During the covid boom, C/UC bulk went up to 7-10 cents each. It cooled down to 1 cent a couple years ago. Now it’s 0.00 and I don’t know anyone offering to buy it.
Every single day the rip you off shippers are opening packs at unprecedented levels. There is an insane amount of worthless bulk sitting out there.
Will bulk value ever come back or is it too far gone? I dont think we will ever see it come back with Pokémon printing billions of cards yearly.
Who is the end buyer and how much are they willing to pay?
No, way too much bulk currently exists. What is the value at buying C/UC bulk for even 1 cent each?
Stores like Troll and Toad stopped buying bulk - to resell for 25 cents each on their website.
The end consumer can buy everything they need on tcgplayer from the cart optimizer.
That’s my point exactly, there is no value to buy even from your neighbor at 1 cent each
Right, so as the end buyer I have access to this card for 9c
Even at 1c cost per card, you have to sell >10% of all your inventory just to break even. Bulk can only go up if the end buyer is paying a sufficient amount to justify the effort. At 9c there is effectively no margin
Exactly, I am saying bulk value of selling to a store will never come back. The people with closets full of bulk from opening packs will never see an opportunity to sell off at once
Actually, you were asking whether it or not bulk prices would come back 
The answer is no, as long as the final buyer is paying so little.
Bulk is doomed
A very, very large outlet for bulk was Amazon repacked bundle listings.
Over the last year or so, Amazon has been stamping down on sellers who utilise these listings to get rid of bulk
(source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCd4b7S2ZKk - anecdotally, I was also removed/warned for this and I havent even sold on amazon since 2022)
Less stores are taking in bulk because they’ve lost the ability to move 100,000+ cards a month through these amazon listings.
Couple that with rip and shippers opening more packs than ever, and the average consumer also opening more packs than they used to, and I don’t think bulk is rebounding any time soon
I think if a store like Troll and Toad brings back their buylist with bulk buying, it will get instantly filled and taken down immediately. There is soo much bulk out there
I never had hundreds of thousands of cards but sold all of my bulk for around $0.01/card recently on Facebook marketplace, just to get it out of my house. I was very clear that it was a lot of energies, Korean and Japanese + English modern junk, and after the usual 20 messages of “any Charizards, any holos” someone eventually bought it. I threw in a bunch of damaged holos that technically could still sell for a couple of bucks if someone was more patient than me 
after reading this I’m glad I managed to sell it at all. It was only like $40 for 4,100ish cards but it was nice to get rid of them.
Now just have to decide if I care enough to try to sell the slightly-above-bulk vintage cards or just throw them in a box and forget they exist
Many stores in my area sell cards for 10 cents. I ruffle though to find 151 cards, energies, etc. I never tried to sell any cards and some local sellers in my area aren’t even taking WOTC bulk.
Wow really? I thought wotc bulk would always be somewhat popular, since I see random people trying to sell HP base set bulbasaurs for $300 on marketplace
Not sure why but I tried to sell a moltres and some other cards but they wouldn’t take them. I think they like having low inventory but online and offline card situations have been very different.
I always try to buy common and uncommon cards physically if available. With FOMO prices online being so crazy sometimes it’s better to by holos locally too. Different places price differently. I had a place sell strictly by glancing at TCG site prices 
