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Old 02-14-2021, 09:12 AM
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I had a rather disturbing and perhaps emblematic inquiry from a buyer on an expensive card. In context, the card is a hot one and I decided to push the envelope and ask for a BIN price above the most recent sale a grade higher than the one I had. They guy first bombarded me with emails asking to buy the card for 25% less, which I ignored. I will just quote his last email so you can see what it is:

"Hi, I ended up hitting the buy it now. If it isn't too much of a problem, can I pay on Monday or Tuesday? I'm trying to get it on my next credit card cycle. Wife is killing me with this months bill as it is."

I am not this guy's keeper so I am not going to cancel the sale but when people are going into debt and hiding card purchases from their wives, that's a warning sign as far as I am concerned.
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I had a rather disturbing and perhaps emblematic inquiry from a buyer on an expensive card. In context, the card is a hot one and I decided to push the envelope and ask for a BIN price above the most recent sale a grade higher than the one I had. They guy first bombarded me with emails asking to buy the card for 25% less, which I ignored. I will just quote his last email so you can see what it is:

"Hi, I ended up hitting the buy it now. If it isn't too much of a problem, can I pay on Monday or Tuesday? I'm trying to get it on my next credit card cycle. Wife is killing me with this months bill as it is."

I am not this guy's keeper so I am not going to cancel the sale but when people are going into debt and hiding card purchases from their wives, that's a warning sign as far as I am concerned.
This is a disturbing bad trend, people starting to get irrational. Believing all the hype, I hope this settles down back to reality.
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This is a disturbing bad trend, people starting to get irrational. Believing all the hype, I hope this settles down back to reality.
Irrational exuberance. Where have we seen that before? People buying cards that they have no business buying, frothy popular press stories on the gold rush aspects of cards, lines out the door at card stores. Sounds like the last expansion wave of a bubble.
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Irrational exuberance. Where have we seen that before? People buying cards that they have no business buying, frothy popular press stories on the gold rush aspects of cards, lines out the door at card stores. Sounds like the last expansion wave of a bubble.
A lot of bad patterns are setting up.....Certain things are going to remain safe just like certain things are very dangerous. People can be their own worst enemy.

When everyone is buying it’s a good time take a breather and back off. If you miss it you miss it. If it fundamentally doesn’t make sense to me I can’t buy into it. Going up sure that’s natural, not at these levels and not in this grand scale. It’s not that easy everything doesn’t always continue to go up, some people are believing it does those are the ones that may get hurt doing ridiculous stuff.

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There are some cards that I think are just fundamentally worth having for the long term. I don't see them worth enough yet to justify selling right now and taking the tax hit when I think they will be worth good money when I retire and start selling to supplement my income. Some cards are from my childhood collection. I have no interest in selling those ever; pry them from my cold, dead fingers or just toss them in the casket with me. But the rest? I don't see much choice when I can do 500%-1000% in a few years of holding or less. It is a conundrum for a collector. Better than the opposite problem for sure...
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I had a rather disturbing and perhaps emblematic inquiry from a buyer on an expensive card. In context, the card is a hot one and I decided to push the envelope and ask for a BIN price above the most recent sale a grade higher than the one I had. They guy first bombarded me with emails asking to buy the card for 25% less, which I ignored. I will just quote his last email so you can see what it is:

"Hi, I ended up hitting the buy it now. If it isn't too much of a problem, can I pay on Monday or Tuesday? I'm trying to get it on my next credit card cycle. Wife is killing me with this months bill as it is."

I am not this guy's keeper so I am not going to cancel the sale but when people are going into debt and hiding card purchases from their wives, that's a warning sign as far as I am concerned.
Your potential warning sign reminds me of the one Joe Kennedy received, and acted on, a few weeks before 1929’s crash. A few weeks before the crash, Kennedy overheard a shoeshine boy intelligently discussing the market and giving tips. Kennedy famously stated, “[w]hen the shoeshine boys have tips, the market is too popular for its own good.” He exited the market soon thereafter and saved his fortune. Will you do the same?
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I have been...see above post. But

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FYI:

In my other world, the one where most collectors exist, the prices on TOPPS FREAKING SERIES 1 Boxes are just out of control. Mind you this is TOPPS FREAKING SERIES 1, The flagship product for this sports card hobby.

https://www.dacardworld.com/search?S...es+1+Baseball+

Note: $29.95 is not totally terrible for a blaster box as after taxes it this is about 25 percent higher than if you bought it at a big box score.

Note the prices on the Hobby Box (Double SRP) and Jumbo (not sure what original SRP was)., And yes people are paying these numbers for these boxes.

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Just look what the MSRP on a box of Donruss Basketball Hobby is at... Topps must be a bargain?
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Just look what the MSRP on a box of Donruss Basketball Hobby is at... Topps must be a bargain?
Hoops is just as crazy. I'm thankful I try to stay with baseball.

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I had a rather disturbing and perhaps emblematic inquiry from a buyer on an expensive card. In context, the card is a hot one and I decided to push the envelope and ask for a BIN price above the most recent sale a grade higher than the one I had. They guy first bombarded me with emails asking to buy the card for 25% less, which I ignored. I will just quote his last email so you can see what it is:

"Hi, I ended up hitting the buy it now. If it isn't too much of a problem, can I pay on Monday or Tuesday? I'm trying to get it on my next credit card cycle. Wife is killing me with this months bill as it is."

I am not this guy's keeper so I am not going to cancel the sale but when people are going into debt and hiding card purchases from their wives, that's a warning sign as far as I am concerned.
Hopefully this guy doesn't try and get a refund through eBay's generous refund policy in six months if the market drops significantly by then. That's one aspect of selling expensive cards through ebay that has scares the heck out of me.
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