Anyone buy raw singles from the Beckett Marketplace?

envoy98

Was looking at a bunch of stuff on there. Unless you get a lot of singles it's kind of pointless with the shipping you have to pay. My first pass through I had $2.16 in cards and $16.18 in shipping. Kind of like sportlots though I suppose. Focus to one or two sellers each time to avoid the massive s+h and it pans out.

How has the quality of raw singles been in comparison to described condition? Was a card described as Mint or NM-MT actually better than Ex-NM? I'm sure one seller is better than another, which is what I've found on sportlots as well.

CDsNuts

It's pretty similar to sportlots. I've gotten some gradeable cards and some overgraded ones. I did buy some really nice 1991 OPC sets cheap that yielded a few 10s.

Lee

qmayer

I had pretty good luck with the condition. I would compare it to Sportslots with my experiences. I also collected relatively newer cards so it wasn't difficult to expect something NM instead of NMMT. I pulled a couple 10s and a lot of 9s out of both places.

The one thing I would be cognizant of is that with Beckett, there's no recourse if you don't get your card. You have to rely on the seller. I had a card not show up after about 3 weeks (when everything else got to me within days) and tried to file something through Beckett. They emailed me saying that I had to take it up with the seller. The seller refused. I ended up getting it about a month later with the postmark a couple days after purchase.

Justin