selling cards

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by novakjr

The days of dealers offering lowball prices for buy/trade from collectors is long gone. With the internet and ebay, everyone is a seller. Unfortunately, it's also dropped selling value down to right about what a dealer would give you back in the day.

The internet has leveled the playing field, and I consider that to be a good thing.

Sellers will always want to sell at the highest price they can get.

Buyers will always want to buy at the lowest price they can get.

It's always been that way, but now the internet gives (both sides) more options, with the seller having far more than they did "back in the day".

I made an offer on an ebay item today for less than 20% of the BIN price, the seller responded with an offer of 25%. I took the deal, and I assume the seller made a profit, if not, oh well, bummer for him.

My point being, it couldn't hurt for both of us to ask for the numbers we started with, and ultimately we made a deal, which we are both (hopefully) happy with.

Doug