Ive been running across many cards that are so outrageously priced it’s not even funny. Whats the angle here? Are they trying to get someone to accidentally pay that amount?
Here is a First Edition Blastoise for 100,000.00 LOL
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This is a result of eBay allowing the seller to set the price for their item.
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YA I understand the make offer… But when someone prices something at 5000 and you offer 4500 that makes sense… But why price it at 100,000 when it’s worth a fraction of that.
Mike
They’re probably just waiting for reasonable Best Offers, I guess. You see high priced items with Best Offer enabled reasonably often, especially for niche items that don’t pop up too often and are hard to put a price on in a volatile market. 
Although I don’t think it’s the case with those Blastoise, another option sellers might have high prices for certain items is just to get attention to your store in general. Kinda like Scott’s PSA-9 Pokémon Illustrator, which used to be 1M USD for the last decade or so 
, but as that’s more and more on its way to becoming a ‘reasonable’ price, it’s seems to have increased to 4M USD. Without Best Offer enabled of course, for obvious reasons.
Although, tbf, in most cases they’re just troll listings you can basically ignore for the most part. When I search for Pikachu on eBay, I see loads of heavy played cards worth a couple cents being advertised for 500+ USD on a daily basis.
Greetz,
Quuador
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I don’t know about all of them being troll listings, a lot of people are dead serious that their “1995 base set pikachu pokemon card” is worth at least 100 bucks.
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Just another one of the pokequirks you eventually get used to.
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It is annoying. Same with people lying in the title/description so I have to sort through a bunch of BS that has nothing to do with what I searched for.
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Not PSA not Umbreon not Charizard is even worse than putting a stupid high price
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Something ive noticed people doing lately as well is charging a good price for the card and then charging like $30+ for shipping. Idk what happened but in the last month ive noticed almost every card i come across is like $30 shipping. For a single card. Worth $15.
There was a guy who literally lives an hour from me asking $25 for a card with $25 shipping. I was like im interested but is there no cheaper shipping option? Like $25 to put a toploader in a 10 cent envelope and mail it an hour away? He said he cant change the shipping at all 
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Anything that is listed for 10x market price isn’t being listed with the intent to sell at that price. They either expect “low” offers or they are treating it like some kind of Instagram.
I don’t think there’s a solution to this, but I personally don’t even engage with those sellers. They aren’t trying to do business in good faith.
The only exception is when it’s a truly unique 1/1 situation. Like rare trophies, or any card where there literally isn’t another copy readily available.
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I get the frustration for a common card, but for rare items, this is a strategy older than most members on this forum. Listing your marquee items at a high price draws eyes to your store. It’s common in brick and mortars as well. I just sold an item this morning to a brand new buyer, and their comment was, “your collection is insane, I’ve never seen a Pikachu illustrator before”.
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I do this with notable items. There are benefits to the seller, and it also establishes a realistic price I would sell at. It may be way higher than what the market would pay but sometimes there is basically only one or two copies of an item on the market, in which case it’s the seller that has all the power.
For any given person, 99.97% of what they see on ebay are priced “too high” for what they personally value the item at in the moment. I would treat these types of listings the same way, simply scroll past them.
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Just a thought: I often filter ebay results by 'price: highest to lowest" to filter out the stuff that is clearly unaffordable. Perhaps, for some sellers, this is a way to get their listing to the top under certain circumstances.
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I’ve used ebay for years and I used to be a seller; there are 5 things I’ve noticed on ebay recently as some one buying older cards.
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An increase in listings with minimum shipping around $4 for any card but shipping though USPS. USPS doesn’t charge that much for an envelope and technically cards could be shipped though their Media Mail deal. The $4 min is to make as much money as possible on lower priced cards.
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For cards with a fair price of $3-7 ~ 20% are listed for above $15+ shipping with ~5% 25+.
you will see slightly less craziness in the $12-18 range. Cards worth over $20 start to have less listing variability but I know where is an upwards price bound where listing instability increases again. -
Some strange cards with prices trending upwards on ebay but not in other places.
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cards listed 4 or more times their actual value but aren’t “advertising” prices.
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Sellers refunding and not shipping cards sold in auction at the $8-$20 range. I think some sellers see a card who’s worth is $15 go for $8 and try and stiff the buyer over low dollar amounts.
-1 some kinda scam 
-2 New sellers that are greedy and don’t understand ebay.
-3 some kinda scam . I will wait for prices to go down.
-4&5 are usually new sellers or ( thrift stores) sellers just starting to capitalize on Pokemon cause it’s hot. They don’t know the ebay system and how much trouble them and their store can get into. Usually if it’s a new seller the account goes dead. You got to be careful with new sellers on ebay period.