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How To Make Money Selling Funko Pops - Step By Step
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in today's video i'm going to give you
some of my tips and tricks on selling
funko pops in order to either bring in
some extra money for your family or to
use that money and build your collection
up even better
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going to give you some of my tips and
tricks on how i sell funko pops and how
i've built up a platform that is really
community based but i also have the
ability to sell funko pops here and
there and make a little bit of extra
money and it's kind of how i've built
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wanting to learn how to sell funko pops
or you just have a lot of pops in your
collection that you're wanting to sell
more of i'm gonna give you guys some of
my tips and tricks on how to do this how
to make a little bit of extra money and
how to build your collection and build a
reputation that people would not
hesitate to buy from you drop me a
comment down below if you have ever had
issues selling funko pops and disclaimer
i am not going to teach you the easy way
to do it i am going to teach you how to
build and get a really really good
platform set in place so that you can
sell pops regularly
so the first step that you're going to
need to do is you're going to need a
platform or maybe multiple platforms
there are multiple places that you can
sell your funko pops just from the
comfort of your own home but you're
going to need a platform you're going to
need to choose mercari or ebay or
whatnot or some you know platform that
is similar to that and here's the part
that a lot of y'all aren't going to want
to hear you're going to need to build
that platform you're going to need to
build your rating on ebay or makari or
whatnot or whatever the case may be if
you just start off with one star rating
you got to start selling stuff small
cheap things to try and build that
rating up because with all of these
platforms the higher your rating the
more likely your listings are to be seen
and the more likely you are to actually
make more sales you can also try
facebook but facebook marketplace to be
honest is super super saturated and
there's a lot of time wasters on
facebook there's a lot of people on
facebook that want to lowball you so if
you do sell on facebook make sure you
always always do paypal goods and
services just for that little extra
level of protection but the first step
to actually being able to regularly sell
funko pops is pick a platform be
whatever you want or one of the three
that i mentioned start small and build
up your reputation on that platform
step number two refers to what are you
gonna sell there's two different ways
that you can do this okay i am not going
to recommend and say that you should go
out and clear the shelves of brand new
products first of all that's the
stupidest thing you could do because new
funko pops really don't sell that well
anymore second of all that's a scummy
thing to do if you really care about the
community and you don't want to take
away from others there's plenty of
opportunity to have pops and find pops
to sell without clearing shelves of
brand new products so don't do that but
there are a couple things that you can
do you could do my method where i buy
collections i recently recommended to my
friends phoenix poptastic how to get
into collection buying and selling you
do what you got to do to come up with
some seed money seed money is a term
used to use that money to start and that
money grows and grows into something
bigger right come up with you know three
four five hundred dollars a thousand
dollars if you have a thousand dollars
to spare whatever it is that you can
come up with and look in your local
communities look on facebook go in your
local community facebook groups and make
posts that you're looking to buy
collections hey i have 500 and i'm
looking to buy a collection of funko
pops worth 750. that is a great way to
start and that's how i buy the majority
of my pops is i buy funko pop
collections and that's a really
lucrative offer to people that have a
ton of stuff to sell maybe they don't
have their own platform built up and
they have a ten thousand dollar
collection and they're getting a six
thousand dollar offer well they don't
have to spend months and months and
months and months selling one by one
dealing with dozens if not hundreds of
people they can take that three or four
thousand dollar loss but they're saving
hundreds of hours of time plus when i
buy collections from people i'm actually
putting money in the hands of other
collectors i'm not spending thousands of
dollars at walmart or target or funko
shop i'm actually giving real people
money to do things with some of the
people that i bought from have used that
money for a down payment on a house to
pay off a car to pay for a wedding to
help out a friend i'm putting money in
the hands of people that need it people
are more than willing to do this but it
does take work you do have to look you
do have to make facebook posts you do
have to jump on facebook with the sole
purpose of trolling through facebook
just looking for collections so that's
the main way to do it but if you're just
trying to make some extra money you can
always purge your own collection i just
purged my own collection and sold 56
pops out of my own collection can you
even tell you can't even really tell
that i did that but purging your
collection is not a bad way to do it and
having a platform built up is a great
way to purge and actually sell what
you're wanting to purge
tip number three is when you actually
sell something it is so important that
you pack well and you communicate with
your buyers don't cheap out and not use
pot protectors don't cheap out and not
use bubble wrap don't cheap out and ship
pops in boxes that are too small pack
well and communicate because if you do
that you'll get repeat buyers you'll get
a lot less upset buyers and you'll be
having a lot less likelihood of getting
chargebacks so you want to make sure you
pack well and communicate and this is
very very very important for single
funko pops i like to use an eight by six
by six box eight by six by six box is
perfect you put your pop in a good pot
protector not the cheap .35 millimeter
ones that won't do anything but protect
it from scratches but something good
something quality wrap that up in some
bubble wrap throw that in your 8x6 take
some butcher paper or some newspaper and
put that on top to fill the void tape
that bad boy up and nine times out of
ten you're gonna be good to go now if
you want to just take it a little step
higher i really like to use boxes from
uline because boxes from uline are
thicker and they have this nice 200
count quality whatever it means that
they they rated to withstand 200 pounds
of pressure you can order from uline you
can order in bulk from uline and they
usually do 24 hours shipping the
shipping is expensive but it's 24 hour
shipping turnaround so if you order a
lot of stuff it's actually really really
worth it so don't cheap out make sure
you use quality packing materials i keep
the same size boxes in stock all the
time for cheap single pops i do eight by
six by fours for nicer single pops i do
eight by six by sixes for two pops i do
ten by seven by five and for four pops i
do ten by eight by eight and four more
than four i do twelve by nine by nine
huge shout out to pop king paul because
he's the one that taught me the
appropriate box sizes to use and then i
keep the same bubble wrap in stock and i
keep the same tape in stock and i keep
the same butcher paper in stock and you
know the same thing that you're buying
all the time and those few boxes will
cover your bases so don't cheap out on
your boxes ship well and communicate
with your buyers and before i mention
the last tip drop me a comment down
below what do you think so far are there
good tips here or is there anything that
i'm missing if you have a tip that i
haven't covered drop it down in the
comment section below
and my last tip and i may very well have
missed a few things but my last tip is
kind of a two-in-one always
sell through paypal if you have that
option paypal has a good way of
protecting its buyers and sellers there
are issues nothing's perfect okay
nothing's perfect but use paypal goods
and services if at all possible and find
yourself a value threshold and always
always always
did i say always without any exception
ensure every package beyond that value
threshold for me it's anything over
fifty dollars is getting automatically
insured now if anything goes priority
you're usually getting an automatic
fifty or a hundred dollars insurance use
pirateship.com it's a great place to set
up kind of your shipping software it's a
website it's free they have great rates
i think any priority box gets an
automatic 100 insurance and then if you
really really really start shipping a
lot get yourself a thermal printer
because you'll save a ton of money on
ink it's going to be very very very
helpful but find yourself a threshold
minus 50 bucks anything above 50 gets
insured 100 for the value of whatever's
being sold because here's a critical
thing that a lot of people don't
understand insurance is to protect you
as the seller not to protect the buyer
if i buy a funko pop from you for 200
and you ship it to me and i've paid
through paypal goods and services and it
gets to me and it's damaged and it's
mangled because ups destroyed it i am
going to file a claim through paypal to
get my 200 back for damaged goods they
will give me my money back and they will
take that money from you
now if you have insured that pop for two
hundred dollars through usps you can
take the pictures that i will have
provided to you of the pop being
destroyed and submit an insurance claim
through usps because you paid the extra
two dollars for the insurance and you
will get your money back if you didn't
file an insurance claim you can't file
an insurance claim but paypal will still
give the buyer their money back for the
damaged goods being delivered it doesn't
matter if it's a hundred dollars or it's
five thousand dollars always insure your
packages because it protects you as the
seller not the buyer and those are my
tips and tricks to sell funko pops and
make a little bit of extra money what do
you think i really tried to hone in on
those and do a good job figuring all of
that out let me know down in the
comments below if there's anything i've
missed or if you have a tip or a trick
that you think works really really
really well for yourself that i didn't
mention and if this is going to be
helpful to you to start shipping and
maybe selling a few funko pops in the
future drop me a comment down below and
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