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Burbank Could Have 30-Million Cards Listed By December
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This indicates to me, that EBAY will allow stores to continue in business for a bit longer.
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Tue Sept 30 2008 030:27:55
Burbank Sportscards has 884,862 listings on eBay and plans to launch its entire 30 million-card inventory. While that exceeds Buy.com's inventory of 739,473 listings on eBay, there is a major difference: Burbank Sportscards cards are in Store inventory format, meaning its cards only show up on Store searches or at the bottom of core search results.
It is also cheaper to list in Stores versus the core platform. However, eBay cut a special deal with Buy.com, whom many suspect pays no listing fees for its fixed-price inventory on core.
According to Burbank Sportscards' About Me page, it has an inventory of 35 million cards, of which 1.2 million are unique. "Our goal over the course of 2008 is to bring our staggering inventory to this EBAY store and delight collectors the world over with the very best possible selection of singles that fit with the unique style of your collection. And we’re going to offer this selection with the best possible shipping and handling deals anywhere."
Burbank Sportscards uses Beckett Channel Integration (BCI), "a multi-channel inventory management tool that allows users to keep track of products across their Beckett Marketplace, eBay store and in-store Kiosk."
Sellers in the sports card category may be wondering if Burbank Sportscards will become eligible for Diamond-level PowerSeller status, which would allow it to negotiate fees one-on-one with eBay for listing on the core platform. If so, expect a major disruption in the category similar to what happened when Buy.com flooded certain core categories.
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<< <i>This indicates to me, that EBAY will allow stores to continue in business for a bit longer.
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Tue Sept 30 2008 030:27:55
Burbank Sportscards has 884,862 listings on eBay and plans to launch its entire 30 million-card inventory. While that exceeds Buy.com's inventory of 739,473 listings on eBay, there is a major difference: Burbank Sportscards cards are in Store inventory format, meaning its cards only show up on Store searches or at the bottom of core search results.
It is also cheaper to list in Stores versus the core platform. However, eBay cut a special deal with Buy.com, whom many suspect pays no listing fees for its fixed-price inventory on core.
According to Burbank Sportscards' About Me page, it has an inventory of 35 million cards, of which 1.2 million are unique. "Our goal over the course of 2008 is to bring our staggering inventory to this EBAY store and delight collectors the world over with the very best possible selection of singles that fit with the unique style of your collection. And we’re going to offer this selection with the best possible shipping and handling deals anywhere."
Burbank Sportscards uses Beckett Channel Integration (BCI), "a multi-channel inventory management tool that allows users to keep track of products across their Beckett Marketplace, eBay store and in-store Kiosk."
Sellers in the sports card category may be wondering if Burbank Sportscards will become eligible for Diamond-level PowerSeller status, which would allow it to negotiate fees one-on-one with eBay for listing on the core platform. If so, expect a major disruption in the category similar to what happened when Buy.com flooded certain core categories.
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If they are paying the current rate of .03 per listing there is now way burbank is making money on ebay.
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AND, there is "no way" they ARE paying that rate.
EVEN at fractions of a cent, their STR shows they would lose
a fortune if they paid ANY listing fees. EBAY has to be getting
paid on the back end.
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They are making plenty of money.
IF sellers ONLY pay FVFs, STRs become irrelevant.
<< <i> thought ebay stores had a $1 min. price for listings. A lot of their inventory on beckett.com is under a dollar. Does this rule get waived for them, too? >>
Thats what I always wondered? Not sure what happened when they changed the rules. I notice quite a few stores with under a buck.
For the 30 million well like sting said 30 million listings with no pictures and plenty of of early year topps in vg-ex CLUTTER.
i edited 1000 autions, hope skippy in burbank has fun doing it with all hs commons,is that the guy that want to buy commons by the traincar load in full page mag ads? i got 500,000+ hes can come and buy off me real quick
I don't think he has any store items listed at less than $1.
<< <i>All auctions will include not one picture either!! >>
Exactly. I was browsing ebay last night and was getting pretty upset with all of their no photo listings clogging up the pages
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He's got a 1991 Leaf Vince Coleman priced at $1.39 on ebay.
On his beckett site, it's 27 cents. link
Of course, this is just one example of many you could find. Imagine buying several cards from an ebay seller and then finding out you could have bought the same cards from the same seller for 50-75% less on a different web-site?
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bought the same cards from the same seller for 50-75% less on a different web-site?"
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ALL of the large retailers that list on EBAY sell their stuff on their OWN sites
for MUCH less than they do on EBAY.
Sometimes the differences are HUGE.
buy.com is a prime example of the practice.
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Such retailers are exploiting EBAY's reputation for "bargains," and poorly
informed shoppers are buying into the plan.
"Hey, can you guys come down on this card?"
"Sure, you can have it for 70% off that price - just go to this link."
<< <i>People arent going to want to sift through the Burbank garbage. It will make searching what you are looking for nothing less than a HEADACHE. >>
Exactly. No pictures, generic description, and grossly overpriced. Permanent congestion, as they don't seem to sell much. If ebay had a "hide seller's listings" feature, Burbank would be my first choice.
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I hope not.
<< <i>"...our staggering inventory..." >>
...which goes quite nicely with their staggering prices, on the rare times when they actually have the card in stock.
30 million cards, 1.2 million unique. Wow.
<< <i>Just bought 20 cards from Burbank, and 75% of them had dinged corners. Just an FYI, if you're buying from them with the intention of getting them graded, buy several copies, or buy elsewhere. >>
I just bought about 140 cards from them. There were only about 30 unique cards in there with lots of duplicates....so hopefully I don't befall that same fate.
<< <i>($2.00 for 20 cards/10 different auctions). >>
If anyone is going to buy from Burbank, I would highly recommend not buying from their ebay store. For the cards I mentioned above, I priced out what it would cost me if I bought from ebay and compared it against their prices for the exact same cards through their beckett.com store. I paid about 40% of their ebay prices. As they fulfilled my order, they removed their ebay listings. The majority of cards they listed for $1.39 on ebay were $0.49 in their beckett store.
Shipping is a little more over on their beckett site, but since I ordered more than $50 worth of cards, my shipping was free.