Deans Cards - something I never knew...

[slidekellyslide]

All sellers should scan both the front and back of a card....I assume that for his ungraded common cards he uses a scanner like a Fujitsu SnanSnap...that will scan both front and back of an item with one pass through the scanner. It's what I use for postcards and it adds maybe 10 seconds of time while preparing a listing to add the extra scan.

Edited to add: I can scan 10-15 postcards at a time with the ScanSnap S1500...it takes me less than 10 minutes to scan 100 postcards front and back. This used to take me an hour or two with my old flatbed scanner.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

All sellers should scan both the front and back of a card....I assume that for his ungraded common cards he uses a scanner like a Fujitsu SnanSnap...that will scan both front and back of an item with one pass through the scanner. It's what I use for postcards and it adds maybe 10 seconds of time while preparing a listing to add the extra scan.

Edited to add: I can scan 10-15 postcards at a time with the ScanSnap S1500...it takes me less than 10 minutes to scan 100 postcards front and back. This used to take me an hour or two with my old flatbed scanner.

Isn't that a sheet fed scanner? Does it crop the image properly around the outside of the borders?

I was never comfortable putting cards or photos through a scanner like that. I also prefer to preview the scan before actually scanning it, so I can adjust cropping, sharpness and matte patterns, depending on how the scanner is reading a particular type photo or print, to try and get it as close to actual appearance as possible.

I've always been on the lookout for a two-sided flatbed scanner to eventually hit the market, that doesn't cost thousands of dollars.

[Cozumeleno]

Personally, I'd love to know what they offer as buyers when acquiring a collection. Anyone ever sold anything to them? Even with the inflated prices I can't imagine they're paying more than anyone else.

[bobbyw8469]

Originally Posted by Cozumeleno

Personally, I'd love to know what they offer as buyers when acquiring a collection. Anyone ever sold anything to them? Even with the inflated prices I can't imagine they're paying more than anyone else.

I would think less.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Isn't that a sheet fed scanner? Does it crop the image properly around the outside of the borders?

I was never comfortable putting cards or photos through a scanner like that. I also prefer to preview the scan before actually scanning it, so I can adjust cropping, sharpness and matte patterns, depending on how the scanner is reading a particular type photo or print, to try and get it as close to actual appearance as possible.

I've always been on the lookout for a two-sided flatbed scanner to eventually hit the market, that doesn't cost thousands of dollars.

Yes...I have used it to scan all kinds of cards without any problems...it doesn't always scan an entire card if the border is white though and it won't scan cabinet photos or anything with about that thickness. I don't think I'd use it to scan something I considered to be a PSA 8-10 candidate.

[savedfrommyspokes]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

All sellers should scan both the front and back of a card....I assume that for his ungraded common cards he uses a scanner like a Fujitsu SnanSnap...that will scan both front and back of an item with one pass through the scanner. It's what I use for postcards and it adds maybe 10 seconds of time while preparing a listing to add the extra scan.

Edited to add: I can scan 10-15 postcards at a time with the ScanSnap S1500...it takes me less than 10 minutes to scan 100 postcards front and back. This used to take me an hour or two with my old flatbed scanner.

The Scan Snap s-1500 is a great scanner and worth every penny....1000 (crisp, non-glossy) singles scanned front and back(on a single pass), auto numbered and linked to my listings, all in an hour. I self-host the images for my ebay listings, so with the front and back scan, I create a file path that I link to each listing so that both images appear in the listing. Takes less than a second to link the 2000 (f/b) images to the 1000 listings. I have not had any damage caused to the cards I am scanning....I tested it with several hundred clunkers before trying on normal cards.

The only downfall to this scanner is that the auto-cropping feature does crop along one edge. The whole card is indeed shown, however, some buyers feel that they are not seeing the whole card due to the one edge being cropped closely.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by savedfrommyspokes

The Scan Snap s-1500 is a great scanner and worth every penny....1000 (crisp, non-glossy) singles scanned front and back(on a single pass), auto numbered and linked to my listings, all in an hour. I self-host the images for my ebay listings, so with the front and back scan, I create a file path that I link to each listing so that both images appear in the listing. Takes less than a second to link the 2000 (f/b) images to the 1000 listings. I have not had any damage caused to the cards I am scanning....I tested it with several hundred clunkers before trying on normal cards.

The only downfall to this scanner is that the auto-cropping feature does crop along one edge. The whole card is indeed shown, however, some buyers feel that they are not seeing the whole card due to the one edge being cropped closely.

Yes...this is info that I will freely share here on Net54, but I never tell my local competition at auctions and tag sales that it is this easy with the ScanSnap. For the most part they stay away from postcards because they find it too tedious to list them on ebay.