General Forum

People, who when selling a card on EBay, take four or five nice pictures.  ALL OF THE FRONT OF THE CARD!  This isn't even about seeing condition, because that doesn't always come through in a photo.  I'd just like to see the back, for like, maybe the card #.  

As long as you're going to the trouble of uploading images in the first place.

I agree 100%. If the back of the card isn't shown, then I don't bid.

For that reason, and many, MANY others, I post 400 dpi scans like these 2 scans below. I shrank them here to keep from killing the upload speed, but all of my images are a set 1560x1160 pixels that can be seen in full on any site with a zooming feature. The large border is intentional so people can see that the edges are clearly not cropped. For anything other than simple base cards, I post the ACTUAL scan for that card, leaving very little room for questions.

Card people are very different than regular people that find a box of cards at a yard sale. Lots of people are treating cards as a gold mine again because Gary Vee said so. They aren't researching 100+ years of card history, or looking for information about how to sell cards online, or even what the most important attributes of cards are. They see a live listing on Ebay for a card that looks like the card they have with an astrnomical price next to it, and bang, it must be worth that much.

The worst is when they do it with serial numbered cards where the number is on the back of the card. Have no idea how that stuff sells, same with autos and memorabilia cards where the authentication is on the back. 

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I have been chasing the police cards that are issued with different communites.  The Packers have them on the back.  I'm getting tired of messaging the seller about the card to see if I should bid.  I actually had one seller tell me that I was wasting my time collecting all of the communities, no one does that anymore.  Duh, buddy.  I do, that's why I contacted you!!! 

I'm with FiresNBeers.    Some of the sellers of the Packer Police cards has a statment  “Nice Card. From pack to sleeve!”   How can they be pulled from a pack when they are given out by the Police Dept.????     I asked the seller about it and has not recieved and answer but now it show this  . Unfortunately this seller is not able to respond to your question

I feel the same way. If they can add even one scan of the front a scan of the back would be nice too.

budler, if I'm not mistaken, I know that at least some of the Police cards were heat sealed in shrink wrap. I have seen Tigers Police sets like this. This form of "sealing" did wonders for the corners of the 1981 Donruss style card stock.