Flipping Cards

[Leon]

If I see a card I know I can sell for $125 for $75 I see no reason not to buy it and try to make $50. Now, if I say I have to have it for my collection and I will keep it forever, weasel you down to $65...then the next day put it on the BST for $100....then that is kind of weasely....Maybe I changed my mind but next time I wouldn't expect to get a discount. (btw, I don't do that) I salute anyone that can buy and sell and make money....heck, I have bought numerous cards from people immediately after they bought them, for a nice markup, as they saw them first and bought them and I needed or wanted them. Absolutely someone can do what the heck they want with a card once they buy it but they shouldn't lie on the front end..... regards

[FUBAR]

i think we all have flipped a card for profit at one point or another, when ebay first started in 1997, i was all over it buying cards for maybe .05 cents on the dollar. I even bought some t206's and 205's for 2-3$ each. One lot i bought for 8$ had a bossy rc i graded with an 8.5 and a few other old rc's, in total about 3500$ worth. I couldnt believe people would send them out for that kind of money. It was like a gold mine at the time.

I sold alot of them at the local shop, i supplemented my income at that time.. you cant really find too many deals anymore on ebay so i dont bother trying.

[drc]

There's nothing wrong with flipping. Nor do I find someone morally superior because he held a card two years, instead of one week, before selling it for profit.

[Edwolf1963]

My only issue is seeing a listed card playing everyone up for a fool - using dopey editorial like "Blazer!" or "Wow!", quoting book value for NM when your card is clearly a beater 2 at best, flipping it before you even received it (IE: win auction one night and relisting day after) and then pricing it so far beyond VCP current market extreme, you can imagine Bobby posts it up as the laugh of the day

[drc]

Those are reasonable points, but have nothing to do with how long the seller owned the card. Someone who had a card for 20 years can be as honest or dishonest as someone who had a card for ten minutes.

[Fred]

My biggest problem with flipping is that I never complete the second end of the flip. I just can't let go of what I buy...

I don't see anything wrong with flipping in general but what bugs me is when people put buy ads in the BST trying to buy cards and then flipping them.

Why?

Because a lot of time the good guys on this board will provide a good guy discount to the buyer because they think they may be helping someone with their hobby collection (for example, finishing a set or subset). In those cases it just bugs me if someone puts out the buy ad just to try and pick up a card cheap to flip it. I figure if you're going to put in a buy request you could tell the seller your intentions, that way the seller may not feel like an idiot later on when the seller sees that their good deed (giving a discount to a board member) netted someone a nice profit.

[Wite3]

Flipping is fine but on the west coast we called it "leaners"...I was a champ...man, I could get a card to lean from nearly 15 feet as a kid! Huh? What? Sales? I thought we were talking about good old fashioned card flipping fun...my mistake...

Joshua

[rhettyeakley]

Originally Posted by Leon

If I see a card I know I can sell for $125 for $75 I see no reason not to buy it and try to make $50. Now, if I say I have to have it for my collection and I will keep it forever, weasel you down to $65...then the next day put it on the BST for $100....then that is kind of weasely....

Like Leon, this is really the only time flipping will bother me. I have sold some things (that I may not have actually had for sale) to someone as a sort of favor to help them along with a project, only to see the item immediately go up for sale at a significant mark-up. It kinda makes you want to help others less for a while, but these situations are few and far between and have never really left a lasting bad taste in my mouth--it is irksome though!

-Rhett