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Pro seller here since 2019 So you aren’t including a printed packing slip in all orders? Instead the smaller one printed on 4x6? Nowadays the packing slip has the address printed directly to fit inside a window envelope so you have no waste with any thermal printing an address (I used to print addresses on smaller thermal then adhesive onto envelope). The security window envelopes are not expensive and you save all the time creating envelopes with their new way of printing the address right where it needs to be

Hey Nick, Love your videos! I wanted to request a video on how you make your shipping labels. I am trying to figure out which thermal printer i should get and then how the process goes to purchase and print labels, but I am getting lost in the rabbit hole. Thanks for any help you can provide!

Ok cash back and rewards should be factored into cost. Amazon is good for some stuff. Toploaders around 2 cents each is my cost. Should be cheap to ship.

Love the video and the in depth analysis. What I would say about how you compute your costs per goods sold is that it artificially inflates the value of your inventory. For example if you open up a commander deck of 100 cards, 90% of the value lies in the top 20ish cards and those 20 cards will sell very quickly. You'll have another 80 cards that will slowly trickle out and during that time your inventory analysis will say you have 80(ish)% of the value of that commander deck remaining in your inventory but in reality you have much less. Scale this out to higher numbers and there will be very little information on how much value you have in your inventory. Definitely track your sealed inventory and the cost to acquire just the way you are, but I don't know if the cost of goods sold will provide much information. Have you thought about filtering out all of the bulk from your costs. What I do to get an estimated profit is that when I upload inventory to TCGPlayer I simply remove cards below a threshold from my profit equation and the remaining cards above the threshold I sum up and then account for things like fees and shipping. This will never be completely accurate because fees and shipping depend on order size and prices can change before everything sells, but it has proven to be fairly accurate because cards above a certain threshold tend to sell quickly. After that you could value the remaining cards at a bulk rate (or I just don't include them in my estimated returns and as they sell it just becomes a bonus).

Just found your videos, loving following your journey. Excited to see how your processes and thinking evolves. One note is that it looks like your Dominaria United are jumpstart boxes. I was under the impression that Sheoldred only appears in the main set, not in jumpstart. I could be wrong though.

How do you calculate true cog on any given order though? It seems like you're just averaging the cog of your entire inventory and using that to calculate p/l on the master order sheet, but obviously a card you get in a booster box is going to have a significantly lower cog than say, a single you picked up at 60% Also a suggestion, if you're going to use if ands anyways, you should make it so that it adjusts your shipping cost up if the order is more than X cards. IE I ship anything over 4 cards with a non machinable stamp. So if I input an order thats 7 cards, it should automatically increase it by like 44 cents or so Also alternatively to using if and for price, since you said you sometimes ship things tracked below 35, wouldn't it be better to just adjust the shipping cost if it shows a tracking number in column p?

Jealous of the amount of cardboard you have haha subscribed as soon as I saw a video from ya. Love the business finance behind the scenes content

Karlov was a good set for me! Those lands make the value with some sprinkled in List and Special Guests! 🔥

Yo vitamin, good channel my man, anyone ever tell you you look like Affleck? But it does take a while to do orders, what kind of collateral did you start with? Where do you order sealed product from? No tax sounds like a crazy benefit btw

Nice videos bro! Simple, yet informational.

I think it's interesting that you consider any cards value at $.01. If you go by MSRP the cost of every card is worth $.356, if you buy if for less than that, it's cost might be $.01, but it's value should always be based off of the cost of a pack of cards divided by the number of cards in a pack. I understand that a things value is only what someone will pay, and TCGplayer has a market value for the cards, but realistically the value of a thing can be higher or lower than its market price. JMHO

there is only one rule.....know the game and be good at it.

One trick I do is I use yellow construction paper as the background when scanning - it helps ensure you have a contrasting color that's a stark difference that works regardless of borderless, white border, black border, etc. Another is separate your foil, borderless, and non foil before scanning. That helps ensure you're getting the right treatment and scan value, even if the name and set matched.

Okay I get the 2 vertical got the 6x4 envelope, but how do you do the bigger envelope can you go into more detail? atm i use the Ebay Trading card envelopes kits which support upto 24 sleeved cards and still under the 3oz but its $0.46 a kit plus postage so looking for something over 24 cards and your flat enevolpe look like a great solution for my bigger cheaper options

How long can u hold the tcg credit. Till next year?

I think ur right to sit on mom draft

So for example: If I was to buy a case of 4 commander decks, then crack 3 of them for singles and sell the 4th deck as a sealed product, how would you track that on your sheet?

Hi Nick, I love your channel. I want to start selling cards in 2025. How can I reach out to you directly?

I just wait for black Friday and pickup whatever is deepest on sale. Mainly just to have to draft later on but have a place that will sell some for 60-80 bucks a box

Good systems carry a business light years.

Hey man, just found your channel, seems like we’re in a similar spot. Would love to connect and talk shop!

You should title this, how to start a RUclips channel by selling people the fantasy of running a card store, that only makes money if you don’t factor in time.

Good luck on the journey

I love the givvy idea. As always thank you for the content and teaching others your craft ❤

I like your videos a lot, keep it up. However, sourcing product isn't all that hard if you don't own an LGS. Lots of us have our own "Rudy setup" with Patreon accounts that let you buy directly from us. That being said however, Rudy's setup muddies the water a bit with how he can offer such low prices AND cover shipping. He's a multi-millionaire who has more revenue streams than I have fingers on both hands and he CAN buy in the bulk amounts to get prices that low and he CAN cover shipping because the $5 per box he's making, over thousands of Patreon subscribers, more than covers his initial investment and then some. Also, if you're only at the $15/mnth tier for Taco Man, you can only buy 1 case a month from him. For the record, yes my shop has a Patreon too. Gotta shill for myself a bit here as well. But, like with mine and some others, you're going to see higher monthly subs and where the buyer(you) will have to pay shipping, or shipping gets split between buyer and seller. Or even free shipping if you meet certain stipulations with the LGS. Each Patreon is roughly the same but also has their own small differences. If you can't find a Patreon you like, and have a LGS in your area, go talk to them. See if you can work something out directly with them. If you have a national chain though, it probably won't workout that way. There's too many hands in the pot there for a deal to be worked out, most likely. Search for a mom & pop LGS in your area and talk with them.

Thanks for the great informative videos. Working on a similar business model hoping to get started in the new year.

Hey man, could you make a video talking about the card order you’re getting or might be getting I’m really interested in getting the magic sorter it’s a smaller scale size of a Roca. I know it has issues but it’s closer to my current wheelhouse and operation.

What's the 5% amazon credit thing you speak of? I'd love to wait until that to replenish all my work supplies. Thanks!

I don't think you can do a giveaway that has a buy in a few RUclipsrs have gotten in trouble for it

I’m interested in how you’re doing your EV calculations. Manually? Mox Alpha? Something else?

Sorry have to sleep .. but I’ll watch all tmrw. Do you have a good list of ,,, eBay. Use eBay card for best. Or TCG player use PayPal with this type of cash back card.? Thanks

A fellow ring connoisseur. Where do you get yours from?

Ok, I'm not sure if this will work anymore, but I want to share how I got good prices on sealed cards. I spoke to a local game store owner and asked at buying cases at $50 above costs which works out to $5 per box. I had a business license with the state. Buying as inventory vs as a consumer allowed me to avoid paying sales tax on the transaction. The store owner was happy to work with me. I bought a couple cases per set so he got $50-100 which was just profit for him. It also allowed him to keep his volume orders higher. I had been to the store many times as a tournament player, and he knew I wasn't ever going to buy boxes for him at full retail. He also knew I mainly sold online so I wasn't going to be his competition. I'm not sure if you live in a major city, but I did and this makes a difference. He knew that if he didn't work with me, someone else likely would.

What do you think of the TCGplayer subscription ?

what CC was giving you big cash back @ 10K?

Wow amazing content!!! I just saved nearly all your videos to my Watch Later. I’d also love to know more about how you calculate EV of booster boxes. I wanted to make a website or application to track these EVs for buying decisions

You talk about buying packs, but what about that bulk you purchased? Was that a bad idea or have you made decent money selling it off?

Great perspective on buying and creative ideas for a giveaway. You ever thought about getting into 3d printing for supplies, mtg accessories or organization like sorters, etc?

I did $1,000 as a fellow basement dweller. My inventory went from 3,000 to almost 6,000 right before. I just sold singles. That was a test of my system. Still need to tweek

Nick, whats your email address?

Keep at it man! I was in your same spot about a year ago. Now I got a Roca and it's been a breeze being able to sort and make bulk lots.

OKAY GUYS AND @Game Vitamins, my uncle said he would give me a 675 sq ft commercial spot for like dirt cheap rent (less than 400$) should I take the plunge and do it just so I can distruibution?

also curious about the ev calculations, and send the link for the pick ur poisons! sounds like a great idea

Where are you getting your EV calculations from? If the EV is as high as you say it is, I should be opening pallets of this stuff!

Good Advice! Thank you. I like the giveaway idea with the pick your poison card.

Does the scanner work for pokemon also?

How much did you buy your 20k bulk cards for?

Br said small seller and said inventory at 10,000 lmao. No longer small buddy. Youre a full time business. not what i would call a small seller. that more the people who have probably an inventory under 100. Side note, as an actual small individual seller, i wish they still let you get store credit for selling with less fees.

Would you be able to make a video on how you setup and used your thermal printer with TCGplayer?

Bought the A4 envelopes through your affiliate link. Thank you for a quality video! This is what I'm sending my friends when they want to see a good routine!