Sheer Genius in Retailing!

[Jim VB]

(Hope this isn't a board member.)

Step 1: A guy buys a card for $13,000 -
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=320537449326

Step 2: Two months later, he lists it for $14,900 (absolutely nothing wrong with that)-
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=110565884543

Step 3: When it gets no bids in 7 days, he relists it with a BIN of $15,900
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=120604789739


And, somehow, in the process, he's managed to ignore a decent picture of the card from the first auction and use an awful one in his two.

[JasonL]

A higher price makes it more exclusive and thus, more appealing, and thusmore, even more expensiveness!!!

[FUBAR]

That's a nice card... I would have listed it for $20 k myself and that way when an offer over 15k comes, you take it, seller makes money and buyer thinks he stole a great deal.

he isn't the sharpest tool in the drawer with his pictures. but at least he did include Free Shipping!

cause who would want to pay the extra $4.. oh wait that is too much, $3

[Doug]

He might have an excuse with not using the picture from the first auction. I don't have a scanner at home so I would usually just save the pictures from the original auction, but apparently eBay has changed it so you can't just right click and save the image like you used to. If I was that guy I would have at least asked the seller if he could email me the original scans or at worst buy a cheap scanner for a card that expensive.

[Doug]

I just went back and read the description. Apparently it's the "mac daddy of elite baseball cards" which more than justifies the price increase. I wonder if he writes descriptions for auction house catalogs on the side...

[D. Bergin]

I don't know. I'd argue his pictures are actually much clearer..........though all of them are fairly horrible.

A cheap $50 scanner from Walmart would seem like a sound investment for anybody dealing with cards of this magnitude.