Question about eBay Seller mwcards

[pbspelly]

Originally Posted by mark evans

eBay was more productive and fun before the popularity of BIN listings.

I agree. From a buyer's perspective, I think it is almost indisputable that there are not as many real bargains on eBay these days. It's not just due to the BIN listings, though. I think it also has to do with the maturing of the eBay marketplace. EBay made it a lot easier for amateurs to put their collectibles up for sale, so they did. In the last fifteen years there's been this massive redistribution of collectibles from the unknowledgeable and inexperienced to those who know the true value of the items. Simply put, far fewer collectibles are still in the hands of people who don't know what they're worth. Hence, higher prices.

[D. Bergin]

I wonder if everybody is forgetting that it's just been a few years since Ebay essentially killed off more then half it's auction business chasing the Amazon model, and killing any incentives for sellers to offer auctions over BIN's by exponentially raising the commission rates for auctions to the same rate as BIN's.

It used to be a sliding scale from around 9% to 2.5%, depending on how much the item sold for, and you only had to get above 10 bucks for the scale to start sliding downward. Now they take 10% across the board (not taking into account TRS discounts), including shipping. The cost to auction a $100 item nearly tripled overnight.

Drove a lot of the established auction consignment sellers (especially the smaller ones) completely out of the business. A lot of the ones that stuck around chose to go with a BIN model instead.

[1952boyntoncollector]

Originally Posted by pbspelly

I agree. From a buyer's perspective, I think it is almost indisputable that there are not as many real bargains on eBay these days. It's not just due to the BIN listings, though. I think it also has to do with the maturing of the eBay marketplace. EBay made it a lot easier for amateurs to put their collectibles up for sale, so they did. In the last fifteen years there's been this massive redistribution of collectibles from the unknowledgeable and inexperienced to those who know the true value of the items. Simply put, far fewer collectibles are still in the hands of people who don't know what they're worth. Hence, higher prices.

right...actually getting cards at 'market' price are the real bargains now....you get rewarded for that auction that comes out once a year that finally has your card and now you have it.......try getting someone to sell a card at 'market price' you will argue about what that means.......plus if really want a card a BIN is going to be cheaper than getting the card from someone from their personal collection.......there are some cards that go up in price though and the BINs look cheap when they were bought...I know I bought every Jackie robinson psa 8 1954-1956 I could get my hands on 6 or so years ago and many were purchased by BINs and I made money on all of them that I sold this year at auction..