Saturday, July 11, 2009

Friday Marketwatch - July 10

As of yesterday, July 10th the following are stats covering the last 7 days on ebay for etopps in-hands:

Quantity of etopps in-hands listings: 153
Sell-Through: 64.05%
Average starting price: $3.59
Average final price: $10.15

Highest Single Card Sale: 2006 Jay Cutler, $85
Highest Mult-Card Sale: 2007 National Promo Cards That Never Were Set, $11.55
Highest Graded Sale: 2001 Albert Pujols BGS 9.5, $112.50
Highest Non-Graded Autograph Sale: 2007 Tim Lincecum, $130
Highest Graded Autograph Sale: 2003 Tom Brady BGS 9.5/10, $800

Other best sellers:

* 2001 Albert Pujols
* 2003 LeBron James
* 2009 Barack Obama
* 2006 Mickey Mantle 1955 reprint

In-hand listing (not including graded or autographed) that received most bids that sold well: 2006 Mickey Mantle (1955 reprint) - 13 bids

Friday, July 3, 2009

Friday Marketwatch - July 3

As of yesterday, July 3rd the following are stats covering the last 7 days on ebay for etopps in-hands:

Quantity of etopps in-hands listings: 258
Sell-Through: 57.75%
Average starting price: $5.47
Average final price: $7.79

Highest Single Card Sale: 2003 Mike Comrie, $110.01
Highest Mult-Card Sale: 2008 Allen & Ginter Yankee Tribute Set, $134.99
Highest Graded Sale: 2001 Albert Pujols BGS 9.5, $100.99
Highest Non-Graded Autograph Sale: 2007 Tim Lincecum, $130
Highest Graded Autograph Sale: None

Other best sellers:

* 2003 LeBron James
* 2005 Chris Paul
* 2006 Hanley Ramirez
* 2004 LeBron James

In-hand listing (not including graded or autographed) that received most bids that sold well: 2003 Mike Comrie - 20 bids

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Delivery Delay Announcement: WBC & 08-09 Basketball

From etopps updates:

Subject: Production Update
Date: 06/30/09
Due to production issues beyond our control, etopps is experiencing delays on delivery of the following cards:

2009 eTopps World Baseball Classic

1: Yu Darvish WBC
2: David Wright WBC
3: Jin Young Lee WBC
4: Frederich Cepeda WBC
5: Derek Jeter WBC
6: Yulieski Gourriel WBC
7: Gift Ngoepe WBC
8: Norichika Aoki WBC
9: Ichiro WBC
10: Dae Ho Lee WBC
11: Hisashi Iwakuma WBC
12: Tae Kyun Kim WBC
13: WBC Champion Patch Card

2008-09 eTopps Basketball

22: Dwyane Wade 2008-09
23: Mario Chalmers 2008-09
24: Jason Thompson 2008-09
25: Shaquille O'Neal 2008-09
26: Roy Hibbert 2008-09

We expect to have these cards available for delivery by the week of July 27th. We apologize for this delay. Please continue to check eTopps Updates for additional information.

Sincerely,

The eTopps Team

Friday, June 26, 2009

Friday Marketwatch - June 26

As of yesterday, June 26th the following are stats covering the last 7 days on ebay for etopps in-hands:

Quantity of etopps in-hands listings: 206
Sell-Through: 57.28%
Average starting price: $7.28
Average final price: $13.77

Highest Single Card Sale: 2008 Allen & Ginter Barack Obama, $125
Highest Mult-Card Sale: 2008 Allen & Ginter Yankee Tribute Set, $101.62
Highest Graded Sale: 2003 LeBron James BGS 10, $355
Highest Non-Graded Autograph Sale: 2006 Brett Favre, $177.50
Highest Graded Autograph Sale: None

Other best sellers:

* 2001 Albert Pujols
* 1961 Mickey Mantle
* 2009 Barack Obama
* Baseball Classic Mark Fidrych

In-hand listing (not including graded or autographed) that received most bids that sold well: 1961 Mickey Mantle - 13 bids

The Next Autograph

For the last several Mondays I, like others, have refreshed the homepage of the etopps website around noon, expecting to see the next autograph offering pop up. But each time, the IPOs show up at 1PM instead.

The last one (Masterson) took a bit of time to sell out. Doing a biweekly offering makes sense to keep everyone interested without hurting their wallets but after so many weeks, you would expect them to resume the biweekly schedule since it's now looking more like a monthly schedule.

I think the next autograph will tell us what's going on. Either we're going to be offered something big (as if they wanted to prepare our wallets for this) or the same low priced offering will continue.

I don't think a higher-priced offering will be a problem considering the money being made from this year's baseball offerings so far.

The only other possibility I can think of for the hiatus is the focus on getting signatures for this fall's football season. We don't know whether etopps is so scaled down that Mark is getting the autos himself or someone else is doing this for etopps. It's just a hunch considering the fact that a lot of the autographs come with COAs that show the date of the signature occurred months before the offering.