@meme6253 wrote:
You list a ton of $2 & $3 items, Mostly single cards, You can't begin to tell everyone that their items are priced to high & yet you do!, Way to many sellers here in saturated areas are dumping their stuff at ridiculously low prices which cheapens the actual value of an item, Which in return only makes things worse for every seller who has the same item, Their dumping their stuff at these prices because some just don't know what they have, Some don't care, & others because their trying their best just to get some sales, Sad Times!!
I stopped listing cards in my card store about 2 years ago, It looks like I still list them, but that is because I flipped about 3000 listings to draft last year to cut the store level down and I still haven't exhausted those drafts (I have about 300 drafts left at this point). Those orders are still worth shipping out and my card listings actually make enough money to cover 100 percent of my personal day to day expenses outside of my actual bills.
My main store has a lot of $2 and $3 items in it because I use a regular markdown schedule so things drop in price every month and I eventually lot up or purge the stuff that gets down to that $2-3 level. I do that about once a year and am a currently just a few days into that annual process.
Note, that most of my "newly listed" items are actually sell similar markdowns of older items, as I end things and sell similar with a markdown on the day they were scheduled to end each month.
As for dumping, and knowing what you have.
All selling is a balance of supply and demand and prices largely set by the invisible hand of the market. Putting things up for sale over market price does not raise the market price. It just means that your copy of the item won't sell unless the market price gets to your price.
Now, many people who invest in collectibles do indeed list items at their investment target prices and just let them sit there until the market meets their price because they are investing and not reselling in a traditional manner. @meme6253 is that actually what you are doing? That I can understand, but if that were the case then I don't know why you would be mad at ebay all the time.
As for knowing what you have, a lot of people who know what they have take it all the way to their grave or completely miss their opportunity because it wasn't good enough for them. There is an angry woman with an all Ty Beanie Booth (babies, boos, and the other Ty crap) at the flea market every single time I go there, everything still priced like it was 20 years ago, selling nothing, quoting what her cost was from the distributor like that had any relevance to what the item is worth now.
