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(Least) favorite seller tricks.
Copyboy1
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Ok, maybe this will be fun. What are some things sellers do on eBay that drive you crazy. I'll start with two:
- "1976 Walter Payton Rookie Card - PSA 8"... and then when you click in to the listing, it's really a PSA 8 (MC).
- When you buy a single card, but didn't notice the shipping was $18.
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I hate when they list a card without giving the qualifier.
psa "a" auto 10 - highest graded.
"RARE CARD!!!! LOW POP!!!! EXCELLENT INVESTMENT CARD!!!"
... Uh dude, it's a 1982 Anthony Munoz Psa 8.
Let’s say I’m searching for a 2000 Bowman Chrome Tom Brady PSA 10. I hate when sellers do this. 2000 Bowman Tom Brady GMA 10 not PSA. Any kind of addition to get their item to show up in my search results. Not chrome, non auto, etc.
Listings that say: BGS 9.5 = PSA 10
I actually saw one yesterday that said “PSA 10 not BGS”. Yeah, certainly not BGS....
Nic
Guides Authored - Graded Card Scanning Guide PDF | History of the PSA Label PDF
All of the above!!
But would like to add - when searching for certain PSA 10's ...
"Players Name" PSA 10?? - and the card isn't even graded
sjjs28@comcast.net
Collector of 1964 Topps Stand Ups, 1965 Embossed, 1968 Topps Game and 1969 Topps Decals
Registered Sets: 1964 Stand Ups, 1965 Embossed, 1968 Topps Game, 1969 Topps Decals
They list a card with a BIN of $100 and its a .05 common
rp
Blurry pics has to be my #1 issue. Is it a trick to hide something?? Or incompetence?
Nic
Guides Authored - Graded Card Scanning Guide PDF | History of the PSA Label PDF
And the card is like 70/30 centered.
no more pics. got it.
Just clear pics.
Nic
Guides Authored - Graded Card Scanning Guide PDF | History of the PSA Label PDF
Mixed messages on shipping fees.
Kiss me twice.....let's party.
"Non auto" is my current peeve, when searching for autographs. Do people think if they trick you into clicking onto your BS listing, that you'll just cave and buy?
It is also too bad there are not certain categories that could be refined and consolidated, so that everyone used the same term. I think it would help both buyer, sellers and by virtue of better sales, help ebay too.
Autograph, autographed, autographs, Auto, Auto'd, signed, sign, signature. How many items are missed because people use one variation of what is basically the same thing? If I had my way, "AUTO" would be the approved keyword for signed sports memorabilia. It is short and to the point, saving characters so better descriptions can be written and is probably the most common form anyway.
When someone posts a multi-card lot and it's priced higher than if you bought those cards individually.
When a card that is priced above what identical cards have sold for and shows up month after month after month.
BST: Tennessebanker, Downtown1974, LarkinCollector, nendee
the fake listing, free paypal loan "trick".
Raw cards that are PSA 10s 🤬🤬🤬
Personal Collection | Willie Woodburn | Legion of Doom
When searching for PSA 10 cards and the title reads "PSA 9 - only 6 PSA 10 examples".
Feel free to explain that in the description, NOT in the title.
wpkoughan@yahoo.com
Collecting 1970-1979 PSA 9 & 10 Baseball Cards
photoshopped image.
putting a popular players name in another players card with intention that it will show up under the popular players search. (ie. 2020 Austin Hedges Fernando Tatis Jr. teammate!!!!!) ***putting PSA on non-PSA card for search purposes as well.
Attaching NM or Mint to a listing of a raw card that is nowhere near that grade. This one is particularly annoying when attempting to fill sets. I am working on a set and looking for a few cards in NM condition and my searches find that 90% of the NM cards listed for these cards are at best Good/EX. Basically, it's Greg Morris or bust when trying to find solid singles to fill in the gap.
Case in point, someone just listed this for $1000 with a listing of "PSA 10???"
"ebay 1/1" ... when it is really number 97/100.
^ yeah that "hilgenberg 10" is more like a hindenburg.
almost forgot a couple favorites.
Basically, any vintage packs not PSA or BBCE graded. They all have the same formula where they sell it straight-forward as a pack then masked away in the description they add a small blurb that says something to the effect"may be tampered with so I cannot be sure. no returns" to attempt to cover their fraud.
Reprint cards. These sellers hope that you do not read the fine print and purchase their fakes unknowingly. They share the same practice of acknowledging it in a place where people tend not to read.
Having a BIN with BO for $900 on a $10 card.
Having a best offer but no intention of taking anything less than the BIN and they don’t decline your offer.. that one is near the top of the list for me...
Nic
Guides Authored - Graded Card Scanning Guide PDF | History of the PSA Label PDF
I was told that this is not necessarily the "seller"'s fault. I was told that eBay either sometimes forces a Best Offer or makes it difficult to avoid. I'm not a seller, so I don't know for sure, but if I wanted to sell for a fixed price I might be sufficiently annoyed at "low ball" offers that I wouldn't bother to respond.
True. As a seller, I set an auto decline for those lowball offers. Give me something close to the BIN and we can work something out.
Nic
Guides Authored - Graded Card Scanning Guide PDF | History of the PSA Label PDF
If the BIN is reasonable, then I wouldn't expect the Best Offer accepted to be far off. But all the time I see cards at 2x or 3x from the highest auction price paid - and sure, try and get what you want - but then the BIN gets auto-rejected at well above a reasonable price.
If a $100 card has a $120 BIN, I can see the BO being $100.
If a $100 card has a $250 BIN, the BO shouldn't be auto-rejecting $190 offers.
Speaking of seller tricks, some sucker will end up buying this custom Jordan “1984 Topps RC” thinking its probably real.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Michael-Jordan-1984-Topps-Rookie-Card/303747652751?hash=item46b8c55c8f:g:oLIAAOSwMQNfnYbj
Eric
Erikthredd’s MJ Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/publishedset/395035
Erikthredd’s Nike Air Jordan Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/basketball/key-card-sets/nike-poster-cards-michael-jordan-1985-1992/alltimeset/408486
My "favorite" is when you inquire about a Buy-It-Now with the price being 50% higher than what the card has ever sold for. You ask if they'd be willing to lower to a more realistic price. Then the next thing you know they go back in and increase the Buy-It-Now price.
In what world does that make any sense?
So I have a card that no one has shown any interest in at an unrealistic asking price and once I do find someone with interest, I raise the price even more??
I don't like when they say "no reserve" but the opening bid is higher than market value
When they list every card they sell as an "extremely high end example."
Brian
There's a few, but my least favorite trick is when a seller on eBay tells me he already has an offer on his card ( unreasonably high), but if I'm willing to match it, he'll sell it to me.
The above and those who take pictures at an angle trying to disguise the centering, tilt etc.
This has always bothered me. When a card is in vg/ex to ex condition and the seller begins with "Book at so and so price," which means the stated mint price. It gives the impression that you're getting a deal, but that isn't the case. You are paying the price of what the card is selling for in its current, lesser condition. Probably we already understand that, but I've never liked the price comparison between something that is near perfect/perfect to something that is lesser in grade as a selling tool.