Uh oh...I think Dean's Cards Disease is now spreading

[vintagebaseballcardguy]

I don't want to sound like a jerk, but he must be selling something to someone. He is apparently well known and not just for high prices to have endured so long. I have personally never bought a card from him as far as I know, and I agree with the sentiment expressed in this thread, but he must have customers ( as incredible as it may seem).

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[Aquarian Sports Cards]

$18.69 for a PSA 9 1972 High number is a nice buy. $1869, not so much.

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by vintagebaseballcardguy

I don't want to sound like a jerk, but he must be selling something to someone.

https://www.beckett.com/news/not-so-...k-deans-cards/

[SAllen2556]

"When a card sells, and we sell over 1,000 cards a day......."

He has his own excellent website. He has a huge inventory. He markets his cards extremely well - eBay, COMC, and Amazon. In short, I think he's a good businessman, and I believe he actually does sell 1000 cards a day.

I learned a long time ago that when you run a business you're better off choosing one of these three ways to compete: best price, best service, or best product. Choose one of the three and really try to excel at that. Dean seems to be leaning towards the product aspect - he offers more cards than any other dealer. But he's also pretty good at the service end as well. His website is really well done. But in order to benefit from his product and service you're gonna pay more!

Ask yourself this: If you asked your wife to buy you a certain card online, wouldn't Dean's website be the best place to send her? No PayPal account required. No eBay account required. Just pick the card and pay for it like you're buying a book on Amazon.

And no, I do not work for Dean! But people on this board rip the guy at least a few times a year - every single year. But take a minute and understand the business model he's set up. It's probably not designed for the collector who scours eBay looking for the best price, but give the guy a break - he must be doing something right!

[JollyElm]

Talk about putting earrings on a pig. On the internet/ebay/COMC/etc. you can easily find any card you need in seconds. Why in heck would anyone pay ten times as much for the same card in the same condition from that ripoff artist?? You wanna throw your money down the toilet, all the power to you. Go for it.

[homerunderby]

Dean's Cards (and their high prices) kinds of reminds me of Larry Fritsch Cards a generation ago. They were always way higher than anyone else, for singles and sets (prices for new sets were $30 when everyone else charged $10-15).

Not sure what the clientele is for each but clearly they both had successful businesses despite their prices not being competitive.

[Hxcmilkshake]

Originally Posted by homerunderby

Dean's Cards (and their high prices) kinds of reminds me of Larry Fritsch Cards a generation ago. They were always way higher than anyone else, for singles and sets (prices for new sets were $30 when everyone else charged $10-15).

Not sure what the clientele is for each but clearly they both had successful businesses despite their prices not being competitive.

Yeah but Fritsch had his ads all over, magazines, SCD, etc. And pre internet. Different now with most cards a click away.

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[deweyinthehall]

Originally Posted by homerunderby

Dean's Cards (and their high prices) kinds of reminds me of Larry Fritsch Cards a generation ago. They were always way higher than anyone else, for singles and sets (prices for new sets were $30 when everyone else charged $10-15).

Not sure what the clientele is for each but clearly they both had successful businesses despite their prices not being competitive.

Yeah - Mr. Fritsch's prices were always oddly higher...their adds always featured this prominent perk - "professionally hand-collated", which probably caught some peoples' eyes in a positive way, but I was ordering at the time from Renata Galasso whose prices were far more competitive and who's cards were, nevertheless, collated just fine.