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[zljones]

I also want to make it clear that I am mainly complaining about sellers that charge 2x the value of a card or more. If I see a BIN that is slightly upcharged for a hotter item, that does not bother me, and usually that stuff sells within a month or two. I am complaining about sellers that charge $700 for a $300 card. I just wanted to clarify that.

[Rob D.]

There used to be a feature within eBay's search engine that allowed a user to block BINs from appearing in a seach result, i.e. search for auctions only. Is that no longer available?

[Leon]

Collecting today, to me, is as easy as it's ever been. Sure there are high BIN's on ebay, but there has been a proliferation of auction companies that have taken the auction venue placement. And since there are so many auctions now there can actually be some good deals to be had if you search and do a lot of tracking. The free market has ways of working things out....I am still having fun at it. And also, as the BIN's on Ebay have proliferated I have also gotten to know which dealers will actually negotiate to what I consider a fair price/profit and which ones won't. I spoke to an ebay dealer for quite a while last night and he says things are going well. The glass is half full for me .

[mintacular]

While High BINS can be aggravating, one positive result is that sellers with realistic BINS usually do quite well...in a strange way they (hi BIN sellers) are a helping hand to the rest of us

[zljones]

Originally Posted by mintacular

While High BINS can be aggravating, one positive result is that sellers with realistic BINS usually do quite well...in a strange way they (hi BIN sellers) are a helping hand to the rest of us

This is true.

[iggyman]

This might be going a bit off-track but for the past few months, I've run a combination of BIN's and straight auctions with both methods working quite well. The straight auctions received a bunch of hits, with some cards selling for a premium and others selling at the painful level. Overall, I was more then satisfied with the bids, but as usual there was no rhyme nor reason for the bidding; one day I would do fantastic, a few days later the auctions would bomb. With that said, at the end of the day, when you have a card that two or more bidders want, nothing beats a straight auction which starts are .99 cents. The BIN's was another animal entirely.

For the most part, they barely would get a hit, but sooner or later someone would bite on them (which was sometimes surprising to me), other times, they wouldn't sell but I would receive a respectable offline offer. That is both good and bad, but as a seller you always have the option of not accepting the offer. As someone, who has always run straight eBay auctions, I really enjoyed doing the BIN's. I didn't have to sweat out the hammer price and for the most part the cards would sell over the course of a few weeks (which made shipping and handling alot easier). From a sellers perspective, I'm sold on BIN's.

Lovely Day...

[MVSNYC]

there still is a feature that allows you to edit out the BIN "auctions"...i did a random pre-war search last night, it brought back around 42,000 total items. when i edited out the BIN's, the amount went down to around 4500...that's 90% BIN's...ridiculous. i too miss the good 'ole straight auctions. let the bidders determine the market.

[novakjr]

Personally when running a search of pre-war, I'll either edit out BINs and search by Time Ending Soonest. BUT I also run one with BINs by Price + Shipping Lowest First. Never have any problems with the first search. The second however is a nightmare. You have to rifle through tons of reprints, conlon cards, negro league postcards, national pastimes(or whatever), tcma's, stat game cards, amongst a bunch of other crap.. Even after using the "-()" for most of the bad keywords, you've still gotta go at least 20 plus pages before you really get to anything that's actually pre-war. I usually jump ahead, but I always wonder if I'm missing something that's lost in the mix of all the BS..

NOW I'd like to address sellers that list their cards and such with random inventory numbers. ie:1917(well, you get the point). Those cause multiple era listings and flood the hell out of every imaginable search. And those who list the Conlon cards by the year of the photo on the card. Please F***ING STOP...

I have no problem with somebody wanting top-dollar for their items...They're not gonna get it, but I have no problem with it...It's clearly the mis-listings(whether intentional or not) that piss me off.

[David W]

I've had 2 cards on my watch list going on 3 years now.

Every 6 months or so I make a best offer of 75%, it always
gets auto rejected.

I don't really care if I have the cards anyway..... Apparently
the seller doesn't either.