Dean's Cards Discounts

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Originally Posted by vintagerookies51

Anybody a regular buyer of his cards? Only customers I see would be people looking for some rare item that Dean has or people for which money is not a factor. That can't be sustainable by itself, yet he's still doing it after all these years so I must be missing something.

I concur with your analysis.

That's the beauty of capitalism - you won't last long if your value proposition is garbage.

The only possible answer has to be that Deans is selling enough to make enough money to stay in business. Maybe a lot of the sales are going to people who aren't familiar with the market, either because they're new or because they don't really spend enough time to really evaluate whether the pricing is within a few standard deviations of market?

I suppose it's also possible that some buyers just prefer to work with a dealer that they know and trust, rather than faff about with randos online.

And maybe it's a little bit of all of the above, including the situations you listed.