Looking for advice on consigning cards

[DaBears 1985]

Im Looking for advice on consigning cards and general information.

I've never consigned anything. Do most people that consign just consign to suspected shill bidders on ebay?

I've heard of people consigning 1/1s and Superfractors

[Skipscards]

You can consign anything.

[chezball]

This should help.
The Basketball Card Blog & Podcast: TBCP# 11 Comparing the big Consigners PWCC vs Probstein123 - A case study

[preakness]

Don't use wossa's guy

[mjohnatgt]

Originally Posted by DaBears 1985

Do most people that consign just consign to suspected shill bidders on ebay?

I'm not sure you worded the question correctly, or whether you really understand the concept. Some people who consign items do so IN ORDER TO shill bid up their own items. Therefore they can guarantee themselves a minimum "hidden" reserve, despite it being illegal in the US and against the eBay Terms of Service. They do it so that they have plausible deniability that maybe someone else is going hard on the item.

Many honest people also consign items in order to get more eyes on their auction listings, normally equating to higher bids, or because they need cash quickly or because they are tired of selling and mailing all their cards by themselves. PWCC and Probstein, among others, do NOT shill bid their own items. They have too many customers/items and not enough time in the day, and would risk having their auction business shut down. Not risks worth taking. It is a percentage of their consignors that are doing the shill bidding to inflate prices.

[Skipscards]

Originally Posted by mjohnatgt

I'm not sure you worded the question correctly, or whether you really understand the concept. Some people who consign items do so IN ORDER TO shill bid up their own items. Therefore they can guarantee themselves a minimum "hidden" reserve, despite it being illegal in the US and against the eBay Terms of Service. They do it so that they have plausible deniability that maybe someone else is going hard on the item.

Many honest people also consign items in order to get more eyes on their auction listings, normally equating to higher bids, or because they need cash quickly or because they are tired of selling and mailing all their cards by themselves. PWCC and Probstein, among others, do NOT shill bid their own items. They have too many customers/items and not enough time in the day, and would risk having their auction business shut down. Not risks worth taking. It is a percentage of their consignors that are doing the shill bidding to inflate prices.

This +1

[mjohnatgt]

And people consign anything from $3 cards to $3 million dollar cards. There's no minimum price requirement to send stuff to a consignor. Heck, there are 12 cent cards being consigned on COMC. All of COMC is a consignment business.

[DaBears 1985]

Thanks guys, great info. Now I understand it a lot better