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Originally Posted by jdjdjd
I don’t think Goldin charges seller fees for at least some high end cards.
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Might be 100% of hammer price or more, but that hammer price is reduced compared to what it would sell for on ebay (for example), because the buyer's fee is tacked on. If the OP hasn't looked at auction payout structure before, this can be a bit confusing at first, which is why I'm commenting.
Some quick examples of payouts based on an arbitrary sale amount over $5,000 that I picked --
$6,600
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Goldin:
https://goldin.co/faq
If it goes for $5k or more with Goldin, that says 108% to the seller.
$5500 hammer price + 20% buyer premium ($1,100) = $6,600 sale price.
108% of $5500 =
$5940 to the seller. 90% of the final cost to the buyer is going to the seller.
They're calling hammer price as 'sale price' and adding buyer's premium onto sale price. I think that's a little confusing, but that seems to be standard terminology. No one is actually getting a card for the "sale price. It is where the bidding ends, but it's not the final price the buyer will pay for the card.
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Ebay:
ebay fees on trading cards says: 13.25% up to $7,500 (smaller % after 7500, not applicable to this example) Some sellers have slightly lower fees.
Same $6,600 price as above. 13.25% = $874.50. =
$5725.50 to the seller. Ebay fee is applied to the shipping amount charged (pretty certain) and for some states I think they also can count the sales tax and apply the ebay fee after sales tax (I forget how that works exactly, but I recall two identical sale amounts where the fee was different, and I think it had to do with the buyer state being different)
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PC Sportscards (ebay):
https://pcsportscards.com/consignment
$5k-9999.99 = 92% payout.
92% of the same $6,600 sale would be
$6,072.
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dcsports87 (ebay):
https://dcsports87.com/how-process-works
$5k+, 97% minus $300 per listing.
97% of $6,600 = $6,402 - $300 =
$6,102
97% of $6,300 (take the $300 off first) = $6,111 (I think it's the first one, but just comparing logic)
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Ebay consignment sellers move a lot of volume, and therefore have a lot of different buyers. Ebay buyers (like myself) tend to click "See other items" and search/browse by player or team or sport or year or anything really. Some consignment sellers send out communications via email, IG, etc, and may show some cards coming up for sale, currently listed, or ending soon. This also reaches potential buyers.
Good luck!
(if anyone sees any errors above please let me know and I will correct)