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Posted By: Dan Paradis

I am selling cards for a friend. He is paying me a commission to sell the cards.

My problem is that there are some cards that I am selling for him that I am interested in buying for myself.
1. I can't negotiate with him because he doesn't know the value of the cards
2. I don't want to use SMR because it is not even close to accurate for most cards (I believe it usually favors the buyer which of course is not fair to him)
3. VCP is the closest to accurate that I know of. However, as we all know it still doesn't reflect accurate prices in many cases:
A. PSA 4 sells for $xxx, you can't see the card image because it was removed from EBAY. The card sold was centered perfectly which many times costs 20-30% premium).
B. Card was sold with a major auction house which sometimes has ridiculous prices.
C. Card had a PSA qualifier not recognized by VCP
D. Card was sold by a EBAY seller with a poor rating or even a scammer
etc. etc.
4. I'm not taking the time to examine past EBAY sales

I feel the only fair way is to bid on the card through EBAY like everyone else. To do this I would have to have my wife bid for me. This could easily be viewed as "shill" bidding. Although I would be bidding on these cards as I would any other card I would be buying through EBAY.

I guess the only other way is to use the average sale price from VCP, but I still don't think that is fair to him (and I guess sometimes me).
I forgot to mention that not all of these cards are graded.

Thoughts?
Thanks.
Dan