Just a bit of a brag here - mainly because I'm bursting at the seams excited here. BAM!!!!!! A BIG shout out and thanks to two people: Ryan, for hooking me up with the guy who had this card - check his link here: http://sanjac88.wix.com/spainsportcards and Rasmus, my new collecting bud from Sweden who gave me a rocking good deal on it. check his link here: http://www.youtube.com/HolmbergsCorner Can't wait until I get the redemption in from Topps!
It has been nearly a week since I posted part 1 of this "How to Become a Part Time Dealer" series, and with some downtime now, I figured I would post the other part. Here you go! There is a lot of emphasis on the selling portion of this - everyone is hot to sell things, but that is only half of the equation. Perhaps equally important is the buying. If you don't buy right, you can't sell to make a solid return on your investment. If you are new to the whole selling thing, or are dabbling in selling,
I'll never forget it. I was in 5th grade, and myself along with some other baseball card loving kids pursuaded the school to allow us to put on a baseball card show at the school, and use the tables as dealers would. My folks allowed me to buy a few boxes of cards to sell them by the pack to customers just like my local neighborhood dealer / hero would. I was in heaven! Well, that is, until the kids started guilt tripping me into selling the packs for much, much cheaper than I should have. That was actually a
Back in 5th grade, my folks saw that I was struggling in school. They decided to give me an incentive by way of the all mighty dollar. For each 'A' this hopeless scholastic mess would achieve, I would have $10. $5 for a B. My brain was churning a mile a minute when I heard this news. "Okay, okay, okay...." I thought to myself. "If I make straight A's, that is $80 to take to The Bullpen to spend on baseball cards at the end of the semester! Guess who got straight A's that semester? This guy. The next semester, I
After (im)patiently waiting through a 3 day delay, santa claus dressed up in brown shorts knocked on my door last night with a trolley full of goodies. I even busted open my first two boxes: 2010 Topps Hobby Update and 2012 Topps Series 2 Jumbo Rack. It was fun - I hadn't done that for a while. It makes me want to rip even more!
So, this has been the 4th year in a row that I bought out a boat load of boxes and cases. The box total is up over 600. While I didn't actually buy any loose packs, if you count them up from the boxes and cases, they total up to over 11,500! This is the biggest wax acquisition I have ever made! Why do I do this? I have found out that I can have a blast opening a ton of wax while making a few bucks selling some boxes. These should last me throughout the year. I hope to
It feels like I have been complaining about not having any cards for a few months. Work has been heating up recently, so that has kept my mind off of the dreaded cardboard deficiency. Over the past month, I have had a guy that sells me new card lots bring me cards, which I flipped pretty quickly. Aside from that, I have not been able to roll up my sleeves and dig in. The past few weeks have changed quite a bit. I am not sure if I had mentioned this before, but ever since selling the last of my
Less than a month ago, I picked up a large collection of rare 90's inserts. I sold them off very quickly, and found the buyer reselling some of the cards that I liked out of the collection, so what did I do? I bought them back! They are real beauties. 1997 Pinnacle Certified Mirror Red / Blue / Gold Jeff Bagwell and Craig Biggio's - They are all for sale, and, cheaper than what you will find them for on ebay, so if you are interested, let me know! Here is the eye candy ...
The past few months have been quite a whirlwind. I've sold everything. Then I bought a collection of cards, and sold it. Then I bought another collection of comics and ...and sold it. Right now, any and all lingering cards from deals and purchases are gone! If his name isn't Canseco, I don't have a card of him right now, aside from a few cards I'm holding for someone until this weekend. The past few weeks alone, I scored a killer card collection and a killer comic collection that I had written about. Each was a HUGE rush to get,
Recent Comments