I can't find jack on Ebay...........

RonBurgundy

There's so little on there these days that I'm interested in, I'm wondering if it's the beginning of the end for the card section.


Ron

XanaduNow

Ron, I think I found him. Hope this helps.

Arthur

storm888

"I'm wondering if it's the beginning of the end for the card section."

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Nope.

But, alot of sellers are tired of low-prices and other EBAY problems.

Checkout YAHOO; a number of regular and former EBAYers are on there.

Also, some have started their own sites.

tantle

is this the Jack you were looking for?

lawnmowerman

Yeah Ron, I really dont know what you are talking about. Arthur found a jack . So did tantle. I found this after only looking for 5 seconds.

SDavid

I don't look at ebay as often anymore, but I've noticed the same thing, especially with vintage. I thought it would pick up with spring training, but it hasn't. There might be the same number of listings, but it seems like there aren't nearly as many medium to high-end cards.

Boopotts

<< <i>I don't look at ebay as often anymore, but I've noticed the same thing, especially with vintage. I thought it would pick up with spring training, but it hasn't. There might be the same number of listings, but it seems like there aren't nearly as many medium to high-end cards. >>



Isn't that weird? I think people may have just reached their pain threshhold when it comes to absorbing a loss on a card, and that explains the drop in decent listings. I know I have a bunch of cards that I paid $20-$30 for, which are now worth $1-$3, and I won't sell them because I hate the idea of having to realize a 95% loss. I'd rather just hold on to them.

I think the model that's ultimately going to be most effective for online sportscard selling is the sportlots model (or some variant thereof), which provides the proper incentives to sellers to list their items at a reasonable price, takes at least one variable out of the buyer-seller relationship (that being the transfer of payment to the seller), and eliminates sniping (a practice which I think hurts sellers more than helps them overall).

JackWESQ

I'm right here. Feel free to PM with your questions and comments. Thank you.

/s/ JackWESQ

Griffins

I've had more things on my watch list recently than in the last 6 months. Sets that never had singles come up are now regularly being listed- rising prices bring them out. Ron, perhaps it's time to start a few more sets?

stevek

You're right - there really is so much garbage on ebay anymore - and it's getting worse. The bottom line might be, especially of course for vintage, is the real nice PSA cards get kept by collectors and not sold, while the low end for the grade type crap, keeps getting sold and resold over and over again on ebay.

Vintage cards are finite and it could be reaching a limit of sorts out there with availability at a reasonable price that people are willing to pay - a stalemate of sorts.

storm888

"a stalemate of sorts. "

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Yup. I think so.

Like Boo indicated, there is a limit to how much sellers want
to give away.

If I don't need/want money, why should I go to the trouble
of listing and dealing with nothing but bargain hunters? It
is fast dawning on me to just stash stuff and wait for better
times.

CDsNuts

I thinkt he PSA registry has a lot to do with this. You have more collectors trying to amass sets/players/teams and the high-end stuff is being sold once and not seeing the light of day again. Also, there are far less money-making opportunities (flipping) on ebay so cards aren't generally being sold 2, 3, and 4 times.

I think for the first time since the early 90s, demand is greater than supply which is driving prices up for the stuff people want/need, and driving prices down for junk no one cares about, which is most of the stuff listed on ebay.

Lee

stown

<< <i>I think for the first time since the early 90s, demand is greater than supply which is driving prices up for the stuff people want/need, and driving prices down for junk no one cares about, which is most of the stuff listed on ebay. >>

lostdart58

JACK


Kidding aside, my usual searches have yielded little of quality. Sorta glad though ,as my ebay spending is way down.

BobaFett72

i found tons of Jack!

Jack Black
Jack Clark
Jack (and Jill!)
Jack Rabbit Slims
You don't know Jack....

I could go on

stevek

The scarey thing is that "traditionally" this has been about the best time of the year when nice, freshly graded vintage 50's and 60's, 8's and 9's popup on ebay by a few top dealers expecting to get good prices from them in anticipation of the upcoming baseball season. I haven't seen this yet this year unless I missed it.

stevek

So I hate to think what the rest of the year is going to be like.

BobaFett72

maybe it will be a good year to get some bargains.
people will be selling their pristine cards to fill up at the pump.
Saw on CNBC today, projected summertime gas prices: $2.75 a gallon.

SidePocket

I bid on a 59 Killebrew PSA 8 the other night with SMR of $275. It went for almost $600. There's money to be made on high end vintage for sure.

Buccaneer

<< <i>I bid on a 59 Killebrew PSA 8 the other night with SMR of $275. It went for almost $600. There's money to be made on high end vintage for sure. >>



That's consistent with the statement that what is hot (and selling) are: PSA 8 1950s, PSA 9 1960s and PSA 10 1970s. Some of the recent completed prices I've seen on 1957 PSA 8 seems unreal.

SDavid

Something else I've noticed by checking sub results around my own is that the overwhelming number of cards getting submitted are lower end cards or commons. You've got to go a long way before you find vintage Mantle's, Clemente's, etc., and, if people aren't grading them, you're a lot less likely to find them on sale anywhere, let alone ebay.