My re-sale business has one terrible flaw

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So when I started getting into re-sale, plan was very simple. Buy stuff way below their market value, sell them later. Earn profit.


The plan was flawless.


But then, a flaw appeared which I couldn't possibly predict would happen.


After I sold some of my old comic books and earned some money, I realized that I started to miss them.


Then I realized that whatever I buy, I get attached to.


Realistically, I can only sell my manga if I already have copies.


Same goes for my Harry Potter books.


It actually becomes very difficult to sell something you like reading.


If I was emotionless robot, sure strategy would work perfectly.


But I get attached to manga I buy, so I really don't see how can I re-sell it later.


Even if it earns profit, there is a certain emotional drain from it.


It feels like selling your heart.


Worst part is that I like almost every manga I read. The idea of selling it means I can't read it again.


I guess the flawless trade strategy didn't account for emotions of the trader.

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#2 •••
@SatanLucy

IF you can find them extraordinarily cheap, buy two copies I guess.

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#3 •••
@Leaning

Yeah, its not always that simple. I do have copies, but I am buying manga on online site where random people are selling. Sometimes a person read manga and just wants to sell them as fast as possible, so sells at cheap price and I buy because its below market value. Sometimes they themselves have copies extra and just want to get rid of them. they dont usually have multiple copies available for sale, because these are outliers on the market. Finding manga for 2x lower cost is something I do, and that means certain limits on what I can buy, because supply of manga which are below market value is always lower.

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#4 •••

Also, I just ordered entire death note series and entire Uzumaki series at less than 3$ a piece even when including price of delivery. I am not a big fan of death note, but its a good offer, popular manga and I also get whole Uzumaki with it. I was about to buy "Naruto" and whatever that "I want to eat your pancreas" manga is, but sadly the guy said he already sold them and then tried offering me something else but that was too expensive.

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#5 •••
@SatanLucy

You already have a nice collection of manga.

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#6 •••
@Debby
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#7 •••
@SatanLucy

Are you saying that when you sell something, you don't have it anymore?


That sucks, thanks for telling us about this loophole.

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@Sidewalker
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#9 •••
@SatanLucy


SatanLucy wrote:
Yeah, it's difficult to sell things you like, cuz then you don't have them anymore. I am not sure I can ever sell my manga collection, even if I need the money.


Damn, I was gonna sell our house, but not if we can't live here afterward, foiled again.


Thanks for the tip off, I coulda had no place to live.


Last month my wife got a new car, we traded the old one in, I was wondering why she doesn't drive the old one anymore, this explains it, thanks.

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#10 •••

You should have made a copy of them so that you can go back to read any of them.

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@Misterio
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#12 •••
@SatanLucy

You are more of a collector than a profiteer.

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#13 •••

Funny thing about memories. The word itself does not imply the collectible item itself, but a mental image of it. That is, typically, indestructible and, if it's truly a cherished memory, unforgettable. The rest of the collectables ought to be committed to memory, because in our age of relative affluence, we end up just stuffing the collectables into a box, and many of them stay in the box in a garage, an attic, a spare room, or a rented storage space, just to move when we uproot. Why haul baggage around that remains perennial baggage instead of real memories which cost nothing for their storage and moving?

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#14 •••

You are trying to put words in his mouth. He is a collector and not a profiteer.

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