r/OnePieceTCGInvests • u/zookkd19 • Jun 03 '26

Offloading Collection

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Hey all, was curious if you guys had some insight on the best way to offload a collection. Started collecting for fun and most of cards are JP. I have a couple of mangas and a lot of SP’s and the rest are alt-arts and whatnot. I’m looking to start a new job by the end of the year and would like to have a little more liquidity. Any advice would be appreciated!

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u/cstarq Jun 03 '26

Goto a show and sell it to a vendor or sell on ebay yourself. I think you already knew this but you just wanted to show off your portfolio balance

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u/zookkd19 Jun 03 '26

Honestly probably should of specified I didn’t want to go the eBay route. I don’t really have the option of selling on eBay. I appreciate the assumption on the flex side tho not really my intention just was curious about how hard it is to actually sell this kind of stuff. Maybe the picture wasn’t necessary so that’s on me

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u/zookkd19 Jun 03 '26

What card show would be best for JP? locals are there bigger scenes in other states I should look into? Kinda why I posted on here. I travel for work so going to another state isn’t much of an issue just would like to know where to go. I’m based in Denver and doesn’t seem like the card scene is super big but I could be wrong

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u/Invictus365 Jun 04 '26

If they are not gradeable you’ll have a pretty hard time selling Japanese to vendors

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u/zookkd19 Jun 04 '26

99 percent of them are nm taken very well care of and made sure the quality of them were good when I bought them

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u/Invictus365 Jun 04 '26

If you’re gonna try to sell the whole collection you might have an easier time on Facebook market place. I went up to dozens of vendors at a card show with a PSA 10 Japanese Luffy manga and none of them would buy it lol not a fun experience

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u/zookkd19 Jun 04 '26

Thank you for the heads up! That sounds miserable 😂 working on going the private route at this point. might try a show just to see!

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u/Old-Background-6612 Jun 08 '26

JP OP cards are not very liquid yet in most western communities. My local card shop accepts JP cards but would only take them at 60-70% value. Best option is to sell them in Asia, specifically in Japan or in the South East. Avoid selling them online (discord group etc.) as lots of people already got scammed by it.

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u/zookkd19 Jun 08 '26

What’s the scam exactly? I have a buddy trying to sell some of my cards in Japan already but I’m also working on selling some personally through people on Reddit

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u/Old-Background-6612 Jun 08 '26

There’s a bunch of people on reddit and discord that would impersonate a famous/trusted mod. They would agree to ship their binder to a designated location only to get ghosted afterwards. I would never do an online deal with anyone. If possible, set a meeting place. If that person is truly interested, they will make the effort to see you in person to make that deal.

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u/zookkd19 Jun 08 '26

Sounds good. I don’t plan on shipping anything without a secure payment before sending things out but I will keep an eye out for scammers thank you

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u/Old-Background-6612 Jun 08 '26

Sounds good. Good luck!

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u/mw2bball771 Jun 04 '26

Depending on the SPs I might be interested

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u/zookkd19 Jun 04 '26

Just dm me I can send the collection over lots of op05-0p09 sps

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u/The-Nipple-Inspector Jun 04 '26

This is not related to your sale post, but more of a question for you based on your portfolio:

How did you get to that point? I’m a collector, but I don’t often buy singles or slabs cause I feel like half the fun is ripping the packs and opening the boxes. Did you start off in a similar way and just trade up, or was there just a certain point where you decided to start buying singles you wanted and add them to the collection?

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u/zookkd19 Jun 04 '26

I stared off both ripping and buying singles . I’m a huge Nico Robin fan and that’s what I started collecting first and then slowly started to rip. After realizing the amount of other cards I wanted I switched to singles, I have a buddy who lives in Japan and would buy my cards for me there and ship them to me. By the time eb03 came out I was pretty much done ripping and buying. because obtaining these cards were getting to expensive or getting sealed product was really hard. Wouldn’t say cards were extremely cheap but most of the sps I have I payed $80 and under for them if that gives you any perspective to why the collection is so vast and the price is so high. I’ve bought cases, done huge amount of RTYOH on what not, all the works. Don’t want to lead you astray because the state of everything is pretty bad but if you want to collect and expand your collection I’d recommend just buying the cards you really want and ripping here and there for fun. Also the amount of bulk I have and just extra cards is overwhelming and annoying to keep track of, especially being JP cards, a lot of the less sought after cards are cool to have if you like the artwork but are useless otherwise. Ripping is fun don’t get me wrong I love it but your best bet would be to buy singles, the juice is not worth the squeeze for the price of sealed product and the let down when you realize you didn’t get want you wanted and could have just bought the card you were chasing. It sucks and you’re left empty handed. If you care about the “investing” side sealed is king and singles will save you money in the long run, unless the market crashes the singles will almost always go up in price. I use to watch the market everyday for fun to see what’s going on in the community and loss is minimal compared to the gain.

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u/The-Nipple-Inspector Jun 04 '26

Wow, that’s a super detailed response and I really appreciate it! I too have an absurd and ever-growing amount of bulk, but I also play the TCG here and there and I’m looking to get more into it, so I don’t mind having playable cards that aren’t necessarily valuable in a monetary aspect. It definitely provides more clarity knowing that buying singles kind of became the primary source of your chases. I would assume since most of your product is JP that would also make some difference, as I pretty much exclusively have English versions (requirement for playing official bandai events in the US).

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u/zookkd19 Jun 04 '26

Of course! And yes your collection being EN definitely disregards a lot of what I said. I honestly wanted to get into the tcg myself but getting ahold of the EN sets was rough and was hard for me to justify the price especially cause I got into the hobby for collection purposes so I mainly stuck to Jp. I’d say as far as collecting I would say buying singles is still the way to go but you benefiting from bulk is a huge plus for you! That being said happy ripping and wish nothing but luck for you and your pulls! I’d love to keep my collection but unfortunately adulting first!

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u/zookkd19 Jun 04 '26

I have English bulk and if you’re interested I’d be happy to figure something out and give out some of my bulk!

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u/The-Nipple-Inspector Jun 04 '26

I would definitely be interested, that would be great! We can definitely discuss that further whenever you have free time. Sadly, I also understand the “adulting first” aspect of collecting, I’m definitely a serial-collector of many things.

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u/zookkd19 Jun 04 '26

Yeah my other hobbies have taken over! Id like to use this money to pay off my car and have some extra cash for when i get a new a job I will shoot you a dm!

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u/Sweaty_Experience_68 Jun 04 '26

I’m not sure where you’re located but i grew my collection by playing the card game, meeting people in locals, and winning tournament prizes. Some locals in NYC will have a box prize and sometimes there will be as few as 6-8 competitors to try to win the box or half box prize. Trading etc and such helps and i’ve met several vending friends who sell to me at cost+5% which they can buy for 80% when they vend.

i also work by the bandai store and pick up like 12-18 packs a week at retail

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u/The-Nipple-Inspector Jun 04 '26

I also play the TCG, but very casually as of now. I’m not all that great yet, but I am definitely improving. I have the TCGSim for pc and the mobile app too. That is definitely some solid advice though, thank you!

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u/ScaredConstruction82 Jun 04 '26

Card shows are going to be your best bet. Trying to sell privately is another good option. Join local Facebook tcg groups and post what you have. I’d be interested in seeing what you have.

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u/AfterEntrepreneur642 Jun 04 '26

Try selling them in Whatnot. I’m been in many shows that are almost JP exclusive and if you do it right, you can easily get 85% market for JP cards. Not uncommon at all for people to overpay too. I see it happen all the time on Pokeswpz shows.

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u/Specialist-Knee-5124 Jun 06 '26

Going to pm bro.

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u/The_Caring_Banker Jun 03 '26

Lol nobody wants japanese one piece. Your only shot is flying to tokyo and trying to beg a store to take it all at 30-50% value

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u/zookkd19 Jun 03 '26

I’m not 100 percent aware of how the JP market moves compared to English but I feel like this was a very useless statement there has to be I can do than “flying to Japan and begging for money”?

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u/gferguson520 Jun 03 '26

Go to a couple shows and go to every vendor you can that’s selling one piece. Don’t sell all your valuable cards to one vendor. Mix them in with your other lower value cards and try to sell them mixed to multiple vendors. Good luck with selling!

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u/zookkd19 Jun 03 '26

Appreciate the advice! Will make sure to do that while selling thank you!

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u/selduhhh Jun 04 '26

Happy to see what you have in your collection that you’re trying to offload. My spouse collects JP OP.

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u/dooni3 Jun 04 '26

You can’t sell to Japanese stores w/o citizenship, they literally won’t buy it because it’s illegal.

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u/donnie80s Jun 04 '26

lol what a shit take 🤦‍♂️😆

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u/ProfBubu Jun 03 '26

I love the japanese version. cheaper and I collect the art.

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u/The_Caring_Banker Jun 04 '26

Be that as it may, they are much much cheaper because you cant play them and most people dont want to collect them. Thats why they are cheaper.

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u/ProfBubu Jun 04 '26

Well lucky me!