Ebay Prewar Deluge of BIN's

[Yoda]

I have watched for several years the Ebay BIN's for Dean's Cards, never buying things on offer but marveling at the BIN's prices on admittedly high grade cards, still wondering if he was serious about really selling these beauties, or was it show and tell time. If anybody is interested, he has unleashed an avalanche of low grade cards on Ebay all ending today - multi-sport, some graded, most not. My only comment would be that if this is a business model paradigm shift strategy, he needs to check the pricing element again.

[36GoudeyMan]

The observation that one particular dealer's BIN prices are out of line is really true for so many dealers. I look at VCP and Sold auction listings on eBay, and wonder where the justification can be found for listings at many multiples of market value. Several dealers I have contacted have made known to me that they were willing to wheel and deal despite the listing price, which is refreshing.

Is there some strategic advantage to being on the top of the list when you sort your eBay listings by price? Or are these just invitations to negotiate, for direct sales or through BIN/OBOs? Whatever, I think many dealers list prices that are way too high but will often get real when a real buyer shows up...

[Snapolit1]

Having gone through the exercise recently of trying to move some nice cards on Ebay, I have to say pricing is not as easy as it looks. I always do BIN but accept best offers. I've had a number of times where I'm selling a card clearly worth $500 and some dude comes in with an offer at $190. Just as a lot of sellers can appear delusional, I think a lot of "buyers" out there are not looking for a fair deal, but to take advantage of an unknowing seller so they can get a $500 card for $200 and list it again 5 minutes later for $750.

[mybuddyinc]

Yup, a "fun" time today scrolling through 6-7 pages of Dean's T206s.

What a waste of time, feel bad for anyone who had a auction squeezed somewhere in that mess ................

[buymycards]

Now we also get to scroll through COMC's overpriced BIN's when we do an eBay search. $30 cards listed for $160 and the seller is not taking offers.

[T206Collector]

I'm pretty sure the partial T206 sets Dean is selling are just jumbled versions of each other -- if you buy two you wind up getting the same glowing yellow Waddell throwing. My favorite thing about this listing is actually how Shoeless Joe Jackson finally gets his due in the T206 set:

"The T206 baseball card set consists of 524 cards different cards. The T206 set is the most popular set issued prior to World War I and features the great players of the day. Included in the T206 set is:Ty Cobb, Joe Jackson, Walter Johnson, Cy Young, Tris Speaker, Zach Wheat and many more."

No wonder the BIN is $118,270! I wonder if he'd take $118,000 even...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1909-11-T206...wAAOSwImRYEgHW

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by buymycards

Now we also get to scroll through COMC's overpriced BIN's when we do an eBay search. $30 cards listed for $160 and the seller is not taking offers.

The vast majority of COMC sellers do take offers, but only at the www.comc.com website. COMC hasn't figured out how to enable offers through the eBay system yet. I consider offers of up to 50% off any of the cards on my account (mjohnatgt or eBay consignor ID 0n8), so if you see any cards of mine you like, just go to www.comc.com and make an offer there.