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I didn't even do that on purpose =] That was exactly how I felt about the CardBot too, once I got to looking into it. It's really very reasonable and feels like it can slot in alongside me pretty easily

When buying a collection, especially in person, I typically tell the seller I am a bulk buyer, I explain my bulk categories to them. If they have anything that meets these categories, I'll need it sorted out ahead of time - anything that isn't pulled out of the base bulk category (usually c/u) will be considered as part of the base bulk category. Likewise, anything they consider to be of greater than bulk value, they should pull it out to have it checked, else if it is in with the bulk, it's bulk till I find it. When I get submissions in the mail like this, it's kind of the same - I want the seller to separate out the categories if they are going to be expected to be paid for those categories. If they don't care to at least separate the rares from the non-rares, then I can't really pay them expeditiously. Ideally I receive a bunch of labelled bulk with a list of what's to be expected in the box, and I can just go through it real quick to determine their labels are correct and the amounts are close to right, and there aren't any condition issues.

Every card has value - please don't throw them in the trash. I'm sure I or someone can work something out with you so that you aren't dumping them. If you want to email me at tcgbulkkings@gmail.com, let me help you keep them out of the garbage =]

It's a card sorting tray, this one is from a kit made out of wood, but plastic ones work well too. This one was from MTech Cave

I mean, we're just bulk fracking now, instead of having to climb all the way down in there ourselves (this poor metaphor is getting really stretched out lol)

You bet! I am really excited by this one. Tempered by some measure of sanity as I've retained here in Bulksylvania, but still. I just want others who this might be right for not to miss it

yup

Most of them are - this one I actually feel like is useable, and it's already helping me out a bunch

It does need someone working it, but not nearly as much as actually doing what it does manually, that's for sure. As I said in the video, I've been very reluctant to push for automation, simply because it doesn't free up your time as much as you think it would. But this one works a lot better alongside my existing processes, and the pricing makes a lot more sense to me so that I can recommend it without feeling like I'm shilling something I'd never use

As I said in the video, the software is covered by not paying the fees to use a lesser service from TCGplayer, if you're selling at a high enough rate to use it anyway. The bot itself is VERY affordable compared to the rest of the market for this. When I went looking for these kinds of machines a couple years ago, I was put off by the $25k and $30k options on the market, that I know stores use effectively. I would very strongly have considered this then had I found it. This is cheaper than the office/warehouse space I was renting, and definitely worth it in terms of return on the investment /for my business/. I'm not saying it's recommended for everyone, but it is definitely an avenue for scaling a single person or small team type business, without having to fork up thirty Gs

@TCGBulkKings I completely understand what you're saying bro and I obviously agree that it's not going to be for everyone. I did the same research years ago, and recently, just like you. The prices are still crazy. I'm just wondering if you personally would pay for this with where you're at today, the Direct Program issues, etc.?

@@CataractsGaming personally, with my business as it was two weeks ago, no, I wouldn't have bought one at that time. But it would definitely be something I could actually afford once I got finished with this shift I'm going through and can see reaching towards getting one in the next 6 months. Had I learned about it in January, I probably would have gotten one then. 2 years ago? Snap yes, no question. But I personally have been through a lot to put me at a cash-poor place at this very moment. But running like I was then, and like I expect to be soon, I could skip a few collection buys to get this deposit saved up and be much better off for it

I don't think the little guy is 90% of the market. The 80/20 rule says the majority of online sales are probably going through 20% of producers. Plus once you have one machine the productivity compounds so you can put your earnings towards more machines. Machines aren't silver bullets and won't replace smart business practices but they can help you expand without hiring humans.

One of the biggest problems with the cardbot is its inferior plunger material, where it will scan your cards many times until you manually adjust it. I'd switch to a vacuum powered bot.

thanks for the feedback!

I'd stay away from the magic sorter as well. It came to me very uncalibrated. The machine hand would SMASH against the little dividers, and then after like 6 months of use after recalibrating it myself it just died on me. The camera just stopped working and it wasn't a cable issue, because I bought a brand new one to try and use, but to no avail so I just quit using it altogether. Not worth the hassle

I found the Magic Sorter painfully slow. It also doesn't sort the way a Roca would. It just sifts categories into piles.

I've heard about the older CardBots having an issue like this, but my understanding is that they've upgraded designs. The suction is actually vacuum powered, so it sounds like that may be the last that they've upgraded

These were from Walmart.com, I have a link to them in the description of the video =] I really like them. I know a lot of people prefer the wire rack style shelving, but I always felt like they were wearing on the boxes

I do get them from Shipping Shield directly, and yeah, you have to get a good amount to get the pricing down. But that really comes out pretty close to the cost of toploaders anyway (though I guess toploader prices have come down quite a bit - they were considerably higher during the teeth of the pandemic when I first switched to Shipping Shields). Anyway, cost notwithstanding, I personally feel, with my own anecdotal evidence, that toploaders are too rigid for the mail sorting machines, and card savers aren't rigid enough. Also neither can really hold as many cards as the Shipping Shields, which hit that sweet spot in rigidity between the two more common plastic protector solutions. I've had more cards chewed up in the mail in toploaders than I ever have in Shields. That being said, I think for the most part, toploaders work fine, if you use them correctly. I mainly switched because I was having a hard time finding toploaders in 2021 and I've been more impressed with the Shields' performance since then than I was with toploaders or card savers. Hope that helps! And cheers!

Not really fair to compare it to regular tracked shipping - that costs $4+. Compare instead to untracked plain white envelope shipping which costs the same as the Ebay shipping. It is better than nothing tracking :shrugs:

ground advantage has a built insurance, but I will add additional insurance and/or signature confirmation at $100. Honestly rarely comes up for me =]

I usually get them from Ebay, honestly, and that pricing is about right too

That's something you'll have to decide, but I try to have 2x-5x what a single customer would normally buy at once, if I'm trying to decide what a cutoff would be after which I won't add more

This is a CardBot from CardCastle =]

@@TCGBulkKings I’m gonna take a look around and see what this does, thanks for sharing

Hey, good for you man, but remember if you are trying to sell them, I think ShippingShield is almost done obtaining the patent on their design

This is the CardBot from CardCastle 🤖

@@TCGBulkKings that's awesome, I can't wait to see an update on it 😁

Wish I had a Lambo I could sell 😂

I store everything in alphabetic order within the sets. Currently I only sleeve individually listed cards for eBay or my website's Featured and Unique section

This is the CardBot from CardCastle

yep, don't touch that dial lol

I have discussed it before, but not in it's own dedicated video. Basically, because of the inherent subjectivity of conditioning, even with the conditioning standards TCGplayer have published, whenever I try to sell below NM cards, I immediately get into a higher rate of customer service issues, where people dispute the condition. Way waaaaay more people complaining their LP cards are actually MP than NM are actually LP Thanks so much for watching!

@@TCGBulkKings Ha, well that's understandable! Literally just yesterday I had someone message me about their order of ~60 cards -- they provided a DETAILED LIST of EVERY SINGLE CARD & why it wasn't the condition I had listed it as..... "this card has a scratch on the lower left & an indentation on the back of the card, with the edge chipping it's more MP than LP" etc. etc. for all ~60 cards. Their order was $16 & they really took all that time to write out every card over what they suggested should be a $3.40 refund. 🤦🤣😒

In the ballpark, but not nearly so pricey =] new video dropping soon about it

@@TCGBulkKings bet can’t wait. I might be interested in one then if it’s not as pricy

​@@kennethcalbert4474Magic Sorter is very similar to Roca and only $2500. Always recommend those as a first stop for automation.

@@TCGBulkKingsdrop it today 🤣

@@justinspragan4885 still filming it 😆

I would pack these evenly into team bags and ship them in a bubble mailer, probably a #2 would do. Pirate Ship for a shipping label should cost around $5 depending on how far it has to go. Less the cost of supplies and fees you're still making ~$.02 per card, which is pretty good, about what you'd make through Direct anyways =]

@@TCGBulkKings great thanks for the advice!

When packed right, the bulk that gets sent to me is well over 95% NM, or at least in the condition they seller packed it in. Rarely do I damage cards in the receiving, sorting, storing, pulling, and shipping processes. It's in principle possible for cards to be damaged over time while being stored, &c. But either I'm just not noticing and I'm shipping lots of cards that people are silently dealing with being under NM condition, or else accidentally damaging my cards while I have them hasn't been a problem

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply. I think I am just experiencing old bulk that was played with more than the original owners remembered. (Their memories of light use and gentle handling not accurate) I should really just crack some sealed product and test how much abuse they can take before noticable card condition loss.

We are provided with a single recycle bin, and these boxes don't really easily fit into it. It is kind of a chore to not only break them down, but then cut them up into sizes that efficiently fit in the recycle bin, around all our normal recyclables. So I've just been letting them pile up for a while, until my autistic ass can get around to breaking them all down and getting them to the recycling center

@@TCGBulkKings oh dang, a single bin sure is limiting! To compare, I'm in rural Canada we have no max. to how much recycling we can put out on the street on pick-up day (we put it in blue transparent bags, no limits). In any case thanks for clearing that up for me, I appreciate your time. Have a good box-break-down party ✌️✨😊

No a regular printer will do it, but it's more efficient with the tank ink style printers. Cheaper on ink 👍

Lol, we found a few more dead ones too x.x

We're literally in the business of selling things damaged by the counterfeit market. I can't believe the cognitive dissonance sometimes Unless they are proxy stamps, those are okay 👍😜

@@TCGBulkKings How is the product you sell damaged by a counterfeit market? Does it cause the floor prices to be artificially low?

@@LanceKotelnicki yeah, I sell trading cards. If people are faking cards, then bad actors are receiving the funds that should be going to legitimate dealers. Oftentimes they trick people by setting prices lower yes, but they are also just extracting money from the market. Also, those who get tricked are usually just out that money if they become successfully tricked. All bad things

@@TCGBulkKings ok thank you

There's a pretty robust recycling system here, I just have to do the work of breaking them all down and getting them to a place x.x

It's all electric, but I appreciate the caution

@@TCGBulkKings gotcha man, just looking out. I'm probably too cautious, but I used to see it all the time.

Well, like I said, it's been a lot of personal shipments as well. I think my daughter's Barbie Dreamhouse box is in there somewhere

I'm super excited, and I think a lot of you all will be too =]

Oh yeah, I've just been putting it off. Not because I can't do it, but because it's just a lot of tedious box flattening lol

Dead or mostly dead CCGs absolutely have value, you just have to work a little harder to find the audience for them. There are facebook groups around dead CCGs in which Star Wars, Deadlands, Legend of the 5 Rings, MLB Showdown, and all kinds of other games are bought and sold every day The collector market for those is going to be different depending on how many people want to to collect them and on how they were produced

@@sterlingwingard4298 I might do that =] maybe a short or two, not sure I could do a whole video, probably just an opportunity video whenever I sell such a thing, but I'll definitely try to do something next time that comes up