Daily Grindstone #15 – Break is Over
Hey there Grinders! So, our Spring Break is over here in Vail AZ. So we’re back to regularly scheduled programming. (As best as I can approximate it anyways x.x) I want to go ahead and announce that I’m going to be starting up some new features for Q2, I haven’t nailed them down entirely, still got some ideas and implementations of them cooking, but come April 1, there will be some new things going on =] Some new engagement, more content, and most importantly MOAR CARDS! Over the last few days of Spring Break, I finally finished organizing the cards in my massive pile of unlisted bulk. Got everything a lot more set up so that I can really dig into listing, and have been pretty successful at getting lots done. TCGplayer current inventory at the time of this writing is over 15k; Ebay is over 2600. Feeling really good about that and the sustainability of continuing to add to that total daily. Now I just need to create the discipline and systems that keep me keeping up with it and with the resultant orders. The video I put out last week about using TCGplayer’s Scan and Identify tool has been very popular, though it’s been a bit contentious. I’ll do a follow up video about this soon, but I wanted to clear the air. This tool is really really good, but my video didn’t give it the best representation of that. I was specifically trying out their newly added ability to do One Piece cards through that system, and it didn’t perform super well. It does excellently on Magic, Pokemon, and YuGiOh. I can’t speak for the also newly added Lorcana, as I haven’t gotten to my Lorcana cards in the pile of bulk to be listed yet, but that will happen soon. I put out a short earlier today, while I was shipping orders, with a question for sports cards collectors: how do you all interact with the massive amount of parallels that exist in newer sets? I know people don’t really do set collecting anymore, like was (and is still) done for older sets, and for Pokemon and to a lesser extent other TCGs. But do people try to collect one representation of each parallel type? Do people try to get a set or team or player collection, regardless of parallel type? I have so many questions, because I don’t really get how this aspect of the collectible market for sports cards really works. If you have any insight, and would rather leave a comment here than on the video itself, feel free, I’ll read it wherever. I know there are people who buy low end sports cards, just want to understand this aspect of the market better. I’m planning to finish shipping this weekend’s orders this evening, and get my listings in. Tomorrow I’m hoping to get a lot of stuff uploaded to the WooShop that has been on the back burner during Spring Break. And I’m putting in lots of brain work for how I can bring you all more value, so be on the lookout for lots more interesting stuff coming up. And of course, if you have any suggestions on ways I can bring value, whether it’s content ideas, website features, or anything else, please feel free to let me know. The worst that can happen is I won’t think it’s something I can or want to do; and the best that can happen is that I can just easily do so and haven’t thought of it yet, so then I can bring that value to you. Just let me know! Cheers!
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