Help Me With This Ebay -- 1933 Gehrig PSA/DNA

[T206Collector]

This 1933 Goudey Gehrig autographed (PSA/DNA) sold for $4,850 ten days ago on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200459066490&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

High bidder was: a***d ( 259Feedback score is 100 to 499)

This morning, I got an email that the card had been relisted. When I clicked on it, I found out that it had been relisted at $3,250 with a $3,600 BIN, which was almost immediately triggered:

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=200465366773

As far as I can tell, the first bidder fell through and then the seller arranged this quasi-auction sale with another potential buyer afterwards.

What I don't get is why he would sell for $3,600 when the original listing had several bidders over that amount. Not surprisingly, the seller declined to respond to my request for information on this one. And, yes, I had placed a bid for more than $3,600 on the first one.

Any ideas?

[canjond]

Maybe the seller meant to make the BIN 4600.00...

[FUBAR]

could have been schilling the first time, although it is hard to say for certain. How long after was it re-listed?? if it was within a week, i would question it.

[T206Collector]

Seller finally emailed back and said he needed a quick sale at $3,600. Said he couldn't offer me a second chance offer because he didn't see me as an under bidder (I had a snipe that didn't register because of a higher bid at the time it was placed). Hard to believe all those bidders above $3,600 turned down the second chance. Oh well...:confused:

[milkit1]

including me. That would have made signed 1933 goudey #176. Oh well

[Matt]

he emailed me that he was just laid off and needed the money quickly.

[bcornell]

Seller in a rush = high likelihood of fraud. Relisting is often a sign of previous bad behavior.

Also, I purposely know nothing about autographs, so I'll take a page from the anti-vaccine crowd: if the experts tell me it's good, it must be bad.


Bill

[Exhibitman]

Ah, the anti-vaccine crowd. Nothing like a medical luddite during a polio, swine flu or smallpox outbreak, except perhaps a faith healer with appendicitis. In the immortal words of Special Agent Harris from The Sopranos: "Maybe Darwin was right. Nature really does weed out the nimrods."