Selling disappointments

[allstarsplus]

Re: Selling disappointments

I assume your talking about Ebay. That site is almost all bargain hunters these days. Meaning people who are weekend "dealers" who use it to buy items cheap and resell on there or on other sites for a profit. I sold some of my autograph collection on there and lost money on every sale. In some cases 50-60% on items that you would think would be desirable i.e. a kevin garnett uda signed leather basketball, a peyton manning mounted memories signed mini (the week leading up to the super bowl no less) and many others. Then a couple of weeks later the items would turn up at a fixed price at like almost twice what i sold them for. I think another issue with prices realized is when you sell. This time of year is a bad time to sell football stuff as training camp is months away and alot of people who collect football are caught up in baseball fever and focusing on buying baseball stuff.

My Clemens sold at one of the big auction houses. When I use eBay as a Seller, it is generally BuyItNow with Best Offer just for the reasons you say.

[legaleagle92481]

Re: Selling disappointments

I assume your talking about Ebay. That site is almost all bargain hunters these days. Meaning people who are weekend "dealers" who use it to buy items cheap and resell on there or on other sites for a profit. I sold some of my autograph collection on there and lost money on every sale. In some cases 50-60% on items that you would think would be desirable i.e. a kevin garnett uda signed leather basketball, a peyton manning mounted memories signed mini (the week leading up to the super bowl no less) and many others. Then a couple of weeks later the items would turn up at a fixed price at like almost twice what i sold them for. I think another issue with prices realized is when you sell. This time of year is a bad time to sell football stuff as training camp is months away and alot of people who collect football are caught up in baseball fever and focusing on buying baseball stuff.

[cohibasmoker]

Re: Selling disappointments

what REASONABLE people consider before they go out and spend money on hobby items.


Jim

[allstarsplus]

Re: Selling disappointments

I purchased a Steiner game worn Yankees jersey directly from their site for $3,500 and it ended up selling on Ebay for $500 a couple of months later. I should have ended the auction early and kept it instead. crass.

I had a similar result at one of the big auction houses with a Yankees Clemens jersey that I bought at a wholesale price from Steiner. This was before Clemens had his issue with accusations of PEDs.

Just thankful I didn't pay anything close to "their" retail price. I figured with all the demand of Clemens and the fact that I bought at wholesale I would be okay. Not sure what went wrong but I lost at the time $thousands.

In hindsight given Clemen's unpopularity now, I am probably very fortunate that I sold it then. Could you imagine if you tried to sell a hologram'd Clemens today that you bought 5 years ago.

[mbenga28]

Re: Selling disappointments

I purchased a Steiner game worn Yankees jersey directly from their site for $3,500 and it ended up selling on Ebay for $500 a couple of months later. I should have ended the auction early and kept it instead. crass.

[JasonBanz]

I'm sure this topic has come up before, but how many of you guys have been disappointed with what an item you sold went for? I sold my first jersey last night with a facemask and it went for $66. I know the jersey was not worn by a superstar but I was hoping for a little more than that. I guess thats what you get for not setting a reserve.