Dump Days are becoming Dump Months on ebay

[tbob]

I remember when everyone was becoming disgruntled when ebay had one of its "Dump Days" and Mike Wheat, yebpg, and several other dealers would put their whole inventories on eBay, drowning out the auctions and BINs of "new" cards which had not previously been on ebay. It was a pain not only for the collector trying to transverse the minefield of high priced BINs which had been on eBay 10-15 times already, but hurt the collector/small dealer who was hoping for exposure to his offerings.
Now with the new eBay rules which are friendly to the fixed price inventories of major dealers, the dump days are occurring over and over again, as the same old overpriced cards flood the pre-war listings.
I'd like to just search "auctions" and avoid having to thumb through all the overpriced cards which have been on eBay constantly but I'm afraid I'll miss that one "new" BIN which is something I actually need and has never been listed previously.
Sorry for the rant....

[DaveW]

I agree. I'm tired of seeing the same cards from Mike Wheat over and over again - all priced 2-3x over reasonable. I'm always amazed when I just look at the real auctions and the number of cards goes down by over 90%. So many overpriced BINs ....

[bigred1]

I may miss some opportunities, but I only search auctions only, same reason.

[Runscott]

It must be working for him - he's been doing this for ten years.

As such, how can you blame him? When I started collecting again after a 5-year hiatus, I was surprised to see some of these guys still in business (there are plenty of them) - sellers who according to my own sensibility about selling, should never have survived.

I suspect that they are selling a lot at much lower prices, via off-ebay offers, saving ebay expenses. Further evidence is that most of them have BIN's, but no 'Make offer' button.

There are at least two of these guys who I used to buy from regularly. I shied away from them for a long time, then simply made them reasonable offers and was stunned when I was never rejected.

[Jcfowler6]

I search price ranges for specific cards sometimes for this very reason.

[paul]

I search only auctions, but still see the same cards coming up again and again from the same dealers with high minimum bids.

[zljones]

Originally Posted by tbob

I remember when everyone was becoming disgruntled when ebay had one of its "Dump Days" and Mike Wheat, yebpg, and several other dealers would put their whole inventories on eBay, drowning out the auctions and BINs of "new" cards which had not previously been on ebay. It was a pain not only for the collector trying to transverse the minefield of high priced BINs which had been on eBay 10-15 times already, but hurt the collector/small dealer who was hoping for exposure to his offerings.
Now with the new eBay rules which are friendly to the fixed price inventories of major dealers, the dump days are occurring over and over again, as the same old overpriced cards flood the pre-war listings.
I'd like to just search "auctions" and avoid having to thumb through all the overpriced cards which have been on eBay constantly but I'm afraid I'll miss that one "new" BIN which is something I actually need and has never been listed previously.
Sorry for the rant....

I so very much agree with you, I myself grow exhausted from flipping through all those dead BINs. Something should be done

[tbob]

Wow! Thanks so much, doing a pre-war search while excluding certain sellers and the words like "reprint" and it seems like the old days again!

[npa589]

Worse yet..................the guy who sells "images" of T206 cards, T205 cards, T207 cards, T212 cards - etc.

I want to strangle him.

[zljones]

Reprints kill me, I do not own a single one, I hate when I search google (I search google when I am desperate) for some N162 cards (trying to build up the HOFers in that set) and I see a listing on ebay for 8.99, so I think that could be an auction but it turns out to be the same reprint that has been sittin for a year.