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Showing posts with label trading cards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trading cards. Show all posts

Friday, September 11, 2009

Trading Cards Are Back Again

Few people realize it, but at one time I was a significant non sports card dealer both off and on line. I am running out of storage room for pottery so I am going to try and move some of the large inventory of cards that I still have packed away. This four year old posting on this blog will give you some background.
"Pick a Card, Any Card"
Much more on this subject later.

Here's where they are going to be:
Trading Cards at Quality Junk in the Atomic Mall

Thanks for listening... ☺☺☺☺

Sunday, December 11, 2005

Pick a Card, Any Card



A little background info about how I acquired all these trading cards. First of all, I should tell you that I have very few Sports cards. I never had much interest in them and at the time that I was going through my "Card Phase", there were a hundred Sports card dealers for every dealer offering non-sports. (Of course they were all making more money than I was, but I wanted to stand out from the crowd.)
As I recall the "Card Phase" started right after the "Tin Sign Phase" ended. I was searching for something new to sell at our local swap meet and I became friends with several sports cards dealers who were selling there. They had wholesale access to non-sports because of the huge volumes of sports cards they were buying. One of them agreed to buy the non-sports for me , but in return I had to agree to buy all of the non-sports that he acquired in bulk trades and buys on the secondary market. This turned out to be a win-win for both of us and I was off and running.

For about a year, I continued buying non-sports cards and on occasion selling them at the swap meet. When I "retired" from swap meeting and moved into the antique mall, I simply "folded" my cards and put most of them in storage, like so many other things that I tried to get rich on over the years.

I still have many sets and chase cards (mostly from the 1990's) that I am slowly putting on sale as I find the time. I should mention that I also have some tobacco cards which I will eventually be adding to the "Quality Junk" that I have in my Atomic Mall Store.
Like most of my merchandise, I offer these trading cards well below current retail guesstimated prices. While I am no longer on top of pricing on these cards, I'm a fairly certain that I am offering some very good deals. Any questions feel free to email me.