Because you're wrong.
It's not because they are "just hoping that someone makes a stupidly high offer to scrounge a few extra $$ out of a fellow collector."
It is because they want to get as much as they can. The card might be worth $500 to them. However the market value might be $400. If they have to list a price it's either going to be so high that you get people saying how dumb their price is, or they might put $375 and someone who was willing to pay $450 gets it - so they lose out on potential dollars - while they still take a loss or are disappointed with the price.
PLUS, what I've noticed is that despite listing a price people still ask 'what's the best you can do?'.
If someone wants to buy the card, they should know how much they're willing to pay for it. What's so hard about offering an amount up to what you're willing to pay for something that you want?
I don't think Jared is wrong at all!
If someone has a card with a market value of $400 but they want $500, they simply list $500 as their sell price???? Straight forward, no?
If they are POSSIBLY willing to accept less, they should write OBO!
I think in most sale threads, people who don't put up prices are either too lazy to look them up or hoping to get a higher than eBay price!
You would probably find that they lose potential sales too by not having prices up! There are a Lot of cards that I may have bought on here that I didn't simply because I don't want to have to ask for a price every time!
Nuff said - Blair rules!
You're wrong too.
Frye rules.
Wait... the the hell have I just typed...??
And I'm sure you'll find that it entirely depends on what side you are on - if you are the seller or buyer. Both parties will not want to divulge the minimum/maximum that they are willing to take/give because it could result in missing out on $$.
There will always be an argument about it. But unfortunately because of lowballers people have to list a higher price if they do list one...
Dude... do you stalk Adam's posts or something... like, AS SOON as I posted, I got notified of a 'like'....
Kinda creepy...
Immortised in OCT HISTORY!
Dude... do you stalk Adam's posts or something... like, AS SOON as I posted, I got notified of a 'like'....
Kinda creepy...
No I stalk posts with the word Frye in them
No I stalked your posts
Immortised???? Pretty sure that would mean to sink him in??? You probably meant to say 'immortalised'???
Your English skills are as good as Frye's jump shot
The guy has a Teddy bear!!! Yet you only find his 'likes' creepy??
I am actually with Jared on this and this site seldom deals on really high-end stuff, so I don't see why the seller can't list their prices.
Doesn't have to be $1000+ though. And maybe this is part of me being a snob when it comes to cards that I don't really deal in lower-end stuff.
But like my Jordan auto I'm willing to move. I know what I paid for it. I know my asking price is probably above what most people would think is market value. But there have only been about 2 of that exact one on ebay in the last year or two, and I wouldn't want to let it go cheap. So I'd consider offers.
Same thing could apply to lower-end stuff though. I had a Jordan Planet Metal. I got it in a trade when it was worth about $50. Next thing I know they're selling for over $100. Somebody wanted it so I let them make an offer. Ended up taking about $85-90 on it because that's what a similar one had sold for recently. Had they offered $75 I'd possibly have taken it, but at the same time because they had been going for over $100 I kinda wanted that much and felt like I should have gotten more.
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