I have a good sports card collector friend looking for a PSA 10 1st Edition Shadowless Charizard - Thick Stamp. Told him I might know where to find one;)
Willing to pay $55,000 Goods and Services, or $53,000 F&F if you have solid feedback.
Must be able to ship to the United States overnight Fedex delivery.
For what it’s worth, $55k with the 2.9% PayPal G&S fee comes to $53,405, so I don’t see why anyone would take your friend up on that $53k friends and family offer unless they were looking to swindle him.
I hope you’re taking that friends and family savings money to fly there in person. Even with good feedback, the concern is the carrier more than the seller.
Are you familiar with capital gains taxes? I’ve always found it funny when people make the difference between fnf and g&s 2.9% when come tax time fnf likely saves a lot of people 29%.
Since your friend is coming from the sports collecting world, what drew them in to pokemon? 1st ed base is pretty big jump for someone new to the hobby.
What’s their experience with the sports market during covid?
I’ve had 0 issues with carriers, but of course the slim chance exists. If the carrier loses the package, I wouldn’t want the owner of the card to be screwed anyways - I’d take it on.
Can also do an escrow service through PWCC. Whatever works. The escrow service is 1%.
He’s not unfamiliar about Pokemon, but wants the best Charizard. He’s my business partner - but wants to take on a Charizard personally. So i directed him to buy a PSA 10 Thick Stamp.
I had a thin stamp (which i sold here), and although it didn’t end up being a problem (the eventual buyer was absolutely great!) - the thin stamp thing was always used against me in sales negotiations (prior negotiations other than the eventual buyer) .
I offered you 200k or more, don’t remember the exact number for your BGS 10 Charizard a few months back - Would consider a deal for that too if available. For that one, i’d jump in on it!
I’ve factored the capital gains tax in when assessing what I would be able to sell off certain parts of my collection for.
I’ve heard that this doesn’t really become an issue through PayPal unless you sell over $20k worth of stuff through it in a year, which certainly impacts some of us but it’s not an issue I’ve personally dealt with. So yeah, it just slipped my mind that taxes would be an issue in the sale for the Charizard. Apologies.
If we really have to say the real and not fictitious facts, multiple thin stamp charizards are the most expensive sold today. The concept of thin and thick holo is convenient for some but the price difference does not exist, and also the data show the opposite if we must say all. What’s mean is the condition before all… no the stamp for the holo cards. Non holo is another thing because 1:10k pull rate or around it.
@zubat, a 55k deposit can be totally unconcerning. As a free people were allowed to keep and use cash any way we’d like. Who’s going to say I can’t loan Scott 50,000.00? Who says I can’t borrow 30k from you while you hold one of my PSA 10 shadowless chars collateral?
That’s the beauty of f/f payments.
I can vouch for austonmathews. I bought his thin stamp PSA charizard. He was a great seller and got me comfortable with a F&F payment which I did not take lightly
I know quite a few on here are looking for this zard for between 55k-60k. What I can’t work out is how no one has bought the 10 on eBay which is listed for 75k with best offer? Is there something wrong with that seller or particular zard? The 10 zard seems underpriced to me relative to the current 9 pricing. I expect this card to hit 100k mark fairly shortly.
Lol people in here posting like a sale for 55,000 f&f or bank wire somehow absolves them of a tax burden. You are still supposed to report it. If you aren’t that’s a personal choice. G&s just means that choice is made for you by PayPal