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Originally Posted by jdandns
Yeah, around that time, I remember the Secret Stash's Ebay account sold a couple of boxes of Upper Deck "Alien" really cheap. I'm assuming UD sent the store a couple of comp boxes of that along with some "Clerks" cards, and Walt just told whoever handles their Ebay account to just dump them there. Wish I'd seen them before someone used the Buy-it-now on them, because they were really cheap, well under retail.
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He's got a point. For a comic shop, it's hard to make a profit off of trading cards. Most don't do enough volume to order directly from a distributor and end up ordering from Diamond/Previews, where you get like 20% off retail price when you buy a box. I know we always took a loss whenever we tried to stock a box or two of comic-related trading cards. Same with sports cards. The only thing we did enough volume to get a good price was Magic/Pokemon.