Happy Hobby Sports Cards Podcast · David Gonos

🎙️16 Steps To Selling Sports Cards To Feed Your New Addiction! - Ep. 2.37

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He says a ten-dollar card often nets about seven dollars and fifty cents after eBay fees and postage.

David Gunnison opens by welcoming listeners to a new sports card habit. He makes the case that selling cards can be the habit that helps a collector instead of wearing one down. The setup is aimed at collectors on a limited budget. He says the show is for people who want to build their collection while keeping the family happy. He then runs through the familiar traps that eat up cash. Ripping cards is one of them. Breaks are another. Just adding cards to the closet pile is the third. He treats those habits as ways the hobby can quietly turn into a monster. The problem is simple enough. Money goes out. A lot of cards come in. Too many of them are cards nobody really needs. From there he pivots into the selling side. He talks through checking sold prices on eBay. He recommends using those numbers to set a list price. He also explains how to list a card as buy-it-now. Then he layers in the offer strategy. He suggests setting offers accepted at about 10 to 15 percent below the starting price. He repeats that range because it matters. He notes that some cards may deserve a little more room if they are out of season and likely to rise again later. He also walks through the rough math of fees. Between the eBay fee, the transaction fee, and promoted listing costs, he says sellers are often walking away with about 75 percent of the sale price. That makes the pricing cushion matter. It is not just theory. It is the difference between leaving money behind and keeping a useful chunk of the value. Midway through, he breaks for a newsletter and giveaway announcement. The show promotes two September 2025 prizes for podcast listeners and newsletter subscribers. One is a 1958 Topps Stan Mutual All-Star card graded PSA 6. The other is a display for graded slabs. He points people to the Happy Hobby Sports Card Substack and says entries run until September 30, 2025. After that, the episode returns to the selling message. He encourages listeners to make a list of cards they are ready to move. He asks them to think about what they want to buy next after the cash builds up. He also ties the whole idea back to family and happiness. Selling cards you do not care about, in his view, can create room for a better collection and a better feeling about the hobby. The tone stays casual and practical throughout. It is part pep talk, part checklist, and part reminder that the hobby can fund itself if you handle the inventory with some discipline.

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A practical sell-side hobby pep talk with enough card-market detail to be useful.

David Gunnison treats a familiar collector problem as a practical hobby lesson: for collectors on a limited budget, selling sports cards becomes a way to strengthen the collection and help the family.

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If your card mountain is starting to feel expensive, this shows you how to sell the extras and turn them into hobby money.

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