Best Way to Sell?

[Sanguine Voyeur]

I want Starcraft II and a replacement GPU. I have not enough money, but 3 revised Tundras. I won't get FoW's or any other duals for at least 3 years, if even then.

What's the best way to sell these? I've never done it before.

There's one going for $53 right now on Ebay, and a heavy played one for $58 on Cardshark. I'm guessing selling each individually will give a higher profit, but I may be wrong.

EDIT: I assume this it the right section.

[OurSerratedDust]

I would try to register for the forums on magictraders.com. Post a sales thread, and go from there. You can probably sell them to someone with a lot of references pretty easily.

[scrumdogg]

And if you don't want to have to send first/get ripped/deal with snotty comments you can have someone who's been on MOTL a while sell them for you. If you need help I can post them, I have 89 refs & have been on my account there for 11 years, they will send first for me :cool:

[dahcmai]

I'm one of those Ebay peoples. Here's how you do it there if you decide that route.


After making an account and all that.

1. Post pics always.
2. Don't sell International.
3. Use Delivery Notification at USPS.
4. Copy someone's web page to make it look nice.
5. Considering Tundras are an easy seller, start it at 01c to save fees.
6. Collect money with paypal. Easiest way to get bidders since it's lazy man's payment form.

Simple enough, PM if you would like advice anywhere along the line. I don't mind.

[jrsthethird]

Where do you live?

[Muradin]

If you are from Europe: Magickartenmarkt.de
Otherwise: Ebay

[Jon Stewart]

Remember that "Sell my stuff on ebay" store from the movie, The 40 Year Old Virgin?

I wish there was someone that offered that service for magic cards.

A friend of mine recently sold off his entire magic collection. He had lots of playsets and knew he would get a lot more for it if he sold the cards individually rather than do a bulk auction. And it took him forever to package all the cards seperately, list like a 100 auctions and ship them to seperate addresses.

If some service was willing to do that and took a 5-10% commision of the total sales or something, that would be pretty helpful I would imagine.

[Sanguine Voyeur]

Don't ship internationally because it's a pain, or for another reason? I know a guy who ships pieces of paper out all over the world as a primary source of income.
Where do you live?Massachusetts.

[cdr]

It's really easy for an international buyer to rip you off via paypal, and that's aside from the issues with customs (did you know Italy bans the import of 'playing cards'?), incompetent and corrupt postal services, etc.

Absolutely do not sell internationally on a wide-open site like eBay, but if you trust the buyer, like someone with tons of feedback on MOTL or someone you know, selling internationally can be OK.

[dahcmai]

Remember that "Sell my stuff on ebay" store from the movie, The 40 Year Old Virgin?

I wish there was someone that offered that service for magic cards.

A friend of mine recently sold off his entire magic collection. He had lots of playsets and knew he would get a lot more for it if he sold the cards individually rather than do a bulk auction. And it took him forever to package all the cards seperately, list like a 100 auctions and ship them to seperate addresses.

If some service was willing to do that and took a 5-10% commision of the total sales or something, that would be pretty helpful I would imagine.


There are plenty of those. Just in the case of Magic cards a lot of the bigger ones won't do it since it's too much work scanning all that. I hate doing it for friends, though I will sell stuff for them if they ask nicely. I've done quite a few commissions though. Usually it's 8% for me because I hate doing it.

[stuckpixel]

look on magictraders.com or mtgsalvation's trading section. Throw some sell posts up. Or fleabay them, you should be able to get a decent return on ebay.

[Tha Gunslinga]

If some service was willing to do that and took a 5-10% commision of the total sales or something, that would be pretty helpful I would imagine.

Ebay and paypal fees are 15% total. If you want to sell your cards quickly and easily, go to a dealer. The end.

[cdr]

Ebay and paypal fees are 15% total. If you want to sell your cards quickly and easily, go to a dealer. The end.

It's actually 12-18% depending on the way you sell and the price, but 15% is a good rule of thumb.

If you sell on MOTL, you're losing 0% or 2% - not bad. MOTL is hit-or-miss on finding buyers, though.

A dealer is going to take at least 30%, likely more. A (good) dealer would make more sense than paying someone 15% to eBay though, yes.