nearly all of my listings say “feel free to message me if you’d like more pictures”. yall wild
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Real story, happened over this weekend.
Somebody show interest in a PSA graded card I own.
Asking more pictures, which I provided.
Asked were the defect were (PSA 6 grade)
Told him I would look at it after the weekend.
When I woke up somebody else bought the card without asking any questions.
It’s now on the way to that second person.
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Cool man
I’ve had this happen a couple times when someone messages and asks for the lowest price.
I’m in the middle of trying to get a return for a very expensive purchase on a card where the seller clearly used deceptive angles trying to hide specific issues with the card after also clearly lying about it in the description.
If only all sellers were as elite as you ultra mega ballers.
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Buy the card, not the grade.
Also don’t post back pictures.
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Bummer to see so many people having bad experiences selling. Honestly, I’ve had pretty great experiences overall.
I only have buyers ask for photos occasionally. One time, a video. I entertained it once, and they didn’t buy because the sparkles weren’t sparkly enough. Every since then I stopped. I’m a designer and I know well enough that any photo and screen will misrepresent eye appeal in hand anyway.
What’s really made my selling experience great, especially in the past ~6 months:
- Pricing at or slightly above eBay Authentication for items on the threshold. Sometime you wait ~5% longer for the sale, but it’s worth it
- Doing away with Best Offer, and ignoring ~95% of barter messages
- Investing in a scanner, I just do front & back and rarely get questions.
- Investing in a Rollo
Relevant to this thread, ~$200 in a decent quality scanner made a difference. Front and back of the PSA case, that’s all. Buyers get super high res photos, or can confirm for themselves if flecks of dust are flecks of dust. I rarely have questions before a sale, and selling has been a good experience for me.
As a tangent, I took way too much time to decide if I should spend the money on a Rollo or not, and felt guilty when I bought one. But hot damn has it made that part of selling way better.
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some sellers have changed to having one front photo and a video of the card swivelling on a stand. now that has to stop.
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I don’t see why sellers don’t go the extra mile or 10000 and go round to prospective buyers houses and show in person.
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Haha yeah. Honestly though, because only because for the moment, it’s not necessary; for every buyer that asks for more of your time, there are others that are happy and trust your listing.
But it’s like any other type of thing you can spend money on in life. Phones, hardware, houses, shovels, fruit on the shelf – it doesn’t matter what, how your products are presented positions you. Every business makes a choice about their own time investment, price point, liquidity, and audience, whether they know it or not.
I bet those crystalline looking cards rotating and glistening actually do sell better. Only slightly, perhaps. But what if more than slightly? I doubt it, but that’s also just my gut. For all we know, eBay may prioritize listings with video, because video traditionally gets more engagement. For the time being though, I think I’ll just do two scans and call it a day.
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Mostly unrelated but is anyone else having an issue with non PSA graded cards getting the authentication tag? I have multiple CGC cards that got listed yesterday and still don’t have it. I noticed some others from yesterday by other people also don’t have it.
Edit Seems to be exclusive to CGC graded cards. BGS and PSA cards are both getting it.
I haven’t had any trouble. Is the listing price in the Authenticity Guarantee range? Have you added CGC and its grade to the meta-data in the listing?
It’s over $1000 and it has all of the meta data populated like grader and cert number. I have other CGC cards listed from last week that have it. It seems to jus have started yesterday.
It’s not even just my listings I’m seeing others as well. I’m sorting by recently added and you can see CGC cards mixed in with BGS and PSA cards (of the same card) without it.
Edit Actually maybe it’s not CGC specific it just happened to be that way for a specific card. Looking at Moonbreon cards it seems to be random with which ones don’t have it. Some of the newest listings with less item data populated have it while others with a lot more added a day prior don’t. Would be nice to know exactly how that bot works.
I will say I love EBay Authenticity Guarantee for raw cards that are actually worth a decent value. I’ve purchased cards that failed authenticity guarantee because they failed to show damage in the listing photos. I’ve also taken chances on cards with only front photos in the listing that pass authenticity guarantee and arrive mint.
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For example of what I mean;
I can’t seem to figure out the distinction between why some do and don’t have authentication on. All in the CCG individual category. All US sellers. All have the same basic Specifics data.
EDIT I wonder if the card was very recently graded if that would have some impact on it? My one that doesn’t have it was just graded and delivered this week. Like maybe they use some direct API hookup with the graders for data.
Something about having the “TCG” in the listing I think. Having “box”or “set” in the listing title would not get the guarantee check. Like “base set charizard” or “stamp box pikachu promo” would not get the authenticity guarantee because it’s suspected to be a box or set of some sort. The listing has to make it sound like an individual card.
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My god you beautiful mind you. I didn’t even notice that and yeah my listing has it in the title also. I just assumed it was based off the price and category.
***Yep that did it immediately. I had no idea that would impact it. This is like the fourth time I’ve sold this same card but I usually just copy the template from other listings.
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If you want to include words in the title, that normally would disqualify it from the Authenticity Guarantee, just wrap them with brackets, like (Base Set). Otherwise, AG will see Base Set and assume you’re selling a lot, or complete set of cards (which would not qualify).
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No one’s asked for additional pics this week. I’m going out of my freaking mind. I need something pointless to do actually it’s ok I’m writing this post that’ll do nicely. Mmmm calming now.
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I have achieved many PSA 10 conversions on raw cards that would have otherwise been out of my budget. I get that it can be bothersome, but as a “picky” buyer, I have benefited from it greatly.
Additionally, I do look at a seller’s listings and profile for clues to feel if they’re the type that would have submitted a card themselves. In such cases, I won’t even bother, even if the card looks perfect.
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