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[Aquarian Sports Cards]

FWIW I just sold a T205 Russ Ford (tough White Cap variation) from my ebay store to a member here, we moved the transaction off ebay, but I doubt he even inquires if my BIN wasn't reasonable.

[Edwolf1963]

I'd like to see eBay put in place a system that ratchet's up the listing fees every time a card is re-listed at same price after going 'x' amount of time with no bids - I get tired of seeing the same cards month after month, year after year - same seller's/same prices.

Would also be nice to see a fee schedule graduated corresponding to the amount over what the 12 month average is. For example, one would pay "x" amount more to list a common T206 PSA4 at say $100 BIN than they would to list same @ $65 (or whatever the 12 mo. average range is)

Nice to think about but I won't hold me breath as this would be counter-productive to eBay's bottom line - which of course would never be considered. Even if it means the most basic common-sense things such as booting fraud clowns like "Battlefield.." whatever bcse they make a hefty FVF from her.

[Luke]

Something like this would be cool. Even from ebay's perspective, I don't see that the benefit to them outweighs the negatives associated with having cards priced at 5x retail that relist for years. That just looks so bad to potential customers. We can see in this thread that potential customers are so turned off that they don't even look at the BINs, and that should alarm ebay. But maybe they just don't care about the baseball card market. I actually think they will (or would) want to clean it up if they ever realize how bad it looks to customers.

For the really big card sellers, I understand their model and they should be allowed to operate in a way that works for them. But, there are a ton of small sellers, or sellers with a small card inventory that just have no intention of selling anything on ebay. They just relist over and over at outrageous prices. As a guy who sells exclusively via the BIN (and tries to price fairly) it sucks that people are not even looking because of how bad the worst offenders are.

[bobbyw8469]

Originally Posted by LukeLyon

Something like this would be cool. Even from ebay's perspective, I don't see that the benefit to them outweighs the negatives associated with having cards priced at 5x retail that relist for years. That just looks so bad to potential customers. We can see in this thread that potential customers are so turned off that they don't even look at the BINs, and that should alarm ebay. But maybe they just don't care about the baseball card market. I actually think they will (or would) want to clean it up if they ever realize how bad it looks to customers.

For the really big card sellers, I understand their model and they should be allowed to operate in a way that works for them. But, there are a ton of small sellers, or sellers with a small card inventory that just have no intention of selling anything on ebay. They just relist over and over at outrageous prices. As a guy who sells exclusively via the BIN (and tries to price fairly) it sucks that people are not even looking because of how bad the worst offenders are.

Agreed! I have some of the fairest/lowest prices on Ebay, and I won't even get a 2nd look. My cards should be literally FLYING off the shelves. Instead I have to wholesale them just to get them to move. Over inflated cards hurts EVERYBODY, in ways that some people don't even think about!