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Brad you’re one of my favorite KZfaqrs in the hobby but your Com-c “I made 10 grand in a month flipping sorts cards” definitely contributed to why a lot of people think it’s easy to flip .

I’m not verified or anything, but thank you for the shoutout on my article! I am glad some people have found it interesting and helpful!

You can calculate the print runs based on the pack odds of serial numbered cards. From a simple standpoint, if there is a 20 card set inserted at 1:10 packs and numbered out of 100, the number of packs produced are 20x100x10 = 20,000. You can then use that number to figure out how many base sets there are. People used this and started noticing drastically increasing print runs around 2016. For a quick estimate, look how different the insertion ratios of Topps Gold cards are between 2014 and now. They're basically numbered to the same #, but much harder to pull now. The manufacturers responded a few ways: Topps started producing lots of different types of products. So you could have blaster boxes, hanger packs, different hobby products all from the same set and it makes the calculations more complicated (you can still do it, and the numbers from the last five years have been skyrocketing). Panini stopped printing odds altogether, which used to be required by law, but I guess they found some way around it. Serial #'d cards don't really get around this. Another trick the manufacturers used was creating more and more parallel sets (compare Topps chrome colors in the early 2010s to now). That allowed them to insert parallels at similar pack odds, but print way more base cards. So yes an orange shimmer is numbered to 25, but it might be one of thousands of serial #'d versions of that card. Bottom line the manufacturers are going to capitalize on increased demand by overprinting, they're just finding smarter ways to do it now than in the junk wax era. For long term, stick with very rare cards and autos (players will only sign so many).

Topps Bunt is fun for MLB collectors and one thing I really like about it is known card counts/quantities.

It’s hard to flip newer cards because the unproven rookie card prices are so high sometimes higher than a HOF rookie card

These are some of the reasons why I like being a collector. I don't have to try and time things as far as trends or someone just scored 40 in a playoff game, gotta dump him. The new product is overprinted and overpriced. I'm only focused now on getting Kobe insert cards. I have tons of rookies and sealed boxes I can trade to get his stuff. Hope to find some shows soon I can go to. Love the content Brad.

Bro flipping cards is not easy. I have collected for years and I am new to flipping and there is definitely a learning curve. Thanks for the video brother, much appreciated.

Nice vid. My problem with flipping is me 😝 I only buy what I like and it is very hard to part ways with my cards or sets

Brad not to mention that prizm rainbow this year is like 40+ cards!! We used to have miltiple companies making many cards from 1 year. Now we have 1 company making the same variation of a card multiple times over 20 different sets! You could have hundreds of unique rookies of a player and not have them all.

I'm saving money every time I watch these videos. I'll let you do the hard work. I've already been priced out. Great channel!

There is also the issue of wildly inaccurate pop reports of rare cards. For example 30 PSA graded versions of a card which was serial numbered to 25. Maybe scanning technologies will solve this....

for topps if it says 04/250 that means there are 250 of that card produced and that is the fourth card. the other real issue for baseball is that PSA is estimated between 4-10 million (i know big range) of cards in their backlogs. That doesn't include the higher tiers. They estimated that it's about a year or two to get those through the system. So really there isn't a way of estimating how many baseball cards are out there still waiting. Plus Topps loves to keep on pushing out boxes. It's a zero sum game now. Get what you can for the flip and do the best you can.

Just collecting no time for flipping that is why I always buying 😁. Screw the basketball market. Hello baseball ⚾️

Take note Content Creators: Brad is the Best at Jumping right in, Straight ahead, no Chaff...

Love how the hobby is evolving. Great tips, Brad

The biggest thing I took notice of, is the people that reinserted the factor of chance/gambling into what they were selling or marketing scheme have been the most steady horse ive seen on the track. Anybody that had a hook on retail did and will still do well... The biggest risk is buying hype singles.

Great points. Another terrific video. Thanks.

One thing is for sure. If you are trying to flip select football or Bowman right now then it's def not going to be easy. Panini & topps have def flooded the market wit these two products. I'm also really glad that I got rid of all of my prizm Zion.

The problem with most people who want to flip is they want 3x profits, not 25%. It's much easier to flip cards if you have a more realistic profit target. This is why you see a lot of the best flippers focus on high end cards. 25% profit on a $10K card is nice. With a little time and hustle, you'd find that you can buy collections/large lots at 60-70% of comps and sell them at market individually close to 90-100%.

If it's not a limited (numbered or sp) I'm not buying. And will never waste money on opening expensive packs.

Pretty soon tho resubmitting will be detectable by the grading cos, because of card fingerprinting. So we'll have more accurate pop counts.

8:25 RT, GREAT POINT !! There IS undoubtedly going to be a massive rush of graded cards of every player all of you reading this collect , so yes!, buy the already limited variants that have for the most part anyway, been submitted and returned from grading companies! Additionally GOATS and OLDER GRADED cards good to buy now! eBay POWERSELLER Card_And_Comic_Investments

Good stuff as always, Brad. Been a bit since I’ve checked in with you (or anyone). Where are you doing most of your sales now, COMC or other places? Thanks!

Hey brad you get the Space Jam cereal box to add to the collection

Welcome to the Junk Wax Era 3.0 I started before 1.0 happened, was out before 2.0, and 3.0 is obvious at this point.

Tampa loves u bro

Anyone have the 2019 topps chrome Tstis Jr refractor or the prism refractor? If so I’m in the market and highly interested

COMC has been freakin dead for selling but still buying.

Brad dropping some knowledge 🤑. I don't care what Dustin says you're OK man 😌

Always great content Brad!

Brad did this video after his touch of grey shoot

Great video, great tips!

Love the content shared to my fb

Keep up the great content

Hey Brad, are you moving away from selling on COMC? I was thinking of sending them a few hundred raw cards, but had been scared off by the ingestion wait times. It seems that sales on that platform have slowed too. Would recommend against sending raw cards there given their current standing in the hobby? Thanks man.

I have been making $5000 per week flipping modern cards.

PSA, SGC, Beckett are not giving out 10's even though it might be a 10. Those companies are suppressing 10 for themselves in my opinion.

Which tools have the price alerts?

What happened to the kids at the shows and collecting cards in general. It’s adults only now? Also today’s cards are ugly as. I started collecting a bit again but only pre 95 basketball cards.

Is Brad the most handsome man in cards? The answer is yes

I'm sure if you get a psa 8 or lower, you will let the buyer, when you resell it, know it's a cracked PSA 8 before you rip him off...

You look like a soap opera actor