It’s hard to make a profit on cards...
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@asocial_grace_mlbts said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
Try flipping something other than player cards. Some other things are lower volume but higher margins. The player card market this year has razor-thin margins in general.
I don’t like it at all. Aren’t the margins supposed to get better eventually? Because the margins last year were excellent.
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There's plenty of ways to flip cards still. It's not like it was a couple of years ago, now more time consuming per stub... but still plenty of opportunities. It's definitely still there though... i don't have time to flip cards, but every time I want to try a card I can buy and resell for a small profit a couple days later. I've done it with Glavine, Betts, and Kershaw just this week.
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@ladyswampfox_xbl said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
@asocial_grace_mlbts said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
Try flipping something other than player cards. Some other things are lower volume but higher margins. The player card market this year has razor-thin margins in general.
I don’t like it at all. Aren’t the margins supposed to get better eventually? Because the margins last year were excellent.
It's an open market so nothing is guaranteed... if more people are flipping than selling... the margins will stay tiny.
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@ladyswampfox_xbl said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
@foofencer_nsw said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
If you would flip cards with margins over 1000 stubs, you wouldn't have a problem.
I’m just starting out flipping for this year and I want to do low-risk stuff at first.
Go for one of the headliners like Eck that are close to quicksell value. If you have the stubs up front, that's about as low risk as you can get.
I've been flipping headliners for a while, and I now have almost every player card in the game.
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@pscrabro_psn said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
@ladyswampfox_xbl said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
@asocial_grace_mlbts said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
Try flipping something other than player cards. Some other things are lower volume but higher margins. The player card market this year has razor-thin margins in general.
I don’t like it at all. Aren’t the margins supposed to get better eventually? Because the margins last year were excellent.
It's an open market so nothing is guaranteed... if more people are flipping than selling... the margins will stay tiny.
More people must be flipping this year then. That really sucks. I hope that changes soon.
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@ladyswampfox_xbl said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
@asocial_grace_mlbts said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
Try flipping something other than player cards. Some other things are lower volume but higher margins. The player card market this year has razor-thin margins in general.
I don’t like it at all. Aren’t the margins supposed to get better eventually? Because the margins last year were excellent.
I think it has something to do with the new QS values.
Last year you knew that any Gold had a QS value of 1000 stubs. So if you saw one that has a 2000/1000 line; you new you could put in a bid for 1111 stubs and still get around 800 for it after you sold it.
Also, an 85 used to be 5OOO QS now if 3500 (I think). So unless that Diamond is going for more than 5000 you won't make much flipping.
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Updates seem to reset the prices to almost QS value in most cases. After all, SDS is showing us how much they value a card every 2 weeks.
The only time there seems to be margins are when: )a good pitcher is playing up for an easier start and ) when the ‘investors’ are speculating on a boost days prior to an update…they have sometimes been wrong.
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@mrxbaseballx2k22_psn said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
@ladyswampfox_xbl said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
@asocial_grace_mlbts said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
Try flipping something other than player cards. Some other things are lower volume but higher margins. The player card market this year has razor-thin margins in general.
I don’t like it at all. Aren’t the margins supposed to get better eventually? Because the margins last year were excellent.
I think it has something to do with the new QS values.
Last year you knew that any Gold had a QS value of 1000 stubs. So if you saw one that has a 2000/1000 line; you new you could put in a bid for 1111 stubs and still get around 800 for it after you sold it.
Also, an 85 used to be 5OOO QS now if 3500 (I think). So unless that Diamond is going for more than 5000 you won't make much flipping.
The diamonds that everyone suggests I flip have too much flipping activity going on to really make any money.
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I’ve probably casually flipped my way to over 400K this year so it’s a grind yes but the profit is there. Need to see at least a 1K profit per flip to get my attention but they’re there…..
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@foofencer_nsw said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
@ladyswampfox_xbl said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
@foofencer_nsw said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
If you would flip cards with margins over 1000 stubs, you wouldn't have a problem.
I’m just starting out flipping for this year and I want to do low-risk stuff at first.
Go for one of the headliners like Eck that are close to quicksell value. If you have the stubs up front, that's about as low risk as you can get.
I've been flipping headliners for a while, and I now have almost every player card in the game.
The problem with flipping headliners is that as soon as there's a flash sale they all tank. Which will surely happen in the middle of whatever I'm doing
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@jkooch66_xbl said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
@foofencer_nsw said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
@ladyswampfox_xbl said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
@foofencer_nsw said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
If you would flip cards with margins over 1000 stubs, you wouldn't have a problem.
I’m just starting out flipping for this year and I want to do low-risk stuff at first.
Go for one of the headliners like Eck that are close to quicksell value. If you have the stubs up front, that's about as low risk as you can get.
I've been flipping headliners for a while, and I now have almost every player card in the game.
The problem with flipping headliners is that as soon as there's a flash sale they all tank. Which will surely happen in the middle of whatever I'm doing
I always stop flipping by 12pm on the day that new packs drop. I wait for the drop and then buy cheap cards in bulk to sell back when the market bounces back.
Also, if you're flipping headliners that are around quicksell value, worst case scenario you just quicksell them.
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@ladyswampfox_xbl said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
@foofencer_nsw said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
If you would flip cards with margins over 1000 stubs, you wouldn't have a problem.
I’m just starting out flipping for this year and I want to do low-risk stuff at first.
Low risk gets you low reward. It's life.
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@ladyswampfox_xbl said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
@foofencer_nsw said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
If you would flip cards with margins over 1000 stubs, you wouldn't have a problem.
I’m just starting out flipping for this year and I want to do low-risk stuff at first.
not a bad strategy, the one i used.but its mostly 50 stubs per card now, the bigger windows opened only a few times and not in the last couple weeks ,so it will be a slog but keep looking a window does open every once in a while, but be fast they close quick.
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@ladyswampfox_xbl said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
If others don’t want to profit to begin with. I’m seeing all these cards that have sometimes hundreds of sell orders placed that are half of their usual going price. It’s really annoying.
The people that place these orders are only getting 20 stubs a pop when someone buys them, so where is the logic here?
Look at LS Miguel Sano for example. No sense at all.
I just want to make some stubs of the market, but something is deeply wrong here. I’m NMS.
Yeah, I've been flipping cards for the last several years and it's never been this bad. I usually have the collections done by now but I won't even do that this year. I'll need over 600k just to finish the Angels. That's just way too much to earn in this market, and too much time to earn it. They finally found a way to make you pay cash to complete the collections. Congratulations SDS. But whatever. The moments are fun to do, but the rest is a grind and I have other things I can do.
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The best, smartest & easiest way to flip cards is buying & waiting for the next roster update. Lets use Will Smith from the Dodgers. He is an 84 Gold with a Quick Sell of 1500 & his Sell Now Market Price is bouncing up & down from 1500 to 1600. Lets say if you bought 10 of his cards at 1500 stubs each. If he goes Diamond. At 85 his Quick Sell is 3000, at 86 is 3750 & at 87 its 4500. So you will clearly turn nice profits. If he stays at 84, then you have not lost anything. You can Quick Sell him for 1500 each which is what you paid. Your loss would only be if he dropped to a 83 with a Quick Sell of 1200.
So the key is buying cards at Quick Sell Values which are most likely to be upgraded by 1 to 3 tiers.
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The people that create an order wall with 20 or more at the same price are the people that drive me crazy.
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@tonythetiger2k16 said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
The best, smartest & easiest way to flip cards is buying & waiting for the next roster update. Lets use Will Smith from the Dodgers. He is an 84 Gold with a Quick Sell of 1500 & his Sell Now Market Price is bouncing up & down from 1500 to 1600. Lets say if you bought 10 of his cards at 1500 stubs each. If he goes Diamond. At 85 his Quick Sell is 3000, at 86 is 3750 & at 87 its 4500. So you will clearly turn nice profits. If he stays at 84, then you have not lost anything. You can Quick Sell him for 1500 each which is what you paid. Your loss would only be if he dropped to a 83 with a Quick Sell of 1200.
So the key is buying cards at Quick Sell Values which are most likely to be upgraded by 1 to 3 tiers.
That's not flipping, that is investing
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Flipping works this year it just takes a little more patience and persistence.
I have flipped my way to completing the Live Series Collection.
The only money I have spent was initial purchase.
Stay with it. Good Luck
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@tonythetiger2k16 said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
The best, smartest & easiest way to flip cards is buying & waiting for the next roster update. Lets use Will Smith from the Dodgers. He is an 84 Gold with a Quick Sell of 1500 & his Sell Now Market Price is bouncing up & down from 1500 to 1600. Lets say if you bought 10 of his cards at 1500 stubs each. If he goes Diamond. At 85 his Quick Sell is 3000, at 86 is 3750 & at 87 its 4500. So you will clearly turn nice profits. If he stays at 84, then you have not lost anything. You can Quick Sell him for 1500 each which is what you paid. Your loss would only be if he dropped to a 83 with a Quick Sell of 1200.
So the key is buying cards at Quick Sell Values which are most likely to be upgraded by 1 to 3 tiers.
Nah, because you lose 10% to their "tax"...which has got to be one of the most insulting things they've ever done in the history of in game markets(It's been this way forever, doesnt make it any less asinine). Equipment and perks seem to be the safest bet this year
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@ladyswampfox_xbl said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
@foofencer_nsw said in It’s hard to make a profit on cards...:
If you would flip cards with margins over 1000 stubs, you wouldn't have a problem.
I’m just starting out flipping for this year and I want to do low-risk stuff at first.
Low risk low reward.
