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06-19-2009, 03:01 PM
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Personally, I think it can be broken down into two large categories -
1. People with cards to sell have noticed prices dwindling on Ebay. The down market combined with Ebay's "unfriendliness" to sellers as of late has naturally caused many to rethink taking a chance on their cards doing poorly and prefer to hang on to them for the time being. Many of these people might also be relatively unfamiliar with house auctions and/or our forum here so they might not be left with an alternative besides to just wait for things to get better. 2. And this applies to me....I've bought a lot of cards in the past few years when the market was strong and unfortunately, VERY strong in some cases. To auction them off now means I'll certainly be taking a loss on things. I'm definitely still a collector but the investor side of me doesn't want to see me losing money on my cards. I still sell things on BST quite a bit, but there I get to pick my own price, at least break even in most cases, deal with people I know and not have any "costs" associated with selling cards the way I do with Ebay/Paypal. 
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06-19-2009, 03:06 PM
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Excellent Post
I think many people are in the same boat as you and myself are. Could not agree with you more
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06-19-2009, 04:49 PM
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I don't mind .....
I don't mind paying higher, or losing to a competitive collector.
I don't have the same feelings when I compete with a flipper. I keep track of what the flippers pay for their future inventory. I fiercely support their stand on holding off until the prices go back up. How much of a loss, will depend on how long it will take them realize how bad it is, as the prices keep dropping. We're talking about future Curators in the making. I would feel bad, but hey, they cost me a lot of bread in the past. It's their turn to be a macho. 
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