Unfortunately it’s not that easy
Let’s say the slab is worth $20usd; about $27cad. Shipping will be between $10-16cad. Accounting for that, the winning bid would be about $17-11cad Minus ebay fees, $9-15cad. -$1 shipping material. Bottom line is $6-10usd plus I have to individually package every item. This also assumes I can get the full $20 value from every single slab.
But yeah, I can probably get around that a bit if I sell in lots
I don’t think there’s a storage fee if you send direct to auction
They recently changed it where anything that sells under $15 gets hit with a $3 fee. Apparently it’s been in place since the beginning of the year but I didn’t notice until my last auction block.
Also just a friendly psa, they are charging $15-30 per sealed item as a fulfillment/handling fee. $15 is for most items. $30 is for the smaller boxes like shiny v or high class size.
Here’s an example from ebay
Listed for $28cad, sold BO $20
Shipping wasn’t too bad because it was within the province. Net = ~$8usd
How many PSA junk slabs do you have? And how many CGC?
At that price point for the Electabuzz, it’s a lot of work for netting $8, the TnT buylist price
Maybe something like 200 total. I know that ebay might not be the best option here, hence the thread 
The extra funny thing is the guy who bought it pretty much overpaid too since you can get a PSA 9 for roughly the same price (in the USA) so it’s actually a very optimistic example.
If that’s true, then you may get the better deal at PWCC (if junk slabs sell for the same price on PWCC as they do on eBay).
This is a very frustrating fee that they put in. I expressed my frustration with it and my consignment contact was equally annoyed. Hoping that they remove it in the future!
PSA: Their rule around loose packs is just as bad. If you can bundle them and speak to someone at PWCC, they’ll just do one fee per bundle. Otherwise, you might get slapped with multiple fees.
100%! It basically eliminates any current box. Especially the $30 for small boxes.
i suggest sunfading them all to sell as rare exclusive cards (not errors, but what if??? 1/1)
you are welcome
Oh you’re in Canada. Don’t bother trying to sell low value stuff on ebay, the shipping will eat you alive. Just sell in bulk to someone on FB.
With 200 slabs and the pricing on shipping you’re talking about, I’d try to sell it as a lot of all 200. Call it a graded collection, use a promoted auction with the starting bid at $15/slab. You never know and some new mystery box seller may bite. If it doesn’t happen with $15/slab starting bid try again at 10. After that it’s up to you if you want to step down to 5 or just start the auction at $0.01 and let it rip.
Someone will buy this. It will probably be a mystery box seller. I’ve been able to sell absolute trash on eBay usually for no less than $5.50/slab and they still pay the $5 shipping per slab as well even when the same guy buys like 3.
I have to ask, why are these kinds of cards graded in the first place if they’re obviously going to become junk slabs
Because grading companies don’t care how much it’s worth hence why PSA also ended up with lots of people refusing to pay for cards already graded during the boom when they took years to clear and the cards became worthless.
There should be a plastic tax imposed on them. 99% of cards submitted, no matter the TCG, sport, comic, video game etc have no business being encased.
There was a pretty good chunk of time where any modern PSA 10 pokemon card, higher than a base rarity rare, sold for profit. Not like a $5 profit either, I remember selling cards like PSA 10 DAB FA Butterfree V for like $20+ profit during the mania.
Don’t people go after whole collections (set, species, etc) in a certain grade?
I agree, but the problem starts with the submissions. The grading companies are doing what they’re paid to when they receive the cards, but people shouldn’t be shipping them out to get graded in the first place.
It’s just my opinion, but I can’t understand the psychology of “grade everything”.
In reality, you can make a case that 100% of collectibles shouldn’t be incased in plastic. Demand is demand, and people want what people want. Set collectors are why vintage TCG/Sports sub $5 raw cards are graded. This has been the case since the first grading company opened. It’s not always money that drives this need to get things slabbed, it’s the desrie to collect a set that does.
Granted, the main reason alot of this stuff is slabbed nowadays is because of the $$$$. However, for every 10 people trying to make $$$$, there is 1 collector who just wants to complete their set.
Hell, I just slid into @pfm DMs to see if he had any junk slab gym series lol.
