Seriously, who is cleaning out Burbank's Credentials??

[maxpower]

No one who's buying from Burbank is looking for a "flip". Burbank's entire pricing model is predicating on pricing out everyone except the one guy who wants to keep a particular card in his PC. It's pretty smart actually, although it must be infuriating to any bargain-hunting buyer who is looking for a steal.

Burbank listed a bunch of steals when they first switched to eBay. There pricing model didn't account for highly collected sets but instead just a multiplier from high BV. For a couple months everything they listed was getting hit up by player/set collectors and filling many collection holes. Now most everything just sits there.....it's kind of sad.

It's sad to the player collectors who find Burbank's prices too high, but from a business perspective, it's probably a much better deal for Burbank to sell the way they currently do. The incremental overhead of keeping the items in the store is minimal (a nickel a month for each card, assuming that they are going to keep the store open anyway) and they almost certainly don't spend anything extra storing the cards (since they have a physical store). Plus, since most of their stuff isn't perishable (they don't list much in the way of brand new releases or time-sensitive prospects), they can almost always return to the auction-style option at a later date if they decide they really want to move something.

 

[JoshHamilton]

"At auction" is quickly becoming to buyers what "Beckett HI" was to LCS dealers 10-15 years ago.

Thanked