Ebay should charge a significant fee for listing items. If you take down the listing within 2 weeks you get the fee back. If you sell the item you get the fee back. Wouldn‘t hurt anybody.
It‘s ridiculous how many pokemon listings there are where the seller has absolutely no interest in selling. Ebay is not a place to display or showcase your cards. Neither is it a place to lure people to your other auctions with your ridiculously high priced items. In real auction houses you cannot list an item and then say „It‘s not for sale, I just want attention on my other auctions“.
That being said, shout-out to some sellers who are members on e4 and do no resevere bidding auctions. There wasn‘t many people doing that in the past years but I see more and more people doing it which is great in my opinion!
@pokeg, That isn’t true. There are plenty of “Make an offer” options in auction houses. Even some of the auctions that just closed have that option. They can sit for an undetermined amount of time with no sales. Part of the purpose is to advertise. Also collectibles aren’t liquid assets. Mandating fees per time listed is asinine and counterproductive.
Regardless people are allowed to advertise as they choose. People whining about prices is an inorganic attempt to control something they don’t own.
This is absolutely ridiculous. What if you list the item at fair market value and the item doesn’t sell?
Sorry, but this logic is terrible. No one is forcing you to click on “ridiculously high priced items.” There is a reason why eBay is eBay, and it’s because sellers have the freedom to list what they want, when they want. There are already enough fees in terms of insertions and final values. Why should eBay “charge a significant fee for listing items” just because you feel some of them are overpriced?
That‘s true… i just think it can be quite the jungle for seriously interested buyers and it can be a huge pain at times. Which is why i like no reserve auctions.
@pokeg, Sure, but a lot of people who own especially very rare items don’t want to liquidate. Take yourself for example. You don’t want to sell. If for some reason you do want to sell at some point, you should be able to do so the way you prefer.
They would lose 90% of their business if all sales had to be Fire Sale’d with pressure to sell within a small window of time. Also, a lot of times market pricing catches up to listed pricing. A lot of people with high end collectibles don’t want to sell, but have a “selling price” where they’d still sell if the price was high enough. I can see why they’d want to have it up to generate interest and the occasional price inquiry. The platform is fine as is. It’s a tiny little bubble in a tiny little hobby that has this kind of stuff happening. You gotta just relax and not care about it.
As an ebay seller who overprices some items on purpose, I’m glad to share my reason for doing it. Currently my sunset mew and JR eevee are overpriced because I don’t want to sell them, they are popular items that get searched often though. Now you ask: ‘But Kaldo, if you don’t want to sell them, why list them in the first place?’
There are two reasons for that.
Number one, in the description I say ‘look at my other listings’, so I caught your attention with my high priced card that you just had to click to find out what’s so special to makes it that expensive, and now I am inviting you to look at my other items which you may be curious to do only to find out they are reasonably priced. Maybe you end up buying some of them, or following my ebay.
Number two, and this is the most important one for me. When you click my JR Eevee, ebay’s algorythm will pick up on that and notice I am driving traffic, which makes me a valuable asset in their books, so my items will score higher in searches and highlights within that category.
Sounds a bit twisted but that’s pretty much why I do it. Wouldn’t be able to speak on behalf of other sellers though.
#3 - Sometimes Ebay gives us 100-200 Free listings. It would make sense to use them up before they expire, even if you dont want to sell everything at that moment in time.
It would be terrible if eBay forced sellers to sell items within two weeks. How do you expect your trophy cards to appreciate in price if every time one is for sale it has to be a no reserve auction? Of course you want that as a buyer, but eBay shouldn’t base its entire business model around saving you a small amount of hassle.
those really high price listings are what got me back into the hobby. one day i wondered what pokemon cards are up to then i seatched by highest price and bam my jaw dropped and i was hooked again. scotts pika trophies and garys zards were the listings in particular.
Pricing all comes from the principle of supply and demand. If sellers want a certain price for a card so be it, the market will regulate the market value. Normally collecting something incurs a exchange of money or goods so it is natural to discuss the rise/fall of market value.
How did you get all the trophy cards in your collection? What about your other low-pop promo cards? Did you win them yourself? Were you part of the pokemon clubs and lottery entries? Am I talking to a champion here or did you purchase them?
I need a difinitive answer for what is too high for me to sell my cards. Perhaps a formula, or a simple transparent process I can follow. Please don’t use terms like market value, as I don’t understand what market value is, instead please give a detailed response on how to determine market value, or any other generic terms the explanation will entail. Thanks in advance.
