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@ryanne I just started nifty.ai’s 7-day trial. I’m most interested in listing/managing items on multiple sites, so I went with their $35.99/month “Crosslisting” plan to leverage my existing eBay listings:
They integrate with eBay, Poshmark, Mercari, Depop & Etsy. My store is mostly vintage tech & computing items, so I’m starting on Poshmark & Mercari and may get to Etsy eventually (but probably not Depop as they seem to really focus on clothes).
I’ve only just started with cross-listing (no sales, but I’ve moved less than 50 items so far). The cross-listing process is reasonably straightforward but definitely not ‘automatic’. From what I’ve seen so far, you need to click through each listing individually when pushing it to a new site, and mind/modify the shipping options in particular (for Poshmark/Mercari in my case) since they both have their own ideas & rules about shipping costs. From what I’ve seen, the shipping options that nifty exposes in their ‘copy listing to x site’ form are pretty limited (vs. eBay’s multitude of shipping options).
I’ve only just started & hope/expect there are things I will discover that could be set up (like shipping policies) in nifty’s configuration to help move through the cross-listing process quickly. I don’t mind suffering a bit through this process if it improves sales.
I’ll probably extend my ‘free week’s trial’ to a couple months, since I’d like to list at least 1,000 items on at least 2 additional sites and it’s going to take time to approve/move through the listings… and then time to wait & see if anything good happens!
@clarity-sange Thanks for recruiting your son & getting his analysis! A second monitor sounds plausible to me. I will definitely post the answer here if I do figure out what this thing is…
Thanks for looking at it. That “O” logo seems familiar to me… I think? I could definitely be confusing it with some other logo. Maybe someone else will recognize it.
It’s such a tiny opening, but I tried to capture the pins inside it in the photo below.
The slot on the end is roughly 30mm wide, which is close to a 34mm express card, but unfortunately I can’t find the only 34mm express card I own to compare it against so I don’t know. The little metal prongs on the outside suggest to me that it might not actually be an express card.
Thank you, as always, for making your excellent podcast.
I just realized it might be helpful to include the show’s name in text, so people will turn it up if they end up searching for it here in the forums: Down East Dickering
I think you just hooked a bunch of listeners with the “Dickerin'” sound bites! Despite being only a state away here in NH the show seems like another awesome world. I’m kind of jealous of how fun they make it all look.
I didn’t mention that we’re watching it on Amazon Prime (it’s free there) but may be available elsewhere.
It was a History channel show, and sadly only two seasons.
https://www.history.com/shows/down-east-dickering
“That’s how you Dickah!”
Oh, wow. Who would have believed Topps commisionned a card called “Flaming Death” featuring immolation. Then there’s “Messenger Of Death”… “Crushed by the Wheels”…
There are enough song titles in there to service a metal band’s entire career.
Antique Frog- those cards sound crazy. There were some odd non-baseball ones in the collection I sold- nothing rare: gun cards, bible cards, etc. I kept a binder of cards from the Alien (1-3) movies because I thought they were cool, though they are also pretty much worthless according to past items sold.
Bourbon- That’s the kind of story I like to hear. Did you ever employ a card scanner, or did you sort them all manually?
Jay, I agree. After they were gone I realized it was worth the (small amount, in the scheme of things) frustration & a little bit of burned time. Right before the guy showed up I was still envisioning them going to someone for $100, or worse. The real outcome was much better. The guy who showed up was a character- nice guy- who has a local business I’ll probably visit in the future.
Mighty, that’s a funny story- if it we me I’d probably keep them forever, if only as a nod to my past youthful, hopeful self. 😉
A little follow up to explain how this one ended.
I spoke with local owners of sports cards shops & contacted a few people who posted ads on Craigslist who were running ads i.e. “We Buy Sports Cards”. The overall sentiment was that the cards were especially worthless, to the extent that the binders & cases that carried the cards were probably worth more, so one way to go would be to dump out all of the cards & sell the binders & cases.
I posted the collection on Craigslist myself, encountered a few no-shows/bizarre last-minute excuses, and finally got an offer out of the blue from a guy who saw the Craigslist ad, hurried over that same night and gave me $500 for the lot. I was happy to help him load the cards into his large (but ultimately stuffed to capacity) vehicle.
In the end it went as well as it could have I guess, considering these were not really desirable cards.
Inglewood- thank you for helping to provide a great example of how tricky correctly identifying cards can be.
The Fleer 1989 card I linked above uses white stock, is printed in the USA, is bright and appears to be glossy- or at least glossier than straight matte paper- but I do not have a ‘glossy index’ or sufficient data in my own brain to compare/understand relative glossiness when it comes to cards.
Retro Treasures- your link was very helpful to shed light on understanding glossy/tiffany cards. The 1989 card in question passed some tests, but not the star tests, which is apparently ok in some cases (in other words it can still be a tiffany card without passing the star test, if I understood that part correctly).
While researching this morning I happened upon one of several dedicated web pages that focused solely on card versions for this single player: https://www.beckett.com/news/ken-griffey-jr-rookie-cards/
Finally, I still don’t understand why some glossy cards have blue ink on the back, and mine has yellow ink. What I did see is that the valuable cards that have sold on eBay have blue ink.
Conclusion: this is likely a common card and therefore worth about $1, ungraded.
So yeaaah. I’m getting an idea of how ridiculous this process could get. I’m sure I’ll do a little more exploring, but I’ve also started to collect contact info for card buyers in my area who might want a large, nicely maintained, partially sorted collection of generally low-value baseball cards. I’m not anticipating much enthusiasm from local buyers.
Here are a couple photos of the card being discussed:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gqe8a5zj10lesey/2019-04-16%2009.25.24.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0rt8nyk971s43no/2019-04-16%2009.25.38.jpg?dl=0
Thanks Sharyn- that thread has some great information. Jay, thanks for the link- I won’t bug him until I do some more research. Inglewood, good call on Beckett Magazine. You hit on an important fact- I know next to nothing about baseball/sports/trading cards in general. I tried to run from this card collection. I said “honestly, I am not interested in these unless all of the potential buyers you are communicating with back out and you are going to throw them away”. You can guess what happened next.
The trickiest part of this situation is that I know the ‘era’ of these cards is thought to be mostly not valuable, but with 100k+ cards there are going to be some exceptions. I am encouraged when I see things like this printer & software combo, which can scan both sides of a card which may or may not (haven’t gotten that far yet) be cataloged in a local database by a form of image matching done in this case by the “Kronozio platform”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8HkqF27YQM (warning, super loud dubstep soundtrack on that one 😀 ) I might be able to do something myself with the image sets vs. buying a subscription tool… as usual it’s all about how far down the rabbit hole I want to go on this one.
For example I have this card, but there would be a $75 grading fee via PSA to match the others- and assuming it came out at 10 (or a 9?), only then could I hope to put a price close to the top prices it has sold for historically: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=1989+Fleer+Glossy+%23548&_sacat=0&LH_Sold=1&LH_Complete=1&_sop=16
Eventually I’ll do some looking using lists like this: https://www.cardboardconnection.com/best-baseball-cards-80s-90s to see what I can dig up.
I think I’m going to pace myself a bit on this one, in attempt to suppress the low-level hum of “get riiiiid of those things” that fires up every time I walk by these towering stacks of cards (at least I was able to corral them into a single shelf rack unit).
Correction- I said ‘duplex scanning’ but meant to say ‘double sided scanning’ above.
It looks like the hosting for wheresthecoupon.com hasn’t been renewed.
I’m happy to host the domain for free on my server, if the domain owner wants to contact me.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rvkt84ve0nm0p6d/snapshot_06-01-2017%5B1%5D.png?dl=0
