Is It Your Responsibility To Let The Seller Know?

[Huck]

Originally Posted by NiceDocter

I’ve had situations where I saw the selling price was too low or maybe rarer items mixed in with commons…. I tell the seller and make him a very fair and higher offer than was asked …. And he gets freaked out thinking he’s sitting on a gold mine and nixes the deal altogether!!!! Based on some bad experiences like this I usually just buy or don’t buy based on the price asked for. I’ve seen it come down like this on TV shows also like Pawn Stars and American Pickers….. where an expert weighs in with a much higher price and then the seller jacks his price through the roof. That always makes me kind of angry when I see that.

+1! When word gets around that you are a collector, neighbors, friends, colleagues and a slew of other folks will start letting you know about collections. They all have visions of hundreds of thousands of dollars coming their way. After you have viewed the cards the first question is always "What are they worth?" or the classic "I had this card and that card but my mother threw all of my cards in the trash."

[steve B]

I usually just buy whatever it is I think is underpriced.

The exception I make is the occasional dealer I know well. I'm not a massively outgoing person, so the handful of dealers I would regularly go to are more friends than anything else.
It's been a long time since I had it happen with a card dealer, as most of the shops I hung out at are long gone.
But I have had it with the stamp dealer I see whenever I can. He had a nice but obscure variety priced way below what it should have been, but just right for the basic version. I told him, and he was like "Hmm... I have it priced at $10 but you know it's the variety. In that case for you it's $10"

[Fballguy]

As a rule, I always let sellers know when their prices are too high. I don't worry about the too low ones.

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by Huck

+1! When word gets around that you are a collector, neighbors, friends, colleagues and a slew of other folks will start letting you know about collections. They all have visions of hundreds of thousands of dollars coming their way. After you have viewed the cards the first question is always "What are they worth?" or the classic "I had this card and that card but my mother threw all of my cards in the trash."

Wow so very true. So many people ask what their stuff is worth or can I look at their stuff or I have a jeter rookie and saw one went for $100k so what do I have and it is never the right card or right condition. But I smile and help them as best possible. Tough sometimes to be nice but I think it is only right to try and steer them where possible.
When it comes to buying something that is being sold low as others said it is all situational and then I determine what is best thing to do. But no fast steady rule

[ocjack]

I was at a card show several years back and walked over to a dealer with a fairly large display of cards for sale. I was looking for '48 Bowman. I noticed a card in his case marked "1948 Bowman", but it was a '48 Leaf. I asked the dealer if he had any '48 Bowmans, he directed me to the Leaf card in his case. I can't remember the player, but I do remember there was a fairly significant price differential between the Bowman and the Leaf (the Leaf being costlier). The dealer responded to my original question with disdain as if I was wasting his time because the card was "clearly" marked in his display case.

So I bought it.

Didn't feel bad - he should have known what he was selling. And shouldn't have been an a**hole about it.