Hi all and welcome to 2022!
I hope your holidays were enjoyable wherever you were. Mine were pretty good, but I wish I could have had an extra week. I was just starting to feel properly relaxed when it was time to come home again =/. We've been working hard on your orders and should be able to get them all out tomorrow.
We have a few buylists still coming through, as well as a couple of boxes of MH2 that should come in the next couple of days. Turns out Mighty Ape were selling some pretty cheap MTG stock as part of their Boxing Day Sale.
Another exciting thing while I was away is that I secured my first ever proper business loan. While it doesn't come in until May, it is a significant amount and we are hoping we will be able to expand the business using it.
There's a few goals I have in using it. Basically it allows us to hold debt, something we haven't really been able to do. In the past we've needed to dump harder to move cards (like foils) and excess stock to try and recover those costs asap as often times even a $1500 collection will eat a lot of the money we've managed to save up since buying the last collection, or a case of the latest set (that seem to come out monthly now). So having this loan will mean that we can drop money on collections without worrying so much about moving some if quickly, leaving it more available for you when you want it.
The other thing we are hoping to use the money for is to pick up more old school/reserved list cards for you guys. And cards people actually want as opposed to cards that are mostly priced due to their status on the reserved list rather than actually being good cards. Though this may also require some overseas adventures so that depends a lot on Covid.
Lastly I am hoping that this expansion will give us a workload and financial backing that I can afford to have someone hired full time.
Exciting year moving forward, I hope you are as excited as we are.
- Rose Willis
A reminder that we've also been working hard on the Old School, Fancy Basic Land, and In Stock Foils collections. Be sure to check these out too.
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