Candiman Auctions Explained

[cardsnstuff]

anyone win anything? Will you be sending it in?

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by cardsnstuff

anyone win anything? Will you be sending it in?

Looked a few minutes ago and I won 37 cards for 2 sets I am working on. I collect lower end cards so there will be no grading involved.

[bensie]

Originally Posted by cardsnstuff

anyone win anything? Will you be sending it in?

Ended up winning a lower end Reggie Jackson rc and a couple of cheap Roger Clemens cards, one of which was already graded. I doubt I will submit anything to PSA.

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by bensie

Ended up winning a lower end Reggie Jackson rc and a couple of cheap Roger Clemens cards, one of which was already graded. I doubt I will submit anything to PSA.

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

[joshuanip]

When I submitted my collection to SCP last year, not only did they grade everything, but they also reholdered my older cards to make sure they were not tampered.

Two reasons, one to get maximum dollars for the consignment and two to make sure the buyer knows what he’s buying as opined by a third party. And this was for smaller dollar items as well.

The rationale why an auction house doesn’t want to achieve these objectives and rather sell the cards raw was the main reason why I didn’t participate in this auction.

Separately I showed my wife the auction and this thread, she has no experience with auctions or with cards for that matter but he first question she had was how do you know the previous owners of battlefield is not bidding up their own items? I couldn’t answer that conflict of interest...

[ZiggerZagger]

Really interesting looking over the final prices from the Auction last night.

No doubt prices could have been higher, but the Battles Bros still monetized about 50K+ of their inventory, assuming that the handful of "outside consignors" weren't making up for a lot of the items.
Plus that sweet, sweet 20% buyer's premium as the cherry on top. It's a pretty efficient business model by any account.

I hope folks are happy once they receive the cards, and that we have robust feedback on the board from everyone that bid and won.


And after the reaction on here, how could folks fail to be intrigued, after all: 'There's no such thing as bad publicity' -- PT Barnum, Oscar Wilde, DJT, or whomever you want to attribute that original sentiment to...

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by ZiggerZagger

Really interesting looking over the final prices from the Auction last night.

No doubt prices could have been higher, but the Battles Bros still monetized about 50K+ of their inventory, assuming that the handful of "outside consignors" weren't making up for a lot of the items.
Plus that sweet, sweet 20% buyer's premium as the cherry on top. It's a pretty efficient business model by any account.

I hope folks are happy once they receive the cards, and that we have robust feedback on the board from everyone that bid and won.


And after the reaction on here, how could folks fail to be intrigued, after all: 'There's no such thing as bad publicity' -- PT Barnum, Oscar Wilde, DJT, or whomever you want to attribute that original sentiment to...

didn't pt barnum also say theres a sucker born every day!

[ullmandds]

I stand corrected...and even more accurately his quote said..."there's a sucker born every minute!"

[botn]

At this point they are willing to refund on cards not described as altered that come back as such after being submitted so the losses are limited to the cost of grading. The problem is that the overwhelming majority of their stuff is not altered but will most likely turn out to be severely overgraded which they hid with small scans. No recourse there so hopefully for the Battles they have lots of customers like Ben who do not care and will not be submitting. The Battles could be in business for a very very long time.

And as far as their having consignors other than their parents I do not believe it for a second. I think Daniel wrote they had 15 other consignors--all of whom had raw cards and none of whom wanted to get them graded. What are the odds?

[conor912]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

"There's a sucker born every minute!"

...and two to take him.

[pclpads]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

didn't pt barnum also say theres a sucker born every day!

No. That was Stormy Daniels.

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by pclpads

No. That was Stormy Daniels.

It must drive you insane that every morning when you wake up you realize that it wasn't a bad dream, it's reality.

[PiratesWS1979]

Originally Posted by ZiggerZagger

Plus that sweet, sweet 20% buyer's premium as the cherry on top. It's a pretty efficient business model by any account.

Don't forget the 13% eBay/PayPal charges they save.