Dean's Cards - Deja Vu All Over Again

[Luke]

Can someone who has contacted him and got a better deal than his website price please send me a PM? He has a few cards that I'd pull the trigger on if I could knock a decent chunk off the website prices.

[Rhotchkiss]

Deans cards is a non-factor to me; rarely do they come up in my EBay searches, and when they do it’s never a card I want. They do appear to be absurdly expensive though. The one who drives my nuts is davidssportscards. That guy has great stuff and he always comes up on my eBay searches - always (so does TonyTrade, who I know, have done deals with and highly endorse). But the cards listed by davidssportscards are so wicked overpriced (in my opinion) it’s annoying, and I wish ebay would just kick his ass back to Corona, CA (wherever that is). If his prices were even somewhat reasonable, or he would accept reasonable offers, he would have lots of my money (Oh man - W600 Wags, high grade t206s, rare Planks, Jacksons, etc); I mean that green 33 Goudey Ruth SGC 7.5 has been sitting on eBay at that same price for over 3 years. Lower your prices people and let us give you money for cards!!

Ryan Hotchkiss

P.S. I find it near impossible to buy off ebay anymore; all sellers seem to be smoking something with BIN prices and (to their credit) the major auctions (pwcc, probstein) are commanding crazy hammer prices, maybe justifying the silly BIN asks....?

[phikappapsi]

Originally Posted by Rhotchkiss

Deans cards is a non-factor to me; rarely do they come up in my EBay searches, and when they do it’s never a card I want. They do appear to be absurdly expensive though. The one who drives my nuts is davidssportscards. That guy has great stuff and he always comes up on my eBay searches - always (so does TonyTrade, who I know, have done deals with and highly endorse). But the cards listed by davidssportscards are so wicked overpriced (in my opinion) it’s annoying, and I wish ebay would just kick his ass back to Corona, CA (wherever that is). If his prices were even somewhat reasonable, or he would accept reasonable offers, he would have lots of my money (Oh man - W600 Wags, high grade t206s, rare Planks, Jacksons, etc); I mean that green 33 Goudey Ruth SGC 7.5 has been sitting on eBay at that same price for over 3 years. Lower your prices people and let us give you money for cards!!

Ryan Hotchkiss

P.S. I find it near impossible to buy off ebay anymore; all sellers seem to be smoking something with BIN prices and (to their credit) the major auctions (pwcc, probstein) are commanding crazy hammer prices, maybe justifying the silly BIN asks....?

I think the reality is, these guys all have deep enough pockets to take on the inventory for long enough periods of time to let demand catch up to scarcity. They all do it, so it clearly must be working. When every collector eventually needs "that last piece" to finish something, they pay up for it; and these guys don't need to trade on volume to stay afloat.

And yeah, auction prices seem to be going up (generally) which in turn makes the prices they sit on come back to reality and seem better than they did 3+ years ago at the same price.

I don't begrudge these guys their pricing power; but I also wish I could justify getting my hands on some of the things they basically have walled off with huge prices.

[ALR-bishop]

I heard that when Dean and Levi and Yep were little guys they had some great cards that had gone up in value so they sold them. But then the value of such cards went up a lot more and they were sorry they had sold them so cheap. So when they got older and got some more neat cards they decided to put them up for sale at really high prices and not sell them unless they got that price, no matter how much people complained about it or made fun of the fact they would not sell them cards at a lower price.

But I have not checked the factual accuracy of this with snopes

[familytoad]

While that would sure make sense if the cards we were talking about were rare, but several examples and the resulting complaints were like 1968 Topps.
(Hundreds of dealers, only one priced the lowest...thereby hundreds of dealers charging too much)