How Much You Can Actually Make Selling Sports Cards

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]All right, what's going on everybody?

[00:00:01]Gabby Cards Stacks here and today we are wrapping up a long weekend. Happy Memorial Day. Shout out to everyone who served our country. Uh got got just a lot to talk about. I guess I've got all my sales about $500 of sales. We'll talk about you know what the actual numbers are, what my expected profit is, the time to ship all of these. Again, I've been big on on my time as of late and just like I don't want to, you know, ship $4 cards anymore. Send them to Gradient, you know. So, we've got that.

[00:00:29]uh all my pickups for the week. I think I, you know, over the last week I stopped showing you my pickups. I apologize. That was rude of me. So, I'm going to show you everything that we've got in this pile. And then I finally opened up that leaf box. I got 20 Malachi Tony animes. So, not my favorite design to be honest. Like I I sold a a anime. My god, I couldn't think of the word. I sold an anime. It was George McIntyre this weekend. Like I actually like that. That's probably my least favorite. Like the Garrett Nusmire is pretty good. And then who did else? Oh, the Gunnar Stockton's pretty solid. That one's kind of eh, but hard hard to make George McIntyre look cool. He's like 65 180 lbs. So whatever. But yeah, Malachi Tony just figure I mean think these were like seven bucks maybe or or close to it. I'll have to go back and check my receipt. Um Oh. Oh. Oh shoot. We got a numbered card. Hold up. I did not realize that. I didn't Oh, man.

[00:01:29]I I was scrolling through all of these cuz I mean, I don't know. I just wasn't paying attention. So, all these are here and then I see this one is red red to 10. Holy smokes. That that that could pay for the whole damn thing. Hold up. I didn't realize that. But anyways, we're going to do a giveaway with this.

[00:01:45]I'll be giving away one of these uh base ones, not the 10. I don't know in my video now if I realize that uh this was to 10. So, I might have to I might have to like add that to my video. That's crazy. I I did not expect that. So, sweet. I wonder what I didn't even know that numbered were possible. So, that's cool. I will definitely take that on the red. I just I don't know. It look barely caught it. So, that's exciting. Cool.

[00:02:11]Well, let me let me flip this thing around. I'm going to go double camera here. Oh, another thing. I've got my gradient submission ready to go, packaged up. I'll tell you about my experience because it was a little odd.

[00:02:24]So I went to gradient.com gradientcollects.com gradient.com I don't know what it is. So went to the website went to the submission and it was very simple. It was just Pokémon or sports cards and I went to the sports cards estimated 200 to 300. I actually counted it exactly. It's 2011. So you go in they're like tracking number optional and then you prepay. You pay as soon as you submit. So, a little bit different from ComC. You pay when they process the card and add it to your account. So, this one is a little bit more upfront, per se, but um whatever. However, it makes you pay for like or it doesn't make you pay. I don't know. Maybe I maybe I could have gotten away with it, but I paid $60 for 211 in in my in my quantity, right? So, and there was no mention of like, hey, you will only be charged, you know, for the card number of cards in your submission, the remaining balance will be added to your and applied to your balance, right? So, there was no mention of that. So, I will be reaching out and being like, hey, some clarification on that would be great. And then also there's like no way to track your order, I guess. Like if if you don't then there were no instructions like hey print out your your order number and uh uh you know include it in your package or whatever. Like it was just here's your here's your order number. Cool. So that that that I thought was a little odd. Right. So just the uh what is it?

[00:03:47]What is it? What is it? What did I say about the first thing? Hm.

[00:03:52]Wow. I'm turning into Dory here. Oh, the the upfront cost and like how like hey, whatever isn't applied, it'll go to your account. No worries. And then the uh just tracking with your account. So, anyways, that's my experience. I I've got the label already. So, uh we'll do that. All right, let's flip this thing around. I'm going to actually add a little uh bonus portion to that. That That's crazy. Malachi Tony to 10 right there. Top five player in the country.

[00:04:18]All right, so let's talk some numbers here. Sales, it was about 460 in sales.

[00:04:22]It's going to cost me $40 to ship all of this through uh eBay and Collect. So, what are we down to? $420. Nice. And then fees, I just calculated it out.

[00:04:33]It's going to be about $60 in fees. A little bit less because some of them did sell on collect. So, down $100. So, we're down to $360.

[00:04:44]Hopefully, the you know, I didn't pay 360. I definitely definitely did not.

[00:04:47]I'm into some of these cards for a lot less than what I paid for. One thing to know also, I've been kind of doing myself a little bit uh disservice. So, on the shipping, when you purchase your shipping, you can do buy uh you can do uh release uh pay pay with my funds or or purchase purchase your shipping labels with your eBay funds. And I've always done that, but for whatever reason, last time I shipped, I noticed there's a PayPal option, and I like that's I'm I've been missing out. I mean, it's only been, I guess, a couple of months, I guess, but I have the PayPal credit card, so I get 3% back on all my purchases. So, on that $40, I just got 3% back. So, that's kind of nice. And I've been missing like I've I've probably paid what, [snorts] over $500 in postage, right? Like I probably, you know, missed out. But now I know.

[00:05:44]And now that's that's a little cheat code. All right, here we go. So, um, I'll try to keep a running total as best I can. I don't do a whole lot of editing in my videos, but we'll do our best. All right, so, uh, Jonah Coleman here. I paid about I should probably get a piece of paper out, but I paid about $8 on collect for this. Sold for 20. So, there we go. Uh, Andre Johnson. I'm into this card, gosh, I would say for maybe five.

[00:06:10]It depends on how you math it out.

[00:06:11]That's also the tricky part. It is hard to tell, but this card for maybe five bucks at this point, so we're 12 bucks.

[00:06:17]What's up, Jock? This is such a sweet card. I haven't said how much I sold it for. I think I sold the Jonah for 20.

[00:06:22]The Andre was eight. Uh, this What's Up, Jock? Sold for 1999. Love this card.

[00:06:27]I've got a lot of copies on Comm. I won this at auctions for like three bucks.

[00:06:30]So, uh, what are we at here, Chief? Uh, 86. We'll say 16arium price. I'm probably up to like 40 bucks. I've been selling these at 55. So, I just already forgot what I just said. And there's no easy math to this either, which is unfortunate. We'll round up. We'll say 60 uh se 72. I guess this I'm going to say I'm into for nothing cuz I really bought it for the Odell. That maybe that's not correct, but that one sold for four on collects. Again, I don't Okay, so I guess we're still at 72, 73, 74, 75, 76.

[00:07:04]And I even got these for even less. So I'll say let's just say 75. Let's round down. These I think sold for three bucks a piece on collects. Beautiful. So, we'll take that. This I'm probably into for close to nothing. I'll say $5. Oh crap. I don't even know what I'm This is so bad. Hopefully I have a running total, but I probably won't. Five bucks right there. I'm into it. That one sold for 12. Sam Levit, uh, probably into this for 50 cents. That one sold for three bucks. Got that at the state show.

[00:07:31]Trey McBride. I think I'm into this card for probably nothing. This was a very good Northwest Valley coins and card show that I went to and uh this was when they were back at the old facility. It's a a sen senior terrace living. It's a old folks home and uh yeah, I just thought it was a good deal. So that's great. The show I think I got for a dollar somewhere. So I'll take it.

[00:07:53]Jackson Dart. Uh this was from I had to pull this out of a specific box. This was from a Oh, this was from the same card show as This was from the same card show as one of these uh from the VIP sports card show. I've lost my track. I've lost my total. The the the title of this video is cooked. I I I don't even remember.

[00:08:19]This one I think I got in a 50 cent bin at the state card show. This I got at DJ Sports Cards, the greatest card shop I've ever been to. Rent in Washington. I cannot wait to go back next time. Uh, this I think had a sticker of like 10 or so. This one, hard to tell. It was a three-pack on Leaf for 50 bucks. I think I'm probably into this for maybe 10 bucks cuz I I don't think I've sold uh one of the two. It's either the Nusmire or the Stockton, but that one sold for like 40 bucks after fees and everything.

[00:08:46]EMTT Johnson. I paid 30. I know that much. That one sold for 50. This one I probably ended up getting for like close to two bucks from my card shop. Card show. Card show. That one sold for five.

[00:08:57]a mod Hardy. I I bought these as low as 28. I've probably got like eight to 10 copies of this card. So, it's hard to like account for in this one for $29.

[00:09:07]So, all right, let's So, we know 360 is our is our goal, right? So here we'll say 30 60 62 92 102 112 [snorts] uh [clears throat] 11718 I guess I'm going to say we're into that for for nothing. 119 123 124 25. We'll say 25 there. I'm still going to not count that. This one's tough. I'm probably into this for like 30ish. What did I just say I was at?

[00:09:47]135. We'll say 135. 136 137 138 142. We'll say 150ish. So profit 210. 2 200ish. We'll we'll go up to 160. All right. So not bad. Um not bad. Yeah, not bad. I'll take that. All right. Cool.

[00:10:06]So, yeah, I'm not I I promise you I'm not going to put any numbers up on the screen, but we'll say, "Hey, Gabby Card Stacks made $200. No one can come at me for the title of the video." Okay, these are all my pickups for the week. And yeah, I think I was kind of gatekeeping you guys. I don't think I really uh showed you guys anything. Uh picked up a bunch of these. These were on like buy sports cards, so I'm like, "Yeah, you know what? This is a cool card." I got a actually a lot of messages after I posted this on Instagram like, "Wow, thanks for sharing that card. Just picked one up." Um of course, just you know, people who who are more religious.

[00:10:35]I I myself am am not the most religious.

[00:10:38]I grew up Catholic. Um but yeah, not not not not a whole lot going on now. But I just think it's a cool card. Tim Tibo is is very uh iconic in the NFL and and obviously that was like a big part of his media attention. I guess Haxis, this is a sweet Pokemon and I don't know if he has he or she has a lot of full arts, but that was 50 bucks in my Discord.

[00:11:03]Link is down below for you to join. know tricks over 1,700 members there. So, that was cool. Rayquaza, this is a super cool card. I really like this one. Uh, I think I paid like 30 20 22 bucks or so.

[00:11:13]I think I think it was like 20 bucks.

[00:11:15]Next cheap was like 30 and his prices or her prices are going up because of some set that's coming out later this year.

[00:11:22]This was cool. I paid about RAW prices on this, but it's sealed. This is a promo and Lucario price have been coming up. I I bought this car. This was one of my first Pokemon cards that I bought like coming into the year. So, I I kind of got back into the Pokemon game back in February or so. I was just bored with prospecting. Like I the price kind of jumped up a little bit. So, all right, let me let me find some Pokemon.

[00:11:47]And then I kind of fell off it. Then I went to Gradient and you know, they're they're pretty big with Pokemon. So, got got even deeper into it. So, that was cool. I really I think this is my third copy of Lucario. That's just that's just cool art, man. I I like that one. Larry Fitzgerald black tops chrome numbered to $299. I think this was listed at like 10 bucks. And you don't see a lot of Larry Tops chrome numbered stuff listed at 10 bucks. Like maybe some pinks, you know, and and some other ones, but no, not that one. Path of Glory. We're going to do a binder video after this actually, and we're going to uh record this. So, this will complete my fuchsia path to glory 2024. I'm super hyped. Deuce Alexander was like 12 bucks. Cool. Cool sparkle right there. Color match. Picked this up on Instagram. Um, uh, what's his name? Skull. Skull card something. Um, if I saw his name on his if I saw like his bubble mailer, I'd be like, "Oh, yeah. That that's his Adam. Adam's his name."

[00:12:43]Yeah, I don't know his name. Sorry, buddy. But, uh, he had these both for 30, I think, and I just took them. So, Devon Dampier, Black Sapphire. Black is my favorite parallel, man. I'm I like Devon Dampier. I've been a Devon Dampier believer since he was probably a sophomore in high school at Sarro.

[00:13:04]I'm really hoping we get a through the mail autograph. We haven't had one back in what, two weeks now. Am I losing hope? No. But like every day I just like I'm like a little dog that just, you know, I I look out the window, I wait for the mail truck and when I see it, I just, you know, perk up and I'm like, maybe there's a through the mail autograph in there. And I just chase the mail truck as soon as it leaves. So yeah, that's that's kind of where I'm at. I really hope we can get his autograph. I know his quarterback's coach. I didn't realize that until I was writing my notes. You can go back and watch that video, though. My audio was messed up. Uh my son was messing with with my mic. So, that was really unfortunate. Oh my god. iPhone storage full.

[00:13:40]Great. So, I guess that doesn't matter because I still have this camera and I wasn't really doing anything. So, this is kind of the nice thing about having this DJI. See, this is why I wanted uh I guess I'm going to delete all this. This is why I wanted a second camera because I'm at 121 GB. I have 128 on my phone, not just like usable. So, there we go. Just deleted. Yeah, I have 21. I don't know why Instagram's taking up so much space, but yeah, this has been a big issue. And I got to do something eventually. I don't know. I also just have a huge backlog of content. Like a lot of videos and stuff that I'm like I've been posting three times a day and I still can't catch up.

[00:14:23]So, you know, there's just always something to post. All right. There's only 3 gigabytes freed up. I don't love this. Uh maybe I didn't delete my videos from yesterday. But anyways, what was I talking about? Oh, Devin Dampier. Yeah, I know his quarterback's coach. So, I was like, that would be really cool.

[00:14:38]When I was writing the note, I was like, wait, I know Coach Weiss. He he was a uh a what what's the what's the proper word? A recruiter, I guess. And so when I was leaving EY, I got connected with him and we just really got connected over football as as two football guys would.

[00:15:01]So gosh, I have no videos that I can really delete. That's kind of crazy. So all right, hopefully we're back on track with storage here while I'm just yapping. I got three gigabytes left.

[00:15:12]Yeah, we'll we'll be all right. So, I'm going to prop this thing back up. So, anyways, Deon Damp here. Now, I do have concern. He lost two first round tackles. He lost his head coach. He lost his offensive coordinator. Uh they did get Braden Peaggan, who I really like from Utah State.

[00:15:30]Yeah, that that's that's what I got for you. So, but they and they do have Wayan Parker. So, Jace Brown, like him. Heck of an athlete, but man, injured.

[00:15:41]Don't like that. Gunner Stockton. I picked this up on my Discord. Free to join, no tricks. Links down below.

[00:15:45]Over,700 members. This was like 150 on my Discord. Not bad. Gunner seems to sell pretty well for me. So, I And just his prices are a little high. I could be convinced. I don't know. I'm 50/50.

[00:15:57]Like, I'm not shocked if he's a first round quarterback. I'm not shocked if he's a seventh round guy. I just I I have no read on it. I don't know. I um you know, one one could argue is Kirby, you know, is Kirby as elite as he once was. All right. I don't know. We'll see.

[00:16:12]Sunarine Perkins, I don't know why I bought this, to be honest. There was a graphic on Instagram and it was like top edge defenders in in college football and he was like maybe number seven out of 10. I'm like, whatever. Um I'll I'll I'll buy it for science, right? Who knows? Uh two Larry Fitzgeralds. These were like five bucks a piece. Again, you don't see those often. I've been having a lot of mail issues. A lot of mail issues. Return to sender, postage due, just delays. This one was one of them.

[00:16:39]Jaden Craig, uh, Connor Wakeman right here on the blue sparkle. That sparkle goes crazy. So, two of three right there. MVP buyback. Someone sent this in the good deals channel. Links down below for free to join. No tricks. Over 1,700 members. This was like $23 shipped and I got it. I'll trade it in for 40 bucks.

[00:16:57]That was free money. Free money. And then Flygon. Shout out Phoebe Collects.

[00:17:02]We were in the comc discord and somebody had bought a Flygon card. He tagged me in it and I was like, "Yeah, I love that card." And I looked to see if there was a graded copy and there was. This was under $20. And I think I mentioned this in my short form video.

[00:17:21]fellas, lady fellas, if if we're gonna complain about, oh, PSA sucks and I'm gonna grade here and here and here, then you got to start paying up for CGC10 or a BGS95, right? Like, the change starts with you. All right. How bad do you want it? I don't care. So, I I'll I'll gladly pay $20, you know? Would I pay more?

[00:17:43]Probably not. That was probably my threshold. That was the perfect threshold. All right, cool. So, we got that. I talked about my Malachi Tony, did I not? I'm all over the board today, man. Got a grip. Uh the Malachi Tony.

[00:17:54]How about the red that just Yeah, I don't know.

[00:17:58]To 10 to 10. Okay, what else do we have today? I think that might be it. I think I think we're ready to sort this stuff out. I think we're ready to do binder day so that I can complete I might do two binder days. I might do like a Pokemon binder day and then So, like these would go in my Topps Chrome binder.

[00:18:17]Uh, did I already list some of these cards? I don't know if I did, but these would go here.

[00:18:24]This will go in my stash.

[00:18:27]I did list these cards already. All right, cool. So, those can go over here.

[00:18:30]So, that's that's pretty much where I'm at. That's how much uh I made from this stack. That's my incoming mail. That's my leaf package that I was kicking down the road. Is there anything else we need to discuss, folks?

[00:18:42]I don't think so. I think that's it. So, uh, we got gradient over here. I'll let you know. I'll keep you updated on just the process. I'm very intrigued. Just those are those were my two issues, my two two concerns. So, that's all we got.

[00:18:59]If you enjoyed, drop a like. Consider leaving a comment. Actually, oh, wait.

[00:19:04]You have to leave a comment. I don't Did I mention that? Well, if I didn't, we're giving away a Malachi Tony base one. Not Not the red, not the 10. All right. Uh, we're giving that away. Do what you got to do to enter. It'll be on all platforms. Peace. Love you.