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[@terrencemiltner1005]

Another profit for bulk is incremental add-on and ease of shopping. If I'm buying a premium card for a deck and one store has the card and you have the card plus some bulk cards to fill in the deck, I know who I am buying from. Plus you make the margins on those bulks in addition to the premium you sold.

[@BeefMonster]

The other plus to having bulk is that you get a lot of customers who will come to you because they can't find those commons/uncommon cards anywhere else.
The store I work at frequently gets comments about how we have a huge inventory with cards they can't find anywhere else. Not every player is dropping $100 on 1 card. Some of them spend that $100 on a whole deck and play with it casually for a month or more.

[@rancorprimegames]

he's got dwarven battle armor under that Hawaiian shirt fsho

[@DirkVomEck]

I love bulk!
the situation over here in europe is somewhat different I guess. Floor prices for commons are usually 2 measly cents, but on the biggest platform over here (Cardmarket) the buyer always pays shipping and if you source your shipping materials right you make your money that way.
I also bought a large MTG bulk Rare collection last year (5000 cards) and I sell cards from that collection pretty much every day and get at least double what I paid for each individual card^^
I also like having lots of card to offer, it makes for some interesting orders^^

[@FranksHobbies]

@@DirkVomEck Hell yeah man bulk kings!

[@EmporerDragon]

I am one of those people that does buy the cheap commons/uncommons/etc.. While they're never top priority, at the end of the day, they're still holes in the collection to fill. If I'm already shopping with cards in my cart and I see a cheaper card I need, I don't really think anything of throwing it in too, as I'm already spending money, what's another few cents? In a sense, the bulk cards are almost like the candy bars sitting at store checkouts.

[@gregorygejoff1628]

hit them likes so we can make this big boi do push-ups.

[@decksdicellc882]

Bro, you need a .25 floor price at the very least (I run a .50 floor price typically and do just fine. I have stuff lower than that on my inventory but I don't have the time/effort to police my inventory daily or weekly to adjust pricing like that. With almost 80k cards in the inventory some things will slip by.) If you have someone building a deck and you have the "x" copies they're looking for 8/10 times they'll just spend the .25 per card to buy the play set from you vs getting one from a seller, two from another, and another 1 from another seller just because of pricing. Cart optimizer is your friend there when it comes to TCG Player.

[@FranksHobbies]

@@decksdicellc882 It’s definitely true that a higher floor price will increase profits and that some buyers will just eat the cost for what they’re looking for, but I find that being extremely competitive helps get more sales in the long run which, when it comes to bulk, is where you make the real money.

[@decksdicellc882]

@FranksHobbies So, you're not wrong in that scheme either. But you're also selling yourself short. Sure, you buy bulk for $5/1k usually. I pay out $6/1k which is $1 over industry standards. And that's just bulk. Not foils, bulk rares, etc. Just bulk.
You aren't guaranteed to sell everything in the bulk you bought. You aren't guaranteed to even make back what you pay per 1k. You also are the one sourcing product, sorting product, listing product, packing and shipping off product and doing customer service when it arises. Don't sell your efforts short man.
When I started out, I had a "ill price it at market" mentality too with bulk. Then I noticed said "this is for the birds. The stamp cost more than this card does, hell the envelope cost half of what this card does." And instituted a .25 floor price and saw no difference in income. A drop in order volume by a small bit but the orders were larger orders both in card count and sale. Then I hit .50 floor price and the same thing happened again.
Sometimes it's not about being competitive but realizing you, your time and your effort is worth something too.