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JeffThis hits the nail exactly on the head. I'm not talking about collectors who put stuff out at 9 times its FMV to see if someone will pay them dearly enough to part with a personal favorite. Its the regular sellers who trot out the same inventory over and over and over, or leave perpetual BINs, at prices that are so vastly in excess of VCP, even SMR, as to make it seem laughable to offer to offer them something along the lines of VCP as a demonstrably fair price when their BIN is twice or three times that much (and these are the sellers without the "OBO" option). I see medium priced pre-war cards being offered repeatedly, over a period of months and months, for prices twice or more what the same card sellers for on eBay, and have been repeatedly rebuffed when making an offer in line with VCP, or even a little more. Don't offer me a $135 card (VCP avg) for $275 in a BIN (and you ALL know who you are) and expect me to go haggle with you to try to convince you to sell it to me at a price you clearly do not want to sell it at -- i.e., FMV (which both you and I can determine objectively). If you want to sell that card, price it within the ballpark of a reasonable price, given what you are offering, where it is offered, and what resources I have as a collector to figure out how much to pay, based on historical evidence of FMV.
06-12-2008, 12:02 PM
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