Comment by stevenicr | Hacker News Reader

Comment by stevenicr | Hacker News Reader

I want something like the Epson FastFoto FF-680W, that can collate and re-sort - and send a list of cards scanned.

I want to take a stack of 100 cards or so, put into a hopper - have them all scanned and a database made of every card put into the stack..

then have software tell the scanner to pull the stack back in and collate / sort it over and over again until the stack is sorted in various ways.. like sort by colors, then sort by alpha..

of course I want the software to pull in pricing info for each card in the table at that point, and then let me give a label, like bulk-blu-9-20-23-stack1A so I can put the stack in a box and come back and pull from it later -

give me an easy scan to scan the label of the box and flash the card to 'remove it from the DB'-

I think a lot of people would use such a hardware setup a lot. This would make life so much easier

For some years I have wanted to send a suggestion to those who could make it happen.. I'd love to help make it a reality in some way. One day.

Sure, those robots exists! Many actually, it's crazy.

If you come to Discord, I will tell you about the robots in the market.

https://discord.gg/u4J5aGU2

Discord is literally the worst place for something like this. A forum or even a subreddit is much better at maintaining a repository of knowledge.

I've got about 2,000 M:TG cards bought between 1995 and 2001 just sitting in a couple boxes collecting dust. I'd love to have a fast way to scan them all and inventory them and figure out what's worth trying to sell and what I should just throw away.

At this point, I'd be willing to pay a 25% commission to just ship the entire boxes somewhere and let them handle it all.

Consider Card Kingdom, they (used to) do exactly this: https://www.cardkingdom.com/purchasing/sell_collection

EDIT: added the (used to)

Consider joining a local MtG group on facebook (yes, I know). There are often a few people willing to buy collections. Get a couple or three to come and take a look and give you an offer.

You can sell your collection on Facebook Marketplace or to game stores that have robots and/or buyers.

Also… the main things the discord does is let people up late notice the stream, including the remote team and our friends and community etc.

Plus they can send bugs directly to the team and get real-time feedback if someone is available.

Plus it includes rooms for buyers and sellers (since we don’t yet have the social marketplace feature we intend).

Discord is fun and useful, highly recommend.

You don't have a way to reach out on your profile but I'd be willing to scan and send you a csv of your collection for easy selling for a low flat rate

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