Leaf BB Draft Player Edition Cards available 1/4/12 7PM EST

[matfanofold]

It does not appear to be so...

http://www.ebay.com/sch/leaftradingcard ... 4340.l2562

 

[Leaf]

Did the players get any color variants? If so, I will be contacting my two guys in the set.

no parallels... BG

 

[Leaf]

I would love a Bauer but will not be online tonight until late tonight. maybe I get lucky and one will still be available

We are listing .99 and let em rip.. so that no one can buy all 25 cards in one click.. BG

 

[Dice-K Collector]

I would love a Bauer but will not be online tonight until late tonight. maybe I get lucky and one will still be available

We are listing .99 and let em rip.. BG

.99 buy it now???

Or auction?

And when are you listing?

 

[Leaf]

I would love a Bauer but will not be online tonight until late tonight. maybe I get lucky and one will still be available

We are listing .99 and let em rip.. BG

.99 buy it now???

Or auction?

And when are you listing?

They are now 7-day auctions at .99 let it rip... They list starting tonight at 6 CST....

We will list 3 of each card in this manner...
We will then continue to list auctions for more popular cards and do buy it nows for the remaninder on cards with less demand... BG

 

[Dice-K Collector]

I would love a Bauer but will not be online tonight until late tonight. maybe I get lucky and one will still be available

We are listing .99 and let em rip.. BG

.99 buy it now???

Or auction?

And when are you listing?

They are now 7-day auctions at .99 let it rip... They list starting tonight at 6 CST....

We will list 3 of each card in this manner...
We will then continue to list auctions for more popular cards and do buy it nows for the remaninder on cards with less demand... BG

alright thanks.

 

[subject to change]

Brian,

If the intention was to allow team/player collector a crack at these, rather than having prospectors buying them all up, this doesn't seem like the route to do so. I was really looking forward to adding the Pirates to my collection, and now these will presumably go well above what I'm willing to spend. This is an incredibly disappointing decision, and I likely won't be going after these cards now.

 

[Brewer Andy]

Cards will be priced very inexpensively and all players will be available via Buy-It-Now, except Ichiro Suzuki who will be sold via auction format. ALL AVAILABLE CARDS WILL BE LISTED AT ONCE AND IT WILL BE FIRST COME FIRST SERVED..

Why the change of heart? Was hoping for a nice find tonight

 

[aarne13]

Maybe it was 7pm PST?

 

[rsmath]

I agree that player owned cards would be even more valuable, but the players would most probably not sell them and they would be relics rarely if not never seen.

you don't think you could have given all 60 cards to the player and then made the request that you would like to do something hobby related by asking for 5-10 of those cards back to sell them on ebay?

I could see listing them on ebay something like "Trevor Bauer appreciates his fans so much that he has given Leaf the opportunity to sell 5-10 cards from his personal allocation. ..."

 

[matchpenalty]

I agree that player owned cards would be even more valuable, but the players would most probably not sell them and they would be relics rarely if not never seen.

you don't think you could have given all 60 cards to the player and then made the request that you would like to do something hobby related by asking for 5-10 of those cards back to sell them on ebay?

I could see listing them on ebay something like "Trevor Bauer appreciates his fans so much that he has given Leaf the opportunity to sell 5-10 cards from his personal allocation. ..."

That would be too funny. That would be a great Duckies and Bunnies auction.

 

[MisterT]

Cards will be priced very inexpensively and all players will be available via Buy-It-Now, except Ichiro Suzuki who will be sold via auction format. ALL AVAILABLE CARDS WILL BE LISTED AT ONCE AND IT WILL BE FIRST COME FIRST SERVED..

Why the change of heart? Was hoping for a nice find tonight

Agree. In fact here is the quote from the Leaf FB page: "Cards will be priced very inexpensively and all players will be available via Buy-It-Now, except Ichiro Suzuki who will be sold via auction format. ALL AVAILABLE CARDS WILL BE LISTED AT ONCE AND IT WILL BE FIRST COME FIRST SERVED.."

Edit: Hmmm...that was redundant. :benson:

Anyway, on FCB and FB we were lead to believe they would be BINs.

 

[MisterT]

To clarify my position...If I were selling these in bulk, I would also do the .99 auction route. I am just bummed that they are not the BIN they were claimed to be....its all about expectation management...

 

[ThoseBackPages]

if there were simple BINs, one person could buy them all and charge whatever they like for them

 

[Keyser Soze]

Brian,

If the intention was to allow team/player collector a crack at these, rather than having prospectors buying them all up, this doesn't seem like the route to do so. I was really looking forward to adding the Pirates to my collection, and now these will presumably go well above what I'm willing to spend. This is an incredibly disappointing decision, and I likely won't be going after these cards now.

Seriously? Whining because he let the market price them instead of selling them to you for 10 cents on the dollar? Why do you deserve them more than someone that's willing/able to pay more? Contrary to what you seem to believe, you aren't better or more deserving than those that you typecast, incorrectly in some cases, as being "prospectors".

 

[Leaf]

Brian,

If the intention was to allow team/player collector a crack at these, rather than having prospectors buying them all up, this doesn't seem like the route to do so. I was really looking forward to adding the Pirates to my collection, and now these will presumably go well above what I'm willing to spend. This is an incredibly disappointing decision, and I likely won't be going after these cards now.

This is tough... we were going to BIN them, but at the prices we had in mind, I can assure you the best guys would have been 1-click and someone takes all 25...

This way, if you want ti, you can make sure you get it...

 

[Leaf]

I agree that player owned cards would be even more valuable, but the players would most probably not sell them and they would be relics rarely if not never seen.

you don't think you could have given all 60 cards to the player and then made the request that you would like to do something hobby related by asking for 5-10 of those cards back to sell them on ebay?

I could see listing them on ebay something like "Trevor Bauer appreciates his fans so much that he has given Leaf the opportunity to sell 5-10 cards from his personal allocation. ..."

I agree conceptually...
I am not sure that would have worked/happened...
BG

 

[Leaf]

[quote="subject to change":3bz1rs7p]Brian,

If the intention was to allow team/player collector a crack at these, rather than having prospectors buying them all up, this doesn't seem like the route to do so. I was really looking forward to adding the Pirates to my collection, and now these will presumably go well above what I'm willing to spend. This is an incredibly disappointing decision, and I likely won't be going after these cards now.

Seriously? Whining because he let the market price them instead of selling them to you for 10 cents on the dollar? Why do you deserve them more than someone that's willing/able to pay more? Contrary to what you seem to believe, you aren't better or more deserving than those that you typecast, incorrectly in some cases, as being "prospectors".[/quote:3bz1rs7p]

Actually, I am not driven by maximizing dollars on these...
I was going to price these very inexpensively....
But, eBay doesnt have a way to limit to one per person, so they would have been hoarded up a collectors frustrated when that buyer guaged them...

There are 20+ of every player... Its not like its one card and done... BG

 

[Leaf]

Cards will be priced very inexpensively and all players will be available via Buy-It-Now, except Ichiro Suzuki who will be sold via auction format. ALL AVAILABLE CARDS WILL BE LISTED AT ONCE AND IT WILL BE FIRST COME FIRST SERVED..

Why the change of heart? Was hoping for a nice find tonight

Agree. In fact here is the quote from the Leaf FB page: "Cards will be priced very inexpensively and all players will be available via Buy-It-Now, except Ichiro Suzuki who will be sold via auction format. ALL AVAILABLE CARDS WILL BE LISTED AT ONCE AND IT WILL BE FIRST COME FIRST SERVED.."

Edit: Hmmm...that was redundant. :benson:

Anyway, on FCB and FB we were lead to believe they would be BINs.

On facebook, and in the Thread here, we commented underneath that we would probably move to auction as numerous collectors pointed out at that hoarding would shut out most collectors if we offered these cards BIN all 25 at once...

 

[rsmath]

But, eBay doesnt have a way to limit to one per person

that must be why I haven't invested in ebay. Ebay can't figure out they can tack on an extra 10-15 cent junk fee to make a multiple BIN item auction a one-per-ebay account limit on purchases.