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As I understand it, Loot can be used on future purchases from that seller.

What Loot % do y'all use?

Eek-Bay...LOL

I will third this.

For a fellow box shipper, who is generally buying cheap cards free, or very low box shipping is a winner.

If the aim is just to move cards I would also consider keeping the shipping the same of say the 1, 2-4 and 5-12 (or whatever they are) card options. I will often buy up to the max quantity for a shipping price just to get value, even if that involves adding some cards I am not desperately seeking.

As a seller, with box shipping I imagine you can accumulate a few orders together before shipping in to the box. I have had some box orders take up to a month to arrive and it doesn't really bother me as I haven't shipped anything out of it in nearly 18 months!

Agree with Dodgydave, I as well tend to gravitate towards sellers that offer free box shipping, and when I do go with a lost cost shipping seller I will order to the max card threshold to maximize value. Several of the seller I gravitate to tend to ship out once a week or sometimes once every other week and this does not bother me as I fully expect box orders to take upwards of a month to deliver to the box.  

On a side note, the only thing I wish is that Sportlots made a distinction between when a seller reports that they've pulled your order and when they ship.  It seems to me that most sellers tend to mark an order as shipped, when in reality they have merely only pulled the order and prepped for shipment.  This leaves me in the dark not knowing whether an order has actually shipped or if it is being held for the seller to accumulate more orders to ship at once.  

Don’t expect to sell junk era cards or a card that already has an inventory of 200 on the site, it’s just not going to happen.

You need either 1) unique or vintage inventory, 2) significant quantities, or 3) offer great prices and cheap shipping or participate in box shipping program.

I hear that expensive cards don’t sell, that’s because most of the time people don’t add pictures. Why would someone pay $50 for a card they can’t see?

For most people, this is passive income for cards that otherwise would just be collecting dust in the closet. If you keep an accurate inventory, be honest about the condition of cards, and don’t ship cards in a way that you wouldn’t want to receive them, you’ll be alright.

Thanks. I may tweak my box prices down a little. I did sell one SN card. A picture was requested so I sent a link to one I took and card sold. I'll try to load more over the holiday. Will also take a look at qtys and tweak some prices from there. I've sold a few common junk era and then a lot of football RC. I basically posted my FST list here over there and I adjust as I do something on one site so it's accurate. Some $ is better than no $ and I really don't want to have to make a 7th monster box of FST.

Yep, exactly that.

Like most of us over the years I have find Pros and Cons for every site out there for both buyers and sellers.

I did a posting with all the Pros and Cons for every site that I use over the last couple of years.  Not sure if it was here or on another site.  Just cannot find it now.  My posting included my experience and others.

Is this the post you were thinking of?

https://www.tcdb.com/Forum.cfm/Page/G/ID/0/?MODE=VIEW&ThreadID=41021#244715

Definitely pretty informative.

Read through that post....very helpful. I opted for Sportlots so I could keep my lists up here and there and not have a ton of cards sitting somewhere forever. I'll sell here too and commons are way less than 20 cents. Most of the junk era is 3-10 cents. 

No  but that was a short version. 

I had pros & cons for

E-bay, Sportlots, COMC, Beckett, Amazon, TCDb, and other trading sites.