They should just increase the storage fee after a year or two and increase the fee to return cards to the owner. So they only thing they get are cards that people actually want to sell.
The seller who is asking $100,000 for a card is already paying 3000 times as much rent as the seller who is asking $2.51 for a card.
Increasing the storage fee by 2 cents isn't going to affect the person asking $7500 for a card. It's going to affect the person asking $3 for a card (if they have a premium account), or the person asking 99 cents for a card (if they have a free account).
Maybe some of the cards will be priced down to the free storage threshhold ($2.50 and 75 cents respectively). And others will be bumped up ($4 to $5 for the premium account, $2 to $3 for the free account). Then maybe a bunch of those are bought by the premium accounts for 75 cents and repriced at $2.50. Or they're bought by a retail buyer for 75 cents, who takes delivery and you never see them again.
The end result is that a bunch of cards which used to be 99 cents to $1.25 are now $2 to $3, and a bunch of cards which used to be $3 to $4 are now $5 to $6. But the $7500 Mike Trout is still $7500. Unless the seller bumps it to $8500 to compensate for the additional fees.
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