PWCC Bid History

[Billy5858]

So simple for me... I know what I am looking for.
If I find it I will bid. If it's bid up to a crazy price I'll go back to Facebook.
Otherwise PWCC has stuff I never see. Otherwise ill never find it.
Like the Mays 9.... joke

[Batpig]

I dont understand why people think this is so rare. I bid almost exclusively with Brent. Mostly it's just laziness, because I am looking for specific years, and I know EXACTLY when those items are going to go up with pwcc. I don't have time to search eBay all the time for auctions, so I wait for Brent to mass drop a bunch, pick out what I'm interested in, and set up my snipes. I'm sure I'm at 90%+ bidding with pwcc.

[CrackaJackKid]

Batpig..your statement doesn't make any sense to me. It's like someone put you up to saying this to make PWCC look better. Laziness cause you don't wanna search for items from other buyers, yet you wait just for Brent and only Brent to post. It's all a game and anyone who denies it is apprently incahoots with PWCC.

[Batpig]

Originally Posted by CrackaJackKid

Batpig..your statement doesn't make any sense to me. It's like someone put you up to saying this to make PWCC look better. Laziness cause you don't wanna search for items from other buyers, yet you wait just for Brent and only Brent to post. It's all a game and anyone who denies it is apprently incahoots with PWCC.

Why doesn't it make sense? I am typically looking for a specific year and in high grade, and I don't have time to search for those items every night. I know that on a specific date, PWCC will put a large number of those items up so I can get the biggest bang for my time rather than constantly slogging through misleading listings and other wastes of time. To be clear, this is only how I do it on eBay. When the other large auction houses put things up outside of eBay, I go through those too. It's just my eBay bidding that is heavily slanted to PWCC. Just because YOU don't personally agree with how I spend my search time on eBay, doesn't mean there aren't a lot of other people like me.

[Peter_Spaeth]

I just set up automatic searches and let ebay do the work.

[bobbyw8469]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

I just set up automatic searches and let ebay do the work.

Ditto....in all honestly, I cringe a little bit when I see them sell something I want. I doubt I'm getting a deal is the major reason. It's never customer service issues.

[BeanTown]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

I just set up automatic searches and let ebay do the work.

Remember the old days where you could search another eBay bidders current bids. All you had to do was follow other bidders and let them do all the research.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by BeanTown

Remember the old days where you could search another eBay bidders current bids. All you had to do was follow other bidders and let them do all the research.

What I miss is not being able to track certain (alleged) card doctors' purchases. All those 5s and 6s that would magically reappear as 8s and 9s.

[bobbyw8469]

Originally Posted by Batpig

I dont understand why people think this is so rare. I bid almost exclusively with Brent. Mostly it's just laziness, because I am looking for specific years, and I know EXACTLY when those items are going to go up with pwcc. I don't have time to search eBay all the time for auctions, so I wait for Brent to mass drop a bunch, pick out what I'm interested in, and set up my snipes. I'm sure I'm at 90%+ bidding with pwcc.

No offense, but this makes no sense to me. That is like me saying "I will only buy my gas from Shell gas stations". I may be about to run out of gas, but I'm gonna zip by them to find me a Shell station. There are other sellers on Ebay that has cards. PWCC & Probstein don't have the monopoly on them.

[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by bobbyw8469

No offense, but this makes no sense to me. That is like me saying "I will only buy my gas from Shell gas stations". I may be about to run out of gas, but I'm gonna zip by them to find me a Shell station. There are other sellers on Ebay that has cards. PWCC & Probstein don't have the monopoly on them.

If I am looking for a higher end rare card, the chances are I will find it with PWCC or Probstein. That's the (disappointing) reality. Maybe add yepbg and 707. There are a lot of cool sellers out there with neat stuff, but on eBay the high end stuff tends to end up largely in a few places. As but one example off the top of my head, a Goudey Ruth in a grade above 4. Good luck finding that on ebay and not with one of these sellers. If there are 30 such Ruths sold a year on ebay PWCC probably sells 25 of them.

[bobbyw8469]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

If I am looking for a higher end rare card, the chances are I will find it with PWCC or Probstein. That's the (disappointing) reality. Maybe add yepbg and 707. There are a lot of cool sellers out there with neat stuff, but on eBay the high end stuff tends to end up largely in a few places. As but one example off the top of my head, a Goudey Ruth in a grade above 4. Good luck finding that on ebay and not with one of these sellers. If there are 30 such Ruths sold a year on ebay PWCC probably sells 25 of them.

And the oddball sellers who have one for sale, the winning bidders turn around and consign the card with PWCC as soon as it gets in their hands. To me, that is a problem, and helps intensify the PWCC/Probstein phenomenon. No one wants to sell the cards themselves, because they feel like they are leaving money on the table. If some of these bidders would supports sellers other than those two guys.......I guess that's a pipe dream though.

[CMIZ5290]

Originally Posted by bobbyw8469

And the oddball sellers who have one for sale, the winning bidders turn around and consign the card with PWCC as soon as it gets in their hands. To me, that is a problem, and helps intensify the PWCC/Probstein phenomenon. No one wants to sell the cards themselves, because they feel like they are leaving money on the table. If some of these bidders would supports sellers other than those two guys.......I guess that's a pipe dream though.

This is a solid point....

[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by CMIZ5290

This is a solid point....

My answer to that is very simple . . . if you have a nice card to sell, give it to a great auction house that will market it and take no seller's commission. There are a bunch of great auction houses that get kudos here all the time. LOTG. Brokleman. Others. Don't sell on eBay. Negotiate with someone who actually does some work on your behalf.

[PhillipAbbott79]

Originally Posted by Billy5858

So simple for me... I know what I am looking for.
If I find it I will bid. If it's bid up to a crazy price I'll go back to Facebook.
Otherwise PWCC has stuff I never see. Otherwise ill never find it.
Like the Mays 9.... joke

What is Facebook?

[Sean]

Originally Posted by PhillipAbbott79

What is Facebook?

It's an incredible waste of time.

[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by Sean

It's an incredible waste of time.

My favorite Facebook story concerns a buddy of mine who died 3 year ago. Last year on his birthday he got a string of fond birthdays wishes from his Facebook "Friends" who were telling him to go out, enjoy the day, have a beer, etc., all oblivious to the fact that he checked out a couple of years prior. Yep, those Facebook friends are the best kind of real friends.

[1952boyntoncollector]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

My favorite Facebook story concerns a buddy of mine who died 3 year ago. Last year on his birthday he got a string of fond birthdays wishes from his Facebook "Friends" who were telling him to go out, enjoy the day, have a beer, etc., all oblivious to the fact that he checked out a couple of years prior. Yep, those Facebook friends are the best kind of real friends.

As time goes on there will be millions and millions of literally dead profiles.

[PhillipAbbott79]

Originally Posted by 1952boyntoncollector

As time goes on there will be millions and millions of literally dead profiles.

There are already millions. People create them for people that die as a memory to them.