How To MAKE MONEY From FOOTBALL SHIRTS! (Investing)

i always get so many questions along the

lines of the same topic

ellis how do you make money from

football shirts or ellis

can you make money from football shirts

well welcome to today's video

the short answer is yes you can make

money from football shirts

the long answer is a lot more confusing

and a bit more detailed than that

so we're going to cover both today strap

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just to be clear before we proceed i'm a

collector of shirts

i think sometimes people get confused

and think that

i am a reseller i think maybe because of

the way

i positioned the older mystery boxes and

football shirt hunting

people think i'm always looking to sell

stuff on that i get and the reality of

it is

i am just a collector i sell stuff from

the mystery boxes to try and break even

but

at my heart of this whole thing i'm a

collector

oh look at that i'm showing off the

messy shirts

on that note of me being a youtuber

actually it means that when i go to sell

my shirts i have an

audience to push them to and showcase

the shirts

too not everyone has that so if i was to

become like

a reseller i would be in a much

healthier position

than a lot of people due to me already

having an audience

there initially like most people that

get into reselling

have to start from scratch and this is

something we'll talk about as we get on

but basically my scenario of selling

shirts

is a lot different to a lot of people

also speaking of my shirts

you guys always ask ellis how much is

your shirt collection

actually worth if you guys hit 1 500

likes on this video

next week we'll have a video up where i

talk about the value

of my shirt collection at this current

point let's start with the obvious

buying and selling football shirts on

for profit i know it's not something

that collectors such as myself

are overly keen on due to the fact that

it makes the prices

for the market go up and it makes it

harder to obtain shirts

in the long run because the prices go up

and genuine collectors are being beat

into shirts

by people who are looking to flip them

for profit but then

obviously the flip side from that is

people who have a collection of shirts

as the market goes up their collection

in value will also go up as well

however this can be done for short-term

gain

sites like ebay gumtree facebook

marketplace

places physically like charity shops

second-hand stores

car boot sales are all great places to

pick up shirts

incredibly cheap and then

these places are great places to pick up

shirts cheap

obviously you can then do what you want

with them but if you're looking to make

profit this is a place where

stock can be sourced however please bear

in mind

when you're starting from scratch with

zero followers

it is incredibly tough to start yourself

up as a new business

especially in the football shirt space

where there are so many

amazing sellers already like i've made a

video on this before

unlike how to start a football shirt

collection there are so many amazing

sellers in this community already

so you're going to find it tough there's

also a lot that is involved with it

photoing shirts ensuring your shirts are

properly stored

ensuring that the listings are correct

ensuring that every shirt you have

is genuinely legit because if you sell

one fake

that's it your reputation is damaged

massively

you need to as a seller be the

knowledgeable

and the person is on the ball when it

comes in regards to your shirts

just realized i went you need to be the

knowledgeable what does that mean

ellis you idiot so i guess my answer in

regards to starting from scratch is

you can make money in the long run but

it's an incredibly long

and tedious process and there's just

definitely better ways to invest your

money

i'd probably say if you're looking at it

purely from a financial

or business standpoint you probably best

just

invest in some shares or something i

don't know just not fabric

investing is where i think there is

money to be made long term

as you've seen with the football shirt

market it has risen

ridiculously mainly from like 2015

onwards

it's exploded heavily in 2020 and i

think maybe there will be a point where

it stabilizes a tiny bit but i think in

regards to long term

the market is only going to continue to

rise and i think

everyone in the space kind of knows that

some people are pretending they didn't

know the market was going to rise

even though they're part of the reason

the market has risen

you naughty naughty you teasing me

anyway there is two sides to this

there's a side that think the shirt

market is going to collapse and prices

will return

to like really cheap amounts and then

there's the side the ice

ah my funny bow and then there's the

side of the fence that i

sit on which only sees the shirt market

going up

specifically the retro shirt market my

reasoning for this is

as the years continue to go on

especially from the 90s where now

some of the shirts from the 90s are

going to be 30 years old already

they're going to be harder and harder to

obtain and as more and more of them

continue to get a little bit of damage

on them continue to get a few tears

the more people wear them out and about

the more people wear their euro 96

england shirt to events like this and

then this happens

that is actually a very good example

retro england shirts are ones that

probably get ruined more than

other shirts due to the way that we

celebrate goals and the people wear them

quite a lot in terms of like when a

tournament comes around

if it's covered in dark fruits that's

another mint conditioned shirt

off the market so therefore the price of

the mint condition ones that are still

there

are going to be more desirable and the

value for them is going to go up

so essentially my opinion is the retro

market

is going to continue to rise because

shirts are only getting rarer

they're only going to be harder to find

in the condition and in turn

i think long term the retro market will

steadily rise

so investing in shirts something to

consider straight away is

this is not financial advice this is

purely me just saying

what i think is gonna happen with the

shirt market what i think

the best way to invest in shirts if you

can afford to do so

it's just all my opinion every bit of

this is my opinion

and my opinion usually is wrong

also as i just said if you're going to

be doing this

only ever spend what you can afford i

know it's obvious

i know i always say it but it needs to

be reiterated

do not put yourself in financial

difficulty over buying some football

shirts like

there's better things you can spend your

money on these should be either seen as

something

you get on top of your regular thing you

shouldn't basically be

moving your finances around to

accommodate shirts

let idiots like me do that right so say

you're investing right now for the next

five to ten years what should you invest

in

in my opinion one huge tip i have is

name sets

and player names shirts with iconic

player names on the back

will always be more desirable and more

valuable

than the base shirt itself see some of

these examples

on screen right now from classic

football shirts

even with some more modern shirts we're

already seeing this like an inbappe

monaco shirt

i saw one sell for 200 pound the other

month that shirt was from 2015

200 pound just because it had mbappe's

name on the back

that is mental however with player names

in the moment it's often hard to tell

which player

is going to go on to have an iconic

career and the name set would be more

desirable

i would say this is down to like almost

a risk and reward if you look at for

example

if you were to get a mold shirt with

harland on the back

i've never seen one for sale but there

will be ones in existence

so if you were to have a harland mould

shirt when he was still a wonder kid

he wasn't really breaking any records or

anything when he was at mould but he was

still a talent

if you'd have invested in that shirt

then you'd have done

very well for yourself so i think the

best way i would say

in terms of risk and reward is trying to

find wonder kids maybe investing in

their shirts

once again not financial advice this is

just my opinion on the topic

but if you can find one the kids maybe

at more obscure clubs who will then

you predict to go on to greatness then

maybe that is a great way to

try and play the game a bit in terms of

risk and reward and thinking ah

that guy might have a great career let's

invest in that but

the thing of wonderkids for every one

earlying harland

there's about 50 wonder kids that either

don't go on to have a great career at

all

or they become mediocre and not iconic a

player off the top of my head

i remember there was a lot of hype about

sebastian droussi

from the argentinian league a few years

ago he then moved to zenitz and

petersburg

and i haven't heard anything from him

since so it's players like that

where you may have bought his shirt and

thought oh he's gonna have a great

career

there's obviously two right now who are

pretty safe bets in harland

and bappe so if i was to suggest you

investing in anyone in this current crop

of players

i think you could probably safely say

they're the two that for the next decade

it seems to be there there is a lot of

factors for this as well however

so i'm not saying specifically only buy

shirts of wonder kids on their back

because

like i said a lot of the time it won't

work out but if you have a real life for

talent and you back yourself

and you see a player like harland an

obscure club you're like

jesus then you would have done really

well and there's two obvious players for

this generation in terms of

who you should be looking to get names

of and if you were looking to invest

that is and it's obviously

harland and bappe i'm aware me telling

you to invest means more people will do

it

and make them less desirable so maybe

don't

your bankers though are iconic players

iconic players that whose names you know

are going to be spoken about for decades

there's even some great examples right

now from the 90s

people still bang on about del piero

people still talk about maldini

people still talk about nesta people

always talk about

astute there are so many players from

the 90s like gascoigne

that people still talk about now and

will continue to do so

so therefore their shirts are more

valuable

than you know say who's another player

who played for a team who i

am definitely going to sit here and

think about and not get

players that did mediocre aren't as

desirable as the point i'm trying to

make

as i said iconic players are your

bankers

there's two obvious ones right now who

are coming to the end of their careers

can you think of them pablo hernandez

and mates click of course two of the

most iconic football players of all time

messi that's iniesta not ronaldo but

he's also iconic

what a bloody player it does amaze me

that ronaldo is 36

has children and we all just allow him

to go

every time he scores a goal why do we

not call him out for that that is

ridiculous ibrahimovic gets to call

himself a lion and a god

could you imagine if i started doing

that you'd think

but anyway we're obviously going to be

talking about players like messi ronaldo

iniesta javi modric sergio ramos

players like that they're going gonna be

talked about for decades upon decades

and as people get older is people get

nostalgic

looking back at these players especially

messi and ronaldo

because they're just freaks of nature

who in my opinion

we're not going to see a duo like that

for ages i know people say harlandon and

bappe but

they're going to reach great levels but

they're not going to reach the levels of

these two men

we're so blessed to have seen messi and

ronaldo

and it's mental that it was in the same

era as well like

absolutely mind-blowing but anyway as

decades go on and people like myself get

older

we are going to look back on players

like messi and ronaldo

with more nostalgia which makes their

shirts more desirable

makes people like me want their shirts

so therefore the market for them goes up

the prices of the shirts go up too it's

simple

and i think that's something that is

very obviously going to happen

the same can obviously be said for club

legends like gerard

lampard skulls players like that their

shirts are always going to be more

desirable too

these are more desirable for obvious

reasons fans of clubs are always going

to have sentimental feelings

towards their favorite players when they

were growing up and these players like

gerard and lampard especially who have

only just recently retired

their shirts aren't going to have

rocketed too much at this current point

but i reckon if you look back in five or

ten years time from now

if anyone's watching this five years in

the future did i still do youtube i

doubt it i don't know what

i'm doing in five years if i'm still on

youtube

something's gone well in all seriousness

if you look in five or ten years time

you will not be able to pick up a gerard

or lampard shirt

for around 30 to 40 quid it's just it's

not going to be the case

also i know it sounds obvious but the

crazy designs

and the designs from title winning or

like champions league

fa cup winning seasons they're always

the most desirable shirts for fans

because they even look back

nostalgically on the way the team

performed and they want to have the

shirt

associated with that run or two the

shirt design

is so mental that it's so out there

compared to everything else the club has

that the value for that goes up to see

for example

the bruce banana see for example the

norwich kit that looks like budge

stuff like that always becomes more

desirable two obvious things if you're

looking at this from a purely financial

aspect

thing one never get your own name or a

family member's

name on the back of a shirt if you

wanted to get it purely for the monetary

value

obviously of your own name on it a

family member's name for like a marquee

birthday or something

that holds sentimental value but it's

specific to only you or your family

member

if you're looking to invest purely for

financial reasons

then get like either a player name on

the back or just don't get any name

but like i'm saying purely for a

financial aspect

invest not in your own name on the back

because you'll get stuck with sternolov

harry kniv shaheed

they're they're my classics and i know

some of you are going to hate me for

saying it

but you know it's coming fakes do not

hold their value

in the long term if you buy a fake shirt

you're not going to be able to resell it

for anything so just bear that in mind

if you're someone who

is looking to collect fakes for the

future no one's going to want them

we don't want your dirty fakes so there

are my thoughts and feelings

on this topic i'm aware that it's really

one of them things that

if you're really good at it you can

probably do really well

and you're not you won't do well my

opinion is basically

short term i think you'll find it very

hard due to the fact that there's so

many amazing established sellers in this

space

that's not at all to say you shouldn't

give it a crack if it's something you're

looking to do

i'm just saying financially it'd

probably be wiser to try and

look to invest your money in something

else on the other side from that though

long term i think there is great

potential in investing in shirts

we've seen it already happen over the

last 30

20 10 years the second-hand shirt market

is real and in my opinion it's only

gonna continue to grow

so getting involved now i think in my

personal opinion

remember it's not financial advice i

think it's a smart thing to do

and if you can pick up a shirt or two

every month to add to your collection

and maybe look to keep for five or ten

years maybe you don't want to sell

shirts at all

but the point of this video is if you're

looking to sell then your shirts

will be worth more in five or ten years

usually

my reasoning that i don't think the

shirt market will dip anytime

soon is a vape in it shirt now is now 90

quid

recommended retail price so you're going

to buy it

you can buy a new shirt which is mass

produced for 90 quid

and i'm aware the retro shirts were also

mass-produced

but they're much harder to come by in

mink edition but you can find some

shirts from the 90s

easily for around 90 pound so that

obviously

i feel like the desirable option at this

moment is the retro shirts

and as more of them get eaten up the

market is going to continue to rise

and i do think it will rise more

steadily i think 2020 has been a huge

spike

due to several factors um people making

more video content on

the topic probably didn't help the

prices of them

them dicks anyway if we hit 1500 likes

in this video i will do a video

telling you how much my football shirt

collection is worth we'll get it all out

we'll value it that'll be a fun four

days of my life

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sale for under two weeks now

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whether you think the football shirt

market will be in five or ten years

what do you think are my opinions on

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invest in shirts is

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