707 Sportscards and Scans

[mintacular]

As great of an inventory Levi has he still can't make a decent scan of his stuff and his website is still in the very early ages of the Intranet revolution...For example his Aaron RC and all his scans suffer from a bad exposure/light issue...

http://cgi.ebay.com/1954-Topps-128-R...item483e48a40b

You would think with his sales he could buy a $50 scanner at Best Buy and hire a 9th grader to do his scans...

[doug.goodman]

I can think of at least one large card dealer who uses "stock" photos of cards on his Beckett website store.

Doug

[timzcardz]

And yet he seems to be rather successful when so many others have fallen by the wayside.

You can't argue with success.

[D. Bergin]

They could be better, but I've seen much worse on a regular basis on Ebay.

Looks like it's possibly being scanned in a document setting instead of a photo setting, maybe to save on time.

[Chris-Counts]

I agree 707s scans are not worthy of his extraordinary inventory. What drives me crazy is that so many eBay sellers scan their cards against a white background, making it difficult to examine the edges and corners. The edges and corners always look better against a black background. Check out Mike Wheat's website. Wayne Varner also does a nice job ...

The worst sellers, though, are the ones the crop off an edge or two of a card when they scan it. It's amazing how many do this ...

[mintacular]

Yes, you can't argue with sucess not trying to do so just sayin'...I wonder what would happen if Levi one day wanted to get out of the business and changed all his BINS to penny auctions and just let 'er rip...

[Big Six]

Originally Posted by Chris Counts

I agree 707s scans are not worthy of his extraordinary inventory. What drives me crazy is that so many eBay sellers scan their cards against a white background, making it difficult to examine the edges and corners. The edges and corners always look better against a black background. Check out Mike Wheat's website. Wayne Varner also does a nice job ...

The worst sellers, though, are the ones the crop off an edge or two of a card when they scan it. It's amazing how many do this ...

Most printer/scanners I've seen have a white backdrop so most folks don't know any better...now that I think of it, might tape a piece of black construction paper to the backdrop and see if that noticeably improves the image contrast...