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glennchannell
Posts: 471
Joined: Aug 2017
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Wednesday, March 16, 2022 11:51 PM | |
Had an ad pop up on my Facebook feed and had to laugh. The title was "Rare Baseball Cards" and advertised the price as $44.
When you looked at the ad itself, there were 3 cards, and the ad stated: "Near Mint condition baseball trading cards. Buy 1 for $44 dollars Or all 3 for $ 100 Free postage in USA"
The cards:
1989 Topps #550 Orel Hershiser (current median price on TCDB: 19 cents)
1989 Topps #560 Rock Raines (current price 10 cents)
1992 Donruss #409 Anthony Young (current price 6 cents)
That's right, 44 DOLLARS for just one of these cards, when you can get all three for 45 CENTS. Hey, at least the shipping is free...
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BSwagger
Posts: 1,558
Joined: Jul 2017
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Thursday, March 17, 2022 2:50 AM | |
There is a guy around my area posting on Facebook marketplace similar things like a 1990 Donruss Sammie Sosa for $20. We actually have a couple of mutual friends but I don't know him so I don't know if he has no idea and thinks he has a small gold mine or he wants to rip off some little old lady who has no idea and wants to buy a sports card for her grandson. I have thought about each time I see him putting one of these up to create I my own listing of the same card for 20 cents but I just don't have the time to be doing that.
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baseballcardstoreca
Posts: 1,307
Joined: Sep 2019
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OfficerZero
Posts: 110
Joined: May 2020
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Thursday, March 17, 2022 7:29 AM | |
If anything, I think FB is worse. I've reported multiple people selling reprints that only mention "RP" in the text and FB doesn't seem to care.
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lildog7
Posts: 966
Joined: Aug 2020
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Thursday, March 17, 2022 9:45 AM | |
This is why I have a personal limit of never spending more than $5 on a single card. If I get taken because I didn't read an ad that closely the worst I'm out is $5, which I can live with.
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budler
Posts: 2,156
Joined: Dec 2017
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Thursday, March 17, 2022 10:23 AM | |
I'm not on FB but I see it all the time on other sites. People asking (maybe getting) $5 or more for a common.
COMC, Beckett, Craigs list other sites and even Sportlots the prices for common have gone way up in the last couple of years. Now days the .99 is the new .18
I will stop here as I could say a lot about these sellers.
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lildog7
Posts: 966
Joined: Aug 2020
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Thursday, March 17, 2022 11:03 AM | |
Yes, 99 cents seems to be the go to price these days online for commons. That's another reason I like local card shows, there are always a couple dealers with 10 cent cards that you can pick through and with sites like this, I always have my checklists with me.
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OverkillKid
Posts: 192
Joined: Dec 2020
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Thursday, March 17, 2022 12:40 PM | |
I think that some eBay sellers have reached the farthest downslide. I great example is all of the digital cards & reprint cards that get sold because the seller found a way to hide that it is reprinted somewhere. I've seen some sales in the high hundreds for a reprinted modern card & it's terrible.
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David657
Posts: 423
Joined: Nov 2020
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Thursday, March 17, 2022 1:09 PM | |
I swear that almost every listing that says "Rare" is code for overpriced. There is a 1990 200 card set that I bought for 5 bucks back in the 90s, thats risen to the grand total of 6 bucks (can buy all day long now for 6 bucks) but commonly see the set anywhere from 6-600....(the set for 600 includes the binder you could get for 6.95 mail-in offer, so there is that!)
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stevejrogers
Posts: 369
Joined: Nov 2012
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Thursday, March 17, 2022 2:10 PM | |
I've seen a FB listing for either one card from an early Pacific Ryan set and marked as "rare", and being a for more than 20 bucks. I politely told the seller that the entire set the card was from could be purchased for a nice, crisp $20 bill!
The seller was oblivious *rolls eyes*
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