With Neopets Trading Cards out of print and quickly becoming very difficult to obtain additional sealed product, I clearly had to find new primary product lines if I wanted to continue in e-commerce. I dabbled in other trading card games like Yu-Gi-Oh, Magic the Gathering, and continued selling Pokemon Cards as well but none came anywhere near the sales I was pulling in from Neopets. I went through a few different toys as well that school year...Marvel Battle Dice and Star Wars Attacktix. Battle Dice never had a 2nd set due, I guess, to some sort of copyright issues over the name. Attacktix did alright for awhile but never emerged as a primary product line. I was getting by with the misc. product lines but wasn't growing any other that in regards to the space my inventory took up. By the end of the school year, May 2006, got everything from my dorm home to my parents in about 3 carloads I believe.
The time period of selling misc. stuff with no real new primary product line lasted much longer than I would of liked. Next school year started up September 2006 and I upgraded from a dorm room with a roommate to an efficiency apartment of all my own. In October of 2006 a World of Warcraft Trading Card Game launched its first set which I had pre-ordered and it did quite well for me. I believe the pre-order price was around $50 per box or so. Just a week or 2 after it launched, everyone was selling out and secondary prices soared to about $100/box. So, without even having to open any up for singles, was able to turn a nice profit. But, obviously being unable to order more for the lower price, that wasn't a very big gig to profit from. Luckily I was still managing to find sealed Neopets product, although at higher prices than I was able to get the stuff for just months prior. However, I was also able to sell the codes for more and more as well. I went through thousands upon thousands of packs/codes which really kept me afloat while trying to find legit replacements for it once the Neopets well ran dry.
Inventory and overall clutter grew during my first few months in my efficiency apartment. About 6 months prior my complete inventory fit under a bed. After 1 semester in the apartment...well....just watch this video (there's no sound)....
The days of selling Neopets trading cards and codes and all the misc. stuff mentioned earlier without finding a new primary product line lasted into the spring. In April of 2007, during spring break, I finally found my new primary product line....
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