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There are some auctions I spot with way-under-market BINs right as they're listed, that I would feel guilty if I bought and actually purchased at that price. So I bid the minimum on the item to get rid of the BIN and then let the seller be pleasantly surprised when it sells for a price 10x what they set the bid for.
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-- PWCC: The Fish Stinks From the Head PSA: Regularly Get Cheated BGS: Can't detect trimming on modern SGC: Closed auto authentication business JSA: Approved same T206 Autos before SGC Oh, what a difference a year makes. Last edited by swarmee; 01-25-2021 at 08:27 PM. |
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... http://imageevent.com/derekgranger HOF "Earliest" Collection (Ideal - Indiv): 244/342 (71.4%) 1914 T330-2 Piedmont Art Stamps......: 114/119 (95.8%) 1923 V100 Willard's Chocolate............: 177/180 (98.3%) |
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-- PWCC: The Fish Stinks From the Head PSA: Regularly Get Cheated BGS: Can't detect trimming on modern SGC: Closed auto authentication business JSA: Approved same T206 Autos before SGC Oh, what a difference a year makes. |
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each time eBay will remind me I’ve bid more than BIN, am I sure I don’t just want to BIN. No, I don’t and all three times I’ve won the card for less than the BIN because no one else bid it up.
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Looking to assemble a complete T206 set with a stamp on the back from Howe McCormick, 500 W. Main St., Gainesville, Fla. Looking for the final 120. |
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An item I was watching on eBay sat with a $180 BIN for over a month. The seller then just listed it as an auction starting at $9.99. It ended last night at $225. That's the power of auctions on some folks!
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I have had it work both ways. I am not 100% convinced auctions are the way to go. It is a nice bonus where it works out like that, but I have also seen too many instances where it happens the opposite way.
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How about this one?
Yesterday I saw a card offered on eBay with a BIN of $99.99. That was a good, but not jaw-dropping, price. I would have paid it, but as a Chicago resident, as of Jan. 1 I'm paying 10.25% tax on every. single. card. I buy, thanks to our politicians. So I offered $90 to offset that. Figured it would either get accepted or a counter at $95, and done deal. Or, of course, someone could pull the trigger on the BIN. What I did not expect was to see an email that the card had sold at $87. I contacted the seller to ask if he got my (higher) offer. Yeah, he said - but the other guy offered first, and they were close enough, so I just sold it to him. Fair enough, I responded, but I hope you can understand how that's frustrating from a buyer's perspective. He said he understood that it wasn't logical, but essentially that's what I get for not taking the BIN. "You left it in the judge's hands." OK, but so did the other guy, and you rewarded him for making the lower offer?? |
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