Consigning with Probstein123

[egri]

I don't have any experience consigning with him, but a few years ago he listed several cards I was after. He had the auctions end at the same exact second, so with my budget I couldn't go and increase my max bids on some of the cards if I got outbid on others, the way I could have if he had staggered the endings. I'm sure it cost him (and by extension, the consignors) money, but I don't know if that is still how he operates.

[riggs336]

Originally Posted by egri

I don't have any experience consigning with him, but a few years ago he listed several cards I was after. He had the auctions end at the same exact second, so with my budget I couldn't go and increase my max bids on some of the cards if I got outbid on others, the way I could have if he had staggered the endings. I'm sure it cost him (and by extension, the consignors) money, but I don't know if that is still how he operates.

He does still do that. Just this week I was bidding on 19 different cards that ended within seconds of each other. I will say the ones I won were delivered very quickly with excellent packaging and an extremely reasonable combined shipping rate.

[ALBB]

Use him and you will get the more money then most others

Solid !

[irv]

Originally Posted by egri

I don't have any experience consigning with him, but a few years ago he listed several cards I was after. He had the auctions end at the same exact second, so with my budget I couldn't go and increase my max bids on some of the cards if I got outbid on others, the way I could have if he had staggered the endings. I'm sure it cost him (and by extension, the consignors) money, but I don't know if that is still how he operates.

He is not the only one who does that. I emailed another popular seller one time asking them why their auctions ended so close to each other and their answer made sense. They said, with the amount of cards they have, if they staggered them more, it would take too much time for their auctions to end.
The only thing one can do is to pre-bid their max prior to the auctions ending and hope they stick.

[Peter_Spaeth]

There are certainly alternatives to the "Big Two."

[MikeGarcia]

Originally Posted by irv

He is not the only one who does that. I emailed another popular seller one time asking them why their auctions ended so close to each other and their answer made sense. They said, with the amount of cards they have, if they staggered them more, it would take too much time for their auctions to end.
The only thing one can do is to pre-bid their max prior to the auctions ending and hope they stick.

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...yes , that was what made me hire a professional "sniping" service to do the bids for me at the last 10 seconds , which would have been physically impossible for me and my ancient big old tower box on the floor plus the lag time on the phone line ( "dial-up" they calls it )....I figure my EZ Sniper program has gotten me literally dozens of cards which I never could have won on my own in E-Bay's auction bidding system when a group of cards I want all end at exactly ten P M on a Sunday night.............those notorious "set breaks" were the worst scenarios ; they're not a problem anymore....


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