Dean's Cards

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Well he's been in business forever so someone must be buying.

The one expensive card I've ever bought from Dean was a '67 Topps Brooks Robinson high number SP in a PSA 5. I made the mistake of doing this at the height of the bubble probably in 2020, but I was at a crossroads with my '67 set - and of the midgrade options for this card I had online at the time - Dean had the one I liked the best in the grade that I could afford. Working against me also was Covid lockdown fatigue, and I got it in my head that I really, really wanted THAT particular card. Yes, there were more reasonably priced cards by consideration of grade even on eBay, but I was not paying $1,000 or whatever for a PSA 7. So I bought the card. By today's standards I certainly overpaid for it a bit, but even at the time it was not what I would consider just off the charts egregious. It was packaged professionally and showed up on my front doorstep 2 days later.

Anywho, I digress. The point I wanted to make is that if you go on Dean's website and play around with the cart - the more things you add, the greater your calculated discount prior to checkout becomes. It's actually a clever little model, as you see things already added in your cart just continue to get discounted further the more cards you add. This of course is playing right into their hands, as you are spending more money total. But this model is not what you see off the bat when you just go looking for whatever expensive vintage card online one day, and of course with Dean - you hit on his site and he has the most expensive one you've seen. That's why people blow him off without further consideration most of the time, IMO.