Ebay style auction houseq

[BobbyVCP]

I look at it this way by having only graded cards by the 4 majors eliminates a lot of chance for the scammers to prey in the novice collectors and makes for a safer buying and selling marketplace. Yes you are experienced in detecting which is bad and good but for everyone of you there are at least 500 that don't know.

[slantycouch]

Graded only could also serve to alienate novice collectors as well. And collectors like Joe.

As Al said... the key to this whole thing is traffic. Cutting out groups of people (i.e. raw collectors) from your target market might really hinder the success of the venture.

[Oldtix]

22 posts in and no one has mentioned fees. I think that gives you a pretty good idea of our priorities...we just want access to the broadest base of collectors and dealers to give our stuff the best chance of success.

[mcap100176]

In my first post I thought about mentioning fees but didn't care enough about them to say anything. I think it just comes down to a flat fee or percentage fee and then pricing models.

I think that fees could be an interesting poll...do you prefer flat fees upon insertion and sale regardless of price, flat insurance fee & percentage of price, no insertion fee and percentage of price, etc

[Potomac Yank]

Originally Posted by BobbyVCP

I look at it this way by having only graded cards by the 4 majors eliminates a lot of chance for the scammers to prey in the novice collectors and makes for a safer buying and selling marketplace. Yes you are experienced in detecting which is bad and good but for everyone of you there are at least 500 that don't know.

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Graders are great with corners and sides, but as to their authentication, they are a crap shoot.
Many of them are too inexperience with the different card sets in their hands for a couple of minutes.
Contrary to hopeful belief, they don't spent hours studying a card.
Time is of the essence.

Simply stated, the group that comes out with graded, and non graded offerings ... gets my vote.

[darkpoet]

I stopped using eBay because of the PayPal monopoly. If a competing website allows checks/money orders for buyers and sellers as a payment method, and also allows sellers to post negative feedback for deadbeats, then count me in. Also, it would be nice to have categories for every type of collectible and have a collectibles auction site.