I barely do anything with my bulk... but I will one day... until then... I just enjoy listening to hear your process. thanks for sharing!

Thanks for the great content, this is exactly what I was most excited to see with your starting over story, how you work around having a large inventory in a very small space and how you adapt your process to deal with this challenge. Please keep us updated on how this process evolves as your inventory grows, for example what things change when you have 50k or 100k cards listed. For me it was organizing and integrating cards into the sorted collection that kept me from doing this more (its just a side hustle so if its ever too annoying I just do it less). For example I hated that if I sorted and alphabatized another 1000 cards from a set I was forced to shift everything around in the boxes so that I could add those 1000 cards into my sorted collection. My first pass on solving this problem was to reserve a specific amount of space for each set and then instead of adding things directly to my TCG player inventory I would add them to a sorted box(es) that had its inventory tracked in a google spreadsheet, then I wrote a few scripts for google sheets that would let me import the full inventory export from TCGPlayer and compare that to the inventory of one of my sorted boxes and it would spit out another csv that told me which cards to pull from that sorted box to put into my inventory boxes and this csv could be uploaded straight to tcg player to update my inventory on Tcgplayer. This made my organization process bearable so I continued to expand my inventory, but the process of integrating cards into my inventory boxes still had me dragging my feet. So my next pass and what I am currently doing is that I no longer have the sets of my Tcgplayer inventory all in the same box, instead I wrote a program to track where my inventory is and where I should look when I'm filling orders. So now the process looks like this, I sort and alphabatize a bunch of cards from a single set (1-2k cards at a time), then I use a Tcgplayer export to update my inventory numbers and prices and use that same export to update my inventory in the program I wrote along with which box had space for this stack of cards (boxes are just numbered and I put the entire stack of cards that I sorted into any box that has space for it). Then when it comes time to pull cards for orders I download a pull sheet for all the orders and run it through the program which spits out another pull sheet that tells me every card to pull from each box. As you continue to ramp up your operations I'd love to hear tasks keep you from doing this more (no necessarily the ones that are hard or take a long time but more just the ones that you find the most annoying to deal with) and what kinds of solutions you've come up with to make those steps less annoying. I'm a software engineer by trade so I tend to lean into solving things with software but I'd love to hear about other solutions.

I use 16 inch deep wire shelves with 800 count single rod boxes without the lid and I have a small standing desk on wheels. I can pull the 800 count boxes and pull what I need and off the top next boxes. And it can be a pain pulling boxes but my shelves are closer together so I can store more boxes

Great info as always! I'm fortunate to have a full basement with racks that I rotate and use 3-5 rows as I buy collections, sort/process and a seperate area for processed/finished.

This is such a useful serie of videos! Can we hope to see something similar for other platforms? Card trader might be interesting due the "card trader zero" option. Especially for bulk sellers.

I can't wait to see what you do with a card sorting machine someday.

I would highly recommend you specifically don't buy that shelf behind you. Look at how the shelves are joined at the mid point, that is not how those types of shelves are supposed to be built, regardless of what the sellers images show. I bought some of those and instantly returned them as the shelving beams are supposed to join the top and the bottom of the two sections (the instructions specify this as well) but the way they designed their sleeves it's impossible. It's an active safety hazard.

Cheers bro

Just discovered your channel, really enjoying your videos and appreciate you sharing what you've learned. I have been playing MTG since around Revised and Ice Age, stopped for many years and started again in 2020 with Midnight Hunt. I recently bought a collection that has a ton of old bulk all mixed up (was a throw in some boxes of rares and mythics I wanted). I want to get the cards organized, pick out what I want to keep, then pick out cards I can buylist and then get rid of the leftover bulk. When you are doing your initial sort by set and you put all the A sets together and so on, do you have a visual guide that you use for the set symbols? There are lots that I don't know and I was going to make my own but thought I'd ask you first in case you have one you could share (I'd be happy to pay for it)

Thank you for the info! Right now I'm about $200 a week in sales. I don't move a lot of bulk so it's a lot of collection by and listing singles. I am interested in the direct program. When I make it that far. Would you recommend I start building up a second store so that I can keep the bulk TCG direct program separate from my single store?

Have you thought about a card sorter? I know super expensive but got to save time and your back

Absolutely love the video, you have been a mentor on my TCG Direct journey. Finally got my hands on 43k bulk cards for cheap. However, with the increase volume comes an increase in varying sets, I have noticed that my Direct Order Invoices are not Set ordered A-Z. It looks to be in release date order or something which is really frustrating when pulling cards for invoices, as my inventory is currently ordered A-Z for Set. Is there a way to change this?

What tray are you using to sort bulk

How many cards do you have listed on TCGplayer?