition comic books. Bought one of pic related a few years ago por a couple hundred. Today is valued at 1.3K. Gonna hold onto it a couple years more. Hope my collection moons.

I have two of those collectable physical bitcoins, the original ones.

>have a mtg singles collection
>store cards with value and potential future value
>actually enjoy opening the boxes once and a while

This new set coming out(double masters) becoming a real pita. Greed is unreal and i cant find them for sale still, any of u bros know places that have preorders <300?

>the ones saying no value are wrong; i recently turned a beta chaos orb that i bought for 150 into 1000 sale and you cant find them for under 2k atm.

>>19426554
https://comics.ha.com/itm/memorabilia/magic-the-gathering-beta-edition-chaos-orb-bgs-85-wizards-of-the-coast-1993-/p/7231-75002.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515

>>19425210
It's brand new so hard to tell. I know that the RF Genesis edition was sold out and now you can't buy them at all. Maybe just a few packs left? So I assume they are limited in print.

I bought a box full of Starwars CCG cards for 100 at a yard sale and flipped half of the collection for 550. One of my best finds to date. Still have a bunch in original boxes as well. I had to source a buyer though so there was a bit of foot work involved.

>>19426638
holy shit nice flip. I assume you sold them on Ebay or CL?

>>19425086
MTG through and through. Tried flipping computers, retro vidya but MTG has given me tons of profits. Facebook groups, ebay and I'm thinking of trying out mtgstand.

>>19425086
Gu cards specifically apoc now and reap. S1 comes out next month and once eth2 or the fall comes around it’s going to be a money market

Anyone saying you cant make money from collectibles check out some of these charts:

https://www.mtggoldfish.com/prices/paper/standard

>>19426677
i've had a lot of success flipping legos on Facebook Marketplace. Tons of soccer moms trying to empty them off and they sell great on Ebay usually. At least a 2x

>>19427015
Do you sell them as complete sets, lots of mixed bricks, or individually?

TFW dug tons of Rhystic Studys out of bulk boxes for $0.25 each now they are worth 100x that

feels fucking good man

>>19427252
complete sets. and New only. It's not worth my time to try to find out how many pieces are missing from the set when they have hundreds of pieces. Also only with factory seals so I don't have to guess if shit is missing. There is money in mixed bricks but I only bother with big budget stuff.

>>19427290
>Rhystic Studys
how tf is that card common? it's borke af

>>19425609
This is based, do you sell many recrords?

compared to selling on amazon , ebay is like going back to 1997 where you have to send someone a check in the mail and wait for it and then send them one book

its fucking dogshit the only thing good is you wont pay as much fees but youll have your item sitting in your house for 2 years waiting for someone to go on ebay and buy it

to make 6$

>>19428304
dude amazon is fucked though. I sell on both and Amazon will randomly fuck with your seller listings and randomly close your account with no warning. Ebay at least respects your account and won't buy gay jew shit on you.

>>19426106
nice

>>19426161
Why 18-30 months?

>>19428373
ya it sucks because they have a monopoly and you can lose your job easily if they ban you

but ebay has cheaper people too

people on amazon pay high prices for stuff

ebay is like going to the dollar store

>>19428491
yeah that's true as well. People using amazon tend to have a lot more money to spend I have found. It's just Amazon is such a PiTA and will restrcition even your pricing changes on listings and stop you from listing certain goods. Oh you wanna sell X? you have to apply to do that. Oh you want to increase the price on an item? sorry we don't approve. I have had a few ppl have ttheir amazon accounts fucked. Overall I feel like amazon fucks with you if you are a smaller seller (under 100k revenue a year) and it's not worth selling on. Ebay is good to me.

>>19428563
if you keep selling you get auto ungated in most things slowly over time

in the beginning i couldnt sell anything almost its a slow process

the only things i cant sell now are like nike and adidas and big brands like but but im not a shoe store so its not that bad anymore

the pricing i was price gouging during coronavirus and they stopped me and told me to put fair pricing

which i still selling 2 1$ handsoaps for 17$

the price restrictions is just because coronavirus

before coronavirus i sold little toys for lke 70$ because theres no value to a rare toy item i never had my shit price restricted until coronavirus

Why is /biz/ so obsessed with these asinine get rich quick schemes? How come this board is unable to realize that dumping as much of your monthly income as possible into passively managed index mutual funds consistently is the only thing that actually works for securing financial freedom?

>>19428737
shut up

Can we PLEASE have MORE Ebay and E commerce threads?

FUCK CRYPTO.

MORE OF THIS PLEASE.

>>19428737
>boomer schemes
srs?

>>19425086
Best place/way to sell old hockey cards?

>>19428257

I am primarily a collector but I regularily sell stuff that I don't enjoy anymore. If it's not getting spins then out it goes.

>>19428939
It just werks, just lol at thinking you can beat the market when giga corporations with billions of dollars in assets and hundreds of the best and brightest minds employed can't do it consistently.

I've resold some anime figurines for small profit before. Can get decent return if you pick right and time well

>>19429056
day trading is luck

but predicting the future theres no corporation stopping you if you know something that other people dont

>>19429093
Just fucking lol at thinking you can tell the future and have access to information they don't.

>>19429137
ok lets say donald trump is about to sign a bill to literally ban twitter because they dont obey his executive order

then you short twitter

and when it drops to zero because they take down the website

you become a millionaire

you dont need insider information you just use public information

>>19425086
The world as we know it is going under. Why do you think pieces of cardboard will be worth anything in 5 years? Are you retarded?

>>19425086
I sell postcards, ephemera, exonumia, antique bottles, antique advertising.

I'm mostly in buy mode right now because a bunch of collectors are selling off their collections and prices have dropped on some items. Terrible time to sell, great time to buy.

Do guitars count as collectibles? Anybody here collect vintage guitars/ new classics?

>>19428737
Begone vanguard shill

>>19429156
But then that doesn't actually happen as twitter just changes management and restructures their business, then just experience a minor drop as you watch your puts get obliterated.

>>19429401
there was still over a 50% chance of it happening if it was actually going to be a law in congress

better than blackjack odds because blackjack youre guaranteed to lose

>>19425086
Do you guys follow "collectors" on YT that wax about their stuff, show off things, etc. etc.?
Maybe even like those game room tour videos for videogames.
Type of collection not particularly important.

>>19429336
Where do you find collections? All via Ebay?

Buy sealed MtG products.

>>19425086
I almost bought a PSA 10 1st base set Charizard during the golden bull run. I think it was $20k back then. It's a lot more now :(

>>19429431
And then you end up wasting what little disposable income you have making all these stupid bets and end up being able to acquire little if any wealth.

>>19428458
incoming foreclosures

>>19425086
Recasting mini's can be profitable, games workshop continue to price gauge

>>19429340
yeah course but ypou have to know what you're looking for a little bit. I'm always on the lookout for old squier stratocasters.

Most people see squier and think its a junk guitar but if you manage to find a JV serial (japanese) you might get lucky and the person doesnt realise that what they have is gold.

>>19429526
btw. not even into Pokemon. Gains on collectibles are tax free in my country so I thought it would be a decent investment. Also, pretty cool/ nostalgic to own the original Charizard in perfect condition.

>>19429528
u wont accumulate much wealth working minimum wage at walmart either youll probably stay in the low tier working class for 30 years

u gotta atleast try to invest in something
and lose until you hit one big score

>>19426473
I swear I saw this and some harley quinn comics in my library years ago

>>19429499
I inherited about a ton of postcards and paper items that I've been selling off for over a year now. It takes a while to run through that kind of stuff.

for old tokens and medals I mostly watch ebay for stuff that's listed badly and then flip it.

>>19425086
I am making good dosh on print on demand. I put my investments in stonks currenctly. When I am finished with that, I would get storage, insurance, and buy up good vintage motorbikes and also some furniture to store for XX years

>>19429561
That's why I save a large proportion of my income in passive index funds, taking advantage of compound interest and not wasting money on a bunch of long shots.

>>19428737
>dumping as much of your monthly income as possible into passively managed index mutual funds
Kill yourself

>>19429623
>a ton of postcards
i've actually noticed this is a great moneymaker. pretty sure the only way to get the stock is from dead boomer estate sales, but each old vegas postcard ive seen sell on ebay fetches like 5-20 bucks. considering that shit is usually in a trash heap and costs like a quarter, its a great investment.

>>19429656
but if youre invested in some big fund you would have lost nearly everything when the coronavirus striked

youre better off just making small side bets than hoping to get a few % gain

thats a waste of time

>>19429678
it's time consuming to list and mail for relatively small sales, but yeah. I sell a couple thousand a year. They're the cheapest things I sell but they're also the most reliable. A few of them turn out to be rare and valuable, I just list them at auction and a handful will sell for $20-$50 each. Most sell for a buck. But even a buck over thousands of sales is thousands of dollars.

>>19429713
I tell ya it definitely crossed my mind a few times to look around the postcard/porcelain dolls/bullshit commerative plates sections, but never done it. One thing I'm curious of, what ages are your customers? II've noticed a few gen y and z buying those before, just curious if your only customers are boomer age.

>>19429713
>Most sell for a buck. But even a buck over thousands of sales is thousands of dollars.

not worth the energy to put it in a envelope m8


youre valuing your time at less than minimum wage

>>19429745
most of my buyers are dealers reselling. But yeah, the collectors are mostly boomers I think. The handful I've chatted with are way older than me.

>>19429759
I'm a millionaire, retired. It's not specifically about the money.

>>19429799
youre putting someones address on a envelope for somebody for fun?

people get payed for that dude

thats ridiculous go do something else with your millions

>>19429818
the fun part is watching the auctions.

I also enjoy getting things people want into their hands. And while postcards aren't amazing money makers, the people that collect them are really friendly and super excited to get a good card.

I have other hobbies, but this thread isn't about me.

>>19429844
go golfing you stupid boomer

stop giving people free postcards they dont care that much

they would rather have you go golfing cuz youre almost dead

>>19429679
>you would have lost nearly everything when the coronavirus striked
Actually I'm less than 30 percent down and I'm taking this as an opportunity to invest even more.

>>19429884
you seem pretty angry about what other people do for someone wasting his life avatarfagging on 4chan.

>>19429679
>>19429759
>>19429818
>>19429884
stop posting these ugly faggot koreans.

>>19429902
How do you know if you have a rare postcard? Is there like a postcard guide somewhere kinda like with stamps?

>>19429953
there is but I don't use it. I just put them up for auction and let the buyers decide what it's worth.

I don't want to spend years of my life researching the value of every individual card I have. It's just too much work and I don't mind if someone gets a great deal every now and then.

PC Big Box games. I dont sell them though.

>>19430377
so you collect them for fun? you plan on selling them eventually?

>>19425086

>>19430443
>>19425086
i'm thinking based

>>19430443
>>19430458
>>19425086

Been buying up some "rare and limited" figures that i've been flipping on ebay for 2x-4x-ish. Also buying modern silver coins that i do the same with, but not the same profit margins with that stuff.
IMHO all this type of crap is gonna crash hard while only true vintage collectibles will retain its value.

https://axieedge.com/highest-axie-sales/

You can make money trading NFTs on Ethereum.

>>19430615
> only true vintage collectibles will retain its value.
wish i had a legit revolutionary war era cannon

>>19425261
only children think advertising their shit post with stolen chick pics is a good idea
your theory checks out

>>19430884
dude lay off the tinfoil bro....

>>19430615
pop sockets?

>>19429519
No Rudy no

>>19432549
Ive just picked up a bunch of Thrones booster boxes cheap. Grossly underrated set that I am confident they will appreciate well.

>>19425086
Vintage cameras lenses. You have to be into photography to know what's worth picking up and what is junk since there can be lots of defects. Sometimes I get film camera bodies but only meme ones that are easy to sell like a Nikon FM2