I decided it was time to massively reduce my collection, due to to the space and time investment on keeping up with them… Just way too many cards to have to get these days. I have around 65 different sets at the moment and want to start this process by getting rid of all my S&M and XY era sets first. I decided it was easiest to sell off the ultra rares first and deal with the rest. I’ve buylisted everything within 15% of ebay and will manually sell the rest to maximize my returns. Most of these sets are around ~90+% complete holo/reverse/non-holo. What would be the best way to get my money back out of these sets? Should I sunk more money into them and buy what I’m missing (mostly reverse) and advertise them as master sets minus the UR, or just sell them as is? Thanks
I personally would sell everything I possibly could as individual items after attempting to sell as a collective first. These sets dont sell well as complete sets (or at least well enough to warrant investing more money in to complete them). Troll and Toad offers very well on cards that are sub $3-5 so I would just buylist everything to them that you can’t sell for normal value to individuals then bulk off the rest of the commons and reverses that are worth anything.
Yeah that sounds like sound advice. I’ll have to compare T&T BL prices to Coolstuffinc. Didn’t even know T&T had a BL for Pokemon. Coolstuff was pretty close to Ebay prices after fees. Regardless I have a feeling this is going to be a very lengthy process…
Edit: Looking at T&T prices they are lower than Coolstuffinc on every card I compared.
From S&M upwards it’s all standard, take the staples aside and sell those individually
If you sell to them as credit they’ll give you extra 25% which can def add up
Yeah it’s a lot more, but I don’t really want credit, because I don’t want to spent much on collectibles (especially pokemon) at the moment. Gotta keep those Roth IRA contributions maxed out! I’m trying to get my collection down to 50% or so of its current size and focus mainly on keeping my graded cards and stuff pre-2010 (maybe earlier).
So far the only action I’ve taken is putting up a buy-list of 77 Ultra Rares (~1/3 of my XY/SM UR) for $375 (or $470 store credit) at Coolstuffinc.
Or just take all the credit and turn it into a 1st Ed Charizard…better than a Roth 
When I have done big buy list orders with T&T I always opt for the credit option and then find a fairly priced high-end item with decent liquidity on their site and sell it on eBay. That way after eBay fees you net 10 - 15% more cash than you would have by just cashing out. It is more work but depending on the size of your order you may find it worth it.
Care to share an example of an item you have done that with? Something like buying an Ultimate Masters Booster Box? Seems one of they few items for sale with ebay price parity (haven’t see the taxes yet).
Imagine I take store credit on $385, which becomes $481. Say I magically find a $481 item to sell on ebay. After fees I will get $418.65, which is $33.85 more than I would have gotten with paypal. However, In reality I will have leftover store credit and often T&T/Coolstuffinc prices on items are higher than ebay, so that price difference will already cut into the store credit price in addition to the unavoidable fees. Doesn’t seem worth the likely $10-$20 gain.
Seeing the math made me remember that my most recent flip employing this strategy was a direct sale through a FB group so I only had the 3% fee, I agree that like ~9% is arguably not worth the effort. They have 2 booster boxes listed that are attractive prices, their Dragons Exalted Box for $300 and Majestic Dawn for $400. The Dragons Exalted is exactly market price and would be an easy flip and the only competition on the Majestic Dawn is a seller with a $700 OBO, which gives you potentially a couple hundred of wiggle room. Occasionally they do have sealed product 10% below market value, and at that point it makes sense.