Beginner's luck on ebay!

[flopfish]

Put up a Giroux Treasured Swatches for 3.99 auction, $8 BIN and it sold for $7.50. I was maybe expecting a bid on it at $4, but turned out a guy really wanted it. Considering the last one on eBay sold for $1, and it beat out patches from SPGU /35 and /25 from Artifacts, I think I did pretty good. Along with a Crosby rookie breakthrough for $10, a Taylor Hall Frozen Artifacts /135 for $10 and a Kyle McClellan BTL Auto /30 for $10, I'd say I faired pretty well... especially when you factor in the $55 for my David Freese Rookie BTL auto card, something I couldn't sell for $10 two months before playoffs! Next up is probably gonna be my Coffey. Hopefully I can get my $125+ for it :)

[ziadefan]

Every now and then you get surprised by how well a card will sell...and then next time, you'll be shocked how low it sells

[flopfish]

Every now and then you get surprised by how well a card will sell...and then next time, you'll be shocked how low it sells

Yeah, I start the listing at the lowest price I'd sell the card for, which has worked out great so far

[svbetts]

I always start mine at .99, no matter what it's worth. It certainly has disappointed me sometimes, but I find it gets a lot of interest early on, a lot of watchers, and usually I do okay. Have a boatload up for sale now, and hoping they jump a bunch soon, since they're done tomorrow, haha. Time will tell.

[flopfish]

I always start mine at .99, no matter what it's worth. It certainly has disappointed me sometimes, but I find it gets a lot of interest early on, a lot of watchers, and usually I do okay. Have a boatload up for sale now, and hoping they jump a bunch soon, since they're done tomorrow, haha. Time will tell.

Yeah, I typically get 2 watchers per card. The ones I've listed for 99 cents get watchers but not bids lol

[centrehice]

With the economic downturn in the past 2 years, cards are simply that luxury that go by the wayside. People ignore discretionary spending and hobbies are the first to suffer.

Couple that with the deluge of basically unaffordable product from source (ie boxes of The Cup, Dominion and others) the Hockey card market is saturated beyond sanity.

I've been selling Hockey cards on eBay since 1999, two log-ins and over 7,000 individual sales, and to me the Hockey market is in the tank.

When I began this in 1999, you'd list 100 cards at a very fair or cheap entry level price at auction with no BIN, 95 of the 100 cards would sell. Now the same 100 cards, you will sell between 12-22 if lucky, even with a reasonable BIN.

On further note, there has also been a deluge of new sellers, especially ridiculous priced ones from Quebec, complete with their above BV listings and $5.00 per card shipping idiocy, which does none of us any good.

[bojohnson]

With the economic downturn in the past 2 years, cards are simply that luxury that go by the wayside. People ignore discretionary spending and hobbies are the first to suffer.

Couple that with the deluge of basically unaffordable product from source (ie boxes of The Cup, Dominion and others) the Hockey card market is saturated beyond sanity.

I've been selling Hockey cards on eBay since 1999, two log-ins and over 7,000 individual sales, and to me the Hockey market is in the tank.

When I began this in 1999, you'd list 100 cards at a very fair or cheap entry level price at auction with no BIN, 95 of the 100 cards would sell. Now the same 100 cards, you will sell between 12-22 if lucky, even with a reasonable BIN.



On further note, there has also been a deluge of new sellers, especially ridiculous priced ones from Quebec, complete with their above BV listings and $5.00 per card shipping idiocy, which does none of us any good.

the problem is there are less collectors than the serial number on fwa(not literlly, but collectors arent in huge numbers)
so you have millions of cards, but not many collecors,
too many product, not enough consumer.

also, collectors, just want the best, jersey cards have become meh, base cards are treated like fillers, and are garbage to most, and paralells dont gsather interest. even autos dont sell, i can buy a cup auto for 10.00 of halak, the only thing that will sell are patch autos, crosby, stamkos, and ovechkin(ovi will soon end)
its a shame.

[kcatthebat]

speaking of your ebay stuff, lots of nice stuff! I have a few bids, thought i saw 2 parise spgu rc /999 with same pic, do you have 2 or was it double listing? i bid on one thats why i ask lol

I always start mine at .99, no matter what it's worth. It certainly has disappointed me sometimes, but I find it gets a lot of interest early on, a lot of watchers, and usually I do okay. Have a boatload up for sale now, and hoping they jump a bunch soon, since they're done tomorrow, haha. Time will tell.

[svbetts]

speaking of your ebay stuff, lots of nice stuff! I have a few bids, thought i saw 2 parise spgu rc /999 with same pic, do you have 2 or was it double listing? i bid on one thats why i ask lol

I actually had two. It was weird, haha. One went for 2.75 or something like that and only had two or three watchers, and the other exact one went for about 11.00 or so and had about eight or nine watchers. Weird eh? Oh well. I got roughly what I wanted for pretty much all of them. A few went for higher than I thought, and a few for lower, as always happens. That was pretty much my biggest selloff ever, haha. I just decided to get rid of my mid range RC's (artifacts, SPGU, etc) as well as my solid patches, to focus on cards a littel higher end that I really like. If I don't like a card, I'll just want to get rid of it, haha.

I was starting to treat this like a money making thing a couple years ago, but more recently I've decided "why bother". It's a million hours work searching, reselling, shipping and all that, for only a few extra bucks and too much stress. I still love deals, but don't worry so much. It takes less time now, and I enjoy it more.