The Great Mouschi Flip Quest of 2015

[KCRfan1]

What does the wife think of you plunking down a $1000 for a card? Any " discussions " about that or other things to do with the cash?

[mouschi]

Originally Posted by KCRfan1

What does the wife think of you plunking down a $1000 for a card? Any " discussions " about that or other things to do with the cash?

I've actually never bought a card for $1000 before - As I have been reselling for years now, my philosophy is pretty much this: If I'm buying a card, I try to make sure that I can sell it for as much if not more than what i bought it for. It doesn't always happen, but you won't see me spending hundreds of dollars on a card "just to have it" that I will never be able to get it back out.

Now, with that said, I'm not planning on selling his cards anytime soon, but if things get tight, I know I'll be able to without taking a "hit" or at least a big one

[mouschi]

Weekend update!

Bought a few things:

Nissan truck stereo for $6
Indoor Smores maker for $1
Die Cast Tie Fighter in a case for $1
AP US History book for $5 (not sure why I got this ... lapse in judgment I guess!)
2 foot long canoe collectible $5

The only thing worth showing a pic of though is this:

A 1 foot tall monkey reading a book statue for $10


He's gorgeous.

I also sold the silver dollar for $104, so this puts me up $76.

[mouschi]

Nothing too crazy happening here, unfortunately! No white whales have surfaced ... yet.

However, I do have a few updates:

I picked up a small lot of cards for $60, and flipped them for $100.
The ps2 went for $40, and the couch ended up selling for $75.

That gives me a total of +$155

[mouschi]

Update time! It has been snore city for the past several weeks on this thing, as I have been mega busy with other things, and white whales are hard to come by. But anyway, here are some things to note:

I have sold the following:
play house 110
cd head unit 35
star wars item 15
3 oriental pieces 40
build a bear clothes 101
wii games 25

The wii games would have gone for $40 (and they did) but the guy who bought them said 4 of them didn't work. I was baffled, but didn't want to rake the guy over coals or anything about it. I asked him to clean the discs and he said he did, but they still didn't work. I ended up refunding him $15.

I normally wouldn't think anything, but I found out something pretty ugly about a person I know. They do things like I mentioned above intentionally to get money and free stuff. Apparently they do it all the time. Makes me sick to think that someone would do that!

I also sold some schooling books to a mom that was supposed to be $20. She gave me $10 cash and a $50 check to hold some other books for her for a day.

That day never came.

Even after contacting her a few times, she broke several promises to pay up. it looks as if this woman who seemed to be a nice and genuine person decided that she didn't want to be bothered with something little like someone elses money.

In the end, it isn't a big deal because it is just $10, but it burns me that people can be so inconsiderate as this.

I also picked up a nice little resell lot of 2015 baseball, football and basketball for $130. I've been too busy to list, but will do that shortly!

Now for the *possible* BIG news. I may be in the dealings of grabbing a white whale! I am having a very difficult landing the plane with the seller, but if all goes well, I'll have a good update next time I write!

Anyway, to total it all up, I have $196 to add to the pot plus a bunch of sweet cards!

[mouschi]

This is the final official post of the 2015 Flip Quest.

Since my last post, I have made 2 or 3 very quick flips of 2015 baseball, football and basketball cards, netting me $465 in profit. This brings the total to $1,938.75.

The Red Crusade dude apparently rocketed off to Mars or something, because I have not heard from him again, unfortunately. I still hold out hope for the future.

That doesn't mean that this Flip Quest was a bust though!

Earlier, I had picked up the biggest single acquisition for my collection, ever - and guess what? It was a mere $38.75 less than the total that I had left for the Flip Quest! I find it very cool that the ending price was very close to the purchase price of the below cards.

I had drained Paul, a former super collector of a lot of his low end stuff, and like an addict, I went for the "hard stuff". That's right, peeps - low numbered, autographed, patch stuff. Hardly any of this ever sees Ebay so I was fortunate to have picked up this in one swipe. Here are the goods:

2003 Donruss Recollection autograph #/12


Very difficult to find minor league card (generally goes for $40 to $100)









Quite possibly my favorite patch card of him ever!












How can you not love this card? Dual check cut auto book








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[mouschi]

continued ....







You've heard of a button card ... what about a button hole card?


Another one of my favorites












Another hard to find pricey minor league card












I believe that is about it. Anyway, this puts me far ahead of the game as compared to waiting to find these on ebay.

So, in the end, I did get a white whale - the 1990 Donruss Aqueous, but I am really loving the cards I got above.

Thank you for reading this season, and we'll see you in '16!

[baseballfan]

great stuff congrats!!