I agree with everything you are saying. I grow tired of sifting through tons of pages of unsold high priced cards in hopes of finding something at proper market value. I have seen threads with people defending some of those sellers, that they can charge what they want or they are in no hurry to sell blah blah blah, but the bottom line is, is that they are in the way of a search. Someone could burn out searching everyday cycling through pages of results because it is flooded with the high priced cards. On many occasions I have given up searching through pages because it is tiring then I go find I just missed a great BIN or auction because I did not feel like sifting through tons of pages of crap.
Not only that I agree with you that it seems like a slap in the face to collectors by trying to upcharge the crap out of people just because of one incident. In statistics that is known as an outlier number. When I studied stats, we were tought to not consider outlier numbers because it creates inaccurate data about averages. Same could be said about cards, these sellers are charging prices paid by outlier transactions. for example, Maybe a card sold for $300 as a PSA 1 at one time because it was a beautiful PSA 1they may just have a spot of paper loss on the back or something, which would be a circumstantial situation. That does not mean a crappy bent up PSA 1 will sell for $300. But the high priced seller will sell any PSA 1 card for $300 based upon that one transaction. I am probably rambling on here, but those high priced BINs are getting annoying, and I don't care if the seller is in no rush to sell or is a nice guy, that stuff needs to go, and ebay needs to set a 6 month limit at the most.
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