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Anyone here dealt with SportsMemorabilia.com?

While looking for specific cards online a couple times I came across cards on the SportsMemorabilia.com site that were also listed on Ebay or other sites. A 1954 Red Heart Musial that BBCE has listed on Ebay for $1275 is listed on this site for $2300. I started looking at their millions of dollars of listings and saw a lot that are listed elsewhere. I'm sure that if someone buys an item from this company they just buy it from whoever owns it and ships it to the new buyer after they receive it. Some may not have an issue with this but I think it is unethical. What you your thoughts?

James

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  • Im pretty sure they have an agreement with every seller whos listings they use for their site. One of my friends works with them, and they email him a UPS label if one of his item sells and he mails it directly to the buyer.
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  • ndleondleo Posts: 4,150 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That is the "new" economy. No one wants to take the risk of owning inventory, assets, having employees, etc. They just want a % of the transaction. Eliminating the middleman used to be the way to go, now everyone wants to be the middleman.
    Mike
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,748 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This sounds like the guy who send you those emails out of the blue asking how your collection is going and if you need any cards..


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  • MooseDogMooseDog Posts: 1,946 ✭✭✭
    What the OP surmised is exactly the business model of SM. A friend of mine gets several orders a week from them. He gets his price, but obviously SM is able to sell his items at a significant premium. I don't get it but it seems to be working.



    There are dozens of high volume sellers on Amazon that do the exact same thing...they list other people's items at a % premium, and most of them completely automated...for example, they copy my listing for a book, they have an algorithm that marks up the book. If they sell it, they send me an order for the book as if the customer had ordered it. If I sell the book myself, their software notices this and deletes their listing. Long time "real" booksellers have a term for this "bookjacking".



  • MULLINS5MULLINS5 Posts: 4,517 ✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: MooseDog

    There are dozens of high volume sellers on Amazon that do the exact same thing...they list other people's items at a % premium, and most of them completely automated...for example, they copy my listing for a book, they have an algorithm that marks up the book. If they sell it, they send me an order for the book as if the customer had ordered it. If I sell the book myself, their software notices this and deletes their listing. Long time "real" booksellers have a term for this "bookjacking".







    That software has made people millionaires without lifting a finger. When I first started selling books I couldn't stand it when bookjackers bought from me. It grew on me because they were really just buying inventory I was trying to liquidate anyways. Another great reason to only deal in antiquarian and collectible books.



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