{"id":4010,"date":"2018-03-11T02:57:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T02:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=4010"},"modified":"2018-03-11T02:57:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T02:57:59","slug":"look-mom-im-making-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/look-mom-im-making-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Look, Mom! I’m Making Money!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the second in a series of blog posts discussing the trading card game Magic The Gathering (hereafter shortened to just “Magic”) and its connections to the world of sales.<\/p>\n

I began playing Magic The Gathering during my senior year in high school and I enjoyed it so much that I haven’t put it down since.\u00a0For the duration of my time here in college, I have been playing it competitively at Bell’s Comics and Cards and other card shops around the state, but for the past two years, I have also been been selling cards through my own small online business.<\/p>\n

When I first began selling cards from my own personal collection, I really had no idea what I was doing. Fortunately though, a close friend of mine, who had previous card-selling experience , helped me get started, showing me how to price, list, and ship my cards through an online trading card marketplace known as TCG Player<\/a>.\u00a0 TCG Player is sort of like eBay for trading cards, where individual sellers can create their own shops to sell cards from their collections, paying a percentage of the selling price to TCG Player for the privilege of selling there.<\/p>\n

Despite the fees, I have found TCG Player to be a great way to make some money liquidating the cards I no longer need or want. Additionally, by selling the cards I pull from sealed packs that I will never use, I gain some extra cash to spend on cards that I do want. Allow me to explain why.<\/p>\n

Magic The Gathering is a trading card game with a heavy focus on building specific decks of specific cards centered around one theme, not on owning every single card. So when I buy sealed booster packs and open them, more often than not, I don’t pull cards I actually need for the specific decks I am building. When that happens and the cards I pull have value, I list them on my shop on TCG Player, and then use the money when they sell to buy cards I still am missing for my specific decks.<\/p>\n

It’s a win-win situation all around and it allows me to fund my hobby with my hobby, ensuring that I don’t overshoot my personal card budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the second in a series of blog posts discussing the trading card game Magic The Gathering (hereafter shortened to just “Magic”) and its connections to the world of sales. I began playing Magic The Gathering during my senior year in high school and I enjoyed it so much that I haven’t put it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magic-the-gathering","category-trading-cards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4058,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010\/revisions\/4058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}