Am I just so out of touch with card prices?

[pgellis]

Originally Posted by T206Collector

This is what they do:

(1) Seller lists card at high BIN

(2) This encourages bidders to make email offers at lower than BIN

(3) Seller sells item offline for negotiated price and saves ebay listing/final value fees

I agree with that, but why does eBay make it so easy for them to do that? They don't charge that much for BIN listings and let them keep them up forever for very little money. You would think eBay would discourage these BINs and get back to auctions so that they can capture that revenue of the % of the sale.

I again say it is because they "look better" by having so many "current listings".

[FUBAR]

I see it all the time, especially with the nutjobs on the Vancouver craigslist. The have early 90's cards and think they are worth 50$ per card because they "are old" . Usually when you tell them their cards have a guide value around .05 cents , they tell you to f-off... makes me laugh!

[mintacular]

Sometimes I would have a card listed at a higher BIN with the expectation that if it didn't sell after a couple months I would "slash" the price via the Markdown Manager option to a "moveable" price...

[HRBAKER]

The "Auctions Only" tab is the most useful thing ebay ever did, not that that is saying much. The Buy It Now tab is sorta like the Smithsonian Museum of listings. I would add that I completely agree that a seller can and should list a card for whatever price they want to. Thank goodness most buyers are not complete impulsive idiots but it only takes one.

[Howe’s Hunter]

this is the auction that caught my attention. If it is out of line to post a current auction, moderator guys, please delete. Thanks.

http://tinyurl.com/yctbspj

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by StuckInOmaha

this is the auction that caught my attention. If it is out of line to post a current auction, moderator guys, please delete. Thanks.

http://tinyurl.com/yctbspj

Ed,

Here's his list of "closed" auctions for the last 15 days. (Notice, this business plan has had some success as he actually did sell one card! That Mays is a $1000 card and it shows he sold it for $2495.)

Also notice that the Oakes cards didn't sell for $995 when it ended on 03/03, so he obviously "reduced it" to $1195!

http://completed.shop.ebay.com/where...&_rdc=1&_rdc=2

This guy sent me a bunch of scans of grade 4 and 5 T205's with Cycle and AB backs. I wanted them all so I sent him a Very fair price and he said he would have to pass because they were valued at 3 times what I offered. Needless to say I was about 10% higher than Market at ther time so........... He still has them and from the looks of it has most of everything he owns still

[joe_44850]

I just made an offer of 25 dollars hehe

[FUBAR]

I should go offer 26$

[jbbama]

Originally Posted by HRBAKER

The "Auctions Only" tab is the most useful thing ebay ever did, not that that is saying much. The Buy It Now tab is sorta like the Smithsonian Museum of listings. I would add that I completely agree that a seller can and should list a card for whatever price they want to. Thank goodness most buyers are not complete impulsive idiots but it only takes one.

Agreed about the auction tab, way , way to many ridiculous BIN's.