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handymanhandyman Posts: 5,396 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Out of the 63,758 PSA cards listed on ebay only 8,836 of them have bids. Is the market falling or are people just asking way to much with opening bids.

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  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,761 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Out of the 63,758 PSA cards listed on ebay only 8,836 of them have bids. Is the market falling or are people just asking way to much with opening bids.

    More likely most bidders have snipes set for the cards they want. There's no point in bidding early unless you want to get outbid or bumped up.


    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.
  • storm888storm888 Posts: 11,701 ✭✭✭
    "Out of the 63,758 PSA cards listed on ebay only 8,836 of them have bids.
    Is the market falling or are people just asking way to much with opening bids."

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    No way to know from the numbers because, as noted above,
    the snipers are in charge.

    Run the numbers on "completed listings," to get a better
    idea of sell-through rates.

    MANY sellers are using "high" starting bids because they
    are tired of giving their cards away to bargain hunters on
    a venue that has lost traffic.
    Folks Who Bite Get Bitten. Folks Who Don't Bite Get Eaten.
  • aconteaconte Posts: 2,053 ✭✭✭
    ebay is not what it used to be.

    aconte
  • sonoranmonsoonsonoranmonsoon Posts: 2,078 ✭✭
    Holiday weekend may have a little to do with it.
  • BrickBrick Posts: 4,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Many unsold cards are BIN with extremely high asking prices. Unfortunately the cards I bid on always have competition.
    Collecting 1960 Topps Baseball in PSA 8
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    Ralph

  • 262Runner262Runner Posts: 606 ✭✭✭
    Earleir this week was .20 listing day.... that may account for a lot of cards listed at extremely inflated opening bids. You may want to check again next week and also check completed listing instead of current auctions.

    262

    Collecting all cards - Gus Zernial
    Post Cereal both raw and PSA Graded (1961-1963)

  • usmc1986usmc1986 Posts: 444
    Half of 'em are Levi's cards......
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  • scooter729scooter729 Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Half of 'em are Levi's cards...... >>



    You got it. On .20 listing weeks, you're going to see outrageous numbers like what you stated on cards without bids. It would still be high on a normal week, but not quite to those proportions.
  • dontippetdontippet Posts: 2,609 ✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>Half of 'em are Levi's cards...... >>



    You got it. On .20 listing weeks, you're going to see outrageous numbers like what you stated on cards without bids. It would still be high on a normal week, but not quite to those proportions. >>



    Exactly. I have 61 items on ebay right now. Only five of them have bids. If it wasn't for .20 listing day, I would have no auctions up right now.
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  • baseballjeffbaseballjeff Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭
    I think the market is cooling down a little. I have noticed prices drop. Sadly, but I think it is slowing down a little. I think some people may be losinginterest becauseof that scum bag who is playing now is about to pass up Hank Aaron is causing people to turn away from the sport. Sadly, I am one of them. I still love the old cards, as I always will, but Bud needs to get his butt in gear before more people lose there love for the game.

    Cheers,
    Jeff
  • cardbendercardbender Posts: 1,831 ✭✭


    << <i>I think the market is cooling down a little. I have noticed prices drop. Sadly, but I think it is slowing down a little. I think some people may be losinginterest becauseof that scum bag who is playing now is about to pass up Hank Aaron is causing people to turn away from the sport. Sadly, I am one of them. I still love the old cards, as I always will, but Bud needs to get his butt in gear before more people lose there love for the game.

    Cheers,
    Jeff >>



    I would tend to agree with this as current Baseball has forever lost me as a fan too. However, it looks like attendance is actually up the past couple of years. You would think with the steroid contraversey that that would've turned many people off from the sport but it doesn't appear that way. Maybe the people attending Baseball these days are not card collectors like many of us. Vintage cards seem to be doing pretty well judging by past auction results. I have no idea if new cards are tanking.
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