PWCC - Sorry, Yet Again

[Snowman]

Originally Posted by CardPadre

If I remember correctly, there was a 1953 Topps baseball common in psa 7 that went unsold. Some set collector who needed it would have jumped on it if seen. And if two saw it and needed it, gets bid up. What doesn’t sell one time for $10, could do double that another time.

This is where it starts to get dicey for me. A card that definitely has value but slips through the cracks because the right buyers weren't present for this particular auction. However, that's more the buyer's fault than PWCC's I would say. A card like this never sells until the right buyer comes along, and there aren't very many of them. I would never even consider selling a card like this at auction. This is one of those cards that you just put in your eBay store as a 'Buy-it-now' and wait for that one set collector who needs it to come along X number of months later. The likelihood of this card ending up in a bidding war on PWCC is extremely low. The seller should have known that. And even if it did sell, what's he missing out on? A few bucks?

I would be interested to hear what Scott's view on extremely low valued cards is. I assume most auction houses do not want to even bother with them, and the ones that do merely offer it as a courtesy for sellers with larger collections and other higher priced items to sell. But I promise you, they don't want someone sending in 100 $10 cards to list in their next auction, even if it means they get to keep all 100 of them if they don't sell.