>>5868468Even if you know what you're doing (read: buy the right things and sell them at the right time), you'll seldom make more than twice a product's MSRP. Combine that with the huge amount of effort you have to invest in keeping up to date on the market, buying toys, and selling them (finding buyers ain't easy), and you'll be lucky to break even, if not outright lose out. Not to mention, both the Western and Japanese markets are horrendously unpredictable - the Western market is dictated largely by fickle normalfag fads, so items can soar or plummet in value over mere weeks, and the Japanese market is unpredictable because a figure's demand can be completely shattered at any time by the announcement of a reissue or similar figure. Not to mention, finding buyers is an enormous hassle - most nerds are pedantic poorfags. Just because you can find a rare Pokemon card for hundreds of dollars on eBay, doesn't mean that anyone will actually pay hundreds of dollars for the card.
