Quite the markup

[savedfrommyspokes]

Dean has 8-10 employees' salaries to cover....based on his other offerings, this is a mild mark-up.

[Kutcher55]

The much bigger offense is when new sellers pop up selling 1990 Donruss Ken Griffey Junior cards for $250. I see that sort of thing all the time. I wonder if they are bots.

As for Deans, yeah their prices are consistently awful, but someone must be paying them. It is odd though as I find not too many folks who pay good money for vintage are that clueless about market pricing.

[Snapolit1]

See same exact thing every week with photos. Someone buys a type 1 photo from one of the AHs for $1700 on Saturday night and all of a sudden its on eBay for $4500. One guy seems to buy half the nice photos on the market. Cool model if it puts change in the jar, but once I see someone operating that way I assume nothing is fairly priced and pay a lot less attention to them moving forward.

[mrreality68]

Yep Dean follows under Category one trying to find a sucker to pay the high prices and yet he seems to move a lot of cards

This person has some great cards on ebay (for YEARS) and seems to more want to display them then sell them.

I guess each their own. It is there right to do as they chose and the consumer to do as they chose but I agree I feel sorry for those uneducated in the collection world that over over over pay

[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

Yep Dean follows under Category one trying to find a sucker to pay the high prices and yet he seems to move a lot of cards

This person has some great cards on ebay (for YEARS) and seems to more want to display them then sell them.

I guess each their own. It is there right to do as they chose and the consumer to do as they chose but I agree I feel sorry for those uneducated in the collection world that over over over pay

I remember when you had to pay money to list on eBay. Was a different world. Now people get 100s (1000s?) of free listings.

[buymycards]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

I remember when you had to pay money to list on eBay. Was a different world. Now people get 100s (1000s?) of free listings.

I have a Premium store and I get 10,000 free BIN listings and 500 free auction listings per month.

[Yoda]

Dean must certainly have a cadre of loyal and rich customers. His overheads can't be cheap He certainly must be off-loading at prices few on this Board would pay. What's his charm?

[RCFire82]

There are definitely some sellers I wish I could exclude from my "t206" search on eBay. It gets annoying when they re-list hundreds of cards at ridiculous prices, and I now have to sift through all that...however, this sometimes presents an opportunity on a card that is a good deal that gets lost in the mix.
Outside of the occasional great buy-it-nows that pop up (like the Hindu PSA Merkle portrait I snagged the other day for $2oo) I feel like patience and waiting for auction style listings (with reasonable opening bid prices) is the best way to go.

[Cliff Bowman]

He won a 1967 Topps Punch Out Jim Wynn PSA 6 on eBay for $200-$300 a year or two ago and immediately relisted it for $760, needless to say it’s still available. Toppsaholic uses the same business model.