Has Dean Lost It??

[Chris-Counts]

I have one of his cards on my watch list, and it's priced very fairly. I'd buy it, but his endless listings annoy me.

[seablaster]

Perhaps he wasn't feeling well. I know that's how I feel when it's dump day on ebay and the metric ton of his unsold cards get relisted over and over and over...you get the drift.

[iwantitiwinit]

This is very interesting, I had my own formula for estimating the price where Dean would offer his cards or Dean's Pricing (DP). It is as follows: (REA realized prices after the juice X 3.14159) = DP.

Additionally, I can rearrange and slightly modify the formula to provide me with a fool proof way to win any REA item I chose: 1+(DP/3.14159)=Winning REA price.

I got up too early I need more coffee.

[hangman62]

He's mad, mad I tell you

[toledo_mudhen]

Originally Posted by iwantitiwinit

This is very interesting, I had my own formula for estimating the price where Dean would offer his cards or Dean's Pricing (DP). It is as follows: (REA realized prices after the juice X 3.14159) = DP.

Additionally, I can rearrange and slightly modify the formula to provide me with a fool proof way to win any REA item I chose: 1+(DP/3.14159)=Winning REA price.

I got up too early I need more coffee.

That would be juice * pie are squared?

[iwantitiwinit]

Originally Posted by toledo_mudhen

That would be juice * pie are squared?

Exactly.

[judsonhamlin]

Originally Posted by Chris Counts

I have one of his cards on my watch list, and it's priced very fairly. I'd buy it, but his endless listings annoy me.

This. SOME of his prices aren't batsh** crazy, and I have one on my watch list as well, but the idea of giving him my $$ gives me pause.

[greco827]

He's got nothing on Burbank ....

[ALR-bishop]

I buy from him from time to time, usually when it matters what is on the back. I buy from Levi too . But with both I buy off line.

[conor912]

I bought a 1979 Topps baseball set from them about 10 years ago. It came in a box, and when I got it, I checked the key cards, put them back and left the set in the box. Fast forward five years and I go to put the set in a binder. I find that it's missing cards...like a lot of cards....upwards of 100 commons. Along with that, there were several with stickers, writing, etc....it was supposed to be a Nrmt set. Generally if there are 100 cards missing from an 800 CT box, you would notice right off, but they were replaced by dupes. So now I had 100 duplicate commons and was missing 100 cards. It was so egregious that it was funny, and clearly Dean (or whoever bought the set at Dean's) had never even looked through it. So, here I am, 5 years later and just realizing this. I assumed I was screwed but figured I call them anyway and explain. I was shocked when they offered to fill in my set with the missing cards. To this Day Dean's gets a pass from me. Yes, most of his stuff is "overpriced", and he never really has much I want, but on occasion I'm happy to support a business that steps up like that.

[mechanicalman]

I used to be adamant that I would never buy anything from Dean's because of their ridiculous pricing. But I actually bought this last week. Normally, I wouldn't divulge a price paid, but for the sake of detail, I'll mention that I paid $2700 from his website. I didn't consult SMR or VCP, but I generally believe this price wasn't that bad relatively speaking. It's a very nice 3.5 with no stains or creases. I might have been influenced by the run-up of significantly nicer and more rare T3s in REA, but I am still satisfied with the card and price paid. Who knows if this is a trend or not, but the dude has a ton of overhead (8-10 employees), and you simply have to move cardboard sooner or later to pay the bills.

[ronniehatesjazz]

I think that's actually a real good price on the Matty Sam... nice pickup! I think you're right about Dean's overhead too.