Bought: $9.01 Sold: $660.00 Fees: $60.37 Profit: $590.62
So, this was quite the flip. I was at VV and saw three bags containing Sailor Moon cards for $3 each. I did a quick eBay search and saw that some sailor moon cards sold for a few bucks, and considering the number here combined with the fact that it had a binder to store them that I could make back my money if nothing else. I spend a bit of time trying to research the cards, but considering they are in Japanese, I was only able to identify about half of them. There was very little information on them online, so I decided an auction was the best option. I started the bidding at $50, and immediately had a number of watchers and a number of people messaging me asking information. Three people - an American, a German and a Chinese - were quite active in asking questions - all three tried to get me to stop the auction and sell it to them - and had a mini-bidding war raising the price from $50 to $500 four days before the end of the auction. At the end of the day the American woman won it, and she messaged me to say how excited she was to complete some of her collection. I have no idea why someone would spend so much money on pieces of paper, but I am not complaining! I got lucky, and am going to continue to trust my gut on these random type of purchases. Not too often you get to turn $9 into over $600!
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