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Originally Posted by sycks22
If you're selling with an auction house that charges a consignment fee you're going to the wrong one. Depending on the value of the cards (nothing super low) you should be getting 0%
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Thanks - I wasn't aware of that. Still most of the buyer's premiums I see are around 18% across the board where the eBay consigners are only taking around 12% for items valued above 100 bucks.
Back to the original question, I suspect it is getting tougher for the average seller on eBay - you have to deal with fees, non-payers, irrational customers, etc. - I wouldn't do it and maybe that's why we see less of them. And one question that wasn't asked - do we really want to deal with more sellers? Wouldn't most of us chose say BBCE (just as a top of my head example) over Joe Smith with decent feedback, but 3 negatives - one of the negatives calls him a "scammer". Sure, I'll take a chance, but it doesn't give me a great feeling.
The large consigners are now basically acting as "eBay auction houses" - they pay good rates and a lot of collector's have eBay searches that work pretty well. Buyers' know the card will arrive shipped relatively quickly and packaged relatively well. I don't see that part of eBay going away right now.