Selling on consignment on ebay

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I am looking to sell a large number of cards (over 1,000) on ebay via consignment. What recommendations do people have if I am location in Canada (Toronto, specifically).

Cards are for all 4 major sports (baseball, basketball, football and hockey) and will range in sell value anywhere from $1-$500+.

Anyone have any experience with this or have any thoughts?

I am hoping to get this done over the next few weeks and hopefully can work something out with the seller to list a bunch of $1 cards for me given I will also be sending 100's if not 1000's of $10+ cards his way.
 
If you give them to Probstein, you can bid on your own cards like a bunch of his other consigners...

But yeah, I'd recommend COMC. The initial investment can be quite a bit, but not having to ship all that stuff is entirely worth it to me. There's definitely undesirable things about it, like a 20% cash out fee, the fact that my last shipment took 21 days for them to ship, etc. But it's still all worth it for me.

Cole
 
No consignor is going to want to touch a $1 card, the cost to handle the card (scan/list/ship/returns/questions) will be more than the fee's received through the sale. I sell $2 cards but only to get eyes on my store and repeat buyers, there is no money in it.

If I were you I itemize the cards and would put together lots that make sense together and post them on these forums for sale. You will find lot buyers at 50% of Ebay average for lower end cards. That will net you what you would get from a consignor anyways without all the handling.

If you are looking to move a bunch of low/mid end at Ebay average prices, only way to do that is to buy a good scanner, set up an ebay account and spend a weekend listing cards. Then you will have to hold on to them for 3 weeks - 3 years to get Ebay average. There is no quick way to sell low/mid end for full pop without selling yourself and being willing to hold or a long time, and list/ship cards every day.
 
I sell on consignement, and am fairly close to Toronto. PM me if you want to talk further! I tried to PM you but your inbox is full.
Thanks
 
C55 said:
lol do you have evidence to support that claim?
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The low bidder on the first Iginla is me. The other two are very, very suspect. And there's numerous reports on this and other forums. I'm not saying it's the seller's fault - it's gonna happen when the consigner has the ability to bid independently since they aren't selling it.


http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=361284077269&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2565

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=381244083085&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2565

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=371316876435&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2565
 
roaddogg1718 said:
The low bidder on the first Iginla is me. The other two are very, very suspect. And there's numerous reports on this and other forums. I'm not saying it's the seller's fault - it's gonna happen when the consigner has the ability to bid independently since they aren't selling it.


http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=361284077269&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2565

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=381244083085&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2565

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=371316876435&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2565
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I cannot tell you the number of times I have had people ask me if I want them to bid my items up...I always respond with...No, would you like someone to do that to an item you are bidding on?

If you don't like the risk/reward of selling at auction than use the BIN/OBO option with is what 90% of eBay is anymore anyway.

Sorry, on the consignment front, I hope you find someone to help you.
 
roaddogg1718 said:
The low bidder on the first Iginla is me. The other two are very, very suspect. And there's numerous reports on this and other forums. I'm not saying it's the seller's fault - it's gonna happen when the consigner has the ability to bid independently since they aren't selling it.


http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=361284077269&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2565

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=381244083085&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2565

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=371316876435&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2565
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None of those looked shilled to me. Prices seem in line with what those cards should sell for - they seem even a bit under market value.

Zero feedback bidders happen, we were all zero feedback. And there are times when a bidder will put in bids on a number of a sellers items which will skew the % bid with this seller. The red flags are bidders with a high percentage of bids with one seller AND a large number of bid retractions. Because anyone bidding on their own items will win the odd one and they can either pay or retract.

And that's the reason I don't lose any sleep over consignors bidding on their own items...they have skin in the game. If they win, they pay their fee's to consign AND they pay for the card + shipping. Or, they retract and that shows up in their bidding history and the better consignors ban bidders that retract.
 
japhi said:
None of those looked shilled to me. Prices seem in line with what those cards should sell for - they seem even a bit under market value.

Zero feedback bidders happen, we were all zero feedback. And there are times when a bidder will put in bids on a number of a sellers items which will skew the % bid with this seller. The red flags are bidders with a high percentage of bids with one seller AND a large number of bid retractions. Because anyone bidding on their own items will win the odd one and they can either pay or retract.

And that's the reason I don't lose any sleep over consignors bidding on their own items...they have skin in the game. If they win, they pay their fee's to consign AND they pay for the card + shipping. Or, they retract and that shows up in their bidding history and the better consignors ban bidders that retract.
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I have been consigning for years and have only encountered someone bidding on their own items once. They were warned and it didn't happen again. They paid for the fees and my percentage. I haven't had anyone retract a bid that was shilling their own card, if I did they would be banned for sure.
 
Just want to mention that Spencer (sjw241) is a personal friend of mine and he is also the guy who lists on eBay for me and I trust him. That said, please give him a little time to get the approx 400 cards I have him at expo listed up on eBay. :devil::beer:
 

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