If it wasn't bought then, why would a buyer want to Buy it Now?

[Potomac Yank]

Buy it Now, for the price the buyer's wouldn't buy it for then???

payBay can bully the sellers, tell them how to sell, and what form of payment is acceptable, but they can't bully the buyers.
If they're not careful, they might succeed in driving some of the buyers away.

Without the buyers you can visualize a long extended list of BIN Museum Curators pushing the same unacceptable price that the BUYERS turned down before.

payBay, has become "A Comedy of Errors" ..... with a death wish.

[ChiefBenderForever]

Unacceptable price is a nice way to put it. For many of the curators BIN really means Buy it Never.

[drc]

One of the essential problems with eBay's recent philosophy is you need quality sellers to have a quality auction/sales house and they been alienating many quality sellers.

[Minerscoin]

Hell If I could get the prices they want I would concentrate more on buying and selling Vintage Cards. Instead I lurk most of the time and buy what is priced right and sell to the locals in my little coin shop. I have to laugh at some of the prices on BST and these items rarely sell over and over again. Many good deals are on BST but some don't seem to get it. I won't name the overpriced sellers but it is obvious the sellers I am talking about. These curators can keep their stuff. Times are tough and money is tight so in order to sell these museum pieces you better be competitive pricing wise or you might as well set up a museum rather than try to sell your overpriced stuff to educated buyers such as ourselves. What good is a card graded 1 2 or 3 for that matter if it is priced at crazy prices.
That stuff was ungraded and in the bargin bin in the ole days.


"Living in the past"
Jethro Tull

[cozmokramer]

Often a seller will list a card a very overpriced card, EXPECTING it NOT to sell.

Many buyers will see the overpriced card and wonder, then click to see what else the seller is has for sale. Then the more reasonably priced cards get some attention.

Its just a selling tactic that many are using. They know that their overpriced Wagners (or any highly searched card) will show up in tons of searches, and then use that to get their other stuff visible.

[calvindog]

Yes, Eric, I've heard about that practice. Sometimes sellers try that on the BST as well.

[ullmandds]

While I agree with all of the posts thus far...ebay obviously makes money off the sellers pushing their overpriced cards w/outrageous BIN's no rational person will ever pay. Meanwhile ebay's stock price continues to rise...defying our rationale...maybe it's just that for us...in this hobby...ebays' practices seem absurd...but vintage BB cards are such a tiny % of their business...we don't really matter much to ebay.