swap cards

[nutz4dolls]

I was going to start collecting vintage swap cards , and I hope the BUYER  who wins every Auction READS THIS.

Your Bidding ID is easy to find all you do is type in the number at the winning auction and then type into SWAP CARD SELLERS SHOP and you appear

PLEASE STOP YOUR GREED FOR NEW COLLECTORS

BUYERS that prevent new collectors from starting a new collection and THINK that the poor Novice buyer will only buy the scraps that YOU  sell at super Inflated prices HOW GREEDY and sad you are.!!!!!!!

Not ONLY do you turn away new people from starting a collection but you are shooting your self in the foot as eventually no one will buy your cards and you will end up with all the swap cards and no one wanting to collect.

Over the last 3 weeks you have won all the vintage swap card auctions and I and a few others  can not be bothered collecting vintage swap cards because of you .

YOU make the average collector so NO I CAN NOT BE BOTHERED COLLECTING

WELL DONE another Ebay  new vintage swap card collector customer gone gone

[imastawka]

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@lyndal1838 wrote:

There are over 19,000 Buy It Now listings for swap cards starting at $1....surely you can find something to start your colllection with in that lot and then you don't have to bid against people who obviously are prepared to pay more than you want to pay.

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More specifically,  if the OP types in 'swap cards blank back'

- which is what they want - there are over 1,000 cards, buy it now, starting at $1.

Most of which are 1970's.    I found 9 out of the first 200 that were modern.

Also, a lot of them are in mint condition.  For a 40 yo card $1 is good value

Bit of a petulant rant IMO

[nutz4dolls]

I really did not think the Ebay community would get so upset I read an old post about someone complaining about the cost of the swap cards and the way they had been posted to her  and she was also told to shut it.

ALL   I am saying  is to the big buyers that dictate the auctions you are shooting your self in the foot because you turn off the average new come Buyer to collecting loose 30 auctions and you say I can not be be bothered and then you want me to buy off the same big buyer with inflated prices no way.

I live in a retirement village and there is about 30 of us who thought it would be fun to start collecting

And yes there is some cheap cards if they are real as my friend has brought them and they are copies not even real , they had been scanned and printed from the computer

so then how do you know what you getting in the cheap shop.

But thanks to all who have had a say it is interesting

I just thought I would share with you

a newbies out look on collecting vintage swap cards and how 30 customers got away

THE early bird may catch the worm but the late bird  avoids the CAT

[imastawka]

I read an old post about someone complaining about the cost of the swap cards and the way they had been posted to her 

Yeah, that was me..............

I wasn't complaining about the cost of the cards, but rather having paid for registered

I expected registered.  I also expected waterproofing and proper packaging.

$130 worth of cards in the garden and wet.  Still have not replaced them all    

The new modern cards must be listed as modern

If it is listed as vintage then it must be vintage - 20 years or older

Your friend is probably one who does not read the whole listing

Some listings do not mention that they are modern until you scroll down.

Sarah Kay cards are being reproduced by one seller, as far as I know

Greythorne and Tassell cards are vintage cards.

A few years ago, a warehouse was found full of their cards.

They were auctioned by the boxload. 

They are not scanned, but originals and are still in mint condition.

Valentine and Drawing Board brands are older than Greythorne and Tassell

so command high prices if in excellent condition

The demand dictates the price.  If a seller can get a high price then that's

what selling is all about. 

If you don't know what you are looking at, then I'm sorry, but

perhaps swap cards are not for you

I have been collecting them since the 1950's and have over 100,000

Spoiler

  I believe that is the longest post I have ever written 
 
               

[imastawka]

I forgot another thing -  a tip -

A reproduction card, or one that is scanned and printed

will usually have a watermark on the pic in the listing.

[kopenhagen5]

I believe that is the longest post I have ever written 

I am tired from just reading it. 

BTW, still have some swap cards with your name on them.

Can send them to your PO box if you have one.

[imastawka]

PM coming your way, my good man      

[springyzone]

Where do you live?

There is a stall over at Caribbean Market that sells vintage swap cards. A lot of them take me back to my childhood. I am pretty sure they are vintage & not reproductions as they look thicker, how card goes when it is older. But I am no expert. I must ask the stall holder next time I am over that way.

[kopenhagen5]

Cards coming your way, my favorite stawka. 

(Hope they are genuine vintage and not repros)

[imastawka]

Thanks Springy.

I probably know the stall holder anyway.  She probably belongs to one or

the other clubs

Too far for me I'm afraid

Used to sell bric - a - brac there way back when dinosaurs

roamed the earth,  lol

And thanks a million, Kopes

One for all.........................

[*tippy*toes*]

I hope you're going to leave Kopes good feedback Stawks?