Getting Good... at LEVELING UP with Selling on TCGplayer!
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
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Now we continue up the ladder through Seller Levels 2 &3! A lot more of the same, but you're building the systems that you need to use, both to continue growing your store after reaching Level 4, and to show TCGplayer that you won't be a liability for letting you get there. You need to source some inventory in all likelihood, and I give you some tools to do that. And you also need to seriously examine your processes and either work to improve them or decide it's not interesting to you to do so and find another business to grow.
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I appreciate the content Chase. I just got accepted to TCG Direct and am in the process of listing 50,000 "bulk" cards to it. It's a long process but I enjoy having your videos on in the background to help me through it. Keep up the good work
Hey Ash, you can't know how much feedback like that means to me. I'm really glad if I've been able to help you get where you want to be. Congrats on getting into Direct, it's a huge game changer for sure!
Ahhh I did this before I opened my store I highly recommend it, actually I still do it.
I'm jealous of those who can scale the mass openings, I have to be really happy with a randomized product to open it *at all*
I watch both of you guys. Glad to see that you're watching each other too
Rewatching this series since I just hit level 2 and almost at level 3 (8 sales)... yay I'm "minimally viable"
😂😂 congrats
I just hit level 4 today! Thanks again for your videos!
Congrats! And I'm glad I was able to help! That really means a lot to me
Your videos have really been helpful in setting up my bulk. I'm still figuring it all out and I've already made it to level 3 in 3.5 weeks and 40 orders in. I love doing this and I can't wait to expand my business and hopefully get into TCG Direct as well. It has been a lot of work, but luckily I've been grounded in my expectations after watching your videos. Please keep them coming!
Patricia, thank you so much for your kind words, and for sharing your story. Congrats on how far you've come!
I just put my first cards on tcgplayer. Cards I thought didn't have much popularity and interest. Sold in hours of posting. The volume of TCG seems so much more than eBay or other places. Hope this keeps up.
LOTS of attention paid to TCGplayer by card players, definitely the place to sell if you can. I'm hoping the other things they add to the marketplace get a similar level of attention. We'll see with comics, I'm excited for comics and sports cards to have the TCGplayer market treatment.
Man this is Brilliant! Thank you TCG Bulk Kings
Glad it's helpful to you!
I would love to see a video of you showing all the different websites you use. Dawnglare is pretty interesting in itself.
Hi Chase, first off, thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience on how to sell with TCGPlayer. I just started selling and am on my way to level 3. Question for you: How do you keep track of inventory costs and Cost of Goods sold? Do you use a piece of software? I would appreciate it if you could point me in a direction you have found success with. Thank you!
Hey there, congrats on getting started, that's the hardest part! For tracking costs, I just use a spreadsheet. I don't try to track the original inventory cost for each individual card, that would be an insane amount of upkeep, especially since most of the time that individual card cost is a fraction of a penny. I simply record the costs of buying collections on my spreadsheet, label the transaction as "inventory", and call it good.
@@TCGBulkKings Amazing, thank you for the guidance on how you do it. Very helpful! Looking forward to new videos from you.
It's Levels to this Ish
Even TCGplayer putting RPG elements in their systems
@@TCGBulkKings lol ...level cap flippin Wizards
Thank you for your content! I would like to work toward achieving TCG level 4. What Commander Decks could help get towards that goal? Honestly that is the best advice I have heard getting to that level 4 goal. Brilliant! Thank you so much.
Glad I can help! I don't know right now which one is the best, as market forces will likely make them change pretty rapidly
The MTG site is an AWESOME resource. I'm wondering if there are similar sites but for Pokemon or One Piece?
As far as the EV calculator like Dawnglare, there hasn't really been anything like it that's a free service (though moxalpha is fairly useful if you aren't wanting to calculate it all yourself, and they are supposed to be expanding into other games before long). If you are talking about mtgstocks though, there is definitely a pikastocks.com and a fabstocks.com
Pikastocks is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thank you as always!@@TCGBulkKings
Just got started again selling some cards. I love this channel and it's been incredibly helpful already! I actually just bought one of pre-constructed decks and looking forward to seeing if I can make it profitable as I level up my account!
Hey, I'm so glad to hear I've been at all helpful. Really means a lot to me. If you have any questions, feel free to ask, either myself or someone else in the comments here will try to help you out 😊
@@TCGBulkKings I'm assuming you get most of your bulk locally? If I wanted to start getting bulk inventory to sell once I'm level 4, do you have any tips for when you are just starting?
@@ItsPhantomFam start by asking around among your friends and playgroup. Also I would join any local Facebook groups for whatever game you're looking to deal in and add to that community, not just spam 'looking for bulk' posts. You'll get people knocking down your door
@@TCGBulkKings Great ideas, I'll give it a go! Thanks for your help!
Awesome video, really enjoyed the content. I'm from SA and i see that this system best works in the USA. I have a collection that i'd like to sell at a significant discount from market value, but im struggling to do so. Is it possible to perhaps get some advice on how i can sell my collection to a buyer in the States. I'd deeply appreciate the help. Thank you 🙈😎
Glad you're enjoying the videos, Waleed!
Unfortunately, I couldn't really begin to give you pointers on how to sell to a US buyer from outside the US. You might check in with @Alpha_Investments if it's a higher-end collection. Elsewise, the trouble is probably not worth it to sell from Saudi Arabia, you may wish to bring it to the US or else send it to someone who is in the US to sell for you domestically.
Any tips for sorting out mystery booster cards from a bulk lot that was purchased?
Oof, that's tough, even I overlook them sometimes. And when I notice one, I get hypervigilant and think that little paintbrush is a planeswalker symbol lol. I tend to treat it as part of the alphabetizing step, just to make sure I'm not missing them. First step is set sorting, second step to alphabetize in the set, and since you're looking at that edge of the card, it's easier not to miss the symbol than when you're looking at the opposite edge for the set symbol.
So I got a question; how does TCG player make sure that the sellers selling on their website accurately determine the cards condition. Exemple seller lists the card as NM but it’s actually LP? How can TCG player control that if the seller himself ships the cards to the customer? Thanks
Same as eBay or any such marketplace - they gatekeep being able to sell a lot until you have a certain number of completed sales with good feedback
@@TCGBulkKings thanks a lot for the quick reply Chase. Your content really helps cheers
Just wanted to come back and say I just got level 3 seller and am already 30 sales in! I can now list a bunch of bulk that I bought and sorted, do you recommend setting a floor price regardless of card?
Congrats! Glad to see some success coming to ya! I do recommend a floor price. I don't sell below $.05, but that floor may be (and probably should be) higher for you until you achieve Lvl 4 status. Have a close look at your fees, what you can set prices at, and what your costs are to pick that floor, and be ready to lower it once you can change your shipping settings. Best of luck!
so do you try to pick out better bluk cards to list? or do you just list everything?
I actually list everything, I just make sure I don't price anything below a certain floor. The demand eventually finds me - every card has value
I'm stuck at lv 3 but then again I don't deal in mtg. Does this method translate to other tcg as well or should I hop on the mtg train? I have a somewhat slow moving tcg
If the demand isn't there, it may be wise to diversify to multiple games. If you're wanting to stay in just this game, I would spend some time to find out what the fastest selling product or singles are right now and focus on those until you get level 4. Then you can go wide and sell everything in that niche
@@TCGBulkKings I'm trying to do that and was looking into other tcgs that are at least faster moving and more consistent right now. Just don't want to waste capital where where demand isn't ya know?
@@xRagnarokHQx exactly 💯 I'm sure you'll figure it out
Do you think this is viable for opening Flesh and Blood hero decks?
I hadn't analyzed those in particular. But if the contents are fixed, it should be easy enough to add up your expected sale price of those cards, minus fees and shipping costs, and see if that adds up to more than your cost to pick up the sealed decks
Is there a Pokemon equivalent of the website that you showed?
Not that I've seen, but pikastocks.com had a lot of super useful information, that may be helpful
in other words, Neg money to have the ability to sell higher value cards and also neg. Seems like a pipe dream or am I missing something. This might explain why Most LGS's kinda go bankrupt or just don't sell singles.
That's not what I've said in the video at all 😂 I've shown how easy it is to break even by selling only a few cards from preconstructed decks, keeping all the leftover cards, and allowing you to progress up the seller levels quickly so that you can get to a place where you can sell all cards in a profit generating way
I'm lost on tcg as far as making profit on cards. When I look up what a specific card is selling for, it's typically an all inclusive price, factoring in shipping + card price. So lets say it's just a card worth $2.00. What I see sellers do is sell the card for $1.00 with the .99cent shipping. This means they're selling cards at 50% value, which is less than you'd get selling it to a physical store. Why do that? Why ruin the market?
The .99 cent shipping (although it looks like it's for that specific card) is actually total shipping, so if a buyer buys 4 of those cards from you, they're only paying .99 cent shipping on the whole order, which means you're only going to get $4.00 + .99 cents for shipping, on $8.00 worth of cards. Am I just looking at it wrong or is TCG really that hurtful to low level sellers trying to get in the game? So far as it looks, I'm mostly going to be losing money trying to reach level 4.
The stated value of a card does not include the shipping. So a card that's "worth" $2, as agreed on by the market, will not be on TCGplayer at $1+.99 shipping, it'll be closer to $2+ shipping. Because of combined orders, free shipping on orders over $5, and fees and things, that single card shipping rate is less meaningful than it seems. The agreed on price doesn't include the shipping charge, I promise. Sellers who are selling super cheap because they are separating the shipping cost out completely are shooting themselves in the foot.
That's not too say ignore it completely. Maybe set your prices a little lower, but not $.99 lower. You are wanting to get to level 4 so you can set free shipping anyway, and there is a cost associated with shipping the cards that you would have to account for even if you were selling that card at full price.
It's definitely not as simple or easy to get to level 4 as it ought to be, but it's not designed to just make everyone get ripped off, like some kind of hazing ritual. It's just a limiting factor to make sure the sellers are serious before they can do too much damage to the market
@@TCGBulkKings Sellers selling by incorporating the shipping cost in order to get their listing to the top, aren't just shooting themselves in the foot, they're shooting everyone and the market economy itself.
I'm just finding it very difficult to compete with sellers at lvl 4, because they have the option to include shipping, and like you said, give free shipping on $5.00+ orders, which often can be just 1 card. So they can list cards at the right price, while me doing so automatically makes my card .99 cents more expensive. So I'm forced to undercut the market, and cheapen the selling value of said card to get it to sell. Unless I'm missing something, TCGplayer's rules on low level sellers is forcing market devaluation of cards. Thanks for replying by the way. It's just frustrating feeling like I'm probably going to have to discount my stock just to get sales until I hit level 4. Great for buyers, bad for me.
@@skydriver5709 I think the effect you're fearing isn't nearly as strong as you think it is. There is an extra risk involved in buying from a new seller - they may not be good at getting you the card. The only metric a new seller can compete on is price, that's true for any market. And also, new sellers are a drop in the bucket compared to the market at large, it's not like new sellers are even remotely the only ones successfully completing sales. You may make a bit less profit now, but you shouldn't have any problem making money if you're buying and selling correctly. Don't get disheartened.