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@TCGBulkKings
8 ай бұрын
I'm humbled, thanks Ron
@JownesyWOW
8 ай бұрын
I'm glad I found your channel, I'm starting to get into selling my bulk and hope to learn as much as I can.
@TCGBulkKings
8 ай бұрын
Thanks for your kind words, I hope I can help you on your journey!
@russelravellette6612
8 ай бұрын
Hey Chase! Thanks again for all the hard work you put into your channel! Could you make a video on how you do different sized shipments. 1-10 cards, 11-25, 26-50, 50-100, 101-250 ect, ect, ect. Thanks for everything and Merry Christmas my friend.
@TCGBulkKings
8 ай бұрын
I'll be doing an updated shipping video before long, thanks for enjoying my videos!
@southendal3740
8 ай бұрын
Yep, every card has value.
@TCGBulkKings
8 ай бұрын
=]
@Samsquash
8 ай бұрын
As a small time bulk seller on TCGplayer would you mainly strategize selling cards for .01 or the cheapest possible to reach the top listings while also offering free shipping at $5? Or doing .01 for all c/uc then charging minimum shipping, etc . Also I know you can change your shipping to free shipping at $5, bud is there a way to offer free shipping at $5 and also charging more then the minimum $.99 shipping on orders under $5? I can’t find the option anywhere on tcgplayer mobile. I’ve never really had luck selling bulk but would like to try this year in 2024, the main cards that sell are in the $1-$10 range for me. Nice setup
@TCGBulkKings
8 ай бұрын
That shipping option doesn't exist, if you want to do free over $5, it's $.99 under $5. There are others who like setting a higher shipping charge, but it won't sort your listings without including that shipping charge. You make more per sale, but get significantly fewer sales I set a floor price below which I don't price the cards. If a card is selling for $.25, I list it at $.25. But if it's at $.02, I won't go below $.05, so I lost it at $.05 (or $.10 for games not in Direct). Best of luck, and I hope that helps
@Mutoforma
8 ай бұрын
Hey Chase! Before you moved to direct, what was your card/shipping pricing strategy on TCGplayer? I currently have a floor of $.25 and shipping of $1.29, but I'm seeing very few sales. I'm afraid that if I remove my floor and set everything to/near market, I'll get orders that are too small to make any money, or too large to fulfill with a PWE. (On that last note, what do you find to be the best way to fulfill orders over 30 cards?) Thanks!
@TCGBulkKings
8 ай бұрын
My floor was $.05, and my shipping was the free over $5, $.99 under. My thought was I'd rather capture all possible sales and be okay with losing on a few of them. You are getting very few sales because they are being sorted at price + shipping, rather than just price. I did a whole video about this a few months back: kzitem.info/news/bejne/wqOw1GyGjZ1eraw On orders over 16 cards, I always ship in a bubble mailer with tracking. I get my shipping labels from Pirate Ship, which get you a significant savings over buying postage at the post office.
@Mutoforma
8 ай бұрын
@@TCGBulkKings Thanks for the reply! Did/do you get many orders of just a couple of bulk cards (say, a total of like $0.15)? I worry about getting those orders. Even with the $.99 shipping, you're basically in the red with TCGplayer fees + shipping costs. I also worry about providing free shipping, as you lose a good chunk of profit on cards that are within a few dollars of the $5 threshold. My inventory is currently at ~7500, with about 15k of bulk that I have not yet listed. I've been hesitant about listing them, for fear of fees eating me alive. What size inventory did you start out with, and what would your suggestion(s) be (pricing or otherwise) to grow on TCGplayer in my position? Thanks again!
@TCGBulkKings
8 ай бұрын
I get a few everyday mixed in with the better orders. The thing is, pricing at that low of a level is kind of a necessary cost to get a lot of those higher orders. I may lose a few cents on the cheapest orders, but they enable the existence of many of the higher orders, which are much more profitable than the lossy ones are unprofitable. On top of that, I get a chance to directly market my business to a very likely interested buyer, through my packaging practices and the flyer or qr code I include in every order. $.05-.10 cost of acquisition is ridiculously low in this day and age. As far as what I started with - I started with the same that everyone starts with, namely, zero. I built it up to I think about 165k before I sold it all to move out here. I would just be patient, buy at the right price, consistently list, pick a price floor you're comfortable selling at, but list everything and just set cards that are below your floor to that floor price. You've got to organize it anyway, might as well type an extra number to get it on the website, and it will occasionally sell. Best of luck! And I hope I've helped!
@jsongz896
8 ай бұрын
Do you set your price for TCGplayer direct low or market price? Also, what’s your bottom?
@TCGBulkKings
8 ай бұрын
I match market price when I list, and let the massprice tool set prices to TCG direct low when it runs. And my floor price for games in Direct (viz. Magic, Pokemon, and Yu-Gi-Oh) is $.05, and it's $.10 for those not in Direct
@FolkwoodsWest
3 ай бұрын
Hey! How are you printing your own postage at your home?
@TCGBulkKings
3 ай бұрын
For regular PWE shipping, I'm using stamps on envelopes that I print the customer's shipping info on with my Epson Ecotank printer. For parcels, I have a Rollo thermal label printer that works awesome, which I use Pirate Ship to get the labels
@thomaswheeler5431
8 ай бұрын
Do you sell on direct or level 4? Also what do you charge for shipping? Finding it hard to lost cards under 25c and turn a profit
@TCGBulkKings
8 ай бұрын
I do sell through the Direct program. And yeah, non-Direct sales with total product value under $.25 will be a little bit under breakeven, but in my experience, these tiny losses are made up by those orders with multiple cards, higher end cards, and the potential repeat sales from those customers who enjoy the experience of buying from me. I do the free over $5 shipping option, to get that dynamic shipping sort on the product page.
@colin1535
8 ай бұрын
I really enjoy your content. I was wondering, since you think every card has value, why you only sell NM. I've seen your other comments about customer issues rising with lower grades, so I understand your perspective. Did that take time to hone? I've just started sorting a collection and I feel like I'm being fairly harsh on the grading. It feels bad to "junk" so many cards -- especially after I have adopted the value-centric mindedness you espouse. I guess I am wondering, just how harsh do you grade, and do you feel there is a loss of value from junking the under NM. Thanks for the content.
@TCGBulkKings
8 ай бұрын
It does feel bad. But, to be clear, I only sell NM /on TCGplayer/, because of those customer service issues. I do still sell lower condition cards as wholesale lots sometimes, or if they are more valuable I'll either sell them through my website or eBay, or send them off to a buylist. There is always value. Even if you just end up playing with them
@colin1535
8 ай бұрын
Thank you for the response. These make sense. I’m new to this and going through a somewhat picked through collection so many “wins” are like +.50 cent cards. It is definitely knowledge building and not a huge score but at under half a cent a card it’s mostly just lost time if there is little to be salvaged. I appreciate all you are doing here with the free information on bulk selling.
@stefanomilanesio5346
8 ай бұрын
Do you have any tips for someone who want to start collecting Yu-Gi-Oh starting from a 50€budget? Or even tips in general on how to keep track of a collection , how to organize ot ecc...
@TCGBulkKings
8 ай бұрын
Collecting? I would figure out just what you want to achieve. Are you looking to collect whole sets? Specific cards? TCG playable cards? Reverse engineer from your goals to your actions. I'm sure there are collection trackers out there for Yu-Gi-Oh just like there are for other games. I honestly just use the inventory management on the various platforms I sell through. I keep a very small personal collection that I'm not really trying to track for value For organization, your PC can be organized however you want, I wouldn't dream of telling someone how to organize their collection, any more than I'd tell them what to collect. For budget, if you're just looking to get a lot of cards that you can use to grow your initial investment, I would look for bulk collections on Facebook groups local to your area, flip whatever you can out of it so that it pays for itself and the next collection. Then you can maybe get a 100€ collection next time, then 300€ the next time. At low money entry points, it's not about collecting/investing, it's about /operating/. Best of luck Stefano!
@stefanomilanesio5346
8 ай бұрын
@@TCGBulkKings let's see if KZitem lets me answer this time xD. First of all thank you for your precious tips. At first I've immediately agreed about the idea of buying a bunch of bulk to sell it but unfortunately it would mean to buy 90% not english cards (in my case). I'm a little worry of not being able to sell those soon. Not only because those would be not english cards but also because it's bulk. Also what are your thought on sealed products? Do you suggest to buy some of those if discounted? If so how could I decide the price I will need to sell the cards? About how to keep track of the collection , I'll check the tools of the various selling websites but how would you organize let's say an excel file? Is that a possible solution? Is it manageable in the long term?Have you tries the "callectr" app? If so what do you think about it? About the storaging aspect is a single sleeve enough to protect the cards if stored in boxes and kept in vertical position? I'd like to collect various sets( also some expensive ones in the future) but using binders also seams really expensive and not really handy. Again, thank you for the answers. Keep up the good work
@TCGBulkKings
8 ай бұрын
@@stefanomilanesio5346 I can't really speak to the non-English cards in the Eurozone market with any kind of authority. You probably know it better than me. But I suspect that, while that would be a smaller pond, there are smaller fish in it too, so I would bet you can have success. Also bulk is a pretty low risk pond to dip your toes into. Sealed can definitely be a good way to go, especially if you can get it discounted. I wouldn't be trying to flip sealed product, but find things that you can open for the singles. This will just take an initial investment of spending hours researching what you might buy, that's lowest risk and you can find a good price. I can't really give you any tips on using a collection tracker or Excel. I've just always found them either redundant or tedious, so even when I try to use one, I don't keep up with it. That should be fine for storage. If you have something you're really worried about protecting, you could also put it in a top loader. I would avoid binders for long term storage of higher value items, unless you buy special binders with the pages permanently attached, rather than 3-ring binders. Hope that all helps! Grazie mille!
@stefanomilanesio5346
8 ай бұрын
@@TCGBulkKings It will for sure:) Thank you again and merry Christmas
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