Greg Morris cards

[brewing]

Originally Posted by murphy8276

Greg's cards get premium over most raw cards on ebay, but what I do not like about his service is they are very picky on consignments.

I had contacted them before to consign thousands of cards all in gradeable shape ranging from $1.00 to $1,000+ and they told me they cannot accept 90% of my set break cards because they only want to sell the hall of famers or the vintage that is over a certain average price/grade. They had no interest in the set breaks that would be close to the opening bid for common cards and they basically told me to send in the cream of the crop only. I did not understand why they ask for set breaks, but then were only interested in key hall of famer cards and not the commons from the entire set. I would have felt differently if they had never sold these $1.00 cards before, but I've looked up many of the ones they signaled that they cannot sell and they have sold them before for other consignors so I am passing altogether.

I would have sent him quite a lot so I was disappointed in the questionable sales response...

I'm getting push back right now about consigning a complete 53 Topps set. Consistent VG-VG/EX condition.
They want to sell it lots, but of course they have no lots currently listed and some cards labeled as LOW GRADE crease.

If anyone knows of another consignor that does set breaks, let me know.

[vintagebaseballcardguy]

Originally Posted by brewing

I'm getting push back right now about consigning a complete 53 Topps set. Consistent VG-VG/EX condition.
They want to sell it lots, but of course they have no lots currently listed and some cards labeled as LOW GRADE crease.

If anyone knows of another consignor that does set breaks, let me know.

Brent, I tried sending you a PM but not sure if it made it or not? My laptop died as I clicked "send."

[Leon]

Originally Posted by brewing

I'm getting push back right now about consigning a complete 53 Topps set. Consistent VG-VG/EX condition.
They want to sell it lots, but of course they have no lots currently listed and some cards labeled as LOW GRADE crease.

If anyone knows of another consignor that does set breaks, let me know.

Maybe they are low grade with a crease?

[murphy8276]

Originally Posted by robw1959

I had a great experience with GM Cards about a year ago, by netting over 2K from a decent batch of '50s and '60s Topps & Bowman Hofer cards. But right now it's a different story. I got the go-ahead to send in a lot of well over 300 cards - what I think amounts to well over $3,000 in gross sales on eBay. Then I got a reply that the whole thing is being returned because some of the (28) Goudey cards are off-grade. They are not high-grade, but they're actually pretty nice in my opinion, including six HoFers such as Dean, Paul Waner, Frisch, and Bill Terry.

I too have to chalk the whole thing up to them being swamped and severely understaffed, but being turned down like that after being approved was unbelievable.

Wow, this is ridiculous. I am glad they told me to not send beforehand...

[Republicaninmass]

So much work to sell individual raw cards, scanning, listing, shipping. If you have the tine, try it yourself, some dont have that luxury, remember I think ebay/payal fees.end up being about 12% anyhow.
They do seem to have a following for high grade raw cards. I recently sent them a psa 8 oc card, which they grade as ex to ex-mt, they are clearly conservative in their grading. I will report back to this thread if any cards receive the outlandish bids I'm hoping for.

[irv]

I checked out GM's listings last night, which, for me, was the first time in a long time. I made to around 150 pgs of cards before my eyes couldn't take anymore.

With the current Covid rules/isolation/social distancing, etc, I was quite surprised to see so many pgs of cards listed. As far as I know, some are still working from home and they currently have a skeleton crew because of covid.

I personally like GM cards and although I have never consigned anything to them, I wouldn't hesitate if the time ever comes.

[lgbbcards]

While this was almost a year ago, I was told by a person at GM that only 25% of their listed cards are from consignments. Additionally, some of my friend's Ebay auctions were purchased directly by GM buyers (I believe). So it seems it may be easier for GM to purchase cards and be selective, vs. accepting consignments.

[JollyElm]

It's funny, while visiting tables at a show out here a year or two ago, a guy from GM cards was present and pretty aggressively looking to buy stuff. Chatting away, repeatedly mentioning Greg Morris cards, stating "ungraded cards only," showing binders of stuff he picked up that day, etc. It was like sitting back and watching a used-car salesman employ silly 'Salesmanship 101' techniques. Some sellers were obviously thinking, "Is this guy serious???" He is/was undoubtedly one of the GM buyers mentioned.

[buymycards]

This is from their consignment page on their website.

We also accept cards on consignment. All consigned cards are sold in eBay auctions. Because we have tens of thousands of customers and list 15,000+ cards per day, we can guarantee consignors a wide audience for their cards. Our standard rate is 25 percent of final auction values, plus a 50 cent surcharge on all cards that sell for $10 or less.

They have 22,000 auctions running at the moment. 270,000 positive feed backs in the past year. It is amazing that they can keep generating numbers like these.