707 Sportscards
bbne1
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I know this is always a sensitive subject when 707 Sportscards overloads eBay with his stuff, and I know many of you hold Levi in high regard, but here's an example of what bugs me about his thousands of BIN's.
I'm always looking for Drysdale cards. There's a beautifully centered 68 Drysdale PSA 8 that sold for less than $18 a couple weeks ago.
Currently 707 has a BIN 68 Drysdale PSA 8, horribly centered in BOTH directions, for $45. You and I would NOT have gotten an 8 on this card. It is just plain ugly.
I'd post the images but don't know how (although I'd love to know!).
I appreciate the volume and selection of cards he makes available, but his prices have nothing to do with reality. Most of his cards are off center BUT without qualifiers and he makes absolutely no adjustment for it on his prices. I'm amazed that he sells thousands, or hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cards. With a very small amount of patience you will beat both his prices AND the quality of cards easily. How does he sell so much???
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Excellent customer service and patience. Levi will keep a card for years until he sells it at the price he wants. Sooner or later someone will pull the trigger on that card you or I will never give a second glance to.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
SMR is 35. As any other price guide, its just that, only a guide. Many cards sell for over SMR. The consumer has to be intelligent enough to make their own choices. Like the saying goes "Buy the card, not the holder".
Some of these guys get away with the higher price tags because of the reputation they have worked so hard on building over many years. How many thousands of dollars do you think he spends on advertising? Those costs must be covered.
By all means, if you can find a nicely centered PSA 8 Drysdale on ebay for 18 bucks, then more power to you. Maybe you are a smart shopper. Maybe you have more patience than the next guy.
I dont fault Levi for his prices because he sells lots of stuff. Obviously he knows what he is doing. Yeah, it really mucks up a lot of ebay searches. But his money is good money that he pays ebay to post.
Similar to Mike Wheat...I think he over grades and is waaaaay over priced, even more than Levi but if he makes the sales and is profitable, then he is obviously doing something right. Same goes for Dean's Cards.
This is America! Unless you can talk all buyers to not purchase from these guys (obviously not going to happen) then you may see them bring prices down to create cash flow.
I say all the more power to them. I would love to be as successful as Levi Bleam.
I haven't checked, but did they list the Rookie Carew in a 8 for $700 again?? Always good for a laugh.
In fact, we named our first daughter - Levi Bleam.
loth
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
<< <i>My only issue with Levi is he uses SMR to value your cards but doesn't do the same for his. Trying to trade with him is impossible. Another fun thing is he will always point out some flaw in a card to only give you 80% of SMR but if you try and do the same to his OC or Print dot covered cards he will get mad. >>
And that is true of most cardshop owners, and most of them are worse than that.
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<< <i>I got my 1990 Topps NNOF PSA 8 of Frank Thomas for $450 delivered from Levi.
<< <i>As usual 707 is selling a bunch of cards. Over the last 12-18 months it seems like 98% of cards sell for less at Ebay auction than they would at a fixed price. Levi knows this. >>
I just checked the link you provided. He has sold 291 cards in the past 3 days...not to bad. I didn't add it up but it appears to be in the thousand's of dollars. Does he also operate a B&M?
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If Levi did not sell another card he could still retire to that beach.
Steve
707 Special: 300$
I got this one for 177.50$
707 Dy-No-Mite!! 400$
Mine was $218.50 - tho his is a bit better centered T/B.
I still like the name - tho my daughter doesn't like being called Levi all day long!
Happy New Year
mike
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<< <i>Does anybody know a dealer, that will pay SMR? 707 will not. >>
Ov
What % did they quote you?
mike
There are 2 things I don't understand though:
(1) How does one list 22000 items on ebay in 1 day?
(2) Hundreds (perhaps a thousand or more?) of people buy from his 15 cent listings. I assume that some percentage of these people are knowledgable about sports cards. Yet they don't know that they can go to 707's web-site anytime and buy the exact card they just purchased for the exact price?
<< <i>Stone, about 3 grand under book! >>
I can't get anything from that.
What was the % of the book vs. what they offered?
What was the book vs. the 3K under?
mike
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
Granted Pre-WWII and low pop cards are cards a dealer can pay SMR for, but for Topps & Bowman that are not low pop, how can a dealer pay SMR? Stock Topps & Bowman routinely sells for less than or at SMR on EBAY.
I assume the cards Overrated is selling is Pre-WWII, low pop or regionals?
PSA 52 Mantle #311, I believe?
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
<< <i>Stone, book is $32,000.00. do you think dealers are shutting down, becuase of ebay and auction houses? or are card collectors tried of being ripped off when they want to sell a high profile card? to a dealer. Or to many stories of a youg kid like me, not knowning what I had and dealer taking advantage? >>
So he was 3K under on the 32K - or 10% - that's 90% book - that's pretty darn good IMO.
Of course - like I said - what book? You could sell them yourself and wind up grossing 50K - hypothetically.
mike
I agree. 90% book is an excellent offer and percentage-wise probably higher than most other dealers would even offer. I think the only reason the offer is even that high is because Levi knows he has the clientele to purchase a card of that value. And honestly, how many dealers out there are even willing to offer as much as 29K for a card that books for 32K? Not many, I'd guess.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
Then why offer to sell it to Levi at "book" price? As I mentioned in a previous post, a card of this value ought to be consigned to a major auction house anyway, unless the seller believes the bidding may not exceed book value. If not, why not put it up for auction to make 50K then?
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
Ron
Buying Vintage, all sports.
Buying Woody Hayes, Les Horvath, Vic Janowicz, and Jesse Owens autographed items
<< <i>Then why offer to sell it to Levi at "book" price? As I mentioned in a previous post, a card of this value ought to be consigned to a major auction house anyway, unless the seller believes the bidding may not exceed book value. If not, why not put it up for auction to make 50K then? >>
Maybe a collector who doesn't know that the current market value exceeds the SMR, is only looking for SMR. That collector perceives the card to be highly sought after , so they believe SMR is the market price.
If overrated knows anything about any card, it's the 1952 Topps Mantle RC.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
How do you post the scans from eBay?
<< <i>I have no problem with him but laugh at his prices. I laugh harder at people who pay them.
Ron >>
I was a t a card show back in novemeber where a guy picked out cards that added up to 205$. He took out two hundreds and asked for 5 bucks off, Levi said No WAY! HA!
Are you kidding? Wow!
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
<< <i>LVMM - thanks for posting the Drysdales. What a difference huh?
How do you post the scans from eBay? >>
bb
Go to the pic - and Right click on it.
Go down to the Properties box and Click on it.
Go to the Address (URL) and Copy it.
Then come here and link it. I'm talking about the 4th icon from the left that looks like a picture frame.
Or if you don't want to bother with buttons - just put in [IMG ] URL address [/IMG] and it will appear in your post. I put a space after the first IMG or it was attempting to post a pic and you would see one of those boxes with the red X.
mike
<< <i>(1) How does one list 22000 items on ebay in 1 day? >>
Not hard to do if you use a listing tool such as eBay's File Exchange...basically you can keep your inventory in Excel and you can upload thousands of listings with a couple of clicks of the mouse.
Mine...purchased on ebay for around $20
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