Posted By:
Jared"Also my biggest peeve after 20yrs in the hobby is the phrase…”cards are a lot like the stock market” cards are nothing like the stock market. I very rarely get to negotiate the price of Google or any other stocks I would invest in. True they have tangible worth but in the majority of the worlds eyes 100k worth of IBM stock is worth more than a 100k worth of baseball cards. Besides I seem to remember the stock market being regulated by an industry of some sort…obviously our little hobby is not."
I think you take that analogy far too literally. I was simply relating the volitility of selling prices between the two. Perhaps real estate is a more appropriate analogy. Regardless, my point is the same.
Anyhow, like I said, I don't care if people set a mental "reserve price" because they don't want to lose money. That's fine. But it is insulting for a seller to say "umm, I paid x for this card, so you're gonna have to deal with that..." It comes across as cocky and immature, and it is completely irrelevant to the buyer.