General Forum

I've bought from Burbank on a few occasions, one of which before I discovered sportlots, and have been very pleased with them. On every occasion I bought enough cards to qualify for free shipping.

I will do business with them again, especially if I have trouble finding the cards somewhere else.

I have contacted Burbank Sports cards in the past to see if they would go down on a group of cards.  Although they didn't go down as much as I hoped for, they did offer a discount (again on more than one card).  I have noticed that they did bring their price down on a card that I had been watching for a couple years.  Initially the price climbed little by little, but then it dropped 20% so I got it.

For me I think it was the fact that the player I was purchasing is lower on the collections totem pole for me. I wasn't really worried about book value. I was more worried of what the card was worth to me. And considering that I had purchased a 1/1 of said player for $3 well that takes effect. I did try contacting Burbank on ebay and asked for $1 off at the time and they said they couldn't do it. So it's not like I didn't try to work with them. As for their free shipping discounts they hardly have anything I want for the most part so that doesn't work with me. No need for me to purchase 9 or 19 other (in my opinion) over priced unneeded cards in the hopes to save $4 in shipping. But hey good info. Now wish me luck on the beckett seller processing the sale.

DaClyde wrote: For my player collection, I don't get hung up on book value.  I'll pay whatever I think is fair for a card if I really want it.  Burbank has some great deals from time to time.  I know they do have a bad habit of massively overpricing some cards, but in many cases, that is a perception distorted by outdated pricing on the part of Beckett.  When a card is nearly impossible to find except at Burbank, and Beckett still lists it as a $1 card, then there is something amiss with Beckett's values, not Burbank's pricing.   That said, I usually only buy anything from Burbank when they are offering their occasional free shipping for orders of 10 or more cards.  With shipping increasing, I don't know that they'll run that again, but they do offer frequent deals like that.