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I used to flip YGO cards at events (once made $25-35 per on Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon, they were insanely undervalued when they first came out). Do you just purc

I used to flip YGO cards at events (once made $25-35 per on Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon, they were insanely undervalued when they first came out). Do you just purchase cases and resell?

busterarm 8y ago
I buy cases and I buy peoples collections. I sell at shows/conventions (I'm a vendor at big comic cons, etc) and that ends up being one of the best ways to buy collections. Last year I managed to pick up a huge (triple digit) volume of 1st edition Yugi/Kaiba/Joey/Pegasus starter decks for essentially original cost. If you know what those go for you know what an incredible deal I made. (They're all sold now)
- bick_nyers 8y ago
  Yeah that's pretty bannanas, I think the Blue-Eyes alone pieced out are more than double the original price. I never operated at your level but I was able to break even on the whole habit while on the cutting-edge of tier 1 decks. I never considered Comic Con, that's likely where a lot of people who are not currently into YGO decide to sell their collections
  - busterarm 8y ago
    Mixed bag. From players I get better collections outside of the cons but I have to pay more for them. If someone brings their collection with them to a show they almost definitely don't want to go home with it and want to use the money to buy something else. This puts the pricing much more in my favor. There are a lot of casual collectors though and dealers of other products who have casually sat on some very valuable product for years. After years of doing the same show as us, they know we're going to be there, know that we'll buy and they're happy to get _any_ amount of money for it. That deal we got for those starter decks was from another dealer who approached us with "if you don't buy these, i'm throwing them in the trash". He didn't have the time or the interest to value and sell them himself and was just happy to make more than he paid on them and lighten his load packing up. tldr: being in a niche market at these shows occasionally is a huge (but inconsistent) boon to us.

I used to flip YGO cards at events (once made $25-35 per on Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon, they were insanely undervalued when they first came out). Do you just purchase cases and resell?

busterarm 8y ago

I buy cases and I buy peoples collections. I sell at shows/conventions (I'm a vendor at big comic cons, etc) and that ends up being one of the best ways to buy collections. Last year I managed to pick up a huge (triple digit) volume of 1st edition Yugi/Kaiba/Joey/Pegasus starter decks for essentially original cost. If you know what those go for you know what an incredible deal I made. (They're all sold now)

bick_nyers 8y ago
Yeah that's pretty bannanas, I think the Blue-Eyes alone pieced out are more than double the original price. I never operated at your level but I was able to break even on the whole habit while on the cutting-edge of tier 1 decks. I never considered Comic Con, that's likely where a lot of people who are not currently into YGO decide to sell their collections
- busterarm 8y ago
  Mixed bag. From players I get better collections outside of the cons but I have to pay more for them. If someone brings their collection with them to a show they almost definitely don't want to go home with it and want to use the money to buy something else. This puts the pricing much more in my favor. There are a lot of casual collectors though and dealers of other products who have casually sat on some very valuable product for years. After years of doing the same show as us, they know we're going to be there, know that we'll buy and they're happy to get _any_ amount of money for it. That deal we got for those starter decks was from another dealer who approached us with "if you don't buy these, i'm throwing them in the trash". He didn't have the time or the interest to value and sell them himself and was just happy to make more than he paid on them and lighten his load packing up. tldr: being in a niche market at these shows occasionally is a huge (but inconsistent) boon to us.