Buy the Card, Not the Listing: Where Instinct - and Good Peepers - Meet Opportunity

From mislabeled parallels to color mix-ups, spotting the small stuff can lead to big flips. Here’s how I (and others) use CollX to trust guts, scan details, and strike before anyone else does.

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Flipping cards really is a treasure hunt—sometimes literal, always strategic.

I still remember walking up and down flea market aisles as a kid, looking for clues; anything that might signal the seller had some cards they were trying to offload.

I mentioned this in the chat the other day—there is a “feel” involved in finding cards to flip. You need to know which cards to stop and examine and you need to know which cards to buy if you can’t find direct comps.

It’s tough, right? Every single Ken Griffey Jr. card looks like it should be worth a hundred bucks. Just something about them. I get the same feeling with Barry Sanders’ cards.

When it comes to searching for cards on CollX, both of these actions show up in a big way.

So how do you build that feel—and turn it into daily habits? Here are a couple of tactics I use almost every day.

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