Who Has Left Ebay?

[MyGuyTy]

Originally Posted by g_vezina_c55

I remember the good old day when the only option of ebay was .99 cent auction... and reserve price.

Oh those were the days.......I started "Ebaying" in 1997/1998 and almost every damn card imaginable was available at auction (majority of them raw). Many did have reserves, but a lot of them didn't. Prices were a dream come true compared to today's overinflated market.

Tons of rare cards to be had on the cheap. I remember picking up a damn near mint E92 Crofts Cocoa Cobb for just around $900. Five years later it was an $8,000 card (like a dummy, I ended up relisting it for a $500 profit shortly after I bought it). I also remember a very nice raw E90 Joe Jackson (would later grade a 4), that sold for $3,000, again a few years later it was almost $30,000. That's when Ebay was really the only outfit on the net for vintage collectors to come together to buy and sell.......Wish I could go back in time, lol.