Looking For Opinions on Selling Cards & Using Comps

JAM061200 · 04-04-2023, 09:05 AM

I’m sure a lot of you sell/trade cards here and other platforms. I’ve got back into the hobby about 7 months ago now. I’ve accumulated quite a bit of Topps/Bowman baseball and have made some great sales/purchases/trades. Especially here on Blowout. Great community here!

I’ve noticed now that I’m selling more than trading, my prices to some are not in what potential buyers are saying “comp” range. Now I’m sure most of us use eBay as a guide to pricing properly. Being on here selling, as a seller, you’re just paying some PayPal fees. Not the pricy eBay fees. So our pricing while here can be a bit lower than a product on eBay.

Using “comps” I try to be the lowest priced as compared to the lowest priced item of the same product for sale RIGHT NOW on eBay. I’m not using the past pricing as a guide. I use the RIGHT NOW pricing which I’d hope everyone is doing. It’s the epitome of “Supply & Demand”. People looking at your prices and saying that the same card went for $20 less a week ago and that I’m too high I feel is an attempt to lowball you on your item. You wouldn’t go Walmart and find a TV you’d been contemplating buying and decided to buy today and say “Hey I want to buy this tv but you guys had it for $200 cheaper a month ago. Let me get that price.” You’d be turned away and told you should’ve bought earlier.

Does everyone have this approach when selling cards? I’m sure as demand picks up and dies down you have to adjust accordingly but pricing at the RIGHT NOW comp seems to be the proper way to go about it. Thoughts???

04-04-2023, 09:05 AM	#1
JAM061200 Member Join Date: Nov 2022 Location: New York Posts: 1,768	Looking For Opinions on Selling Cards & Using Comps I’m sure a lot of you sell/trade cards here and other platforms. I’ve got back into the hobby about 7 months ago now. I’ve accumulated quite a bit of Topps/Bowman baseball and have made some great sales/purchases/trades. Especially here on Blowout. Great community here! I’ve noticed now that I’m selling more than trading, my prices to some are not in what potential buyers are saying “comp” range. Now I’m sure most of us use eBay as a guide to pricing properly. Being on here selling, as a seller, you’re just paying some PayPal fees. Not the pricy eBay fees. So our pricing while here can be a bit lower than a product on eBay. Using “comps” I try to be the lowest priced as compared to the lowest priced item of the same product for sale RIGHT NOW on eBay. I’m not using the past pricing as a guide. I use the RIGHT NOW pricing which I’d hope everyone is doing. It’s the epitome of “Supply & Demand”. People looking at your prices and saying that the same card went for $20 less a week ago and that I’m too high I feel is an attempt to lowball you on your item. You wouldn’t go Walmart and find a TV you’d been contemplating buying and decided to buy today and say “Hey I want to buy this tv but you guys had it for $200 cheaper a month ago. Let me get that price.” You’d be turned away and told you should’ve bought earlier. Does everyone have this approach when selling cards? I’m sure as demand picks up and dies down you have to adjust accordingly but pricing at the RIGHT NOW comp seems to be the proper way to go about it. Thoughts???