You could well be right hotadvantage....
Though I have to admit, I don't consider myself an 'expert' on collectables.
I chose Pokemon trading cards to sell for a couple of reasons.......
First, it was a way of 'changing direction' for me. When I joined eBid in December, my intention was to sell a range of electronic 'gadgets'.
I soon realized that it wasn't going to be viable for me to import my stock and then post out of Australia overseas.
(The postage alone would kill any margin).
So I then started frantically sourcing 'Dropship' suppliers and after a lot of effort found a couple of good ones.
But then I realized that this would also create potential problems for me - (possible delayed delivery times, stock availability etc etc.).
So I decided to only sell items I have in my personal posession.
That's when I started looking at the cheapest possible postal approach, and realised that 'envelopes' were far far cheaper than parcels.
That's when I went for the trading card approach, since my son was right into them and was a bit of an expert.
But I wouldn't say I'm an expert, all I've done is come to an understanding of how to 'catagorize' them in a fashion, based on fairly simple 'common', 'uncommon', 'rare' etc.
I've seen some amazingly varied prices being asked for various cards and there doesn't seem to be a lot of rhyme or reason at times, except of course if they're very rare cards.
I'm also offering them because they're very 'affordable' as far as a buyer's concerned - I want to build up my feedback, and gain experience in online sales.
This is a little off the original topic for this thread - so you could always start a thread of your own on the subject...