Raising the prices on cards

[icurnmedic]

If it is listed for sale at a certain price, it should be honored. Otherwise I think you should be able to edit the price at any time prior to someone saying I’ll take it.
Thomas

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by icurnmedic

If it is listed for sale at a certain price, it should be honored. Otherwise I think you should be able to edit the price at any time prior to someone saying I’ll take it.
Thomas

Playing devils advocate: do you think if you pull up a dormant BST post from 2019 on a card that is listed $2500 under current market that the seller should honor "I'll take it"?

[icurnmedic]

I don’t know. Should the seller not change the price? Not sure there is a always right answer here. So this begs the question , what is the arbitrary time cut off? Things change overnight , seems like nowadays. 1 week,1 month,1 year?
I seen a current listing earlier that said something to the effect of good till nfc championship kickoff , or close to that. This delineates his timeframe for current pricing. Maybe we should start doing this more often..
Thomas

[glchen]

IMHO:

1) 2 weeks
2) anytime the seller wants. ebay is different from the board as a buyer can hit the BIN anytime he wants and the price is honored. The item could be at that price in years with the listings automatically be regenerated every month, and once the buyer hits the BIN, it's his. For the BST, it's different as the item could be long sold, but no one has a clue because it's not updated anymore.

[Rhotchkiss]

DJ, anyone listing a card for sale at a certain price is inviting an acceptance, which is made, technically creates a legally enforceable contract. The offer is not indefinite, but I am not sure at what point it would legally expire- my gut is longer than you think. That is just the law, real world is different- nobody will sue you to enforce a BST sale (juice ain’t worth the squeeze). Perhaps the safe move to set an expiration date on the BST listing.

But the real reason for my post.... I absolutely searched all threads you started to figure out where the “bargain” was!

[rats60]

To me the seller can raise his price any time he wants. A deal is made when a buyer offers to buy at a certain price and the seller accepts and sends payment information. That said, it would be in poor taste to list a card and then not accept an offer within a few hours. Likewise a buyer shouldn't expect to buy a card that just closed in an auction much higher than what a card has been listed at. This is a mostly collector to collector site and we should try to treat each other fairly and not try to take advantage of the other person.

[dio]

Agree, seller have right to change price when no deal has been made. If a player got injured, will you pay the same price to seller when no deal was made yet? After deal is made then it's a different story, seller/buyer should honor the contract. 52 topps mantle made some big jump within few days, probably a few key rookie will follow 51 bowman mantle might be next. Vintage value i think are still way behind if you look how crazy modern card prices jump, there is still a lot of room to move