Nice :) personal websites you create are definitely a different breed, glad you’re enjoying it and finding success :) hopefully it continues and definitely not shabby for your age group
Appreciate the comment and your response to the topic on hand. Glad that people agree with me on this one :) it’s really just one of those things some people may never fully grasp and understand fully
In life I’ve realized you have to spend a good amount of money to make a good amount of money. Instead of buying 3-4 blasters I’d save the money and buy a couple top tier or musuem collection. The hits hit way harder. Easier to make more $ quicker.
I’ve realized the true way to make money is by not opening product, but by buying cards people deem “not worthy anything” and selling those for profit :)
What people don't understand that Success is a process. The four levels of Success is You're terrible, Below Average, Above average and then you're great. The time varies in those stages but no one starts out being great. and so many people quit before they get to the above average stage. Keep up the grind. you're doing great. You motivate me to keep going with your videos. Keep up the good work.
I appreciate the comment and your support. Super glad that you find motivation and entertainment out of the videos I upload. Means I’m doing something right when I hear you guys saying stuff like this. I agree success can be a wide variety and range of outcomes as well! Just because you never see that above average and or great stages that you might think or hope to hit, to some people they might consider your outcome great, amazing, and of the best results for themselves. It’s truly amazing all the support you guys have given me in the last 3 months and I’m glad that I can reach so many people and supporters that actually truly enjoy and find motivation out of the content. It’s wild to me the support you guys have shown.
What’s up man! New subscriber. Man I got like 100-150 modern/ultra modern I want to sell. Some terrible decisions during the pandemic. Kendrick Nunn sometimes even. I don’t wanna talk about it lmao. You wanna help for 10% cut? Edits: Bogie is great man! Haha You’re a good son, man & person for recognizing the danger of the cyclical nature of your mom’s abandonment issues, and choosing to be there for & with her. That takes a lot of maturity, emotional intelligence, awareness & compassion. You should be very proud of yourself.
I appreciate the kind words and the fact you left this super nice comment. Thank you for reaching out, sadly I’m not able to currently sell items on commision for anyone, because of laws preventing me to do so. In order for me to actually do consignments of any kind I would have to jump through some loopholes and acquire an auctioneers license, a contractual agreement, and other details in order to operate that endeavor. Sadly for the foreseeable future I won’t be able to offer any sort of commision based service until I get some stuff in order to do so. Again I thank you for your words and glad that you enjoyed the videos :)
@@ruffasportscardsWow you know your stuff! Well once you do, let us know in an upcoming video! I might still have some cards to liquidate whenever that time comes for you, haha. And no problem, my friend. I’m 39 and a nat’l sales director for a top 10 Fortune 500 company (don’t let the pink bunny ears fool you haha)…and other than previous/relevant professional experience, educational & licensing requirements, I search for many attributes you possess when hiring folks. You will continue to be a personal & professional success. Keep being you, that’s all there is to it, I’m telling you Looking forward to more vids. Be well!
I sell on eBay but it’s really not that bad. Once you have an efficient way to pull orders and list quickly it really isn’t that much work. I spend no more then 2 hours in a day on shipping and listing and I make a minimum wage income on the side. It isn’t “glorious” but there is still a market for low end and it has the biggest and sustainable profit margin in the hobby
Yea for me I just don’t know think im at the point where I can’t get remotely close to where I’d get if I listed on eBay, there’s some stuff I might be able to get more if I listed on there, but that would be a future endeavor I got a lot of stuff to do in my current life and position
@@ruffasportscards I’m in a similar spot that’s why I haven’t switched to whatnot, I can’t stream consistently enough to build up a following. Thats why I like ebay, its set it and forget it for the most part
For me, Ive been doing it part-time since June of 2023 and I have profitted about $4,000 and I still have around $10K of inventory factored into that profit as well. So $14K aint bad for a part time gig. I think it all depends on one's goal. If their goal is to make a decent amount of money to pay for bills, its doable. Although its considerably tougher to make a living off of it unless you're a machine who can list like 500 cards a day. At some point, I think you'll have to graduate to mid-to-high end. But when you do so, the risks increase too so there could be days where you lose.
Yea it’s really difficult to actually estimate your inventory on hand particularly for cards / sports cards. I almost don’t even really try to do that myself, just because something to me that’s worth $1-$3 might not be worth that amount to many other people and the amount of people with that exact card that just value it as nothing and or less than what I value said card is a lot more than what the demand would agree with it being. For example, just sold a steph curry field level select card for $5.99 + shipping I believe, but that’s a card that some people might just throw in their value bins at about $1 or so depending on the vendor or how they value it. And you have to find those buyers willing to pay that exorbitant amount of money for those cards. It’s better if you know you can easily get $0.10 in bulk lots like on whatnot if I ran 10 card lots at $2 a lot, at a minimum I’ll recoup about $1.40 or so per lot, so at a minimum I’d be getting $.14 per card and that’s sadly only for cards that are actually worth it to someone to purchase at that price point of $2 + potential shipping for the ten card lots. Just difficult to gauge what cards are going to go for by the time you sell them and if you can actually get “last comp” or whatever you might be hoping to get out of them
Appreciate the insight. Used to think the same thing when I just started but a year of hard work really paid off after I built a large loyal customer base and now it's paying off on youtube, too. Keep up the good fight my friend!
I appreciate your comment, glad that you’ve found success in what you do :) it’s always difficult at first but if everyone stopped when stuff is difficult no one would ever get to that point of complete success.
Can you elaborate on how you pick up bulk lots on Discord? I know you mentioned a server that you pay to be in - what is it like? Do people post lots of cards to sell fairly often? Thanks Ruffa
Yea people post a ton of cards on there, sometimes I even buy bulk lots from people just from them posting singular cards or lesser lots. Like one I just picked up this last week I grabbed 150 cards (going to show a MAILDAY on that this week sometime) and I got it for $70 shipped, a ton of the new select cards and a lot of the big name rookies. The seller ended up posting one lot of the select cards maybe around 20 cards or so and i messaged them if they potentially had anything else they wanted to sell, ended up getting a 150 card deal alot of the new select football product and almost half a whatnot show worth of inventory for me, during my last week before going to a big 3 day show. they have a channel you can post whatever it is you're looking for and people message me about stuff they want to sell all the time. There's approaching 6,000 members in the discord so cards are being posted constantly
Enjoying your content and thought process. As a lifelong collector who’s built his collection through his collection.. I think in time you will gravitate away from obscure players and more towards just the proven commodities. Sure you may be able to find a Marc Bulger super collector, but there’s nobody else looking for his cards so odds of making big profits are slim to none. The good and consistent money is through the greats and proven players. Please don’t take this is as disrespect or anything other then just some advice from someone who’s been in the game 30+ years.
Definitely agree with you there, the mark bulger cards is all stuff I bought pretty much the last 2 3 day shows, he had a ton of really amazing value bins especially for super unique stuff, when I’m looking through I can’t pass up rare unique stuff like that for those price points, if they were $5-10 in stickers I probably wouldn’t have bought any, but $1 for golds and game used patches of someone who’s a qb just seemed like a no brainer for me. If anything I just run them on whatnot and have about 15-20 cards that I’m into profit on that someone might just find cool until they get them new homes :) with those $1-$3 stickers I just couldn’t pass on them figured they were no brainers :)
Plus I did get a nice % off the bulk deals I do with this vendor, and now he likes me more and more because of how much I pile up and buy from him so I’m also willing to take more and more chances on rare and unique stuff and cards especially now in my journey where I’m starting to get pretty much what I’d get if I sold stuff on eBay or more in some cases (selling on whatnot) just building relationships with this particular vendor is worth it to me to stack up this really cool stuff and try to find them new homes
Got a video idea for you you should do a video on average card price broken down by sport like football cards numbered to 99 averaged this price cards for basketball #'d to 99 averaged this price it would be interesting to see
😂😂😂 that’s me I am mfs, just jokes. Appreciate the comment and your kind words, super wild the support you guys have been giving me recently can’t do any of this without you guys
Appreciate your support, glad that you enjoyed the video and thank you for your kind words. Sorry you’ve had the same experience with working for the bigger companies, sad to see the lack of appreciation and respect for those who fuel their business operations.
Probably won’t be able to make it to any shows out of California in the forseeable future, might change though if anyone wants to sponsor the channel or something maybe 🤔 especially the more and more you guys show support and comment stuff the more companies might see that you guys love the content
I appreciate you! Glad you enjoy the videos and the goals I set in place for myself and the future :) can’t thank all of you guys enough for your support it’s been a wild couple of months recently
I collect cards, but I mainly sell cards as of now. It’s difficult for me to be super adamant about collecting stuff because all the teams I like aren’t really doing the hottest while I’ve been alive 😂
Uhm I’ll grab any sports cards, I have a ton of videos all about the type of sports cards I sell. Last year during the holiday season I grabbed like almost 100 Brock purdy chronicles rookies and sold all of those off on eBay one by one listing them up and sold through those like hot cakes :) that’s probably the most quantity of someone I’ve sold off a particular buy
@@hogsfan4life323 do you mean lots like compiled together cards? I sell some Michael Jordan cards, I’ve bought a lot of Tom Brady and Michael Jordan cards and sold them, all usually in 1 or 2 card lots
@@hogsfan4life323 I guess if you’re just talking about highest number of a players card that I’ve sold in totally, it would either be Tom Brady or mj, im guessing it would be a tossup on which
Yep, you can be the hardest worker and it won’t be fully appreciated with what you do for the company and their own endeavors. When realizing you can just do exactly what you do for others for yourself, and then always have the option of doing the same thing, what would it be truly worth to not be credited or have anything actually equate to what it is that you do
What do you by mean in show videos? If you mean card shows, I don’t typically go to super many card shows, but I am going to one next weekend so I’ll be trying to film a bunch of content for videos there and be stocked up for many many many videos in the near future :)
I explained it for 45 minutes, and in todays world, starting your way from minimum wage or starting wage for 95%+ of people it wouldn’t really make any difference to take a chance on yourself in my position. Especially when considering not being fully appreciated, and shown the respect you deserve.
@@gsquared.collectibles8392 That's what I do. Great full time job and sell on TCGplayer for 3 years. I'm going into sports next. It's possible to do both.
I’m 14 and I’m making $30 on average a week selling $0.25, $0.50, and $1 cards on my website
Nice :) personal websites you create are definitely a different breed, glad you’re enjoying it and finding success :) hopefully it continues and definitely not shabby for your age group
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@@ruffasportscardskeep it going kid.⚾️
I love that positive mindset. You’re building a business and a brand.
Appreciate the comment and your response to the topic on hand. Glad that people agree with me on this one :) it’s really just one of those things some people may never fully grasp and understand fully
In life I’ve realized you have to spend a good amount of money to make a good amount of money. Instead of buying 3-4 blasters I’d save the money and buy a couple top tier or musuem collection. The hits hit way harder. Easier to make more $ quicker.
I’ve realized the true way to make money is by not opening product, but by buying cards people deem “not worthy anything” and selling those for profit :)
What people don't understand that Success is a process. The four levels of Success is You're terrible, Below Average, Above average and then you're great. The time varies in those stages but no one starts out being great. and so many people quit before they get to the above average stage. Keep up the grind. you're doing great. You motivate me to keep going with your videos. Keep up the good work.
I appreciate the comment and your support. Super glad that you find motivation and entertainment out of the videos I upload. Means I’m doing something right when I hear you guys saying stuff like this. I agree success can be a wide variety and range of outcomes as well! Just because you never see that above average and or great stages that you might think or hope to hit, to some people they might consider your outcome great, amazing, and of the best results for themselves. It’s truly amazing all the support you guys have given me in the last 3 months and I’m glad that I can reach so many people and supporters that actually truly enjoy and find motivation out of the content. It’s wild to me the support you guys have shown.
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What’s up man! New subscriber. Man I got like 100-150 modern/ultra modern I want to sell. Some terrible decisions during the pandemic. Kendrick Nunn sometimes even. I don’t wanna talk about it lmao. You wanna help for 10% cut?
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Bogie is great man! Haha
You’re a good son, man & person for recognizing the danger of the cyclical nature of your mom’s abandonment issues, and choosing to be there for & with her. That takes a lot of maturity, emotional intelligence, awareness & compassion. You should be very proud of yourself.
I appreciate the kind words and the fact you left this super nice comment. Thank you for reaching out, sadly I’m not able to currently sell items on commision for anyone, because of laws preventing me to do so. In order for me to actually do consignments of any kind I would have to jump through some loopholes and acquire an auctioneers license, a contractual agreement, and other details in order to operate that endeavor. Sadly for the foreseeable future I won’t be able to offer any sort of commision based service until I get some stuff in order to do so. Again I thank you for your words and glad that you enjoyed the videos :)
@@ruffasportscardsWow you know your stuff! Well once you do, let us know in an upcoming video! I might still have some cards to liquidate whenever that time comes for you, haha.
And no problem, my friend. I’m 39 and a nat’l sales director for a top 10 Fortune 500 company (don’t let the pink bunny ears fool you haha)…and other than previous/relevant professional experience, educational & licensing requirements, I search for many attributes you possess when hiring folks. You will continue to be a personal & professional success. Keep being you, that’s all there is to it, I’m telling you
Looking forward to more vids. Be well!
I sell on eBay but it’s really not that bad. Once you have an efficient way to pull orders and list quickly it really isn’t that much work. I spend no more then 2 hours in a day on shipping and listing and I make a minimum wage income on the side. It isn’t “glorious” but there is still a market for low end and it has the biggest and sustainable profit margin in the hobby
Yea for me I just don’t know think im at the point where I can’t get remotely close to where I’d get if I listed on eBay, there’s some stuff I might be able to get more if I listed on there, but that would be a future endeavor I got a lot of stuff to do in my current life and position
@@ruffasportscards I’m in a similar spot that’s why I haven’t switched to whatnot, I can’t stream consistently enough to build up a following. Thats why I like ebay, its set it and forget it for the most part
For me, Ive been doing it part-time since June of 2023 and I have profitted about $4,000 and I still have around $10K of inventory factored into that profit as well. So $14K aint bad for a part time gig. I think it all depends on one's goal. If their goal is to make a decent amount of money to pay for bills, its doable. Although its considerably tougher to make a living off of it unless you're a machine who can list like 500 cards a day. At some point, I think you'll have to graduate to mid-to-high end. But when you do so, the risks increase too so there could be days where you lose.
Yea it’s really difficult to actually estimate your inventory on hand particularly for cards / sports cards. I almost don’t even really try to do that myself, just because something to me that’s worth $1-$3 might not be worth that amount to many other people and the amount of people with that exact card that just value it as nothing and or less than what I value said card is a lot more than what the demand would agree with it being. For example, just sold a steph curry field level select card for $5.99 + shipping I believe, but that’s a card that some people might just throw in their value bins at about $1 or so depending on the vendor or how they value it. And you have to find those buyers willing to pay that exorbitant amount of money for those cards. It’s better if you know you can easily get $0.10 in bulk lots like on whatnot if I ran 10 card lots at $2 a lot, at a minimum I’ll recoup about $1.40 or so per lot, so at a minimum I’d be getting $.14 per card and that’s sadly only for cards that are actually worth it to someone to purchase at that price point of $2 + potential shipping for the ten card lots. Just difficult to gauge what cards are going to go for by the time you sell them and if you can actually get “last comp” or whatever you might be hoping to get out of them
Appreciate the insight. Used to think the same thing when I just started but a year of hard work really paid off after I built a large loyal customer base and now it's paying off on youtube, too. Keep up the good fight my friend!
I appreciate your comment, glad that you’ve found success in what you do :) it’s always difficult at first but if everyone stopped when stuff is difficult no one would ever get to that point of complete success.
Also trout ,Ohtani, Julio, Vladimir, Jackson churrio, Bobby Witt, Tatis, wander Franco
@@russelltaylor1777 😂 no wander, I have a really cool Ohtani, not much of the other guys except maybe some super low end trouts and ohtanis
Don’t let someone criticizing your income dictate where you’re going because I can almost guarantee that they aren’t going where you’re going. ✊
Most definitely, I honestly just thought it would be a good video idea, and thought some of the viewers might enjoy it :)
Can you elaborate on how you pick up bulk lots on Discord? I know you mentioned a server that you pay to be in - what is it like? Do people post lots of cards to sell fairly often? Thanks Ruffa
Yea people post a ton of cards on there, sometimes I even buy bulk lots from people just from them posting singular cards or lesser lots. Like one I just picked up this last week I grabbed 150 cards (going to show a MAILDAY on that this week sometime) and I got it for $70 shipped, a ton of the new select cards and a lot of the big name rookies. The seller ended up posting one lot of the select cards maybe around 20 cards or so and i messaged them if they potentially had anything else they wanted to sell, ended up getting a 150 card deal alot of the new select football product and almost half a whatnot show worth of inventory for me, during my last week before going to a big 3 day show. they have a channel you can post whatever it is you're looking for and people message me about stuff they want to sell all the time. There's approaching 6,000 members in the discord so cards are being posted constantly
I respect the hustle. I agree with your approach. Rome wasn’t built overnight.
🫡🤙🏻 most definitely! Imagine if they stopped, we wouldn’t even be using their name as a saying
Enjoying your content and thought process. As a lifelong collector who’s built his collection through his collection.. I think in time you will gravitate away from obscure players and more towards just the proven commodities. Sure you may be able to find a Marc Bulger super collector, but there’s nobody else looking for his cards so odds of making big profits are slim to none. The good and consistent money is through the greats and proven players. Please don’t take this is as disrespect or anything other then just some advice from someone who’s been in the game 30+ years.
Definitely agree with you there, the mark bulger cards is all stuff I bought pretty much the last 2 3 day shows, he had a ton of really amazing value bins especially for super unique stuff, when I’m looking through I can’t pass up rare unique stuff like that for those price points, if they were $5-10 in stickers I probably wouldn’t have bought any, but $1 for golds and game used patches of someone who’s a qb just seemed like a no brainer for me. If anything I just run them on whatnot and have about 15-20 cards that I’m into profit on that someone might just find cool until they get them new homes :) with those $1-$3 stickers I just couldn’t pass on them figured they were no brainers :)
Plus I did get a nice % off the bulk deals I do with this vendor, and now he likes me more and more because of how much I pile up and buy from him so I’m also willing to take more and more chances on rare and unique stuff and cards especially now in my journey where I’m starting to get pretty much what I’d get if I sold stuff on eBay or more in some cases (selling on whatnot) just building relationships with this particular vendor is worth it to me to stack up this really cool stuff and try to find them new homes
Got a video idea for you you should do a video on average card price broken down by sport like football cards numbered to 99 averaged this price cards for basketball #'d to 99 averaged this price it would be interesting to see
Might be interesting to see definitely. Would be a lot of time to execute and figure every detail out forsure.
keep doing what you're doing and you will be golden, you're inspiring. Mfs need more Ruffas forsure
😂😂😂 that’s me I am mfs, just jokes. Appreciate the comment and your kind words, super wild the support you guys have been giving me recently can’t do any of this without you guys
@@ruffasportscards you're a real one you deserve it 💯 keep it up fr
🫡🤙🏻 appreciate you and thank you for your support
i like your story and I totally can relate with you and working for big company's. You just got a new sub
Appreciate your support, glad that you enjoyed the video and thank you for your kind words. Sorry you’ve had the same experience with working for the bigger companies, sad to see the lack of appreciation and respect for those who fuel their business operations.
Great video. Keep up the hard work it will be worth it in the end. I enjoy your whatnot feed too!!
I appreciate you, thank you for your comment and no plan on stopping anytime soon :) glad you enjoy the whatnot
Keep up the good work hope to meet you in Nashville late December, January
Probably won’t be able to make it to any shows out of California in the forseeable future, might change though if anyone wants to sponsor the channel or something maybe 🤔 especially the more and more you guys show support and comment stuff the more companies might see that you guys love the content
Do you sell on ebay at all?
@@AdultArtsAndCraftssportscards very minimally anymore, 99.9% of my inventory I just sell on whatnot
Its Pink (unnumbered) vs Magenta (numbered)
😅😅😅 I definitely couldn’t tell a difference between the 2 parallels, might’ve needed to clean my glasses or something to make it out
Any Jalen Green, Tom Brady or Lonzo LaMelo?
I have a little bit of low end of all those guys except lonzo
@@ruffasportscards do you have messenger?
@@ruffasportscards that way we can send pictures and things?
@@ruffasportscards do you have messenger? That way we can send pictures and stuff?
I have a card Facebook page, it’s in my link tree link in the description of the videos I’m pretty sure potentially
Keep it up!!! Love your content and your goals…
I appreciate you! Glad you enjoy the videos and the goals I set in place for myself and the future :) can’t thank all of you guys enough for your support it’s been a wild couple of months recently
How’s it going my man ?Are you a fan collector of sports cards or you just flipping to make you some side$?
I collect cards, but I mainly sell cards as of now. It’s difficult for me to be super adamant about collecting stuff because all the teams I like aren’t really doing the hottest while I’ve been alive 😂
@@ruffasportscards I like to send you a care package one of these days so if you don’t mind giving me your address I’d appreciate it my man
What are your top selling sports cards?
Uhm I’ll grab any sports cards, I have a ton of videos all about the type of sports cards I sell. Last year during the holiday season I grabbed like almost 100 Brock purdy chronicles rookies and sold all of those off on eBay one by one listing them up and sold through those like hot cakes :) that’s probably the most quantity of someone I’ve sold off a particular buy
@@ruffasportscards do you sell lots of micheal jordan cards?
@@hogsfan4life323 do you mean lots like compiled together cards? I sell some Michael Jordan cards, I’ve bought a lot of Tom Brady and Michael Jordan cards and sold them, all usually in 1 or 2 card lots
@@hogsfan4life323 I guess if you’re just talking about highest number of a players card that I’ve sold in totally, it would either be Tom Brady or mj, im guessing it would be a tossup on which
Do you buy in bulk lots on ebay of a particular player?
Ya I went the fast food route and working for others I went through same experiences nobody cares about anyone it's huge amount of wasted time
Yep, you can be the hardest worker and it won’t be fully appreciated with what you do for the company and their own endeavors. When realizing you can just do exactly what you do for others for yourself, and then always have the option of doing the same thing, what would it be truly worth to not be credited or have anything actually equate to what it is that you do
@ruffasportscards u learned quick I wasted many many years
😅😅 yea 3rd time was the charm
can we get in show vids?
What do you by mean in show videos? If you mean card shows, I don’t typically go to super many card shows, but I am going to one next weekend so I’ll be trying to film a bunch of content for videos there and be stocked up for many many many videos in the near future :)
Worth it for a kid sure. Not someone who works full time
I explained it for 45 minutes, and in todays world, starting your way from minimum wage or starting wage for 95%+ of people it wouldn’t really make any difference to take a chance on yourself in my position. Especially when considering not being fully appreciated, and shown the respect you deserve.
Or if you have a good full-time job and sell cards on the side.
@@gsquared.collectibles8392 That's what I do. Great full time job and sell on TCGplayer for 3 years. I'm going into sports next.
It's possible to do both.
Bc it’s not a job. Right?
Wdym?
@@ruffasportscards is this a full time or part time thing for you? I thought it was part time but if it’s full time I understand
@@denny_cards full time as of now, but that’s in part because of the current job market