Auction House Recommendation for 1952 set break

[Leon]

Originally Posted by benderbroeth

I know as an eBay bidder I do not even bother with reserves, my theory on reserves is just start at the reserve price?

That is the only way I would run an auction too. As a frequent bidder and addicted collector, when I see a "reserve" auction I usually just skip it. It's not worth my time. Start at a low price you are comfortable selling at and let it go. From my experience this is the best way.

[autograf]

Reserve or not, I think with something like this, stuff wins out. In the hunt to build register sets, people will bid reserve or not. Don't pay anything on a consignment fee and try to negotiate something back. A PSA7 set from 1952 is a strong seller. I don't see getting more for the full set as the individual pieces either.

[Griffins]

Originally Posted by Leon

That is the only way I would run an auction too. As a frequent bidder and addicted collector, when I see a "reserve" auction I usually just skip it. It's not worth my time. Start at a low price you are comfortable selling at and let it go. From my experience this is the best way.

Me too. And when an auction house has a set vs. single auction I skip the entire catalog.

[swarmee]

Send it all to CheckOutMyCards (comc.com) and have them scan every card in and set your price for each individual card. You can then sell them all at your price or take offers, and they only have to pay $3 shipping no matter how many they buy. Might even drive more people to list more things on there.

[1952boyntoncollector]

Problem with just setting an intitial bid that is your reserve is the problem i have on ebay..i set a initial minimium bid i would take as a reserve...noone bids..i do a .99 first bid..and it gets bid up to higher than the mimimum bid i did a week earlier than no bids..

i think we all basically know what market price is but i think people like the bidding process on the way to market price and also people get invested in the bidding during the week...when just a market price sitting out there, the buyer has no chance for a bargain i think so that really hinders bidding when only 1 bid basically will win the thing, nooone wants to be the person to make that 1 bid...