Hi Bobby,
Thanks for the reply and your thoughts. As for the duration, we are willing to work on selling a card for a longer period of time, but clients have often felt more comfortable with a shorter-term contract... I would be happy to extend this.
With respect to the per-card fee, we would always prefer to sell cards at no reserve auction (with no per-card fee). This service, by its nature, will focus on selling cards for clients at more aggressive prices than they would auction for, so a percentage of them will not sell. As a result, we need to charge a per-card fee to both guarantee the service is minimally profitable for us, as well as discourage consignors from giving us cards at outrageous, completely unachievable prices.
And like many offerings, we would certainly be willing to discount the per-card fee further as a consignor brings in a greater volume of cards. If someone had 50 cards, for example, they would do considerably better on the per-card fee.
Thanks again for the feedback.
Regards,
Scott Greenwald
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