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Selling

Decide what to move, list it, record the sale, and see your real P&L.

Selling is the payoff side of the loop: figuring out what's worth moving, getting it listed, and recording what you actually netted so your P&L is honest. Sereal connects all three so a sale flows from decision to realized gain without re-keying.

Decide what to move (Sell Desk)

The Sell Desk is where you work the sell side. Rather than guessing, it surfaces items against your thesis for a position — Sereal's read on whether to hold, trim, or sell based on cost basis, current comps, and the intent you set. You can group items into lots and manage a listing through its lifecycle from here.

The Sell Desk ranks what to act on next across four sections — ready to list, stale listings, trim candidates, and lots. Each section populates as items reach that state, so a fresh collection starts empty.

List it (eBay export)

When you're ready to list cards, export to eBay CSV from Collection. Sereal builds the file from your item data, with a $0-price guard and a future-date guard so bad rows don't ship. After uploading, mark the batch as uploaded so Sereal knows what's live.

Record the sale (Sold Log)

Log every sale in the Sold Log: sale price, fees, and an optional link back to the Collection item it came from. Sereal computes net proceeds and a running total. Linking the item keeps the chain intact — cost basis on one side, sale on the other — so the gain is calculated, not estimated.

See your real P&L

Sold items leave your holdings value (you no longer own them) but stay in your realized P&L — that's the number that tells you how the hobby is actually doing. The dashboard shows Net P&L (green positive, red negative), and at tax time you can export realized gains for your records.

The loop, closed

Own → buy → grade → sell → realize. Each step hands clean data to the next, and the Sold Log + dashboard tell you whether the whole thing is working.

Back to Getting Started, or see Your Collection.

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