auction v BIN on ebay

[Matt]

I think eBay has some message filtering in place that is preventing people from receiving such communications. They may have a filter out there for messages including terms such as "fees" and "email" that cause those messages to never get delivered.

[Kehfee]

Originally Posted by Matt

I think eBay has some message filtering in place that is preventing people from receiving such communications. They may have a filter out there for messages including terms such as "fees" and "email" that cause those messages to never get delivered.

I doubt it. Or if they do its not very good. I set up some BINS. (I actually wanted to sell mine so they went fairly fast)

Anyways, I had a number or requests to take the item off Ebay and do it privately.

[smtjoy]

I have had good luck with my BINs/Store Items, to me it all gets down to how you set your price. Price it near VCP and it will sell within a few months, price it a lot higher and it might never sell or could take 1+ years (the only cards I would price this high are very scarce cards that maybe come to market once every 2-3 years or 1/1 highest graded cards) or price it too low and it sells in less than 24 hours. Just seems like thats how my sales work out.

If you list 30+ cards having a store is the way to go as it only cost me .03-.05 a month to list them with the same value fee as the BINs and I only have the store monthly fee to pay.

I also have best offers on nearly all my cards and that seems to help a lot. I get a good amount of offers on them. I have even made trades with the cards I have in my store based on ebay messages I have gotten.

[alanu]

Just in my personal experience with listing with BIN's:

If listed somewhat above the amount I would actually accept I usually get the item sold with a BIN, a "Best Offer", or an off ebay offer. As mentioned above, if I don't get it sold in the first day or so, it rarely sells later.

If the items don't sell and I list them as an auction, it's about 50-50 whether they sell for more or less than my BIN.... the conclusion is:

I have no clue what is best.

[botn]

Vintage cards in general seem to be selling at significantly lower price points on ebay than prices realized would indicate from other auction venues. It is a risky proposition to list your cards on ebay without a reserve or a high opening bid. So is it that there are far more BINs than in previous years or simply less auction listings due to the unimpressive final bids?

[barrysloate]

I agree with Alan that it's difficult to know what the best route is.

I do straight auctions/no reserve and get great prices, average prices, and poor ones. And it's almost impossible to predict ahead of time. Generally I don't list my best pieces on ebay, and the ones I do I just want to move out, so if I lose a few bucks on some it's not the end of the world.

[Mark]

It sounds like ebay auctions are good for buying cards, if you can find anything you want to buy.