I started playing disc golf in 2009. The rest is history!

I've always been an eBay junkie, flipping random stuff, going to storage auctions (before they were on tv), garage sales, etc. When I started playing disc golf, I immediately searched for discs on eBay. I never even heard of the sport before, so I was surprised that there were 15k discs available to buy.

For the first few years I learned a ton about discs. There wasn't a ton of info out there, no Facebook groups, and only a few major websites, but I was addicted. I caught the collecting bug pretty quick. If you're a youngin, then you don't know the collecting that us old people did. Companies didn't intentionally create collectors. Collecting was due to rarity and the fact that old discs felt and flew better than what was being sold at the time. Innova's CE plastic is a great example. I bet 95% of people that have started playing since Covid don't even know what CE is. One day I'll get the collection out and actually display the stuff in the store.

The way my store started was I invested $250 in to a box of 50 used discs on eBay. I then sold them all back on eBay, one at a time, and made a $50 profit after fees and shipping. I rolled that in to another box and kept doing that for a few years. I always kept what I wanted, but sold the vast majority of them. Finding collector discs in bulk lots was always fun.

One day I had an eBay customer send me a message asking if he could come over to the house to look at what I had in stock. At that time I usually had 200-300 discs in stock, waiting for them to sell on eBay. I said sure come on over. Kyle was my very first walk-in customer ever. The next time, it was hey can I bring a buddy, then that buddy bring a buddy, and so-on. This was all for piles of used discs. I can't remember if it was Kyle, but someone, at some point, asked me if I ever looked in to getting new stock. So I looked and found that Dynamic Discs offered wholesale without a business license. For those that don't know, DD started out kind of like me, just selling discs out of a small space. This is before DD even had their own product line. They had a wholesale order form where I could order Lat64, the new Westside discs, the new MVP discs, and Discraft. I ordered from them until they came out with their own disc line and had to shut down the wholesale of other companies. I had to then go direct with each manufacturer. I got my business license and went crazy.

Through the years it was a very solid hobby. Facebook groups became a thing, and it really started blowing up. I was an original first 100 member of Dollar Disc Golf Auctions group and first 50 member of most other hot groups at that time. I've since quit FB groups, but it was fun while it lasted. They all went down hill after they got thousands of users. It was around 2017 when I actually saw that this could be my actual job. I was bringing in quite a decent income, so I made it my full time job. All 3 houses that I've lived in as an adult have had their basements turned in to disc golf stores. The rest is history!