lol. Yeah, you have to be firm with your price sometimes. Other times though, if you really want the collection, I think it’s fine to move your price point up a little to make it happen. This collection I bought recently, the first and second numbers I quoted the guy, he wasn’t happy with. I reassessed the cards as we were chitchatting and offered him a higher amount. I’m glad I did because of how many amazing cards I pulled from the bulk.

But not too much cash… “Hey, aren’t you that guy with a swimming pool full of money? “

^this

It’s a competitive market for sure. The best thing to do is build a reputation as someone who has a lot of cash and an insatiable desire for Magic cards

Not a bad strategy for developing a price for a collection. I suppose how I operate is similar to that. I do my best to offer as much as I can and still make money off the collection.

I was just looking at the pictures, and trying to reflect.
I buylisted a good amount of the $0.25-2 stuff in the $60 collection for $65, made another $20-30 on buylisting some of the larger stuff, and still have about $30 in things I held onto. Probably not worth it for the amount of time spent sorting, but I was driving at the same time so I didn’t notice too much.
As for the $5 collection, I sold the Natural Order for $25, Land Tax for $15, and still sitting on the Sliver Queen Life Counter, Ensnaring Bridge, and Defense of the Heart. Probably just buylisted the rest later than summer.
My strategy for collection buying is offer buylist for anything over $10, a bit over buylist for anything $5-10 with upside, and try to offer bulk for everything under $5. It usually gets to a decent amount that the owner is happy with, and it’s easy to flip for my money back and leaves me with a large amount of inventory to find value in later.

Thanks for the link. Interesting story about your craigslist experience. If you don’t mind my asking, how much money did you make on those cards you bought?

I’ve considered writing about my experiences from that site as well. Maybe I’ll give it a shot the next time I do.

Most of the time there are not good buy prices for black vise unfortunately.

Thanks for the heads up. It was a logistical nightmare trying to separate my one list into two lists. I thought I had everything, but I guess I missed the rack.

The cards are actually sorted by set, but you can’t tell as much because the database pulls the newest version of the card. Do you think it would still be better alphabetically?

Guessing one should have been Black Vise?

I also notice a few cards are on both lists (The Rack for instance)