Greg Morris cards

[Republicaninmass]

So much work to sell individual raw cards, scanning, listing, shipping. If you have the tine, try it yourself, some dont have that luxury, remember I think ebay/payal fees.end up being about 12% anyhow.
They do seem to have a following for high grade raw cards. I recently sent them a psa 8 oc card, which they grade as ex to ex-mt, they are clearly conservative in their grading. I will report back to this thread if any cards receive the outlandish bids I'm hoping for.

[irv]

I checked out GM's listings last night, which, for me, was the first time in a long time. I made to around 150 pgs of cards before my eyes couldn't take anymore.

With the current Covid rules/isolation/social distancing, etc, I was quite surprised to see so many pgs of cards listed. As far as I know, some are still working from home and they currently have a skeleton crew because of covid.

I personally like GM cards and although I have never consigned anything to them, I wouldn't hesitate if the time ever comes.

[lgbbcards]

While this was almost a year ago, I was told by a person at GM that only 25% of their listed cards are from consignments. Additionally, some of my friend's Ebay auctions were purchased directly by GM buyers (I believe). So it seems it may be easier for GM to purchase cards and be selective, vs. accepting consignments.

[JollyElm]

It's funny, while visiting tables at a show out here a year or two ago, a guy from GM cards was present and pretty aggressively looking to buy stuff. Chatting away, repeatedly mentioning Greg Morris cards, stating "ungraded cards only," showing binders of stuff he picked up that day, etc. It was like sitting back and watching a used-car salesman employ silly 'Salesmanship 101' techniques. Some sellers were obviously thinking, "Is this guy serious???" He is/was undoubtedly one of the GM buyers mentioned.

[buymycards]

This is from their consignment page on their website.

We also accept cards on consignment. All consigned cards are sold in eBay auctions. Because we have tens of thousands of customers and list 15,000+ cards per day, we can guarantee consignors a wide audience for their cards. Our standard rate is 25 percent of final auction values, plus a 50 cent surcharge on all cards that sell for $10 or less.

They have 22,000 auctions running at the moment. 270,000 positive feed backs in the past year. It is amazing that they can keep generating numbers like these.

[bobbyw8469]

Originally Posted by buymycards

This is from their consignment page on their website.

We also accept cards on consignment. All consigned cards are sold in eBay auctions. Because we have tens of thousands of customers and list 15,000+ cards per day, we can guarantee consignors a wide audience for their cards. Our standard rate is 25 percent of final auction values, plus a 50 cent surcharge on all cards that sell for $10 or less.

They have 22,000 auctions running at the moment. 270,000 positive feed backs in the past year. It is amazing that they can keep generating numbers like these.

Agreed...it has to be a team. I get so intrigued with doing a set break. I want to do one. But then I run out of breath just scanning front and backs of 2 sheets of cards for the auctions here. So set breaking is not for me.

[Sean1125]

Let's put ourselves in Greg's shoes...

He is in a state with very strict restrictions due to Covid where fines are in the thousands of dollars (and actually being issued/upheld).

He is working with a skeleton crew at best and his family and kids are even helping out.

Somehow he is still maintaining listing and shipping 50,000 cards a month through all of this.

The amount of work this requires is mind-boggling. I can't even fathom how many hours a week he is putting in, does he even have a waking moment to eat or sleep?

Take a moment and think how long it takes you to grade, list and ship one card. Now multiple that by 40,000-50,000.

Imagine grading cards (Greg is going through and grading 200,000+ cards to actually get the quantity of listings they do) continuing buying inventory (and the time to look for it), managing consignors, managing eBay customers questions and shipping issues, maintaining that quantity of listings, and shipping out 50,000+ cards... Every... single... month...

I think it is completely acceptable that, at the moment, he does not have time to answer the phones or e-mails and is focusing on continuing the operation as best he can.

What Greg is accomplishing is inconceivably difficult. Even when Invest In Baseball was active and we had 11 staff members including myself and a full time grader we were only able to hit half of that capacity. Truly insane.

I know how much work it takes to list a single card (and 10,000 cards) and charging 25% probably isn't enough for the value added and time it takes. He also loses money on shipping because he combines orders into one. I will happily pay that rate any day.

I think anger and frustration is being misplaced for empathy and understanding for an insurmountable task for even a full staff to take on, let alone one man and his family.

Edit:

I forgot to add he even has an extra account running a store and 1,000+ graded auctions a week.

You go Greg!