If you’re spending $1M, you can have 50 $20k cards.
50 cards @ $20,000 is “worth more” than 100k cards @ $10. Unless your time is worthless and all shipping materials and costs are free.
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I think the concept of grey is that it is much more neutral of a color and is mainly just to frame the artwork and not add anything else to it
On some cards, the yellow clashes with the underlying art. Yellow is loud
I think because we’ve come so accustomed to the yellow that we dont really see how bad it actually is
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Not even close. I would take 1,000,000 ONE DOLLAR cards over 100,000 $10 or 50 $20,000.
If you honestly value your time. Sell off the 1,000,000 $1 cards at 2x-8x over the year . you will make more than $1,000,000 profits for your time.
I have a deep 6 digit vintage collection. Will tell you this, the $10 and under cards out performs the vintage cards by a lot.
You can liquidate $1 in small fractions. You can liquidate $1 cards at a profit . The benefits of smaller priced cards far out weights the grail cards.
There is no difference with spending 100’s of hours looking for a grail card and spend 100’s of hours packing. It is still 100’s of hours.
If you value time, you actually know what i am talking about.
How are you selling $1 cards for $8?
If you are talking about sourcing $8 cards for $1 and selling them, that’s different from what I said.
If I could simply source cards at 87.5% of their value, I’d rather buy 400 $20,000 cards for $2500 each than 1 million $8 cards for $1 each. 
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But you cannot source grail/expensive cards for the low … that is your problem. I can get $1 and sell 2x - 8x . You decided to think grail are great, that is your problem not mine.
This is a great example of why $1 cards are great. If you want to flex, buy grail. It is two different types of thinking. Both are just fine.
That is just how the market works. Everyone can throw around $20 not $20k. You eliminate a huge portion of the buyers pool the more expensive the cards get.
If you truly value time. $1 cards is the way to go, get paid, easy to get. You build you collection / IP along the way and a person can actually attach a monetary value to the the $1 collection.
I am building a value in addition to my physical collection. I could sell my selling account, sources and system WITHOUT MY INVENTORY for quite a bit of money. While the guy that has 50 $20,000 cards is just selling his/her collection. What a waste of time looking around all those hours . If you value your time. get into $1 cards. It pays more.
If it was this easy, everyone would be doing it…
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Lazy people think it is hard, People who are not lazy thinks it is easy.
that is all up to the individual
You completely fail to account for any opportunity costs or externalities.
What is the cost of 1 million bubble mailers? 1 million labels? How much would you have to pay someone to create 100k-1million listings? Source and organize 1 million cards? Put together 1 million packages? This strategy also relies on the government of the country you’re selling from to subsidize a lot of the shipping costs for you - not everyone has that luxury.
Not only would that be a huge investment of my time, I would also have to quit my job, so you have to account for the lost salary and also future salary that I am missing out on because I’m no longer developing the skills and experience in my field.
Meanwhile, passive collecting has seen the value of my collection go up maybe ~5x on average while I did literally nothing.
Absolutely you can make more money if you hardcore grind out millions of cards and optimize the price. But you can’t just brush away the associated costs. There’s a reason why if I took $200k of my collection and you took $200k of your inventory and we tried to liquidate it all at once, you would receive a fraction of the payout that I would.
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Very very much work, very very little reward. Thats why nobody is doing it.
Just getting an extra ‘normal job’ would be the better option imo
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LOL, you dont think resellers buy in 1,000,5,000 and 10,000 lots? This is the difference of thinking. It is very easy to make money on 1,000,000 $1 cards. you can even go to 10,000,000 10 cents cards if you want. I am not going to sell 10,000,000 one by one. You can sell 10,000 card lots, 100,000 lots. We are currently selling up to 10,000 card lots. Everyone enjoys 500-1000 lots.
Resellers are flocking my dms everyday.
You’ve moved the goalposts from piecing out $1 cards for $8 to now bulk selling card lots under their value to resellers. If you’re operating in units of 5,000-10,000 card lots, you’re not doing very much different from someone buying and selling $5k-10k singles.
I think I’m done with this conversation. Predictably it ended up being unproductive.
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Oof, youre right you have to respond and make time for all the 10.000 messages too
I have better things to do but you do what makes you happy.
And if it works for you and you are happy that the most important thing.
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LOL. i dont answer 99% of the DMS.
Our product speaks for itself.
i choose who i sell to.
Which, you’re naturally free to do. But you’re being kind of a jerk about it
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You’re lucky he even has time to respond to us plebs
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Being a Jerk to the jerks. Go read the thread. You want to be a jerk. You get it back. 2 way street,.
Actually according you you, i make $1 an hour.
I muted most of your threads a while ago. Idk what you make. I thought you lived in a house of gold
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Being humble goes a long ways. Most of e4 shares their cards in their collection, not really putting a value on it publicly. That is just weird AF
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Out of curiosity how does your product differ from other sellers? You say the quality is better, but 99% of the ultra modern japanese cards I buy for 30-40c a piece are gem mint and grade 10s anyway?
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