Advice for selling high volume, high quality 50’s commons and minor stars?

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Originally Posted by Huck

Also, that weekend I had a full set (12) of the 54-55 Gunther Beer basketball set. The National in Baltimore was the perfect place to sell a local set. Again, I approached dealers for a price. One dealer, was interested in the cards and threw out a lowball offer. I passed and as I started to move on he said "if you receive an offer let me try and beat it". I don't play that game. Another dealer made a solid offer and a deal was made. I saw the first dealer again and he asked about the cards, I said "Sold". He said "I said to bring them back if you got an offer". "I got an offer and I sold the lot. You should have given your best price when I was at your table".

Not sure why the dealer thought he was owed a right of first refusal to top all other offers on that set. But if recent posts on the forum are any indication, I guess we all think we're owed something when it comes to cardboard.

But I agree with you - unless you're holding an auction where everyone knows and understands the situation, playing games like that by trying to play dealers and offers off of each other seems like a recipe for developing the wrong kind of reputation.