Deans Cards - something I never knew...

[the 'stache]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

This is a card I bought recently (NM with nearly perfect centering. An almost exact clone of this very card) for $6 with free shipping, so I thought I'd do a quick ebay search for it tonight in NM, and there were absolutely no surprises here. Look at the results with his dumb 'actual image' logo (I, too, eliminate this moron from my searches, but sometimes he squeaks through and when you see that logo, you know it's time to just zip past that listing). He prices his card at basically ten times what the other people are asking and with them your shipping is included. Granted, the other two cards are o/c, but if they were greatly centered, the cost would probably be the same. As I said, mine cost a mere $6.

And I won't even mention that he (yes, I purposely personify this laughable company as 'he') calls a card with an obviously rounded/damaged lower left corner as NM. And this isn't some isolated incident. He does this ridiculous pricing with all of his cards. He annoys the living crap out of me!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Darren, this will blow your mind then. Here's a direct excerpt from an email correspondence I had with Dean's Cards regarding their claim of having "low prices".

Also realize that try we keep EVERY post-war vintage card in stock, in every condition. To do so, we have to pay more and charge more, depending on the card. So we are not the cheapest on every card, but we have every card. Also, our prices have come down by that percentage in the last year. Please check out the post-war vintage commons that we have listed and this should answer your questions.

This morning I was looking at 1957 Topps commons on our site. Considering the most cards on eBay our overgraded by at least one grade - if not two - our prices were far lower than most other options. Again, focus on the cards, in which we have higher quantities. Those our the best deals.

This communication was from January 2nd of this year.

The rationale here is "we keep every Marco Mendoza card in stock, so, therefore, we are justified to charge $60 on a 1962 Topps [finger quotes]near mint[/finger quotes] Dick Stuart card that nobody else charges more than $10 for.

But if we go to their website, we can save 20% there! So, we could go to Dean's Cards .com, and pay only $48!