Having a sideways relation to this thread but nothing to do with any of Steve's lots.
I have approximately 2,000 cards at this point on a site called CheckOutMyCards.Com (I have sent them over 2400 and have sold about 17 percent of what I posted --- almost all modern "crap" in about a one year period. And yes there is a charge to process the cards and also to keep the cards there. However, I have to do no shipping other than getting the cards to them or have to deal with them any more from this point forward.
There is a function on that site called make offer --- and I receive offers frequently but not every day. The other day, after opening day -- I received an offer for 1/2 my asking price for a Rookie Year Heritage Chrome of John Mayberry Jr. He played a role in the Phillies opening day come-from-behind victory.
If the offer was close to what I was asking, which was lo Beckett, I might have even said fine --- however, I felt the offer was a lowball offer and I actually raised my price in reaction to that offer. The point is, when you send a card to that site, the offer to sell is out there and available.
Sideways relation, no one truly knows going in what is wanted --- so if you make a good first offer, and come in with your high hard one, then you have a better shot than an original offer and then hope for a counter,.,,, This is what I'm referring to in my example. If that person had made an offer of 25-50 cents less than my offer, I probably would have said -- fine. But coming in at 1/2 price -- I don't want to get into games on bids.
Steve has done great with those cards, if I had a collection like that to sell, I'd give them to him in the future
Rich