Question About Selling Items For Only $1.00

[jjrupp]

Hi I had a question. I have 1,000's of cards I must sell and was wondering is it worth my time to sell them for $1.00 each plus Shipping or one lot. If I sell them each I will make a lot more money than if I just sold them in one lot. I've never done Huge Listings can anyone help me if this is worth my time. Thanks 

[sports-cards-n-stuff]

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@loveyourimagination49 wrote:
OP you need to do some research on your cards and check the completed and sold listings.
I used never use mint for a card. I looked at a few of your listings and they aren’t mint and you’re selling higher than professionally graded cards. The $1 cards you are probably referring to can be bought for 2-3 cents each.

Research Research Research

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What he said;  your current listings & prices are not remotely competitive in a saturated marketplace. Good Luck

[reallynicestamps]

The one concern I have is if the card sells for $1.00 BUT my shipping is $3.99 won't I actualy lose money because of the fee on the shipping?

Given how long you've had the collection, those common cards should have a procurement cost of $0.00. each.

Now you have to photograph (scanning is better for flat things), describe, list  and upload each lot, whether it is one card or a group of 10/50/100.

Around here the minimum wage is 18 cents a minute.

So now that card lot has a labour cost of $1.80- $3.60 in your time spent.

Your first 50 lots are free, after that each listing costs $0.35*

You will pay 10% of your selling price to eBay.

You will pay 10% of your shipping price to eBay.

You will pay Paypal 30 cents plus 2.9%** of your customer's payment.

You will pay for your time and packaging materials*** for shipment.

 So.

Yes.

You will probably lose money on a $1.00 sale even if you charge shipping.

You may do better if your customer makes multiple purchases each time, but that works better for scrapbooking items than for sportscards (or stamps).

*Unless you rent a store, which promises lower listing and selling fees.

https://pages.ebay.ca/seller-centre/selling/ebay-stores.html#packages-pricing

** Paypal does have a micro-payments program for sales under $10

*** You may find Lettermail is the cheapest service. You can't buy postage for that online, but eBay sellers offer some nice deals on mint never hinged postage stamp lots. 

[reallynicestamps]

@gopetersen

f collectors are buying them, they don't like lots, they want one specific card (and are willing to pay more to get it if it's in pristine condition).

Possible system-- using Best Offer to buy just one out of a lot of perhaps 10 cards at the full price of the lot?

As in a lot of 10 hockey cards for $10 with free shipping, but accepting a $10 offer for just the Wayne Gretzky rookie card in the lot?

[nowthatsjustducky]

The wash point for PayPal is $12.  That is the point where the fee will come out the same whether using a standard or micro payments account.  It starts to favor micro below $12, and standard above $12.