Question about eBay Seller mwcards

[Sean1125]

Originally Posted by mark evans

In my experience, most sellers who list BIN have no interest in VCP prices. If they did, they would list as auctions instead. As a collector, eBay was more productive and fun before the popularity of BIN listings.

I respectfully disagree. I will post items at 50-100% above VCP average if I do not want to risk auctioning them. If someone comes in or slightly above the average and the card is average I will accept the offer.

There are cards that are incredibly high end for their grade and demand a rightful premium.

As an example there is a beautiful, perfectly centered PSA 4.5 Mantle that sold for just over $36,000 a short year ago - that card was purchased at more than twice the average and is now still worth well above average.

[1952boyntoncollector]

Originally Posted by Sean1125

I respectfully disagree. I will post items at 50-100% above VCP average if I do not want to risk auctioning them. If someone comes in or slightly above the average and the card is average I will accept the offer.

There are cards that are incredibly high end for their grade and demand a rightful premium.

As an example there is a beautiful, perfectly centered PSA 4.5 Mantle that sold for just over $36,000 a short year ago - that card was purchased at more than twice the average and is now still worth well above average.

when buying above VCP with BIN you are also buying for convennce so you don't have to wait months from now and you are also buying certainty.......it sucks to lose by 5 dollars last second in an auction...sometimes on ebay you get ebay bucks 3-5x as well which can get you down into the VCP range..,

[mark evans]

Sean and Jake make good points. But, I think my basic premise is still sound: as a general rule, buyers make out better in auctions than in BIN listings. In my opinion, the reason most sellers list BIN is to attempt to sell their items above auction (fair market) value.

I'm not being critical. Sellers are of course free to sell their cards at any price they wish, or not at all. My point is that eBay was a good bit more productive and fun for me before BINs, which comprise the vast majority of card listings.