How has ebay been lately for everyone?

Wabittwax · June 26, 2007 11:47PM

I figured I would ask this question to everyone but how has ebay been for you sellers lately? Is it just me or is it dead lately for selling? I have 300 cards up right now and nothing is moving. My last auction a couple weeks ago had crappy results also. Christmas time was rockin and now it seems dead. Just my imagination or is anyone else seeing similiar results. If so, maybe it's a good time for me to buy instead of sell.

diamondman · June 27, 2007 12:17AM

Ebay has been sucking lately for me also. Have very few of my auctions starting at 99 cents as it seems to be to much of a gamble right now. although when i use to have a store, sales were always slow and sluggish during the summer as everyone is outside enjoying the weather or on vacation.Always seemed to pick up 2 weeks before the kids went back to school and then steam rolled all the way through Christmas and and even a couple weeks of January. JMHO

Cash is the King right now. probally a good time to be buying.

Fabfrank · June 27, 2007 12:24AM

I've noticed a lack of cards for the sets I collect. Seems even the sellers are on vacation.

perkdog · June 27, 2007 12:31AM

Nothing out of the ordinary other than getting sniped for 50 cents here and there..

WinPitcher · June 27, 2007 12:44AM

Now that all my good stuff has been sold and I am forced to sell those cards that i could not move before it has slowed down. I guess it all depends on what you are trying to move.

Yes it has slowed down for me too.

Steve

ctsoxfan · June 27, 2007 12:54AM

I have been doing well with modern football rookies, which surprises me somewhat - given its not football season. But baseball and basketball cards have been slow, especially 70's graded baseball (unless it's a rookie or tough card).

Stingray · June 27, 2007 1:07AM

Selling has been very bad for me, not getting much movement out of my cards. Pretty much agree with Wabittwax.

Morgoth · June 27, 2007 1:12AM

It's interesting the slow down on 70's material. I wonder if the price of unopened 70's material has far surpassed the value of the material once opened even graded. I would love to try and build a late 70s set from packs but it just doesn't seem logical money wise.

Ichiro51fan · June 27, 2007 3:22AM

In my limited experience, it's been a mixed bag. I've done really well on PSA-8, low-pop '72 Topps baseball commons, pretty good on '84 Donruss PSA-10 Superstars, and OK on mid-high grade 70's HOFers. Most of my graded cards have been going for at least 75% of SMR value, but some of the '72 commons have went for well over SMR. I did take a bath on a PSA-9 Fleer Mattingly rookie the other day... went for only $15.50

! The crappy thing about that was that 3 idiots put up identical cards within less than 4 hours after I put mine up, so we all ended up losing out on some money! It really pisses me off when people do that!

rube26105 · July 17, 2007 9:53AM

mine has slowed serio0sly also, i sell 75% military stuff so its not just cards, its everything, when all the plants go out everyone works at mcdonalds to pay the bills,noones got any $ left, fenton glass is closing here in williamstown, after 105 years,the are putting in a hino plant(something to do with toyota) 80 jobs=they got 2,500 applications!!!!
randy

ArnyVee · July 17, 2007 9:59AM

I'm selling the 'star' cards consistently like Nolan Ryan and George Brett, but the others aren't that popular right now. I thought that it was more because of the fact that I haven't been listing much lately, but I guess that it's just been slow for everyone.

alnavman · July 17, 2007 10:14AM

I recently had some good luck with 65 topps baseball...7's and 8's.

WeekendHacker · July 17, 2007 10:22AM

<< <i>I recently had some good luck with 65 topps baseball...7's and 8's. >>

I hope I have the same with some 1970 Topps Baseball that are ending tonight - some Low Pops included.

alnavman · July 17, 2007 10:46AM

Hacker, what's your ebay name so I can check them out....

MorrellMan · July 17, 2007 11:05AM

<< <i>mine has slowed serio0sly also, i sell 75% military stuff so its not just cards, its everything, when all the plants go out everyone works at mcdonalds to pay the bills,noones got any $ left, fenton glass is closing here in williamstown, after 105 years,the are putting in a hino plant(something to do with toyota) 80 jobs=they got 2,500 applications!!!!
randy >>

As West Virginia goes so goes the nation.

msassin · July 17, 2007 11:18AM

In terms of buying I think this summer has had less graded vintage (pre-war) on eBay than in years past.

In terms of selling, I have done more volume out of my eBay store in the last 2 months than I've done in any stretch since I opened an eBay store 1 1/2 years ago.

donrus · July 17, 2007 11:32AM

well i have been buying.. i know i have spent over 1k on pete rose cards.. a few are graded, but the rest are waiting in line. don

rube26105 · July 17, 2007 12:45PM

you got that right MORRELLMAN!!!! when i got back from nam there were 25+ some chemical and other plants up and down the ohio river, about 4 are left, and im sure every other state is the same,they dont make anything here anymore, china makes it all to try and kill us, like our food, pet food, and colgate with antifreeze in it-dont make much sense to me, i sell more overseas i think than i do in the us, especially germany for some reason- DONRUS-you sound like me- i do more buying than seling as of late-trying to get a-rod and griffey jr rookies psa 10 rookies before they go thu the roof!!! hope they let pete in the halll of fame one of these days, if they let all these dopeheads in they should let him in, he didnt do anything that others havnt,they just didnt get caught!
randy

sayheykid54 · July 17, 2007 1:14PM

I think right now is a great opportunity to buy 50's and 60's high-end graded material.

WeekendHacker · July 17, 2007 2:00PM

<< <i>I think right now is a great opportunity to buy 50's and 60's high-end graded material.

>>

If you are buying, do it on ebay, not an auction house otherwise you'll pay through the nose.

mariner · July 17, 2007 2:06PM

I try to buy some in the summer but I never try to sell in the summer.

jmbkb4 · July 17, 2007 2:18PM

been having pretty good luck with my '93s

Stingray · July 17, 2007 9:56PM

Selling stinks, just sold some 84 Donruss PSA 10s, did not get anywhere near what I thought I would!!

Wabittwax · July 17, 2007 10:27PM

My ebay store is picking up a little bit from last month but not much. I just opened it about 2 months ago. I have about 300 items in it so far but I set a goal of 5000 items eventually. That seems like a lot but I'm pretty much giving myself forever to accomplish it. I figure I'll use to summer time to pick up bargains to pad the inventory and cross my fingers that the ball gets rolling on it eventually. We'll see.

scooter729 · July 18, 2007 2:15AM

Had some good luck last night picking up a couple of T-202's and T-218's I'm working on. Just mid-grade cards, but they sold at 75% SMR, and normally are much closer to SMR, so I'm happy!

dude · July 18, 2007 2:27AM

Historically, the summer season has a bad track record for selling, so many dealers don't sell or sell as much in the summer months. The upcoming National is also a factor. Many dealers hold back quality stuff for the National.

Treetop · July 18, 2007 3:24AM

I ran a nice selection of 72 BB PSA 9's about a month ago and prices were terrible. The past few weeks I have ran groups of 60 (twice) 1975 BB PSA 9, mostly mid-pops, and averaged close to $35 a card. Was very Happy with the 75's

Like Dude said, historically slow this time of year and I'm probably done selling until Later part of September. Maybe run one more group of 75's if my submission pops in time.

Mark

digicat · July 18, 2007 4:10AM

Selling has been rather lame, and I just had 3 auctions!

Only 1 out of 3 paid. One of the NPBs turned up NARU a week after the auction, and the other guy (with 2000+ feedback, and lots of "Paid fast!" type feedback for auctions that ended AFTER mine) is now a NPB dispute subject (after 2 weeks and 4 invoices).

Ugh. The guy who actually paid got a SGC 92, 1993 SP Jeter for $52 or so (about $20 less than other SGC 92s have gone for on Ebay).

rube26105 · July 22, 2007 6:36AM

much better the last 2 weeks on mine,i hit a drought ther for a few weeks and didnt hardly sell chit,which is very unusual for my biz,its usually pretty steady, i thought all my reg customers all died at once or something

1960toppsguy · July 23, 2007 12:40PM

what are the other options? everything for sale on e bay is what no serious collector would even consider.

sonoranmonsoon · July 26, 2007 11:01AM

This month has been steady to strong for me. Last month was unusually weak though. I sell only t206 cards.

sivotco1 · July 27, 2007 12:19AM

been wanting to start the same post recently...not putting up much for sale, but have noticed a significant slowdown in ebay sales cause i watch em every day...it is so noticeable that pretty much all i'm doing now is buying...wondering if the housing situation is starting to have an effect, or its just the summer, or we're getting ready for another "correction" in
cards...

KalineFan · July 27, 2007 5:06AM

I have had some very good auctions. With that said, the one card that was a big HURT and
shock to me was a 1974 #473 World Series card with Willie Mays (His last card) PSA 9 MINT. I
paid $50 for this card, SMR is $50. It sold for $11.50 ! Holy SNYKEES!

On the other hand, a 1971 Topps Willie Davis #585 PSA 8 Sold for $182 ! I am still trying
to figure that one out. Although, I have noticed a trend. Is Willie Davis like the
"SECRET" semi-star that there are a bunch of people collect, but, nobody talks about it?
What I mean is, sort of like Norm Cash is to Al Kaline, etc etc.?

Tony
KalineFan

purelyPSA · July 27, 2007 6:36AM

Kalinefan -

No. He's not.

How has ebay been lately for everyone?

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