anyone ever buy a raw card on Ebay......
TmbrWolf22
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WTB: PSA 1 - PSA 3 Centered, High Eye Appeal 1950's Mantle
Joe
They are primarily a mail order card company, not much in the show room. The item I got from ebay was a 2002 Teixeira Bowman Chrome X-Fractor. This card was nice, but the rest of the cards that I "picked" ranged from NM to NM-MNT when I got there. Many of them I would not take or submit, and when they brought them out, many of them were not in top loaders or penny sleeves. I cringed a bit...
They have boxes and boxes and boxes...millions of cards in a warehouse that they pick from to fulfill orders. Not a bad estabilishment...they do a lot of volume.
Mileage may vary with these types of companies, personally I like to see the cards first before I buy. The only reason I drove down there was for a rare 2002 Studio Private Signing Teixeira that they said they had. Luckily they did have it and I was pleasently thrilled. Their inventory was accurate online...there was only 1 card that they didn't have in the 40 additional that I purchased.
Hope this helps.
Justin
Retired - Eddie Mathews Master Registry Set (96.36%) Rank 1
<< <i>I've purchased a fair amount of non-scanned cards from sellers like Burbank, and I've had a decent amount of 10s pop for me. I usually buy 3-6 cards each (if available) and sub the best ones. That's how I chase my Ripken 10s for my Basic Set. It's hit and miss. >>
I do the same with my Pujols, Favre, Rodgers (among other) set efforts!
Working on my modern registry player sets... I do this often on eBay, but mostly the Beckett Marketplace.
For the past 2 years or so, I've always avoided Burbank Sportscards on eBay... rarely have pictures, stock a lot when they do, and I didn't like their prices compared to others.
They have a TON of cards though, and I finally broked down recently and ordered a big stash (big for me & my normal orders that is) from them on the Beckett Marketplace.
Received the cards on Monday... Purchased 111 cards from them... Paid $119.25... every card advertised as NM-MT
When I buy like this, I know it's a gamble... especially considering in such a case, gradeable to me means "PSA 10 Worthy"
Of those 111 cards, I pulled exactly 2 cards for my next sub... yes, 2!
In general, people put NM-MT to mean NM-MT or better... so when I review the cards for grade worthy... I'd consider NM-MT to mean "PSA 8 Worthy or Better"
Given this order, worn corners, bent corners, surface scratching & poor centering... I'd be hard pressed to say that even 50% of the order was actually NM-MT. I had 7 cards in my maybe pile, which is my probably PSA 9 card pile that I'll review again to see if an outside-shot-at-at-10 chance submission is worth it. So, basically, 102 of the 111 cards were NM-MT or worse... and I can say with fairly good confidence that the majority of those 102 fall into the "worse" category.
Long story... short: I avoided them because I feared what they'd deliver as a product, I finally took a chance... my fears were justifed, and I learned a $119.25 lesson... I WILL NEVER BUY FROM BURBANK AGAIN!
Nick
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It was pretty much buying blind - even if there was a pic - it was worthless.
Stuff I bought in the late 80s - that they graded NMMT - by our standards today? EXMT at best.
That's why buying PSA cards got popular - it took some of the guess work out of it.