Has anyone...

[Bosox Blair]

I'm not a "flipper" myself.

I have no moral or philosophical problems with flipping cards to generate money to buy more/better cards.

But there are a lot of people who have been mightily disappointed by playing this game. A couple examples have been recently discussed following the latest REA. If you subscribe to VCP with images, and you spend some time looking through results, I think you will be amazed (and somewhat frightened) at how many people appear to have lost a lot of money reselling pre-war cards bought in the last few years.

Cheers,
Blair

[mackmen]

I don't think you can necessarily profit from collecting cards and flipping them unless you have a lot of patience (time and effort). However, I do know that I will buy collections for maybe three or four cards and then sell the rest. It is hard though because it ties up so much funds and pisses off my fiancee. Now whenever I sell something it goes into the wedding fund, literally.

[dstraate]

Originally Posted by mackmen

I don't think you can necessarily profit from collecting cards and flipping them unless you have a lot of patience (time and effort). However, I do know that I will buy collections for maybe three or four cards and then sell the rest. It is hard though because it ties up so much funds and pisses off my fiancee. Now whenever I sell something it goes into the wedding fund, literally.

Take it from a newcomer to the marriage game:

Make a separate account, and mail statements to your work.

[HRBAKER]

Originally Posted by dstraate

Take it from a newcomer to the marriage game:

Make a separate account, and mail statements to your work.

....and an occasional piece of nice jewelry works too.