The Razor Inkworks Archives experiment

[Sacrebleu]

I had bought 5 boxes of the product at $85 each. More expensive than it should have been but I bought them from my local shop and the owner is my friend and I'd like to see him stay in business. So $425 on the product for 25 autos. That averages out to $17 each card. Now out of all of those I felt compelled to keep two of them due to the fact that both featured actors on the show Lost however neither of them signed for the Lost sets so these were placekeepers in a sense. The two cards I kept were Daniel Dae Kim who signed for Angel and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje who signed for The Mummy Returns. So I took $34 off of my total of $425 making $391. I then put the remaining 23 autos on Ebay to see how much of a return I would get. The auctions ended tonight and cancelling out the fees and the small amount of money I make on shipping/handling I end up with $246.33 which represents a loss of 37%. Had I bought the boxes at the show where I could have had them for about $79 the loss would have been slightly less at roughly 33%. Now coming from the sports card world where many times you lose 60-80% on a box break the numbers aren't too horrible. Has anyone else tried this experiment?

comments welcome!

Dave

 

[Triple B]

I bought one box for $100CDN and sold the autos I got (I didn't pull anything I wanted for my PC). My sale total was roughly $96US and minus the fees puts me at about breakeven.

$25 per card isn't bad considering you USUALLY get one solid auto per box.

 

[MIKEYSLEAFS]

dave if you go by book value,which isn't a true value but i haven't seen too many boxes that would lose money book wise and most going over 125.00 book value,you can't say that about hockey cards,now assuming they kept the big cards back to make an ultimate series 2 in which most people are assuming they are doing,think of the huge breaks in the next series jolie jolie jolie jolie.if you love non sports these boxes are a no brainer,one and only fault i see is you may not get autos that you are wanting for the pc because of the wide variety of sets.

 

[KabbyKev]

I'll definitely be using that type of calculation on the Harry Potter case

Kev

 

[weasel-king]

I think a different way (more depressing, perhaps?) to think about it is that those averaged out at $10.71 per auto after fees and all were subtracted. Not even thinking about percentages lost, that's pretty low per card.

 

[TanguayFan]

I think a different way (more depressing, perhaps?) to think about it is that those averaged out at $10.71 per auto after fees and all were subtracted. Not even thinking about percentages lost, that's pretty low per card.

Still much better than $.99 for a common hockey auto.

 

[weasel-king]

Collecting mentality and saturation levels between hockey and non-sports are vastly different, but I see your point.

Dave, out of curiosity, what were the lowest and highest prices on your auctions? I'm not asking about what the cards were, just the prices themselves.

 

[Sacrebleu]

2.50 was the lowest for some auto from Catwoman and $32 was the highest for a Firefly one.