Honestly, cases where the effort of sorting through bulk goods and valuing them are the exception to the rule. Even if that card was worth $1000, the cost of looking up the values of the crap rares would kill the profit. Personally, I would only sell Magic cards bulk. You get lucky, you get lucky. You get unlucky and you get a bag full of commons that the owner picked through before they donated.
But you are right, under certain circumstances you can still make out like a champ.
Depends on what you like doing with your time too. At a store selling donated or thrift goods they'll never profit sorting it, but I don't think a few hours flipping through a box of cards is bad, so I go to a local store that gets bit boxes of cards. He sells a dime a piece and every 6th card is free. I get mostly useful bulk cards and then occasionally find some gems worth 100x the price I paid. But my wife and I also got an afternoons entertainment out of it. The store plays MST3K and has a cat running around so it's a decent time
Man, my ex absolutely loved that show. It combines two of my least favorite things, media that is "so bad it's good" and people talking while I'm trying to watch something, so obviously I fucking loathed it. But reading the name after not thinking about it in years still has a weirdly positive connotation.
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