I think you can have a personally assigned value to an item that is different from the market value and there’s no reason that personally assigned value can’t be represented on your own ebay account.
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Sellers just like buyers aren’t all the same. Every seller is selling their items their way. Catering to “buyers” is not some universal answer. For example I had someone offer $1800 on a cp6 box, I countered with 2k. They did the usual “last sold” routine. I lowered my price to 2k bin and sold out in 12 hours.
To give an even more unpopular opinion, a market with limited supply and increasing demand; the customer is always wrong. Keep in mind I’m saying that as a customer who has spent millions. Me yelling at the clouds about a seller asking too much for a trophy card isn’t going to lower the price or demand of the item.
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For sure. When your personally assigned value displays a lack of motivation to sell (nothing wrong with this at all) obviously those are the sellers that wont complain - im one of them with my measly 4 digit cards.
To say that sellers dont complain about how their cards didnt hit high sales though, go talk to those black label moonbreon sellers right now
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i wouldn’t give saitou too much credit on how boring these pikachus are
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imo, saitou has become the sugimori of modern, drawing a larger % of cards in every set than anyone else afaik. he is usually tasked with drawing a lot of the new mons (did most of the hisui mons a lot of the paldea new mons). with that much quantity, most of it is bound to feel lacking in dimension and dynamics. None of this should be noteworthy imo. Its the same as saying suigmori is borning (which he is) bc a lot of his art feels like stock images (which it is).
however, it is clear that when saitou is given an assignment to go all out on a card like the sprigatito line, espeon vmax, or ADP special arts, i think it is pretty hard to discredit his abilities in good faith.
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It depends on what you are selling and how fast you are looking to move it.
A heavily printed set card has very different dynamics to things like limited release/prize/trophy cards. In the latter case, I can see the dial moving more towards a sellers market.
Couple this with the fact that not all sellers need to sell stuff tomorrow - I.e a model operating on volume might have to but an individual with deep pockets willing to wait till his/her desired price is met doesn’t have to and happy to wait months if not years
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Ofcourse. There are sellers of all calibers - that furthers my point against what @parkermrparker said.
The term “seller” has just as much variation as “buyer” and making blanket statements is lazy and wrong
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For me the best way to summarize this is the guy on the sports team you like that plays such a crucial role and local fans rave about him but in reality, his stats are only ok and what you would be able to trade him for is actually so much less than what he is worth to the current team. (For you hockey fans out there I’m talking a guy like Jesper Fast. Absolute team player and extremely important but only got $2 mil on the open market)
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You should have messaged him after it sold with “last sold is now $2k. whoever you now buy it from can thank me for making cough up another two hundred bucks”
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This is such a good analogy! 
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Miss him on the rangers for sure!!
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to respond in reply context:
I think parker means, a seller lists the item high, with the intention that it won’t sell quickly, and does not complain when this happens. My LGS has prices on sealed vintage stuff that is too high, but they can sit on it, waiting for the right buyer, and always drop prices if they need to.
BUT, there are certainly sellers who list high and then complain when they never get buyers or only lower offers. 
Still, this IS the unpopular opinions thread. Good job, parker! You created controversy. 
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I think trophy cards follow a totally different dynamic, though. Not only is there generally much less sales history, but a trophy card listed for what most would consider to be an extremely high price still has a non-negligible chance of eventually selling. The price is less comp-based and more based on the appetite of specific high-end buyers at a given time.
For set cards, I tend to agree with Swirlord. On a daily basis, I see sellers list set cards for 3-10x fair market value. Obviously, sellers have the right to list cards at whatever prices they want to. But at the same time, buyers have the right to complain that their eBay feed is being flooded by listings from sellers who don’t know how to properly determine value. It happens regularly in MTG and Pokemon groups on FB, too. For instance, easily 50%+ of the listings in the MTG sealed group are asking higher than Card Kingdom prices, which just makes browsing through it a waste of time. And it’s not people who aren’t eager to sell – it’s people who genuinely refuse to accept that their items are worth less than the figure they have in mind.
While it’s not worth complaining about any given item being listed for too much, I think it’s reasonable to point out that there’s a huge swath of collectors/sellers who really don’t understand how to value their items.
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Perfect punctuation and grammar but my name isn’t capitalized 
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Reading the story behind the Jamboree set doesn’t make me interested in a set that was never released.
Rather, it makes me glad that WOTC - with its Western-centric disdain for Pokémon as a goofy cartoon franchise not to be taken seriously - was excised like a tumor. Good riddance.
On a related note, first edition stamps should’ve died with WOTC’s involvement with the franchise, instead of making its way into Japanese cards.
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pulled out the big w today
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I think that HGSS is the artistic low point of tcg:
-yellow pissed border look like they’re forever dirty
-cosmo holo became muted and not so sparkly
-idiotic ideas like Primes and LEGENDs
-really uninspired art generally, with ‘match’ being one of the worst illustrator of the tcg
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The CharizaRd BaLLer is having their day today. May your 1099 tax forms come in next year
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Laughs in 5ban
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Lol, a really strong contender for the worst tcg artist. Because they’re so prolific there are a lot of garbage, but one day we’ll be nostalgic of that style. Ugly but iconic. 5ban is a modern ken sugimori stock art.
So, I still think that CGI abominations are better than match’s artworks.
Look how he butchered a cool pokemon like espeon. If you had told me it’s copypasted from some crappy deviantart gallery I would’ve believed it.
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