PWCC Juggernaught

[Yoda]

Watching the blitzkrieg of nice, graded PWCC cards on Ebay ending over the next day or 2, I couldn't help but spare a thought for the smaller dealer or collector who uses Ebay as the principal means to sell cards. It must be very difficult to compete, particularly in our sphere of interest, as PWCC continues to have these mega auctions. The cards themselves will draw interest or not but at a minimum buyer wallets seem to be voting in PWCC's favor. And they have provided a greater variety and choice of cards that heretofore existed on Ebay.

[pawpawdiv9]

PWCC has some nice eye candy, I caught myself many times looking.
As a seller, maybe one needs to create their own high-end stickers.

[vthobby]

What do you mean compete.....?

You just package up your stuff, send it to PWCC, they do ALL the work, they take ALL the risk in that Ebay minefield, and they pay you quickly EVERY month.

I do get a laugh sometimes when I see the same exact card in an Ebay store that PWCC just sold for 1.5 or 2x the price of the guys card in the Ebay store.

Why fight it?

Love it.

Peace, Mike

[Exhibitman]

Allegedly.

[botn]

I have consigned with Brent several times recently and he does a great job. Very easy guy to work with and he is easily reached. I did ok overall. Some stuff ended up much lower than what I would have expected and others sold for a bit more than I had been asking for the cards in my eBay store.

Admittedly I have not given him Clemente, Mantle and Mays rookies in PSA 8s but the prices he gets on a good deal of his stuff is unbelievable, literally. No slam against Brent but there is no way money is actually changing hands on some of this stuff. See the same bidder ids running up stuff, many with lots of retractions and those same listings end up being well over VCP highest sales within hours of listings. Sorry but it is highly suspicious.

[Iron Horse]

Smoke and mirrors?

[thecatspajamas]

Originally Posted by Yoda

It must be very difficult to compete, particularly in our sphere of interest, as PWCC continues to have these mega auctions. The cards themselves will draw interest or not but at a minimum buyer wallets seem to be voting in PWCC's favor. And they have provided a greater variety and choice of cards that heretofore existed on Ebay.

Who says you have to be in competition? The market is what it is, with or without PWCC or any other individual seller. As you said, the cards themselves draw the interest. You don't have to get into a head to head battle with another seller in order to be successful in your area of interest. Unless you're drilling down into some very specific niche, the field of baseball card collecting is far too vast for one dealer to dominate so completely that their meer presence makes it difficult for others to exist.