<< <i>....."Direct from Vending" in the description. >>
if the cards are truly direct from a vending box, why would this be a problem? >>
Hiya Jeff
Didn't want to make a diatribe on my post.
But, I get the idea that a lot of the sellers want one to infer the card is great BECAUSE it came from vending - when - as we know - vending over-all can blow chunks if you know what I mean?
That's all I meant - it's a potentially misleading description which - in truth - probably adds no value or effect on the card in hand.
<< <i>When I search for "complete set" in the title and there are 1000 listings for single cards and the title includes "complete set break".
Try this search:
(comp,complete,master) set -break
That should work >>
Not that it grinds my gears or anything, but it is too bad that eBay ditched the * wildcard in our searches. I honestly think items we are searching for slip through the cracks now.
Not that it grinds my gears or anything, but it is too bad that eBay ditched the * wildcard in our searches. I honestly think items we are searching for slip through the cracks now.
eBay actually contacted me about this after I emailed the CEO. They said that most people didn't even know about the "wildcard" search feature, so its wasn't a hard decision for them to do away with it.
No, this stuff isn't gettin' to me. The over-graded cards, the keyword spamming, scans showing only 2 of 4 corners, three dollars to ship a single raw card, Fleer’s quality control in the early 1980’s, that doesn't bother me a bit. Or this hobby, either. Having to wade through the over-priced buy-it-nows, ebay and paypal taking every dime of my profit, shill bidding, and trimmed cards being knowingly sold as near mint. Nah, that doesn't bother me. But you know what does bother me? You know what really grinds my gears? Watching you stuff your face with those hot dogs. Nobody, I mean NOBODY puts ketchup on a hot dog.
<< <i>Not that it grinds my gears or anything, but it is too bad that eBay ditched the * wildcard in our searches. I honestly think items we are searching for slip through the cracks now. >>
The judges ruling is that even with your insultingly thin attempt to mask a second thing by saying "Not that it grinds my gears or anything," you have been found to be in direct violation of the OP, so please pound either one of your thumbs with a hammer.
"Nothing grinds my gears worse than some chowderhead who doesn't know when to keep his big trap shut." -Del Griffith
'Sir, I realize it's been difficult for you to sleep at night without your EX/MT 1977 Topps Tom Seaver, but I swear to you that you'll get it safe and sound.' -CDs Nuts, 1/20/14
<< <i>When I search for "complete set" in the title and there are 1000 listings for single cards and the title includes "complete set break". Try this search: (comp,complete,master) set -break or for a specific year: 1984 Donruss (comp,complete,master) set -break That should work >>
Mastering search engine techniques made all the difference for me. What grinds my gears is when sellers (typically on eBay, but elsewhere too) misrepresent their items in the title. This has already been said on this thread a number of ways but it really sucks that bad that it's worth mentioning again.
- PSA "Retired" Sets -- what mook retires his set -- he either owns the cards or he doesn't - ebay "reserve" auctions -- just make it the starting bid and move on
Ebay related: sellers that charge $4 for shipping then you open your PO box to find a plain white envelope with a 45 cent stamp and nothing to protect the card. How about the guys that like to recycle old bubble mailers, they try to seal it up with tape but when that gets dropped in chicago snow the snow always finds that open gap!!
PSA related: Mechanical errors, not only are they named incorrectly by PSA (they are human errors) but many times it can take you up 3 full months to get a card slabbed correctly from the first time you send it off. 2 months is my average for large subs to pop (which i normally do) then another month for the card to return to PSA, go back to spec dept, finally get slabbed correctly and mailed back. Thankfully they have gotten much better with the ME's in the last year. But that brings up my other big gripe about PSA which is the spec dept. I morphed into a player collector in the mid 90's due to all the crazy sets out there which i could never keep up with. i was smart enough to just focus on one player, bad thing is said player has over 12,000 cards. so with all the crazy odd ball inserts and parallels out there i tend to sub stuff that isnt always a plain 2004 Topps football card. As mentioned most of my subs tend to be large as I wait until I have collected a nice assortment to attempt to get a decent discount on pricing. Needless to say almost 98% of the cards in that sub are of one player. I started a few years ago putting post-its on the CS's which would point out whether or not its a variation, thinking that this would help the spec department. I have even gone to the degree of printing out from either the beckett website the card info on a particular card or copying the page from the beckett yearly price guide. Either approach almost never works. Card comes back no grade:no holder or some thing like that. Now if it was you and a guy subs 900+ cards of the same player, which includes notes about cards wouldnt you either a) email him to confirm what he has sent or b) think he might really know what he his talking about?
Packers Fan for Life Collecting: Brett Favre Master Set Favre Ticket Stubs Favre TD Reciever Autos Football HOF Player/etc. Auto Set Football HOF Rc's
<< <i>When you have an item for sale with buy it now or best offer and someone watches it. What are they watching for? >>
for a few reasons. one if they are a seller they maybe interested in if it sells at your price point. they are looking to see what the market is. if they are buyers it could be they are watching for a few reasons. one to see if the card sells at that price point and are watching other auctions for the same item. your bin is a little more than they are willing to pay but if they see your item sell they might be more willing to pay that the next time they see the card up on ebay. they also might be watching it to see how long you have it listed at that price.
really most people watch bin items for the price reasoning. to me it makes sense. i do it quite a bit.
Packers Fan for Life Collecting: Brett Favre Master Set Favre Ticket Stubs Favre TD Reciever Autos Football HOF Player/etc. Auto Set Football HOF Rc's
<< <i>When you have an item for sale with buy it now or best offer and someone watches it. What are they watching for? >>
for a few reasons. one if they are a seller they maybe interested in if it sells at your price point. they are looking to see what the market is. if they are buyers it could be they are watching for a few reasons. one to see if the card sells at that price point and are watching other auctions for the same item. your bin is a little more than they are willing to pay but if they see your item sell they might be more willing to pay that the next time they see the card up on ebay. they also might be watching it to see how long you have it listed at that price.
really most people watch bin items for the price reasoning. to me it makes sense. i do it quite a bit. >>
I watch a lot of BINs because usually I can't afford them right now and I want to remember them for when I can. Seems reasonable, no?
<< <i>eBay sellers listing a graded card that has been given the dreaded O/C by PSA and they DO NOT say so in the title. Title states "PSA 9" and when you look at the picture you see "PSA 9 O/C". >>
I'm annoyed when certain raw cards aesthetically under-perform in a given year then heroically arrive in spring training the next season in the best condition of their respective lives.
Price-gouging sellers and those who defend them by saying they have great customer service and can price their cards however they like.
"My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
I'll tell you what grinds my gears. Sellers who have photograph more than what they are selling. Such as buying 3 cards and only getting one in the mail. So when you check the auction, you realize the auction was for 1 card.
Yeah, buyer beware! Right? Its the buyer who can't read that is at fault. So the buyer is lazy. But the seller, who clearly wrote what consists of the auction is equally lazy to spend a few more minutes cropping the darn photo. Yet, in their laziness, they are backed by description. I just feel burned. Thats all. And it was not expensive enough to make a fuss. So I soap-boxed it here.
My gears get grindeded when someone owns an overgraded card and goes out of her way to explain how it theoretically fits the description of a PSA 10 but then trashes your PSA 10 because it has an almost invisible flaw.
My card collecting is a huge way to sit back and relax, and escape away from life for a moment or two. There is absolutely nothing that stresses me about the hobby. I thoroughly enjoy it.
#LetsGoSwitzerlandThe Man Who Does Not Read Has No Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read. The biggest obstacle to progress is a habit of “buying what we want and begging for what we need.”You get the Freedom you fight for and get the Oppression you deserve.
A few years ago, I walked into a card store and asked the dealer if he had any ungraded 75 T baseball commons. He said yes, but that he would charge me the graded price for the raw cards I wanted, arguing that buyers were going into his shop, buying his raw cards, getting them graded, and selling them at a profit. I asked him why he didn't grade them himself, but he didn't have much of an answer. I briefly looked at his cards, and then turned around and walked out. So in answer to the question, what grinds my gears is sellers asking for the graded card price for ungraded cards.
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While I agree with the spirit of that message, the sheer fact that someone is looking for a graded card means you're buying the holder
TheClockworkAngelCollection
<< <i>
Also people that think they are valiant when in fact they are the furthest thing from the very definition of the word. >>
Another thing that grinds me .......Lack of Auction House transparency
<< <i>Greed. I understand it's everywhere but it seems to be more prevalent in this hobby than any other.
Also people that think they are valiant when in fact they are the furthest thing from the very definition of the word. >>
As per Geordie's instructions in his OP you must now go pound either one of your thumbs with a hammer.
<< <i>
<< <i>Greed. I understand it's everywhere but it seems to be more prevalent in this hobby than any other.
Also people that think they are valiant when in fact they are the furthest thing from the very definition of the word. >>
As per Geordie's instructions in his OP you must now go pound either one of your thumbs with a hammer. >>
Woops..my badness.
1994 Pro Line Live
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<< <i>
<< <i>....."Direct from Vending" in the description. >>
if the cards are truly direct from a vending box, why would this be a problem? >>
Hiya Jeff
Didn't want to make a diatribe on my post.
But, I get the idea that a lot of the sellers want one to infer the card is great BECAUSE it came from vending - when - as we know - vending over-all can blow chunks if you know what I mean?
That's all I meant - it's a potentially misleading description which - in truth - probably adds no value or effect on the card in hand.
<< <i>Nick, the only reason I didn't call him on it is because I assumed he lopped at least one of them off in a drunken weed eating accident. >>
Lol! You're actually close. I still have a semi black thumbnail.
In a fruitless attempt to separate concrete from a basketball pole, the hammer decided it wanted to hit my thumb instead. And no, I wasn't drinking
1994 Pro Line Live
TheDallasCowboyBackfieldProject
Try this search:
(comp,complete,master) set -break
or for a specific year:
1984 Donruss (comp,complete,master) set -break
That should work
They call me "Pack the Ripper"
<< <i>
<< <i>Nick, the only reason I didn't call him on it is because I assumed he lopped at least one of them off in a drunken weed eating accident. >>
Lol! You're actually close. I still have a semi black thumbnail.
In a fruitless attempt to separate concrete from a basketball pole, the hammer decided it wanted to hit my thumb instead. And no, I wasn't drinking
Hiya Matt - come on - I was sure you knew not to "eat" weed.
I guess I must've misunderstood what you meant when you said you cut "grass" for a living?
<< <i>When I search for "complete set" in the title and there are 1000 listings for single cards and the title includes "complete set break".
Try this search:
(comp,complete,master) set -break
That should work >>
Not that it grinds my gears or anything, but it is too bad that eBay ditched the * wildcard in our searches. I honestly think items we are searching for slip through the cracks now.
Dodgers collection scans | Brett Butler registry | 1978 Dodgers - straight 9s, homie
1994 Pro Line Live
TheDallasCowboyBackfieldProject
<< <i>Lol.....hey Mike
Hi Matt!
Goober says "hey."
eBay actually contacted me about this after I emailed the CEO. They said that most people didn't even know about the "wildcard" search feature, so its wasn't a hard decision for them to do away with it.
They call me "Pack the Ripper"
And I like ketchup on my hot dog!!
<< <i>Not that it grinds my gears or anything, but it is too bad that eBay ditched the * wildcard in our searches. I honestly think items we are searching for slip through the cracks now. >>
The judges ruling is that even with your insultingly thin attempt to mask a second thing by saying "Not that it grinds my gears or anything," you have been found to be in direct violation of the OP, so please pound either one of your thumbs with a hammer.
thing that really grinds my gears!!!
-Del Griffith
-CDs Nuts, 1/20/14
*1956 Topps baseball- 97.4% complete, 7.24 GPA
*Clemente basic set: 85.0% complete, 7.89 GPA
<< <i>When I search for "complete set" in the title and there are 1000 listings for single cards and the title includes "complete set break".
Try this search: (comp,complete,master) set -break
or for a specific year: 1984 Donruss (comp,complete,master) set -break
That should work >>
Mastering search engine techniques made all the difference for me. What grinds my gears is when sellers (typically on eBay, but elsewhere too) misrepresent their items in the title. This has already been said on this thread a number of ways but it really sucks that bad that it's worth mentioning again.
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<< <i>I actually like ketchup on my hot dogs too. >>
I like ketchup and mustard on my hot dogs plus sauerkraut too.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
Collecting:
Any unopened Baseball cello and rack packs and boxes from the 1970's and early 1980s.
- PSA "Retired" Sets -- what mook retires his set -- he either owns the cards or he doesn't
- ebay "reserve" auctions -- just make it the starting bid and move on
Always plenty of PSA-graded cards in my ebay store -- https://ebay.com/str/thelumbercompanysportscards
PSA related: Mechanical errors, not only are they named incorrectly by PSA (they are human errors) but many times it can take you up 3 full months to get a card slabbed correctly from the first time you send it off. 2 months is my average for large subs to pop (which i normally do) then another month for the card to return to PSA, go back to spec dept, finally get slabbed correctly and mailed back. Thankfully they have gotten much better with the ME's in the last year. But that brings up my other big gripe about PSA which is the spec dept. I morphed into a player collector in the mid 90's due to all the crazy sets out there which i could never keep up with. i was smart enough to just focus on one player, bad thing is said player has over 12,000 cards. so with all the crazy odd ball inserts and parallels out there i tend to sub stuff that isnt always a plain 2004 Topps football card. As mentioned most of my subs tend to be large as I wait until I have collected a nice assortment to attempt to get a decent discount on pricing. Needless to say almost 98% of the cards in that sub are of one player. I started a few years ago putting post-its on the CS's which would point out whether or not its a variation, thinking that this would help the spec department. I have even gone to the degree of printing out from either the beckett website the card info on a particular card or copying the page from the beckett yearly price guide. Either approach almost never works. Card comes back no grade:no holder or some thing like that. Now if it was you and a guy subs 900+ cards of the same player, which includes notes about cards wouldnt you either a) email him to confirm what he has sent or b) think he might really know what he his talking about?
Collecting:
Brett Favre Master Set
Favre Ticket Stubs
Favre TD Reciever Autos
Football HOF Player/etc. Auto Set
Football HOF Rc's
PSA HOF Baseball Postwar Rookies Set Registry- (Currently 80.51% Complete)
PSA Pro Football HOF Rookie Players Set Registry- (Currently 19.80% Complete)
PSA Basketball HOF Players Rookies Set Registry- (Currently 6.02% Complete)
<< <i>When you have an item for sale with buy it now or best offer and someone watches it. What are they watching for? >>
for a few reasons. one if they are a seller they maybe interested in if it sells at your price point. they are looking to see what the market is. if they are buyers it could be they are watching for a few reasons. one to see if the card sells at that price point and are watching other auctions for the same item. your bin is a little more than they are willing to pay but if they see your item sell they might be more willing to pay that the next time they see the card up on ebay. they also might be watching it to see how long you have it listed at that price.
really most people watch bin items for the price reasoning. to me it makes sense. i do it quite a bit.
Collecting:
Brett Favre Master Set
Favre Ticket Stubs
Favre TD Reciever Autos
Football HOF Player/etc. Auto Set
Football HOF Rc's
<< <i>
<< <i>When you have an item for sale with buy it now or best offer and someone watches it. What are they watching for? >>
for a few reasons. one if they are a seller they maybe interested in if it sells at your price point. they are looking to see what the market is. if they are buyers it could be they are watching for a few reasons. one to see if the card sells at that price point and are watching other auctions for the same item. your bin is a little more than they are willing to pay but if they see your item sell they might be more willing to pay that the next time they see the card up on ebay. they also might be watching it to see how long you have it listed at that price.
really most people watch bin items for the price reasoning. to me it makes sense. i do it quite a bit. >>
I watch a lot of BINs because usually I can't afford them right now and I want to remember them for when I can. Seems reasonable, no?
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<< <i>eBay sellers listing a graded card that has been given the dreaded O/C by PSA and they DO NOT say so in the title. Title states "PSA 9" and when you look at the picture you see "PSA 9 O/C". >>
+1
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<< <i>Price-gouging sellers and those who defend them by saying they have great customer service and can price their cards however they like. >>
Totally agree!
The loser[s] that frequent collectors sites to offer absolutley nothing, but their bored,worthless 1 liners.
-t206
-e90-1
-e95
-m116
Yeah, buyer beware! Right? Its the buyer who can't read that is at fault. So the buyer is lazy. But the seller, who clearly wrote what consists of the auction is equally lazy to spend a few more minutes cropping the darn photo. Yet, in their laziness, they are backed by description. I just feel burned. Thats all. And it was not expensive enough to make a fuss. So I soap-boxed it here.
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There is absolutely nothing that stresses me about the hobby. I thoroughly enjoy it.
They call me "Pack the Ripper"
<< <i>Why does the seller with terrible eBay feedback always seem to have that card you been looking forever for?? Argh!!! >>
Because it would be dumb to fake an auction using a picture of a card that no on wants
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