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I am a 24 year old sports card collector and enthusiast, I am going to be creating content about anything to do with sports cards, whether that be pack opening of sports cards, informational / educational videos on topics in the sports card industry, or even some new and unique ideas that I have in mind.
I am hoping to release a new long form video every 2 days!
My plan is to post content regarding my journey selling sports cards, and teaching as many people as possible how to do the same.
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Great video. I recommended your channel to a friend who is starting off with low end cards. I also keep a record of all my expenses and sales. Since I do not usually buy lots and buy more based on arbitrages, I am able to record my purchase and calculate how much I make per hour. Last year, it was roughly $30 per hour (before taxes). Have you ever wonder how much you make per hour? I think it is somewhat important to know this because time is also a very valuable resource.
I did the math for a different comment down below here; if you are referring to all time spent on getting inventory, all time spent on recording videos (which increases the audience I have to sell my inventory to) and the amount of time it takes me to sell the cards I’ve estimated it’s probably somewhere close to 3$ an hour (in pure profit) if only talking about the act of selling it’s closer to 11$ an hour. Since you say before taxes I’m guessing you mean the gross income / taxable revenue incurred.
But that’s not including all of my pc, all of my eBay stuff I still have put aside, the cards I’ve shown in the video and a bunch of other inventory as well that I haven’t sold yet / have other plans for :) that all at this point would be the boost that would get me to see bigger earnings
Good stuff tho man hope to be there one day as well love the videos 🙏🏼
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How does the tax’s work bro? You get taxed for the total amount or just the net revenue?
@@Kmac23YT well I’d make sure to ask an accountant for your own personal taxes, but based off of what I’ve learned at school and online you only pay taxes on your gross income, which would be the amount of money you make minus certain taxable deductions. Net revenue / income typically refers to your revenue / income after you’ve paid your taxes. But again ask a licensed accountant for a forsure answer regarding anything to do with your own taxes. I accidentally said the wrong term in the video, but I just meant pre tax net revenue. But yes a lot of things for the tax code and questions people might have are easily searchable on google, again I’m just answering for my own situation / scenario and please ask an accountant or do your own research.
I have a bunch of 1990s footbal cards and basketball cards i wonder if they are worth anything
I’ve heard from someone that the 90s is in right now, but honestly a lot of the time you have to have the right cards and type of cards for them to be worth much more than the cardboard they were printed on. It’s always worth a shot to look up some of them, I’ve found some hidden gems in that era no one probably wanted to consider buying
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I wouldn't mind talking about my numbers but I'm also not sure where I am with everything this year. Might be my sign to figure that out, somewhat tough though because I rip a lot.
Yea it’s given me a nice little starting point for when I do go to file my taxes :) also helped me realize how much profit I’ve made and with the amount of inventory I still have I feel good with it
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Love the videos thanks for breaking all the numbers down
Glad you like them :) I appreciate your support very much glad you found it to be a good video
Do you sell on eBay at all? I sell only raw low end cards. Most of my listings are under $20. I’m only on eBay and thinking about expanding to what not. Seems lot of people are going there for cards now.
@@beliedat2457 I have a ton of videos all about my journey selling on whatnot :) make sure you subscribe so you can enjoy more content I post and all the whatnot videos :) but yes I’ve sold on eBay, I haven’t listed any new cards to my store in the last 6 months or so, so for me I’ve been mainly selling on whatnot growing that aspect of things, I’ve been stashing away inventory slowly for my eBay store! But definitely have some amazing videos that you’d really like to watch I can tell
@@ruffasportscards I’m subbed now. Just found your channel 👍🏼 I’m top rated plus on eBay. But it seems that what not is now where to sell cards.
Love the video, just subscribed. Question.. you pay taxes on your sales, specifically eBay and Whatnot… are you able to tell me how the write offs work? If you spend $10k on inventory/shipping supplies/other business expenses which are “write offs,” and you sell $10k on eBay, are you on the hook for any taxes in that scenario? Or would you need to have over your write offs in net profit to owe taxes on those sales? Also, the taxes owed depends on the money you cash out on eBay? What if I sell on eBay, never cash out, and just use that money to buy other things on eBay? Do you know if taxes would be owed in that scenario?
I appreciate your support very much! Okay, soooo there’s a bit to it. My complete and honest recommendation would be to ask an accountant / your accountant about any questions related to taxes, but typically most answers can be answered online as well. Not in particular answering your questions but given the scenarios that you’ve said, The way taxes work is it wouldn’t matter if you decided to “cash out” (eBay doesn’t even really have the option to “cash out” or keep the money on the platform to spend Mooney on it [at least to my knowledge]) on eBay or not because you’ve still had that revenue occur and it wouldn’t matter what you spend your money on, unless it was for more inventory that you do end up selling, certain other tax write offs, and the main thing that matters is usually you’ll want to actually “write off” the tax “write offs” after you’ve sold the item associated with the deductions. Again ask an actual accountant and don’t listen to me at all for anything associated with your own personal finances. Also you only pay taxes on the “net revenue / profit” that you incur when selling items, so in my own instance if I did determine I had no more actual revenue or expenses I would file my taxes and say my net profit / net income was 3,4__.__$ and pay the taxes associated with that amount of money. Again ask a licensed accountant and someone who would be able to give you a forsure answer.
The whole tax situation is definitely a hard one to discuss just because of the importance and implications behind it, so definitely ask someone who is fully licensed and able to give advice for certain situations, sadly I didn’t finish school for accounting but I’ve completed 3/4, but definitely not enough to give a stamp of approval or to say anything forsure, again I’m stressing this information please ask a licensed accountant regarding anything to do with taxes :)
Cool video
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To finish up your business value you can add up your card and supply inventory. It just helps to determine where you stand financially so you know if you need to adjust your buying.
I appreciate your support, make sure you subscribe if you haven’t already so you can enjoy more videos in the future :) Yea I wasn’t technically doing business value, I was just saying what I’ve made profit wise, what I’ve bought and what I’ve sold in first 6 months of this year. I have about 3-4 different collections I’m working on over time also that are actually starting to stack up pretty decently, inventory wise I’m doing really well also :) I figure the more inventory I have stashed away the less hectic it becomes for buying and the less impulse decisions I might make that I don’t need to :)
How many hours did it take roughly to sell the inventory to get those numbers?
@MissingWilson that’s an amazing question! Uhmmm it would depend if you mean just selling them or the act of getting everything ready to be sold and packaged up also or even the sourcing aspect too, but in short my guess is it has taken me to sell and package up all the orders I’ve had this year about 300 hours! The way I estimated that was 10 hours each week for strictly whatnot orders and I’ve done that for about 25 or so streams; some didn’t take me 10 hours sometimes it was quicker, and I usually just ship everything out on the day I do my whatnot streams now, but I haven’t posted much on eBay so listing stuff has been minimal time wise this year for me. Sourcing inventory would be probably be around an hour and a half a day; sometimes I do more sometimes I don’t search for inventory at all, sometimes I spend all day looking for stuff at shows. So probably another 300 hours for sourcing inventory or so; but when you consider I pretty much only work one day and could easily increase the work I’m doing threefold if I had the proper access to inventory then you can see a lot more increases in sells and time spent too :)
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@@ruffasportscards definitely Have subscribed and I am learning so much from you!
Thanks for doing this Video - I'm one of many that want to go onto whatnot, but am afraid of starting. I have an Android Phone and all their prep stuff on Whatnot is for using IPhones. Does anyone use Android Phones and works on Whatnot? Do you also need a Tablet to work on Whatnot? Please help me understand on what equipment i would need to sell Sports cards on Whatnot? Thanks for any help you can give me. Barry
Im not too positive but I think you’d be able to access all of the extra information like the videos and all of that on a laptop potentially. You don’t need a tablet from what I know, but I do also have an iPhone so I’m not too sure. From what I do all that I need is a Phone, a Laptop (to print out labels) and then a printer to print out the labels (also any sort of packaging material or anything like that you might need.
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Great honest breakdown. Thanks
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Last two videos were good thanks and good job 💪
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Are you selling that Marvin Harrison?
@@isbilly1 make sure you subscribe if you haven’t already so you can enjoy more content in the future :) I’m looking to get it graded first, but I can keep you updated on what it graded and see if you might be interested in it after it comes back, it’s actually an error card it’s not his rookie year and the card says “rookie ink” and the highest graded of the card is a psa 8 so I figured even if it graded an 8 it would add a nice premium to it
What cards are worth psa grading? At what price point perhaps is worth taking a shot?
If you haven’t already, Make sure you subscribe so you can get enjoy more content :) and it realty just depends; you can find cards worth 1$ or less that could potentially be worth it to grade, you could find cards worth even 1,000$. The main thing you want to look for / at when grading is if the card you graded end up getting the lower end of the grade you think the card will get, what would it sell for and how much would you lose / would you still be in profit. I actually even have a video out about the type of cards I personally would look / try to submit for psa grading. It’s called “STOP GRADING THESE CARDS AND GRADE THESE INSTEAD” or something along those lines was uploaded probably within the last 2 weeks.
@@ruffasportscardsthanks will check it out!
I only grade case hit cards, big rookie cards of superstars, rookie or superstar on card signatures or #, colored cards, I also love to grade Bowman 1st rookie cards to hold and sell when they get a call up, I think it’s a waste of money to grade base as the pop report will be very high, an example is Wemby prizm cards especially base, the pop report is so high that his raw cards dropped from $100 to $35. He’s PSA 10’s have dropped from $200+ for a 10 to $150.
@@KT-qw1ws yep for the most part that would be all that I recommend to grade as well :) actually was just preparing my first submission as you typed that message, gonna make a video on it when it comes back, maybe before also as well, guessing the grades and trying to figure out the grading scales so that in the future I can grade with more and more confidence!
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I have a large collection of sports cards. Vintage and modern. Looing to sell or get an estimate for all. Maybe even someone to help me learn about the sports card Hobby. THANKS.
Hi! I might be interested to buy.
Still looking in to how much it all worth
Lots of rookies , Hall of farmers , parallels , inserts and case hits
It’s hard to gauge how much a huge collection would be worth. It all really just depends on how you sell it out. If you sell it to someone in one swoop, then typically someone is going to offer you about 50% or so of the full value of your collection. If you piece it out and put in the work you might be able to up that percentage to about 60-70% of the value or so of the collection. It really just depends: it’s hard to put an exact price on huge collections, especially because there could be a lot of upside in grading some of the cards you may have, especially the vintage ones :)
Great advice Thanks
Great buy my $1 dollar boxes local ain't that great
Make sure you subscribe, if you haven’t already, so you can enjoy more content in the future :) Sometimes they can be amazing sometimes they can be rough :) it all just depends on the seller. I seem to not have enough bins to fully get the amount of inventory I’m after, but at least I got stocked up a good bit
@@ruffasportscards I'm subbed
Interested in the Teo. Whats your EBay?
@@bobbymartin23 I have all of my official links in the video description :) I can set aside the teo autograph for you and post it :) I can lyk when I do so
You beat me to that box on Friday. Fortunately, I had some good value box finds myself.
I appreciate your support, if you haven’t already make sure you subscribe so you can enjoy more content I post in the future or all of my previous videos :) Funny thing is that someone beat me to it also! There was some Anthony Richardson autos in there, on the video I edited out the audio but he was saying those ones weren’t supposed to be in there so while I was hunting I got worried about the amount they were gonna say so I hesitated with some of the stuff I probably should’ve added to the pile, fun thing about the value boxes is there is definitely some stuff to find forsure no matter how many people go through them you might always find one card :)
@@ruffasportscards The buyer you referred to is my friend. He told me about what happened. I told him that it was the right move to at least tell the dealer the A-Rich autos were in the value boxes. I think the dealer would have noticed when he counted. Either way, my friend did the right thing.
Yea I told him about the Hines ward auto /25 when he was talking to him about that, I didn’t pull the Trevor Lawrence out until the end and didn’t check the back or anything until actually about 15 hours ago, I would have let him know that I found it if I would’ve noticed it forsure. I just thought it was a yellow reactive parallel didn’t think anything of it
He definitely would have noticed forsure on those ones, it just shows you never know what you’ll find in the bins and to check and double check your own you make from time to time
Awesome video, one recommendation is project your voice and be more enthusiastic. It may be hard but it will go a long way towards your videos!
Disagree 100%. It’s refreshing to it have someone that’s not freaking out and yelling nonstop. This creator is refreshing and gained my sub from his cool calm demeanor.
Wow you got a steal on those cards
Make sure you subscribe if you haven’t already :) Yea without the Trevor Lawrence it would’ve definitely been still a good deal but the TLaw gold set it over forsure, it’s one of those parallels to potentially look out for forsure :)
Was gonna go to that show but I’m outta town and it’s a 2 and half hour druve
I had to drive about 2 and half hours to get to the show, but I also need the inventory for whatnot and eBay ect. So it made sense for me to go but there are plenty of shows I’m in the same boat for :) make sure you subscribe if you haven’t already
@@ruffasportscards I have I watch all your videos and I love the videos are up by Sacramento?
@@fcpacks I’m about 2 hours away from Sacramento :) I appreciate your support very much
Nice cards man
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Thanks for the vid! Would love to see that shipping method!
Make sure you subscribe so you can enjoy more videos of mine in the future :) super glad you enjoyed it! I’ll probably create a video about how to enable the pwe shipping on Saturday would be my guess since I have an idea on what to release for the Thursday video, but it’ll be very soon that I shall try to upload that one! Best idea would be to subscribe and enable notifications so you’re able to get notified of when I do post that one :)
Great advice on selling on WhatNot I think I will try selling on there again
Make sure you subscribe if you haven’t already :) Super glad you enjoyed it and it helped you out :) it’s definitely something that over time you’ll like it more and more especially as you start to plan your shows and the inventory you are going to sell during it and what not (pun intended) especially since the live selling industry is expected to grow massively over the next years also, could serve as a HUGE benefit to people’s journey in reselling ;)
Where do you get all of those cards to sell? 😅
I got all of these boxes from Dave and Adams it’s an online marketplace :) make sure that you subscribe if you haven’t already so you can enjoy more videos in the future :)
@@ruffasportscards Thanks, I'm kinda interested in selling cards myself 😅
@@Bladex2105 :) I have a ton of recent videos all about certain aspects of things. I’m gonna be posting a ton more in the future too! I’m planing on posting a long form video once every 2 days :) been doing that for a month now
Basketball cards pls!!
I can make sure to put some basketball stuff aside for you :) I’ll talk to you tomorrow at the show again to get ideas of some stuff you might like
howd you grow on whatnot? i go on there and get just a couple random people pop in and leave after like 20 seconds when im auctioning off $3 cards starting at $1
Make sure you subscribe to the channel if you haven’t already :) and Honestly there’s a couple different aspects that are HUGE in growing on whatnot in my own personal opinion, I’ll actually record a video here in the next 20 minutes and I’ll be posting it Sunday, June 30th at 6 A.M. PST all about the main thing I’ve found that I feel like helped me the most grow. Thank you for the video idea :) that’s honestly what I want to do in the future sometime is to coach and teach people how to grow and do entertainment selling streams like selling on Whatnot
Isn’t it $20 plus another $20 for the insurance so it’s $40 something each card right?
I think it comes out to about 25$ or so including insurance, I haven’t actually done it myself but people usually just estimate with the 23-25 range per card
Just sent in 31 cards to get graded to PSA, cost 663 on the PSA end (includes insured shipping back to me from them) and another 80 to ship out to PSA with insurance. So about 24 bucks per card
Just bought my first Sport Lot excited to get into the hobby. Some of those look pretty curled... do you run into issues with buyers for curled cards?
Uhmmm the bending and curled it naturally happens to cards; usually over time if you put the cards in toploader and have them in your collection and all that it’ll go back to form. Psa and the other grading companies don’t have any issues with curves. And I myself never have had an issue with someone regarding the cards having the curled aspect, these ones really aren’t bad at all if I remember correctly at least I’ll have to rewatch the video and see which ones you’re referring to but I’ve seen a lot worst and ones that almost don’t want to go into a toploader because of their curl
These are the vids that I look forward to
I might have to make them a weekly occurrence :) it would be fun to see the progress and downfalls documented over time :) even I’m curious about it
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14:35 this is technically incorrect. The set is stamped on the right side of the card, the charmander you were holding is from Team Rocket Set, indicated by the big R. Modern cards have a coding at the bottom left of the card ex. MEW=151 English
Ahhhh okay okay thank you for telling me about that, I never noticed that before until you mentioned it. I just got back into collecting pokemon, I’m guessing the rarities in the corner might be also helpful to indicate if it’s a trainer gallery or if it’s a sir or not also, or that part might reign true
@@ruffasportscards yeah absolutely that will help! Also circle=common, diamond=uncommon, star=rare, holo star=super rare, two stars= SIR or alt art
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I feel sports cards has too many players to keep up with. Pokemon you know there's maybe 10 main Pokemon that will sell all the time and with the new Alt Art that Pokemon are doing each buyer has their "collection" that they are building. I think sports cards are fun tho because they have the whole "rookie" aspect and potential to be a superstar to it, selling into the hype. Great video BTW!
I appreciate the support and glad you liked it :) it was definitely a fun one to think about and talk about! Yea that is one of the big differences also, you also dont have to worry about fans of a certain sports team never wanting to buy certain teams or players because of rivalries or if they don’t happen to be on the team they like. With Pokémon you never or very very very rarely have to worry about someone not buying a grass or electric type Pokémon because they like water Pokémon. Just a point I forgot to mention since the video was so long as it was.
i think id rather start at 2 dollars and not sell as sell for 1 dollar. you can always run the unsold ones at next show.
Hopefully you decide to subscribe if you haven’t already :) Honestly I’ve found that the times you can’t get 2$ the first go around are ones that I’ve seen sell for 3$ if you start at 1$, for me it’s 80 cents and the amount of times cards go for higher amounts or the people it automatically brings in will already pay for itself :)
Great video!.
Super glad you enjoyed it! :)
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New Subscriber!!! Good video. I graded some of my PC stuff with CGC. I posted a video series if you want to check it out.
I appreciate the support and I’m super glad you decided to join us on our journey :) I’ll make sure to check it out forsure always fun to collect stuff you like
@@ruffasportscards for sure
So you buy how much of a collection?? I've got stuff to move
Make sure you subscribe so you can tune into more videos uploaded on the channel :) and Just depends; I’d only pay PayPal gns and I’m pretty much only looking for nfl football cards as of now. I also have a card show this weekend so I’ve been preparing for that and saving money not trying to spend too much before hand.
@@ruffasportscardsdo you set up or walk around
@@bobcanbeatyou I’ve only walked around, haven’t set up before :)
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How much you get it all for?
All of the numbered stuff I got for a really great deal optic not anything amazing but also not horrible; I probably won’t say the number I got them for until after the Wednesday’s show, but if you decide to subscribe I’ll tell you before ;)
Where did you buy from?
I answer it in the video ;) gotta watch n listen 👂 haha just joking but I bought both the lots from Ryan’s cards discord server I have a link to join it in the bio of the video it’s the linktree link. It costs money to join and recurs each month but you can cancel any time and you can sell and buy on there. Your first 3 sales you’ll have to use a middle man service they provide but after that you’ll be good to go at your own rate it just serves as a protective measure so only serious people are in there.
Make sure you subscribe to join us on our journey, I might make some videos on the server in the future just to preview it for people and to show how cool it is for a platform to sell and buy on :)
Comc is fantastic to buy low end to flip especially bundle deals
I appreciate the support and I hope you decide to subscribe if you haven’t already! Most definitely I’ve heard great things about COMC :) I’ve tried to get into it myself but I kind of have difficulties personally with doing it in the extent other people do. Might be a cool series to do in the future :)
You can forget to include estate sales, and local auction to buy sports cards.
I appreciate your support and hope you decide to subscribe if you haven’t already :) Yea estate sales and local auctions definitely fall under the in person marketplaces category just didn’t name them outright, but definitely could be options :)
Good stuff, but stop moving your hands so much. Show cards or something please.
It acts as a way to engage those with adhd like myself :) if anything you can just listen in the background but it’s better than just talking with nothing happening in the background for the time being also
Always good content. Thanks Ruffa!
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Thanks for the tips love your videos
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Gave you a follow on Whatnot. I buy and sell there as well. I agree with you about eBay, it's a total roll of the dice. I love your videos. One thing that can really be helpful is developing a good relationship with your LCS owners. They always have a ton of value boxes and bulk excess inventory that they need to move. It's a win win for both of you. My LCS is an hour away but the guy is always happy to help his customers out. I have bought a good bit there and I love the personal relationship that we have beyond just the business side of things.
I appreciate the support :) make sure you subscribe if you haven’t already! Yes most definitely about card shops most of the time they can be amazing but sometimes they can be rough as well, it’s difficult for me at my local card shop personally just because there isn’t inventory that i particularly specialize in readily available at prices that I can benefit from, it’s mainly just a couple reasons for that the market being lower on low end now that high end stuff is so easily able to be sold and it being the first off season for the sport that i particularly focus on being NFL, it’ll be different to see how the market adjusts in the coming months but from what I can tell is that lower end stuff is being neglected more and more and you can get some absolutely amazing cards for cheap prices at the current moment because people would rather just buy the bigger cards and then sell those and rinse and repeat rather than doing the low end grind :) but it doesn’t help much that all prices they have at my lcs are usually higher than what they sell for and more or less what you would’ve expected to see during peak Covid times 😅 3$ priced cards usually being 1$ cards and so on
@@ruffasportscards I love low end stuff. I'm the guy that won't pay $100 for a card but I will buy $100 worth of $1-$20 cards at a time. I sell a lot of lower end stuff on whatnot as well. It's been a buyer's market for a while and it's been hard to get $2 for a $10 card at times. Such is the world of sports cards
Low end is king 👑 I’ll be posting a ton of videos all about my journey selling low end sports cards and a ton of super unique stuff in the future I appreciate your support, and hope you decide to join along
@@ruffasportscards I have been doing mail day videos and pack rips on my channel and am way behind due to just having so much going on with work and home. I plan on posting some new content before the weekend is over.
I’ll have to check it out :) I love sports card content n posting a long form video once every 2 days has been doing wonder over the last month for me; it’ll be amazing to see what happens once I’m able to actually do the card show videos that are so beloved and watched