Ebay sellers

[Hxcmilkshake]

Are you upset because he's flipping the card? I'm sure a half of us on this board have flipped / flip cards. Or is it cuz he's trying to hit a homerun / asking a ridiculous price? Without knowing the card it's hard to really weigh in. He may be a crock pot if he's selling a $1,000 card for 3/4x that and those are fun to gawk at /laugh at.

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[RedsFan1941]

this board has more than a few longtime members who routinely pay four figures for cards in major auctions like REA and Heritage then list them within a week on the bst for more than double what they paid. maybe they can chime in on their reasoning.

[x2drich2000]

or perhaps he bought it as part of his "business" and wants to show it is for sale to avoid paying taxes, but it is actually something he really does not want to sell.

[Snapolit1]

There are electronics stores all over the tourist areas of NYC where they sell stuff at outrageous prices. Plenty in Times Square area. They will take a $900 iPhone and mark it for $3,000, and then have a big dramatic mark down to $2500. Tons of these stores. What they are looking for is an uneducated consumer. Maybe someone even unfamiliar with US currency, trying to bamboozle them into a indefensibly terrible transaction. On more than one occasion I have shooed people away from these stores and directed them to a real chain store with honest prices.

I have no problem with flippers. I have sold things at a profit myself. What makes me gag a little is when someone buys a picture at RHY for $500 and tries to immediately sell it for $2900. Purely hypothetical of course. I think that seller is basically fishing for someone on EBay who is not educated and who thinks they are paying market value and maybe even grabbing some great investment. I think it's akin to trying to find someone to pay $3000 for an iPhone. At some point a profit is cool. And money for nothing (and your checks for free) is American to the core. But at some point you are not looking for a decent transaction but fishing for a rube.

Originally Posted by Hxcmilkshake

Are you upset because he's flipping the card? I'm sure a half of us on this board have flipped / flip cards. Or is it cuz he's trying to hit a homerun / asking a ridiculous price? Without knowing the card it's hard to really weigh in. He may be a crock pot if he's selling a $1,000 card for 3/4x that and those are fun to gawk at /laugh at.

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[Dewey]

Fishing for a rube. That's exactly what irks me. Well stated.

[Jewish-collector]

This thread gets even more entertaining if the seller is a member of Net54 and comes on and talks about listing the card. Then it's time to put your feet up & grab a cold one.