Dean's Cards claim...

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by nsaddict

Of all the big sellers on eBay that offer “grades”, I’d consider Dean’s to be accurate!

Hi

My focus is not on his “grades”
I have no knowledge or experience about his software.
He has a lot of positive reviews 43046 and he has 100% positive feedback

So as a business he is doing something right and a lot of people buying from him.

All I am saying is I like a lot of his selection but I will not be buying from him only because I am not willing to pay what he prices his goods at both on eBay and on his website.

In my opinion which is my own and others can disagree is that his prices to me are about 20% or more higher than I am willing to pay and approx the same amount based on what auction houses are getting for the same cards and grades at.

So good for him and his business and I respect what he has accomplished but unfortunately his products will never be on my collection.

And as I said I will wait patiently for the cards I want to come up elsewhere

[Collectorsince62]

Since he charges more, does he pay more for collections? Has anyone sold to him?

He has a 2-minute video on his website where he talks about his buying process. Interesting if for no other reason than to see his facility in the background.

[egri]

For all his faults, at least his scans are front and back, and are very clear.

[53toppscollector]

His prices are insane, but I always assumed their strategy was to just price something once, really high, and eventually the market will move up and meet the price he set. With how many listings they have, and the massive inventory, I doubt they ever adjust prices at all. Set it and forget it, and as the market creeps up, he'll make sales. I do wonder what their buying/sourcing looks like

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by 53toppscollector

...Set it and forget it, and as the market creeps up, he'll make sales...

It's actually not the worst idea in the world.

Still, I've seen them post some breathtakingly high prices. A couple years ago, I was looking for a 1980 Topps Phillies team card. They were asking nearly $100 for a *PARTIAL* Phillies team set, raw.

Still makes me chuckle...

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Eric72

It's actually not the worst idea in the world.

Still, I've seen them post some breathtakingly high prices. A couple years ago, I was looking for a 1980 Topps Phillies team card. They were asking nearly $100 for a *PARTIAL* Phillies team set, raw.

Still makes me chuckle...

There are tons of people on ebay posting breathtakingly high prices on commodity cards. I don't get it, but whatever.

[rajah424]

Several years ago I posted 5-6 T202’s on the BST for what I considered strong prices so that I would have room to lower a little to make a sale. Deans bought all of them for my asking price and paid very promptly. It was a very easy deal.

His prices may be high but no one here is forced to buy from him. Not sure why everyone piles on him, if you don’t like his prices, move on to another seller.

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

There are tons of people on ebay posting breathtakingly high prices on commodity cards. I don't get it, but whatever.

Somehow, a raw 1980 Bob Boone doesn't seem like a commodity card...if that card was even in the partial set, I don't recall.

[Snowman]

I've seen some crazy high prices and some very realistic market prices from them. It really depends on the card. He's probably in no hurry to sell the 1952 Mantle. I think when you have huge cards like that, sometimes they're more used as marketing listings to draw people into your eBay store or website. He isn't really interested in selling that card at all (unless someone wants to overpay for it of course), but he knows that listing it on eBay at any price brings him more clicks on his other listings.