Always enjoy these conversations, meeting a new top seller each week.

Today, we're I'm joined by Ryan at Ryan's Card House, one of the top live sellers on eBay. I was telling Ryan in advance there is, no shortage of content coming up from his platform.

My the keyword was, like, there's a lot going on, very, very busy, and we're gonna dig into that and the journey would with that has led to Ryan's card to house is build and climb today.

But without further ado, Ryan, welcome, man. How are you? Good, man. Thanks for having me. Can we talk about maybe social media before we talk about your, kind of journey into building Ryan's Card House?

I've been researching, following on Instagram, TikTok, and there's just so many videos, just highlighting your products that you're you're selling, introducing people to you as a seller.

Maybe just talk about, like, in this era of collecting, selling, trading cards, how big of a role does social media play in what you're doing?

Well, social media is the ultimate, advertising and, connection to the hobby, by far. So, so I I utilize social media.

I mean, it's it's my advertising, source to what we're doing, what new products we're getting in, showing off products coming out, and then really just ripping for fun too and and creating fun moments with, the hobby as well.

So, but, yeah, utilizing, social media is, a huge focus of mine, and it's been one of the main pillars of, my success of, building my business. What what about, like, channels?

Have you found with the audience that you're building and you're nurturing certain channels, work differently? Are you spending more time on Instagram than TikTok? Or maybe just talk about your channel strategy.

Yeah. So I originally started my Instagram basically just as a pure hobbyist, back in 02/2016, just for collecting Pokemon cards and basically showing off the cards that I was excited about when I was opening packs back then.

And, you know, I found out that there was a community on Instagram that I wasn't the only one that liked Pokemon cards.

And I was like, oh, man. There's other people in this world that are bigger nerds nerds than I am and collect Pokemon cards.

So really just, like, having fun sharing that to the community and, like, building a community where we support each other and, kinda share each other's collections.

And that's, like, kinda like being back on. So I utilize Instagram. Like, it's almost feels like being back on the school playground where you're like, hey, Johnny. Like, look at my Charizard.

Like, you can set it, like, showing someone in person. You show it to the world on Instagram. And so it makes you feel connected. It it builds a bond with the community, and that's what makes, you know, the hobby the hobby.

And, so Instagram started for fun. It started as a, pure, you know, taking pictures of my cars that I'm proud of and I'm excited to collect to.

Ultimately, this led into a business along the way and, kinda just grew my Instagram for, like, from the collection side to now the business plus the collection side.

So I utilize Instagram to show off my collection as well as, you know, advertising for my business and, kinda like it's a more Instagram's more of a, community feel.

Like, people are more invested in who you are as a person and a collector on Instagram or what I felt like because I started so long ago.

I really just recently got into TikTok and YouTube shorts. Just recently, I hired a, a social media manager.

His name is Dylan. He's, really changed my social media side of things. So it really started focusing on TikTok especially because we felt like it was the easiest to grow on and the most amount of reach that, we were lacking in.

So we basically just create the same, stuff that we would post on, Instagram, but we just basically make it a little bit different, and we post on three different platforms, which is Instagram, TikTok, and, YouTube shorts.

So we really focus on short form content, which, has been very successful for us.

And, so yeah. So we do three three different posts on three different, platforms and well, what's the same post, but just three different platforms? The it's it seems like Pokemon is having its time or its time again.

It just seems like every conversation I listen to from a collector perspective, from businesses, auction results, live selling, it just seems like the there's the demand is is maybe greater now than ever before.

I I'm not a Pokemon collector, but I I just love following the passion in other categories. Maybe talk, like, twenty twenty five Pokemon, like, what's happening.

Like, how do you describe what's happening to maybe collectors who aren't collecting, TCG or Pokemon, but might have always been curious to maybe dip their toe in those waters? Sure. Yeah.

So I've been collecting, I got back into collecting Pokemon as a doll in 02/2011, and, I've seen the ebbs and flows of Pokemon where it was barely like, there's a very few people collecting it back in 02/2011 to the boom of a slight boom in 02/2016 when, evolutions came out, which was a re essentially a reprint of the original base set, Pokemon cards that first came out in 1999 in America.

And really what's happening right now is Pokemon is bringing back some nostalgic sets from when, adults, like 30 year olds, 40 year olds, you know, upper 20 year olds are were collecting as kids.

And it's bringing back those memories, and those people are seeing the mass social media posts, coming across their feed. And social media is driving all this. So it's coming back with nostalgic feels.

They have money now. They have a job. Right? And so they're gonna be like, oh, man. I always wanna collect the card as a kid. I'm gonna get back into it. Then they have kids, and then their kids wanna collect with their parents.

And, it just started this domino effect where a mass influx of collectors and new people to the hobby have been pouring in over the last few months and within the last year, and the last few years.

And we're just now seeing just so many people come into the hobby, that is overwhelming the, you know, Pokemon and the printing.

And, it's just been an incredible thing to witness, good and bad because of not enough product. So many the high demand is there. So, it's healthier than it's ever been, but as well as, there's just so many people entering that.

Everything just kinda needs to be Pokemon needs to catch up with the printing demand of how many actually people are in the hobby right now.

I I wanna we're gonna dig maybe into that, deeper a little later, but I I'd love to maybe learn more about you. Like, we learned about you you as a collector a little bit. But and if you wanna touch on that, more, I'd love to hear it.

But curious, like, what were you doing before you decided to go all in on Ryan's card house? Sure. So I out of high school, well, in high school, I didn't really know what I wanted to do, for a career. I didn't wanna go to college.

I wasn't really good at school, essentially. And so I was like, I gotta do some kind of, you know, trade school or something like that. But there was, an ROP fire science class that I took in high school, when I was a senior.

And so it was basically, like, interning with the fire department, and, I was really hooked on that. And so when I got out of high school, you had to go to EMT school and paramedic school and fire academy and all that kind of stuff.

And so in 02/2011, when I was in paramedic school, I had a side job, working as an EMT because it's a next step to paramedic, but I had an insane amount of bills piling up.

And I ended up finding my old Pokemon collection in my parents' basement, and I started going through them.

Like, wow. These are from when I was nine years old in 1999. I had almost a complete set of Charizard Blastoise, Venusaur, all the base set unlimited cards.

And I was like, wonder how much these are worth now? So I go on eBay and, like, look them up, and at the time, I had about $800 worth of cards.

I'm like, that's literally my almost my monthly bill of paramedic schools. Like, I'm gonna sell these, and then I actually I'm gonna put them on eBay.

I sold them, and then I started thinking. I was like, I wonder if because it's right around this age. I was 21 at the time, and I was like, all these kids are moving out of their parents.

They're, you know, getting real jobs. They're going off you know, they're still in college. I wonder if their parents are selling them in garage sales or they're selling them somewhere else. Right?

So on the weekends after after school you know, on the weekends of school, I would try to find all the garage sales I could and go and find Pokemon cards, because that was, like, my interest and then and I was gonna see what they had.

And so started going to garage sales, buying some Pokemon cards, and then flipping them on the side to pay for my paramedic school.

And I end up finding some pretty cool, lots and collections. And one collection I found for literally a binder I bought for $5, started going through it, and I made a couple grand off of $5 binder.

So that was my story of when I first started this, and I just got addicted ever since. And I just started flipping on the side and collecting as well and started collecting all the sets and base that again back in 02/2011.

What when was the moment where you realized, like, maybe this is something that I can be doing all the time, and maybe I can put this idea of, being a paramedic on ice for a little bit and test this out. Yeah.

So this was I I consider this as just my hobby of kinda like flipping on the side, and then, really, after I got through paramedic school and all my bills paid, it started just becoming, like, flipping cards to get the cards I really wanted to collect and then building my collection by not utilizing my money from my normal job.

And this didn't come to where it was gonna be a full time job until right before COVID, where Pokemon started escalating quite largely.

And all these booster boxes of old Pokemon cards like Team Rocket and they said like, I'm gonna grab one right here.

Like, these boxes, people would have started hitting me up on Instagram. They're like, I found, you know, I found this box underneath my bed that I was supposed to get my kit for Christmas, and I don't know.

Do it now. I bought it for $99. So, like, now it's worth $10. So, so I was like and I started thinking. I was like, I wonder if I could do box breaks.

So opening up the the boxes and and doing box breaks. So I started YouTube channel, and I sold packs from my Instagram, started doing breaks on YouTube, and that started becoming more and more and more successful.

And and then it just blew up from there. And then I had, you know, the first company, you know, that did live streaming hit me up, and I started on a different company, for live streaming.

I was there for three and a half years. And I remember I was looking at live streaming, and I was like, it really didn't really hit me until the live stream company hit me up, and I was with the first couple months.

I was like, wow. This is actually something that I could do, like, on a daily basis.

I remember looking at it because it was so new. There was only one person on in the morning but from 5AM to, like, 8AM till the next person got on. So it was, like, barely any competition on at the time.

And I was like, I either decide to wake up at four in the morning and beat this guy out and be the first person on, or I just don't do this and I just kinda just collect still and, kinda just do my thing that I'm doing now.

And I remember making that decision. I was like, I gotta do this and wake up at four in the morning every day and get on streaming and build a community, and that's what I did.

And ever since and that was early twenty twenty two or early sorry. Late twenty. I can't even remember my years. But, COVID. It it's a border for all of them.

Like, 2021, essentially. But, from there, it just just kept growing and growing and growing. And then I came so my page grew so much, and we're moving so much product. I was like, I gotta hire a streamer.

And I think I could hire another streamer and another streamer, and then we just kept growing and growing and growing and to where we are now and, became one of the biggest, life selling Pokemon streamers, out there.

So How much fun is it to not only build a business around something you love, but, like, build a business around something that you're you have, like, deep nostalgia for?

Like, maybe just, like, stepping into work every day and doing what you're doing.

Like, talk about how satisfying that is for you. Nothing beats it. Nothing beats it at all. Just from the pure nostalgic for you know, of it and being able to do and work with what you love is the ultimate success.

Right? Like, people say, like, if you ever you do something, you love, you'll never work the day in your life. So that's what I feel like every day.

It's I enjoy coming into my office. I enjoy selling Pokemon cards, opening Pokemon cards, and building a community and, like, the feeling of community, that enjoys the same thing and building something around that is like no other.

So it's, it still doesn't feel real, and it's something that, I won't take for granted.

So it's absolutely amazing. Community gets the word community gets tossed around a lot in the hobby, and I'll I'll hear it and I'll see, you know, like, you know what?

Those things represent a community to me, and then I'll see someone else talking about it. I'm like, I'm not sure that represents the type of community that, like, I wanna be a part of or how I think about it.

For you, when you think of community, like, what are those traits that you aspire for your community to have, and how it serves the collectors in your audience?

Sure. I I I think it's taking care of one another and making people feel that I we have so many people that come into our streams.

Like, if we miss a day or someone's outside, like, they like, hey. Where were you guys at? Like, that's part of my my life.

Like, is this part of it's kinda crazy to say and think about when when people reach out to us. It's like, you guys are part of my life. What makes me happy every day is going into your stream and feeling like I'm a part of something.

So that's community. When we provide something positive for someone else and make a positive impact for their life, they don't have to buy from us. There's there's a lot of people.

I say, like, 80% of people don't even buy from us. They just literally wanna be there, talk to us, see Pokemon cards be opened. Maybe they can't afford it, or maybe they just don't wanna buy at the time, but it doesn't matter to me.

It's about building that community, creating a, safe environment, and people for them to enjoy themselves and get out of the normal day to day, and and they could kinda remove themselves from all the negativity in their life maybe and come into a positive, you know, stream and and chat with us and enjoy the enjoy the company.

I wanna hit live selling. You made mention of a period of time where there was, like, one other seller. And, obviously, today, that's not the case.

Right? It live selling is such a topic. There are so many people doing it. Maybe talk about where you think the industry is at right now with live selling and maybe where where it might be headed towards.

Yeah. So I believe when I first started live streaming, I was one of the probably the first five Pokemon live streamers to ever do it, like, on a live platform.

Right? Like, not YouTube, but, like, live selling, like, essentially, like, live selling is, I believe, is the future, the absolute future of retail selling, to the point of even brick and mortars of normal companies.

Like your even like your Ross's or your Kohl's or your Nordstrom's rack, they're gonna get into live selling because that's where the market's going to where.

So I if you're a retail store, if you buy and sell Pokemon cards, sports cards, sneakers, coins, currency, anything, look into live selling because I promise it's going to be the future, and you'll be left behind if you don't get into live selling as soon as possible.

So the live selling aspect is only growing, and it's the future of of retail shopping as well.

What are, you've touched on a a few of those just in the conversation community aspect, but maybe hit on, like, some of the some of the benefits that you've observed through building your business with live selling.

And and if there are any negatives or drawbacks, what are some of those that you'd call out?

Sure. The benefits of live selling, I mean, just the global reach of audience, number one, being and then people too, being able to create the community, create that connection with someone via me like, we're on a podcast right now.

We're talking to each other. They could create a bond, with that streamer or with that seller and then ask questions in real time. So imagine, like, the difference of going to a website and looking at an item.

Be like, oh, man. I wonder if this or that. You have to, like if you really had a question, you gotta email the company. They're gonna get back to you within a day or two.

You have a live a live person selling to you, and you could ask any question you want, get a real time answer, and decide if you wanna buy that or not. That is an amazing thing in itself.

And, so I believe that is what sets live selling apart from anything else. Is it through your experience, has there been any drawbacks that you've you've seen or any bumps in the road that you've had overcome with live selling?

I mean, not really. Like, live selling is just all the normal business bumps, you know, of, scaling and, you know, really, our our main thing right now is, like, we're scaling so fast.

It's just, keeping up with the demand because Pokemon is so crazy. So just really scaling and hiring employees that, that essentially could do a good job and and wanna be here and wanna be part of, what we're building.

But other than that, like, as of right now, like, obviously, there's always gonna be little bumps in the road.

But with live selling right now, I only see positives in it right now. I wanna hit on maybe brand and, like, the brand you're building, and you just mentioned hiring, bringing new people on.

Right? Those are representatives of the brand and your vision. I think, especially, it's interesting with, like, a live selling business where your people are so much your product. Right? They're front and center.

And Yes. You you I I would imagine. Right? You're you're trying to make sure that, like, your vision for the brand is carried through through your people because they're the front lines to your potential customer.

Maybe talk about, like, how you make sure in this unique and and new age environment that, like, the people that you're bringing on to represent your brand, have a full understanding of the vision, the culture, and everything that you have are set in place and are currently building?

Yeah. So like you mentioned, it's so important to have the right people as a streamer, if you're running a streaming company.

You want them to represent what you represent, and one person can ruin your business or ruin the reputation of your business.

So we go through a pretty extensive hiring process. It's not just like you apply and then you interview once and then you're hired and you're good to go.

We literally screen everyone. We go through multiple interviews. We go through an extensive training program to where they watch it's it's between a four and a six week training program.

So you get two interviews, and then you actually get to come in for that training portion. So it's basically we're evaluating you. It's a working interview, and we slowly integrate you into it.

And then after that four to six weeks, then we kinda decide if you're the right fit for streaming at Ryan's Card House. So just to make sure that you fit the brand and you're the right person to represent Ryan's Card House.

The the the expansion of the industry, the hobbies obviously evolving, like, how do you make sure that you are keeping a pulse not only on the current needs and, like, the products that your your audience wants, but also, like, the the education component?

Because I would imagine as the hobbies or the Pokemon community is growing, like, there are new people entering who don't really know anything. So, like, how do you make sure that, like, education is a part of, like, what you're doing?

Education is huge. Every single day is at the part of our training is we are the educators. People come to our streams to educate themselves on the product coming out on Pokemon in general.

So part of that four to six week, training program too is you basically have to know everything about Pokemon and what's coming out, and our streamers do their homework before that set even comes out, what the sets like because people wanna know, like, okay.

What's the set cost? What's the biggest card out of that set? What does it go in a PSA 10 or a nine? Or what's the poll rates? And so and that goes along with passion for the hobby.

Right? So, like, we hire people that are passionate about this hobby. So your homework never stops. You don't just start streaming, and all of a sudden you don't have to look into anything.

Right? Like, you're always looking Pokemon moves so fast. There's a Japanese set that comes out, and then the next month, English set comes out, and it's just boom, boom, boom.

And so just educating ourselves on a daily basis and really diving deep into, Pokemon and just what we're selling is we're the expert, the category experts, and we, educate the people that come into our streams, and, we're glad to do that.

So, I take very, I take pride in that, and, people know that when they come to Ryan's Card House, they could trust that we provide that, correct information to them.

You referenced earlier that you before eBay, you were you were with another streaming company, moved over to eBay live.

Maybe talk about just, like, that that transition and that experience and maybe just, like, the the the eBay platform, doing your selling through eBay, like, what that experience has been like? Yeah. So, I was on another platform.

I'm not gonna mention the name right now, but I grew to the biggest, Pokemon seller on that platform and where we had, at the time, over 200,000 followers when I left there and, created a huge community over there.

EBay reached out to me and essentially asked me to help them, build the eBay live platform, with the expertise that I had over three and a half years on the other platform.

And I really want I like the feel of building something from the ground up and really making a really good product, and that's what I really love to do.

So I'm really having fun going through, you know, this last, essentially, like, five months, helping eBay Live grow.

There's some growing pains, but at the same time, it's good because we're getting all the bugs out, and there's a lot of growth going to be happening in this twenty twenty five year.

And, it's gonna be absolutely amazing, and I believe eBay Live is gonna be the best live selling platform, by the end of twenty twenty five as, of the the direction we're going. It's gonna be nothing but up from here.

So I really enjoy helping eBay Live build, and, it's gonna be incredible. With the volume you're doing in the the new sets, new products, even old products, like, how do you think about the inventory at Ryan's Card House?

Like, how are you thinking about buying? How are you thinking about selling? Like, how does that all work?

And you don't need to go into every last detail, but help us understand how a, a power seller like you thinks about, you know, bringing an inventory and turning that inventory and just keeping that ship running.

So number one thing about inventory, is connections in the hobby. Connections, connections, connections.

And that's why building your social media is so important because people will really reach out to you to sell their product because there's a lot of people in this industry, especially in sports and Pokemon, that they have their side gigs or their main jobs are just to get product and sell to streamers, get product and flip it.

Right? And so when you're known to be a streamer, they'll start reaching out to you and through a big social media, they'll start reaching out to you and and start selling stuff to you or, like, hey.

I got this person. I know this person has this. That person has this.

So I utilize a lot of just the normal community to help me get inventory that I normally can't get because I do have a distro, but I'm getting I don't know if you know this, but distros are cutting and cutting and cutting because there's so much demand.

And I've had my inventory, or my, product cut by over 50% for my No More Distro, over the last six months, just because of demand.

So that's the thing. So we have to get social media is huge. Connections are even bigger, and take care of your people, take care of your connections, and, just network.

Network. Network. Network. Go to shows. Reach out to people. Get yourself out there. That's the number one way you could get product.

And, once you do that, it's a lot easier to get product, and it's very doable. I know that people, when they first start trying to get into streaming, they get very discouraged that they can't find any product out there.

But it take people have to realize it takes time to get into the community. It takes time to network. But as long as you do the work, you'll get your network, and you'll get the product that you need for streaming.

Dude, I I love this. Like, it's like you're going on offense to to mitigate risk, and you have a you know, you're a top seller, and you still have your distribution cutting it off because of, you know, all the demand coming in.

How like, there are hurdles in this business that you're trying to run and you're trying to scale.

Like, the new demand, the new actors, the new play like, people coming in, people leaving, like, that's gotta be really disruptive, especially as you're trying to, like, fortify and build this business and be build this brand at the same time.

And that relies so much on, like, product being available so that you can offer it to your community.

Like, there's hurdles. There's obstacles that go along with it. Like, how do you manage that, on a day to day basis to make sure you're always in that offensive, mindset?

Always pivoting. My one my one thing I tell to my to my sales manager is we have to be able to pivot every single day. If something doesn't work, have another plan or pivot to something else. Find it, make it happen, and, so we do.

So if something doesn't work, we just gotta pivot, and that's a a strength that I try to teach, all my streamers and my sales manager and to be able to and and and something that I've been learning over the last few years is just when something doesn't work, don't give up.

There's always another way. Pivot around it and figure out another way to make it happen. How do you think about, differentiation and just making sure what you're doing stands out amongst everyone else trying to sell in this category?

Yeah. So I like to say that we don't sell Pokemon cards. We sell entertainment and community. We sell entertainment.

People will come to our streams because they like to be there. They could go to any other stream. They could go to I mean, really not right now, but they could essentially go to Target or Walmart, get the same product.

It's kinda getting cut right now, but at the same time, they can go to other streams. So what we do is we create entertainment and connection with people.

That's why. Community over everything, connection over everything, entertainment over everything, and make people want to be be excited to click into Ryan's Card House.

We want it not be boring. We wanna be exciting. We wanna be respectful. We wanna create a community feel.

And for them to say that I'm happy I went to Ryan's Card House today, Even if they don't buy anything, they're happy to be there because they're entertained. They feel that they're part of something, and, they're having fun.

So being exciting is our number one thing and and entertaining. I think one of the biggest challenges that I've observed businesses as they're scaling is just to, like, maintain that level of, like, personalization at scale.

And, right, I'm sure there's people who've been buying cards from you for for years now, and you know those people who show up regularly.

But, like, how do you think about maybe delivering, like, is is personalized of experience customer experience as you can with customers who are who are coming in regularly spending money and are are there for the entertainment?

Like, what ways do you think about just making sure those experiences are as personalized as possible with some of your top customers? Really, just recognition.

To me, it's it's making sure that your customers are recognized, making sure that you know their name, you're talking to them, making sure that they they're, feeling like they're welcomed, and they're feeling like there's someone in your stream is what we find to be obviously, we care about our customers.

We care about them coming back. It's a it's a huge thing for us, And recognition is what we really focus on, making them feel that they're recognized, and they're they're a part of the commute, like, a part of it.

So recognition and that's all really everyone wants too is to be recognized, to be a part of it. So recognition is huge. What, I'm sure the growth is exciting.

A lot of new eyeballs and a lot of new opportunities. But maybe, like, talk about what excites you most about what's happening in the hobby and in the industry in 2025. So in Pokemons, is the growth of Pokemon?

Right now, it seems a lot of people are kinda discouraged about the product demand and how much Pokemon is printing and not printing enough, and there's so many people mention scalpers all the time.

But, really, like, for example, like, the new Japanese set or English set on preorder on on the website of Pokemons on Pokemon Center.

And there was, what, over 10 does it, like, 10,000 people on the website? On the what was it on the website? 2,000,000. There's 2,000,000 people on the Pokemon Center website.

On release And on release day, and there was only a certain amount of ETBs to go around, and people are calling people scammer or, scalpers. That's not the case at all. That's just the demand.

There there's there's that many people that want Pokemon right now. Maybe and they're only gonna get, like, one each, like, a limit. So there's people that wanna rip for themselves. There's people that wanna collect with their kids.

There's people that wanna collect, with the family. The man the man is just there. So what I'm excited about is the growth of Pokemon and the growth of the hobby, and Pokemon will recognize this and start printing more to demand.

They will. It's just gonna take some time. And just people enjoying a hobby and the community and being able to go and it's just all these card shows and people are there, and you see the same people, and there's new people coming in.

That's, like, the most fun thing about this, about, again, mentioned our community many million times, but it really is.

And just the health of the hobby growing and growing and growing because I want trading cards to last to my kids, to my grandkids, and I think that it's on its way to do that.

There's just some bumps in the road right now with the growth, and it's not Pokemon didn't expect to handle this growth, but, it will get better. I promise.

What what the the hard part with growth in trading cards, I think, always is, like, what the decisions the manufacturers make to either, you know, satisfy that growth and print more or just remain as usual and, you know, the cards are just harder, rare, and scarcer to get.

Like, where where do you stand in terms of just, like, the long term collectible category that is Pokemon? Like, do you think that the manufacturer should be printing more?

Do you like it how it is today? I know it's complicated because you're a business that relies on selling and more is probably good for you, but maybe just, like, long term Mhmm. Pokemon is a collectible category.

Like, how do you think about supply and demand? I think right now, I honestly think Pokemon is print they're printing nearly I think they have to up up their printing a little bit to meet demand right now.

I really think what's going on as well is the distribution side of things. It's kinda just uneven in how they dis distribute. Because I know people that people hit me up, like, hey.

I got 10,000 packs of the new set, and I can't I got didn't do that much for my own distro. So I think that stuff's gonna come out where it's gonna be better reallocated and kind of, diversified more between, companies and people.

And I think that's what's gonna show very soon, and it's gonna be a lot better, for distribution, to get a lot more.

So I think there's some some kind of, issue going on with that that's gonna come out, but, I think that we're not too far away from that essentially being a little bit better to get product easier, for the normal person as well.

I I always like to try to learn about, like, pivotal moments between that you of cards you sold or moments from live selling.

Like, since you've been maybe on eBay live, like, has there been any standout moments of a a night of sales, specific box, cards, anything that stands out to you that maybe has a a really fun story associated with it?

Like, that was something I sold on eBay live, you're saying?

Yes. Let's see. Well, I haven't done it yet. I mean, I hope to do I have a first edition base set box, which is the original. I'm waiting to do it, but I have original first edition base set box from 1999.

It's roughly right around, like, $220,000. So we're we're riding that out. So, hopefully, in, like, October, we should be breaking that on eBay live as I'm hoping. So don't call me on that month, but it's gonna happen.

I it's gonna happen this year. But other boxes, we did I I had a really cool actually, a really cool case. So I've end up finding a original long they call it hanger packs from 1999.

It's it was hung in a grocery store, like, just packs you pull off the shell the the rack for $3. 99 back in the day. One of the grocery store owner's son hit me up on Instagram. He just he follows me.

He's like, hey. My dad opened up the safe. He forgot he had it. Sealed case he was supposed to put on his grocery store. It's closed down now. The grocery store's closed down. Do you wanna buy it? And I said, yeah.

And so there was, a hundred and or, yeah, a 44 packs in there, And we sold it on eBay live, and we got to open up every single pack out of that. And that was by far the the most fun rip I've ever done. So That's that's amazing.

Back to the connections and, the social media being a primary driver for a lot of your business activity. Maybe talk about just I'd love for you just to highlight, like, the the way like, where people can find you.

Like, if they're looking to jump into a stream, how often it happens. Like, maybe just talk about your your different events or or things Ryan card card Card House hosts on a regular basis.

Sure. Yeah. So, my main page is Instagram, Ryan's underscore card house. We post all of our advertising on there for eBay live and what we're doing and what we're and what's coming up.

Anything I get in my in my collection that's new, I post there as well as TikTok, Ryan's underscore card house, all the same name, and then YouTube as well, Ryan's underscore card house.

And then on eBay live, same name, Ryan's underscore card house, on eBay on and on eBay live.

And we're live seven days a week, twenty hours a day. Crazy. Do you yeah. That's insane. Do you do you do you have do you have a favorite character or a favorite card?

Charizard is my favorite character. Pretty original, but, I'm a Charizard kid, so, I like Charizard. So base at Charizard. I have almost a whole collection of, one through p one PSA one through 10, a base at Charizards.

And then my favorite thing in my collection is I have a base set uncut sheet from the original 1999, and this belonged to I bought it off the CEO's nephew of Wizards of the Coast, which is the original printing company of Pokemon back in 1999.

So as framed hanging up on hanging up my wall right here, and there's seven basic charges on it as well.

So that's the favorite thing in my collection. It's one of the rarest things that, is out there as well in the Pokemon community. Amazing.

Before I let you get out of here, maybe offer some piece of feedback for a listener out there who's been contemplating maybe starting their own business in the hobby and anything that you've learned from your journey along the way and advice you'd give them.

Yeah.

So if you're brand new starting the hobby, you love Pokemon cards, you wanna start streaming or any cards or anything, whether you're doing coins, currency, Pokemon cards, sports cards, whatever it is, it's it's gonna take time, and and that's okay.

And just start small, and then every day, just do progression just once a day. Just every day, I'll do a little bit better, a little bit better.

And just slowly build your business, and don't go crazy and spend a bunch of money on equipment or anything like that. Like, just start slow, start small, and it's okay just to start small and just grow your way through it.

Because a lot of people, what they do is they think they should be somewhere where, like, I am I'm at or, someone else that just below me or something like that, but they didn't realize that this took me like, I've been in this hobby for, I don't know, a long time, fifteen years, sixteen, seventeen years, and then I've been doing, you know, streaming for the last five, six years.

And so it takes a while to grow. And I was very small four years ago, and it just takes time to grow. So just realize that and just work at it every day and don't give up because people give up, in the very beginning stages.

As soon as you get through that, you'll be fine and successful. Just be consistent as much as possible. Consistency is huge every day. Stream every day. You can find him at Ryan's Card House.

This was a ton of fun. Loved learning from one of eBay's top live sellers. Ryan, man, appreciate it. Looking forward to doing this again down the road. Yes, sir. Nice meeting you, Brad. Thank you so much.