Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Sailor Moon Cards Round Two

Bought: $45.00 Sold: $199.99 Fees: $18.91 Profit: $136.08

So after my great $500+ sale of sailor moon cards earlier this summer I've been keeping my eye out for them, and someone posted an ad on Kijiji for their old cards. They had just over 250 of them, and they wanted $50, but agreed to take $45. I was a bit weary to spend so much when I still have no idea what gives specific cards value, but I decided it was worth taking a risk. I was able to identify about 90% of them, and included in the listing the cards I could identify. I originally did an auction starting at $99, but despite a number of watchers, no one bid. I then relist it as a BIN for $200, and decided to see what offers I got. A number of people messaged me asking for only certain cards, but I was reluctant to split up the set without knowing what value each card had, and much easier for me to sell as a lot. On the third day of the BIN listing someone bought it at full price - too bad they didn't search four days previously or they could have bid and got it for 50%. It is being shipped to a re-shipper in the states, so the buyer is overseas somewhere. Regardless, still a good return on my investment. I still have no idea why the other lot sold for so much more - not sure if there was one unique card in the other set or a number of rarer cards. Still, I will continue to keep my eye out for these. 

Also, it has been a while, but Robin thought this was a terrible buy and that the last lot was a one-off, and that these would never sell for anything more than I paid, so...

Counter for things Robin said that will never sell that in fact did sell: 10

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